GS + Staff: viable?
Staff+GS used to be the core of Double Ranged Shatter. The “meta” power shatter build uses Sword/X instead, but there’s no reason you can’t still do the Double Ranged Shatter variant. Change your Master tier choice in Dueling, and you’re good.
Keep in mind that Staff is more of a defensive weapon, but there’s nothing wrong with that inherently.
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absolutely viable, I am currently running a shatter build using that weapon set. I like the mixture of defense and offense that GS + STAFF provides.
PS: If you have treated PU, sword/torch + GS, works better though.
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I can’t find any “serious” PvP or WvW build which includes both: GS and Staff. Because Staff is a hybrid weapon and it should somehow work with GS, right? Now we are just limited to Staff + Scepter/x and GS + Sw/x.
Edit: what about Staff + Sw/X?
Watch the NA Go4GW2 tournaments, the staff-GS was the main mesmer build used there (while in EU it was mainly sword-torch/GS)
GS/Staff works just fine atm. I have been running with this power-based build in PvP (see below); it’s nice because it allows me a decent amount of sustain while fighting on point, and it offers some decent team support when needed. Feel free to give it a try!
Edit: As for Staff/Swo+Tor, it would be more defensive, but there is no reason you couldn’t get it to work.
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Lavra posted it pretty much, as far as the build to go with. I know that myself, I run this weaponset in PvP with Dom/Duel/Chaos. Double Ranged CI, blink, portal, MoD. Keep to the fringes of the fights and you should avoid conditions just fine.
HINT: Save your f3 for when an enemy is finally on top of you. Interrupt them, drop a chaos storm, summon an iWarlock, profit. Seriously. Staff burst, with interrupts, is a thing.
Yeah, i’d take Dueling for PvP. Inspiration is a meta decision for WvW, since there are a lot of condispam builds running around.
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