Guild Wars 2

First some motivation:
I’ll be listing advantages for these particular weapons from the perspective of tagging, mobility, and general QOL.

GS:
- GS3 is great for aoe tagging from ranged. No other MH/OH combo has a ranged, ground targeted; wells do make up for this deficiency somewhat.
- Autoattack cannot be “blocked” from teragriff vines or other swirling wind type effects
- Generally the best PbAoe burst.

Staff:
- Mobility and kiting
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So I’ve been running Dueling/Illusions/Chrono condi shatter the past few days with a Berserker/Sinister mix. I was wondering what a good stat distribution mix would be for using this hybrid condi shatter setup.

I’m not necessarily looking for an optimal dps setup. Just something that leverages the burst the GS provides (with respect to HoT monster health), while still providing decent sustained condi dps.

Are you speccing Chrono before you have most of it unlocked? Why not just go domination instead for more traits?

Kabuki.9103:

Are you speccing Chrono before you have most of it unlocked? Why not just go domination instead for more traits?

I’ve found Illusionary Reversion increases your dps by a lot. I’ve been running chrono since i was able to get the movement speed trait for it unlocked.

Also a minor update:
I’ve been running Torment runes with a full sinister setup with Berzerker GS and Giver’s staff and am quite liking it.

Staff is pretty bad when not running chrono, low aoe capability, painfully slow autoattack projectiles, pretty much only good for point-blank 2→F1 and the obvious Chaos Storm.

I much prefer Sw+F for guaranteed cleave, evade for champs/burst spawns and swiftness. iWarden completes a full attack cycle before despawning, which is pretty good for tagging near-instantaneous respawns at a fixed point (e.g. labyrinth doors)

Photoloss.4817:

Staff is pretty bad when not running chrono, low aoe capability, painfully slow autoattack projectiles, pretty much only good for point-blank 2->F1 and the obvious Chaos Storm.

I much prefer Sw+F for guaranteed cleave, evade for champs/burst spawns and swiftness. iWarden completes a full attack cycle before despawning, which is pretty good for tagging near-instantaneous respawns at a fixed point (e.g. labyrinth doors)

Fortunately everyone seems to be running Chrono open world these days. Superspeed shatters give staff amazing tagging potential and kiting champs from range can work just as well evading them with sword.

adelaide.6213:

Fortunately everyone seems to be running Chrono open world these days. Superspeed shatters give staff amazing tagging potential and kiting champs from range can work just as well evading them with sword.

Superspeed can’t beat hitscan weapons like GS auto or MoP. For tagging the idea is to camp GS, and instead of switching to staff just cycle MoP between spawn waves, much lower cooldown. Sword is for literally standing inside the spawn point where needed, though I do also run Blink to actually get out of dangerous situations (or catch up with the farm train)

I’m not saying staff is bad, I just don’t see what you gain for open world over just staying on GS. Also GS/Sw+F works without chrono.

I quite like Staff for Zerker Chrono. It’s a great defensive weapon and has really low illusion CDs with Chaotic Dampening and Alacrity. As Chrono your primary tagging skills are Wells so the lack of AoE tagging capability with Staff isn’t really an issue, and Chaos Storm isn’t bad for tagging either.

For Maguuma I don’t run GS at all, it provides no defensive options which is a pretty big flaw in the jungle. Instead I run Sword/Shield with Staff. Shield is both a great defensive and tagging weapon, iAvenger does reasonable AoE damage and Tides of Time is just great.

Chaos Storm + Tides of Time just eats breakbars for dinner and asks for seconds. It’s awesome.

I have soloed all champs with my staff. I don’t solo champs with my GS.
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