Guild Wars 2

I am trying to decide which weapon works better. I really like the greatsword and feel like my damage is faster. The staff is fun as well but I feel like it is slower damage. I don’t feel like they work well together though or do they once I start putting points in?

Depends what you’re doing and what your build is like.

Staff auto attack is slower and weaker, but it bounces and has very strong conditions that make up for it and ignore armor.

GS auto attack is best at max range, it has the strongest physical auto attack of mesmer weapons.

Beyond that you’ll have to start comparing the bonus effects and phantasms associated with the weapons.

It al come down to what style you want to play, If you go shatter spec sword/pistol as 2nd setup you want staff for defense and movment. if you go range spec without illusionary persona and or without phantasm focus you want GS. If you want condition bounce staff serv you fine again etc.

1st think, how do I like to play? Then think, how do I wana stay alive? Then think what wep wor best for this?

/Osicat

Hmm… well I do like moving, I had been using the sword/pistol, with the greatsword for pve and then I went greatsword sword/focus for wvw.

Does a staff work ok for wvw? That seems to be the area that I just cannot seem to damage people with the staff other than a chaos storm placed over a group of people, and even then I am not sure if I should be saving that to put on allies for buffs instead.

That’s because staff is a defensive weapon. For sieges and running with the zerg, you need to swap to GS. Also change out your utilities to be more group oriented. For instance, blink and decoy would change to feedback and null field. That kind of thing.