Guild Wars 2

I’m having some trouble with my choice of weapons and doing PvE in general. I feel next to useless just running around the zone doing my best to level. I have an ele friend I do most things with and it seems I can’t even compare to her damage. I ran a Staff/Sword+Focus build that focused on condition damage. It seemed slow, even on veteran/champion mobs she was doing more even after I set up.
It might of been my build considering it was 10 in power, 20 in chaos, and 20 in illusion but I’m not sure. I didn’t think it was worth sacrificing any points to just get bleed on my illusions crits, but maybe I was wrong. If that’s the case, please offer some advice.

I tried switching to GS also with 20 in dueling, 20 in domination, 5 in chaos, and 5 in illusion. It still seems sorta lack luster. I’m 60 now and I’ll be buying the last skill book shortly. I just wanted some advice on a decent build where I’ll get decent results. It seemed to take even Longer to kill mobs with my GS that my staff, which is fairly depressing.
I’m not sure what the problem is, but I’d love some help.

If you want to stick to GS, which is currently bugged unfortunately but dev said will get fixed, go Domination 20 Duelling 20 Illusion 20, select mental torment, greatsword training, deceptive evasion, precise wrack and illusionary elasticity. Equip power precision crit damage or mix of knight’s/valkyrie gear if you want more survivability. Summon phantasm from range, run in and cast mirror blade at about 600 distance where it can bounce to you. Then dodge and mind wrack. Enjoy your big single target and decent aoe damage. If you don’t like shattering, select compounding illusions, crippling dissipation, debilitating dissipation(chaos line) and keep a fair range from mobs except when you use mirror blade. Have staff on swap for defensive/support situations and your warlock will do good damage in boss fights, though by this setup your gs will still do more damage in the time it takes for those warlocks to attack. Remember to stay in mid range whichever weapon you use so you can get those bounces going, they will allow you to kill mobs significantly faster. And don’t cast phantasms when you know those mobs are going to run behind a tree or a rock or are on top of some stairs or behind a slight bump in the terrain even if you can see them.