Guild Wars 2

So I’ve been leveling a Mesmer, and really been having a lot of fun with him (currently Lv43). I mainly use the staff, and it’s been great for leveling so far.

The issue is that I’m not really a huge fan of the other weapons, at least not enough to use them as much as I use the staff. How’s the staff at endgame though? The few times I’ve gone into WvW, I just don’t feel like I’m contributing as much as I did on, say, my Guardian. The staff auto seems to hardly make it to its target before they either run away or die. It seems like the only way I can really tag anything are the times when Chaos Field isn’t on cooldown.

I’m sure part of it is that I’m still learning how to play the class. I just want to make sure staff is a viable WvW and PvE option at 80 before really investing the time into it, if that makes sense.

GS is certainly better for tagging mobs but staff is still an excellent weapon. It’s great for it’s group support with it’s defensive capabilities.

I generally run Staff + Sword/X in almost everything I do.

I don’t really like GS (Mostly because 3 is almost completely useless) as it seems too passive and scepter… well it just doesn’t cut it.

Staff is amazing as a defensive weapon in WvW. Phase Retreat + Chaos Armor saved my life so many times. The autoattack is also very devastating if you have Illusionary Elasticity (VII in the Illusions tree) and get close to the enemy. The Warlock is just a nice addtion to that and can also hit pretty hard.

I suggest you watch some videos from SevenMirror or some of the other awesome guys posting here to get some ideas of how to use the staff properly in WvW.

Staff is the only weapon which makes Clones that actually do damage. While most Clones will only do 0 or 1 damage, a staff Clone will apply the damaging conditions.

In WvW, the bouncing attack will increase the range of the original 1200. For example, hitting a warrior may also bounce to a hunter behind them who is out of your range. This is especially a nuisance if you are attacking enemies on top of walls, hitting anyone who may have been taking cover.

The staff is an amazing weapon.

That bein said, it’s pretty horrible for doing damage in large wvw fights other than dropping chaos storm. The autoattack moves too slowly to be effective the vast majority of the time. It is significantly more effective in smaller skirmishes and 1v1s.

I play my Mesmer almost exclusively with Staff, in WvW it’s pretty devastating in my oppinion.

When solo roaming I use this and melt faces. When playing mass WvW I swap to a glamour spec and use the staff for survivability and chaos storm.

My latets video based on the shatter cat builds

Notice how staff is used for mobility adn utility and swap to sword for kills. Love the staff as a core in al my builds

/Osicat