Guild Wars 2

I’d love to make a staff mesmer work in PvE (solo/open world roaming/HoT Maps.

I thought I’d ask the community for advice on how to setup a mesmer around staff only that’ll still be able to take mobs down and then transition into Chronomancer, still with only staff equipped.

Would love some advice

Cheers guys

Disclaimer: Any build made with your requirements will be disgustingly slow and miserable to play in most situations.

The best build you can produce with those requirements is a condie build. You’ll trait dueling, chaos, and illusions. When you get Chronomancer you could drop chaos for Chronomancy, but it won’t change much. You’ll want full viper/sinister gear for the best damage output.

To deal damage, you use shatters (causing torment and confusion) and your staff autoattacks. Staff clones also apply the conditions on the autoattack, so you use them too.

For most normal mobs in vanilla maps, a few autos and a shatter will kill them. Tougher mobs (vets/champions) are best killed by putting up 3 staff clones and autoattacking until the target dies. Chaos storm will provide a bit of additional damage, but the staff phantasm will be a dps loss in solo situations.

In HoT maps…good luck. Pretty much every mob will provide you with an extended fight. You can pretty much kiss goodbye to any relevant aoe damage, so just focus on killing 1 thing at a time.

For world bosses, you’re in luck! This build actually isn’t garbage for world bosses. Just put up 3 staff phantasms and afk.

I very much agree with the above disclaimer for pure staff builds.

With that being said, one other piece of advice I would give you is equip 2 staves. Both with sigil of geomancy and both with sigil of mischief. Unless you slot Mistrust (Dueling GM trait) and are able to interrupt (break bar will screw you over), you have almost no AOE condi pressure. You probably want DE for your GM trait anyways. Those two sigils (and confusion from blind with ineptitude) give you some much needed AOE and damage. Think of it as an insta cast 10 second CD skill that gives you 3 stacks of bleeds, blind and confusion that hits 4-5 targets. Once you get more shatter spam with Chrono, your AOE condi potential will increase a bit but it’s still not great.

Ty guys for all the help! Really appreciate you taking the time to help me????

Im hooked on my staff/staff Druid fight now but ill try get to level my mwsmer with the guidelines you’ve given me!

Cheerios!