Guild Wars 2

Hello, I’ve been away for many many months and really wanted to come back and run with my staff. When I last played the staff had limited use and was out shined by a power setup and sept/dagger. Condition. I mostly run PVE, dungeons, fracctuals. Didn’t see anything obvious in notes so thought I would bring it here.
Thanks for help

It still hits like a wet noodle if used exclusively compared to d/x(power) & s/d(condi).

The staff is really only useful as a utility stick in PvE. For a condition build, scepter/dagger will do more damage. For a build centered around death shroud, axe or dagger mainhand with focus offhand give plenty of life force regeneration while also doing good damage outside of death shroud.

I still keep a staff on to burst conditions at the start of a fight, to clear conditions off myself with Putrid Mark, or to keep mobs off of the party while skipping areas in dungeons.

I think that before the loss of putrid mark the staf was a support weapon. Now it’s just a weakened scepter/dagger. We need the original putrid mark back to regain the true functionality of the staff.

The only real reason staff was taken before the putrid mark nerf was the utility + 1200 range. It was a way to snake conditions onto an enemy group via AE spam in the hopes at least identifying which one of them did not have a cleanse ready so that you’d be able to epidemic off of them before getting focused. It’s also “OK” as an anti stealth weapon too. The 1200 range gave you a chance to stay out of the horrible kitten radius of the other classes (’cuz disengaging at closer range is near impossible).

But when it comes to actual killing, other weapons were/are superior. So the Putrid Mark team cleanse removal hurt that much harder.

Add in that in PvE you usually need dps more than range; and well, you start to get the picture.