Guild Wars 2

I know it wouldnt be as effective as others but Im looking for a druid build using staff for damage dealing. For pve, eotm and mainly for fun. Any ideas on stats and trait combinations are appreciated. It only requires to be able to kill mobs with staff. Clear speed or soloing champs wont be an issue.
What would be the best build within those lines?
(If heals would not be crap, that would be nice but not necessary)

The “key” to dealing measurable dmg with staff is abusing it’s attack speed, and the only way to do that is sharpened edges and a stat set with good precision and good condition dmg.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNMQJATWjEqCVqZ1sWy6Xxl1yCXrr1ihg18uSdtAmAworBA3VHrp1UCT6VgE-TVTFAB1qhoKlKrpDRJlBJcIAo+AC0nSwkvACLpkihDEQb7PaCA4JEco6PbGEAuxGJb///dbbTKg7WWB-w

I call it condi longbow but it does indeed do dmg with staff aswell. If you wanted you could dump longbow for x/torch and get some nice aoe burn/bleed going aswell. But ya while in staff you will have some healing power and an OK amount of toughness/vita so you won’t get one-shot.

I went through and made it more staff oriented.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQFAWjEqQNLWyCusAVLWMEMmAworBA3VHrp1m31JoFcSSLJN-TlRFAB9pEsKlftt/oDAgHAwhq/kwFAIAACwMnZAwMn5Mn5MnZhAUMHA-w

I avoided making it glass by using celestial trinkets.
I left the weapon swap set out. You can use,
Longbow
Axe or sword with, torch or axe

If you want it to be glass mix it sinister and rampager stats.

Oh and I put provisioner food in it, that’s a wvw dispenser thing you can/should get.

Demiroid.8574:

I know it wouldnt be as effective as others but Im looking for a druid build using staff for damage dealing. For pve, eotm and mainly for fun. Any ideas on stats and trait combinations are appreciated. It only requires to be able to kill mobs with staff. Clear speed or soloing champs wont be an issue.
What would be the best build within those lines?
(If heals would not be crap, that would be nice but not necessary)

Take a look at your options for a pve build.

https://m.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/4g7y77/heres_a_dps_comparison_of_43_ranger_builds/

I don’t have time to make any eotm builds for you, but maybe later if I remember.

Thanks guys, I will try them out

Staff is really not an open world PvE weapon, I think you’re going to be miserable. 4 out of the 5 skills are support in an environment where you only want damage.

That said, berserker staff is not terrible damage. I mean it is terrible, but it’s passable. I believe it’s slightly higher damage than longbow autoattack, which is the most painful way to play PvE possible.

Fluffball.8307:

Staff is really not an open world PvE weapon, I think you’re going to be miserable. 4 out of the 5 skills are support in an environment where you only want damage.

That said, berserker staff is not terrible damage. I mean it is terrible, but it’s passable. I believe it’s slightly higher damage than longbow autoattack, which is the most painful way to play PvE possible.

If he runs staff properly by using its pierce and aggroing as many foes as he can within an area it can be less boring. Staff’s fast pulsing can aggro foes almost as quickly as a person can change target. Within reason of course.

It’s kinda why I also recommended madking entangle bombing though ;-)

If he wants to run only staff and camp it, he could run dual staff and ancient seed bomb frequently too.

Fluffball.8307:

That said, berserker staff is not terrible damage. I mean it is terrible, but it’s passable.

Made me lol

Justine.6351:

I went through and made it more staff oriented.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQFAWjEqQNLWyCusAVLWMEMmAworBA3VHrp1m31JoFcSSLJN-TlRFAB9pEsKlftt/oDAgHAwhq/kwFAIAACwMnZAwMn5Mn5MnZhAUMHA-w

I avoided making it glass by using celestial trinkets.
I left the weapon swap set out. You can use,
Longbow
Axe or sword with, torch or axe

If you want it to be glass mix it sinister and rampager stats.

Oh and I put provisioner food in it, that’s a wvw dispenser thing you can/should get.

What the h** is this? Please Demiroid.8574, don’t waste your gold on that mess.

Khenzy.9348:

Justine.6351:

I went through and made it more staff oriented.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQFAWjEqQNLWyCusAVLWMEMmAworBA3VHrp1m31JoFcSSLJN-TlRFAB9pEsKlftt/oDAgHAwhq/kwFAIAACwMnZAwMn5Mn5MnZhAUMHA-w

I avoided making it glass by using celestial trinkets.
I left the weapon swap set out. You can use,
Longbow
Axe or sword with, torch or axe

If you want it to be glass mix it sinister and rampager stats.

Oh and I put provisioner food in it, that’s a wvw dispenser thing you can/should get.

What the h** is this? Please Demiroid.8574, don’t waste your gold on that mess.

It’s what he asked for. And if you think it’s a mess, I will happily melt your face off with it.

Justine.6351:

Khenzy.9348:

Justine.6351:

I went through and made it more staff oriented.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQFAWjEqQNLWyCusAVLWMEMmAworBA3VHrp1m31JoFcSSLJN-TlRFAB9pEsKlftt/oDAgHAwhq/kwFAIAACwMnZAwMn5Mn5MnZhAUMHA-w

I avoided making it glass by using celestial trinkets.
I left the weapon swap set out. You can use,
Longbow
Axe or sword with, torch or axe

If you want it to be glass mix it sinister and rampager stats.

Oh and I put provisioner food in it, that’s a wvw dispenser thing you can/should get.

What the h** is this? Please Demiroid.8574, don’t waste your gold on that mess.

It’s what he asked for. And if you think it’s a mess, I will happily melt your face off with it.

^
I min/max differently but I run a similar build in WvW and wreck just about everyone I come across, especially straight power/bunker druids.

Justine.6351:

I went through and made it more staff oriented.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQFAWjEqQNLWyCusAVLWMEMmAworBA3VHrp1m31JoFcSSLJN-TlRFAB9pEsKlftt/oDAgHAwhq/kwFAIAACwMnZAwMn5Mn5MnZhAUMHA-w

I avoided making it glass by using celestial trinkets.
I left the weapon swap set out. You can use,
Longbow
Axe or sword with, torch or axe

If you want it to be glass mix it sinister and rampager stats.

Oh and I put provisioner food in it, that’s a wvw dispenser thing you can/should get.

justine you shouldn’t use the infusions in the editor because not everyone has the ascended atuned and infused. And also you need a lot of laurels to make them so whoch is hard timegated.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQJAWTjEqQJL2wCusAVLWMEsm3VqrFwEAGdNA4u6YNtWi0rA-T1SAABzoDYTVDg4CAQxTAAgDBQbKBFTJ2XKPyUNnX0EE4+DBAQAYn78o78oHtUAKKNC-w
Here’s the version I run on my alt account. If you go exotic for the armor and weapons it comes out to be fairly cheap.

On my main account I run vipers, if you enjoy the build it is definitely worth investing in vipers. For PvE you can drop SoS for the extra bleeds but the signet comes in pretty darned handy in WvW, especially when rezzing a buddy.

anduriell.6280:

Justine.6351:

I went through and made it more staff oriented.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQFAWjEqQNLWyCusAVLWMEMmAworBA3VHrp1m31JoFcSSLJN-TlRFAB9pEsKlftt/oDAgHAwhq/kwFAIAACwMnZAwMn5Mn5MnZhAUMHA-w

I avoided making it glass by using celestial trinkets.
I left the weapon swap set out. You can use,
Longbow
Axe or sword with, torch or axe

If you want it to be glass mix it sinister and rampager stats.

Oh and I put provisioner food in it, that’s a wvw dispenser thing you can/should get.

justine you shouldn’t use the infusions in the editor because not everyone has the ascended atuned and infused. And also you need a lot of laurels to make them so whoch is hard timegated.

You don’t make a staff dps build without BiS gear.

Jim Hunter.6821:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQJAWTjEqQJL2wCusAVLWMEsm3VqrFwEAGdNA4u6YNtWi0rA-T1SAABzoDYTVDg4CAQxTAAgDBQbKBFTJ2XKPyUNnX0EE4+DBAQAYn78o78oHtUAKKNC-w
Here’s the version I run on my alt account. If you go exotic for the armor and weapons it comes out to be fairly cheap.

On my main account I run vipers, if you enjoy the build it is definitely worth investing in vipers. For PvE you can drop SoS for the extra bleeds but the signet comes in pretty darned handy in WvW, especially when rezzing a buddy.

Curious, how do you gear when in Vipers? I have a set of asc Vipers (Yassith) w/ Superior Rune of the Berserker that I use occasionally for raiding with my Engi. Wouldn’t mind swapping that over to my Druid if I had a good staff build for it.

You can get to 100% bleed duration using the metabattle (I assume, I didn’t look at it) condi viper build, then use the trinkets for some defense or healing power or something, for a WvW druid.

Thanks Fluffball. How much crit chance should I aim for? Seems like Sharpened Edges is pretty key to bleed stacking in this build.

Lakshmi.5941:

Thanks Fluffball. How much crit chance should I aim for? Seems like Sharpened Edges is pretty key to bleed stacking in this build.

I shoot for around 60% since fury uptime is pretty much perma in fights, but there have been days where I dropped it down to around 50% to work in more vitality and I didn’t notice much of a difference.

Thanks Jim Hunter. I played a Wilderness Knowledge fury uptime build before HoT, so I understand what you mean. Kinda excited to try this out, even if the DPS is a bit low. Some wiggle room in the stats to tweak it to suit the circumstances.

Lakshmi.5941:

Thanks Jim Hunter. I played a Wilderness Knowledge fury uptime build before HoT, so I understand what you mean. Kinda excited to try this out, even if the DPS is a bit low. Some wiggle room in the stats to tweak it to suit the circumstances.

The dps really isn’t that bad at all. Rapid fire loses out on maybe 2 or 3k but you keep up a constant 2k bleed tick which is pretty great in those fights where you are constantly stealthing and kiting around. Once a player blows their condi clear they just crumple.

The only real dps loss is not being able to take beast mastery, but a good player is going to avoid most of your pet damage anyway.