Guild Wars 2

I played the game during its initial release but left sometime during the release of the first living story, or was it second(Crab Tossing was fun). My favorite classes were in a tight spot back then and ANet was taking their time to fix things so I left. I only returned a month ago and am loving my Stealth Free Thief(Stealth abusers made me hate the class) and my Druid. I’ve shelved my 3 other characters(I haven’t had the time to relearn Mesmer and I dislike where Power Engineer and Necro are atm).

I bought a 6th character slot and made a Revenant for 3 reasons. I need to complete the story as a Norn for the achievement, female Norns look amazing in heavy armor and I’m a mega fan boy of melee staff.

I’m a complete stranger to the class and know nothing about it. Therefore I’m here for your help. Metabattle hasn’t worked for me all weekend, I don’t know why but the site keeps crashing when I try to get at it.

Can someone help me put together a build that uses staff as its melee option?

I’m a PvE player that occasionally goes WvW. I only PvP for Tomes of Knowledge and skins.

Staff isn’t really a primary weapon, mostly it’s used as swap.

With any power rev it’s going to be devastation, invocation and herald.

jpnova.4572:

Can someone help me put together a build that uses staff as its melee option?

Essentially this one:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlMQNAsemnvN2gS6JvQRVlbosryPUYW5IKYs8ElFNFyegJshsj5MtptABoBA-TVCFABMcKBa4IAkm+irUCy++DKfgAA4BAov6PIp8LAACwNbz28mZzbmhO0hO0hO0u5Nv5Nv5NLFwYbtA-w

For PvE only you can maybe swap shield for a second sword, run scholar runes instead of durability/leadership, go full berserker in the stats and replace a few traits like Vicious Lacerations instead of Malicious Reprisal.

I’d disagree with the Staff not being used as a primary weapon, it can be a pretty nice one to use (not to mention not as boring as Sword #1 infinity times). I use this build to give me 100% boon uptime (combined with F2), 100% Crit and good survivability as well as damage:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlAQFAmn3gWNSuQrJRbo/ksP0gS4I6QJ4EdrkFNFqdABoBsjZNtxugJshA-TBCBQBGSHAAeAAlUJYWU61v9HwiygAcBAQo6PkCwrlRA-e

I have all weapons so can switch depending on the situation but tend to run Staff/Hammer. My build is good for team and single battling in PVE. I did some WVW for my Legendary and didn’t really encounter any issues either (I also switched to Condi in-between fights to confuse people).

The secondary legend I tend to run with is Jalis for heals + stoneskin, but you can switch to Mallynx for boon removal or Shiro for Quickness, it’s pretty flexible.

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I’d disagree with the Staff not being used as a primary weapon, it can be a pretty nice one to use (not to mention not as boring as Sword #1 infinity times). I use this build to give me 100% boon uptime (combined with F2), 100% Crit and good survivability as well as damage:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlAQFAmn3gWNSuQrJRbo/ksP0gS4I6QJ4EdrkFNFqdABoBsjZNtxugJshA-TBCBQBGSHAAeAAlUJYWU61v9HwiygAcBAQo6PkCwrlRA-e

I have all weapons so can switch depending on the situation but tend to run Staff/Hammer. My build is good for team and single battling in PVE. I did some WVW for my Legendary and didn’t really encounter any issues either (I also switched to Condi in-between fights to confuse people).

The secondary legend I tend to run with is Jalis for heals + stoneskin, but you can switch to Mallynx for boon removal or Shiro for Quickness, it’s pretty flexible.

I like the build idea. I’ll test it when I get my Rev to 80.
Is Vicious Lacerations in Devastation a mistake?

EDIT: Also with Rolling Mists equipped is there any point in using so many pieces of gear with Precision? Wouldn’t 2-3 be enough?

Perhaps I could go something like Valkyrie or Cavalier instead? Will boost survivability?

Vicious Lacerations is used when you equip a Sword (if you should ever want to or need to i.e. with a Shield or Axe). You could take the bottom option but it has a 30 second icd (internal cooldown) so not quite so useful.

That build takes you to about 60% Crit, with Rolling Mists it becomes 100%

You honestly will be survivable enough with that gear. Master the staff, switching between heals and Glint timing and you’ll become almost un-killable in the content around