Guild Wars 2

I wonder if is it viable. Overall: pvp/wvw/pve/fracs etc. What do you think? I don’t like staff, it’s weird.

It’s pretty fun, and actually fairly doable if you play it right.

You can run the fun troll version that is full of stunlocks, or you can run a more serious version. Obviously take bound as your dodge, but really that’s all you need to go off of. Pretty fun in PvP/WvW.

It’s viable with bound and pulmonary impact, although you do have a lot of trouble vs things with lots of stab application (Rev, Engi, DH in particular) and Engis with all the damage reduction on stun food /traits etc.

The most annoying tradeoff I find is the choice between trickster (cleanse and reduced cooldowns on immob breaking skills) and bountiful theft (boon steal to allow burst opportunities vs stab heavy opponents).

I use it in fractals at least. Anywhere else, not so much since Staff’s auto is practically the same as Pistol Whip in terms of damage with no initiative cost and no rooting.

They changed lead attacks so right now you are forced to use something else than just auto attacks, that’s why pistol whip seems to be fine in pve, gonna check it on golems tho.

In PvP D/P is far better but WvW, dam #3 has insane burst, Basilisk Venom + F1 Mug + #3 and you kill every single zerker + no icd on pulmonary impact on interrupts is so good and in my opinion works better with pistol whip with s/p than just headshot with d/p.

#Jugglemonkey

Ikr, I choose trickster when I see condi class like reaper or mesmer, otherwise bountiful theft seems to be better choice.