Guild Wars 2

Right now I’m Level 23 and absolutely hate the greatsword. I come from playing a lot of dota and mobility and playmaking is everything to me. The phase retreat in combination with blink and decoy is loads of fun but I just feel like it’s lacking in power when trying to participate in those big world events where everybody is in one spot attacking the same enemies. I can live with using greatsword for zergs, but staff is feeling a little weak still even with small trash mobs. I appreciate some of the insight so far as to what specializations a staff would benefit most from in pve leveling scenarios. Please keep the suggestions coming as I would love more than one opinion.

As a new player, I have decided that I am a Mesmer kind of dude and have fallen in love with the staff as my weapon of choice. With clone cripple bomb being dead, I’m not sure what the best way to level with staff is, or if it’s even viable. I’m wondering if anybody has any suggestions for solo leveling builds that would primarily use a staff. If there are any guides for this, links to those would also be great. The preference here would be to use the staff and condition damage through out the leveling process.