Guild Wars 2

Yay, a staff Elementalist thread.

I run one with 30/20/0/0/20. In fire, I put Lava font as one of the skills so that when I get downed, the person trying to kill me gets hurt. It’s how I win 1 vs. 1 a lot. I play a completely glass cannon build that stays mostly in fire. In 1 vs. 1, my idea is to get them near team mates, though. It’s not to beat them by myself because any competent player can dodge my damage dealing attacks. They can’t dodge my CC skills as easily, so those help. I don’t have any chance against a d/d elementalist, or any mesmer or ranger unless they are just absolutely horrid. All I can do for those is CC them for others to kill, which works quite well. If I get caught in the process, I lay down every aoe I can in hopes I can kill them first.

If you use RTL off a ledge and take falling damage, it just uses earthquake multiple times, or at least it looks like it does.

Reflect (Magnetic Aura) no longer works on rangers attacks.

Proseph.3504:

After the EA nerf, I would place staff dead last. Scepter/Dagger combo has a lot of burst potential and can be very fun.

Did you try any other build than a bunker?

blackgoat.5172:

Wouldn’t it be hilarious to see a “horde” of D/D eles running through WvW though?

Kind of. The amount of buffs they would cause would be insane too. A thief horde would be much funnier, though, for the fact that you would see a massive amount of people just disappear.

I’v been thinking about these nerfs for awhile and after seeing daphoenix’s WvW videos I saw it. Even though he is incredibly skilled, the level of advantage that he got was to high for his skill, if that makes any sense. He said himself that he could deal with over 5 players, even coordinated ones. Let’s say that Anet didn’t have the intention that a class should be able to handle that many other players on any class no matter the skill level of the user.

Maybe? Just my thoughts.

I read it all! Woohoo!

Anyways, I’m kinda happy that Frost Storm hits more now. I used it as a main aoe and it took out around 9k-10k when it was done. I think adding buffs to weilding conjures was OK. It encourages builds around them without making them 100% OP. I still think Earth Shield is useless, though, but that’s just me. >.>

Oh, I went and tested Frost Bow. Frost Fan now has a 4 sec chill effect instead of a .25sec chill. It cannot stack if it hits you with all of the arrows though.

This person means switch the positions of the skills, not switch them back to before the skills were redone (I hope). Even if you click two before you die, the command will transfer to your downed state. Two is the most used skill so it’s incredibly annoying.

Use what is more fun. The weapons uses fall into different situations btw, so if you do PvE mostly, you should carry around all the weapons.

TheWarKeeper.5374:

You guys do not realise that the proper dps is staff, the only reason why ppl dont use it is because its useless casting time make it an useless dps weapon, its not even close to the dps of other classes with its gigantic recharge time and slow casting times.

I use it, and it does way more damage than scepter or daggers. XD You can even suicide and take out multiple people if you think you are going to die.

Can we add in the fact that all speed buffs are nulled when in combat? I use swift and I don’t move faster unless I’m out of combat. Also, any class can catch up to me even when I have crippled and chilled them by just running normally.

This is why Lava Font is a fun trait to have…if they hit that hard they will die while you are downed. What build were you using?

In WvW, it’s very obvious as to why it’s a good weapon. You have long range and aoes to control crowds. In PvE, you hit more mobs and thus, do more damage to more mobs and can get more drops. It also gives you a long range with decent attack and the elementalist only good damage build makes you very squishy so you will die from mobs easily if you go out and solo the maps.

@Rainshine (since I can’t seem to quote >.>) I know that. I would place Eruption and then the blast from my attack would not work on my Static Field when Fire Ring was placed. At least I figured it out now~ It cancels out my speed buff and it doesn’t even apply any other buffs when that happens.

Also, the bug involving Fire fields last 30% longer seems to be fixed, although it only adds one extra hit for Lava Font. ><

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The idea of this build is not to get hit. If you do, you lay down a lava font before you are downed and another will be placed from the trait. The arcane shield trait protects you. You’ll mostly stay in fire but you won’t suffer any damage loss, in fact, you’ll lose it if you switch. The Signet of Earth stop people from moving so you can use skill 5 on Frost bow. Use Ice storm once they are frozen and then go back to Fire Staff skills and finish off anyone who tries to come near you. By the time someone hits you, you should have most people down by half health. It’s kind of a suicide build but you are probably going to survive due to the immense amount of damage you’ll do to people in downed state.

Ice storm will hit about 1.8k crits, Meteor Storm will hit about 2.5k crits, Fireball will hit around 2k crits, and lava font should be about 1.8k crits. The sigil should add in alot of extra dps when you crit and also works when you are down. It’s about as much damage as you can get. The damage will increase greatly once they are past the 25% mark. Just don’t get caught :P

MiniAchilles.4617:

OddFinrir, he did say the Ele uses a Staff.

This is what I get for skimming. ><

We don’t even know what weapon they are using. A staff ele can stay in place and kill a thief easy. A D/D ele would have to be constantly moving and spamming skills with a wide range and placing fire field down, etc. Also, tell him to spec in Crit Damage + Precision. Much more dps.

The best thing to ensure you win is having the Fire trait skill, Lava Font.

In PvP it seems we can do pretty well if you know what you are doing. By the time I run out of skills to use, the other person is close to dead. I have to surprise them though to succeed.

PvE is another matter. Our attacks do minimal damage compared to other classes. I might as well stay in water attunement and auto attack because it does more damage than anything else. We have so much CC we actually lack damage.

Using a staff, I can’t seem to have my eruption combo speed buff work when a D/D elementalist puts down Fire Ring at the start. I can’t really replicate this with only one account so I’m not entirely sure it’s the Fire Ring skill or all the other skills used at the start from the other person.

This seems to work pretty well in the class cannon category.

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