Miind’s Staff Elementalist Farming Build:
The focus of this build is to provide maximum sustained damage, while still maintaining survivability, to provide fast and effective AOE farming. This is done by providing stats for high damage while focusing runes and sigils towards chill effects, keeping the enemy constantly at a distance. Though not too fancy i have found this build effective. All gear needed will run around 3g (based on current Black Lion costs.) If you have any spare gold the WvWvW Assassin backpack can be purchased to total in at 8g though it is by no means necessary.
Gearing
Basics:
All Equipment should have the Berserker preface as you are going for high damage at all times, grab what you can afford, this is a farming build so it is assumed that you will be making more money down the road.
Runes:
Superior Rune of the Ice (6/6). This will supply the survivability, the stacking of vitality and the bonuses to chilled/frozen effects provide effective kiting while also forcing the enemy to stay in your fields longer increasing damage output. The cherry on top is the 5% more damage while chilled/frozen.
Sigil:
To compliment the Rune it only seems natural to place a Superior Sigil of Ice in your chosen staff, providing an on crit chill affect, and you will be criting often(thank you berserkers). Remember that Chill stacks in duration, which is already being improved by you rune.
Gems:
A Ruby Orb in each Trinket slot. To provide even further damage.
Healing and Utility Skills:
Healing:
- Glyph of Elemental Harmony.
Utility:
- Glyph of Storms.
- Mist Form.
- Glyph of Lesser Elementals.
Elite:
- Glyph of Elementals.
Traits:
30 into Fire – Internal Fire, Pyromancer’s Alacrity, Pyromancer’s Puissance.
20 into Air – Quick Glyphs, Bolt to the Heart.
20 into Arcane – Elemental Attumenent, Blasting Staff.
Guide:
Now the build itself is rather squishy in general, you are in berserker gear after all. Use every field to your advantage, remember while frozen they are forced into your fields for a longer amount of time, they will take more damage 5%, and they have longer ability cooldowns. To line up mass kill’s, lay down Eruption, followed by your now improved Frozen Ground, then follow up with a Lava font, Flame burst, Glyph of Storms, and go to town with 1-2k Fireball’s. Loot. Rinse. Repeat. On larger event based units you can solo the enemy by swapping to Earth Using Glyph of Elementals to summon your pocket tank. Swap water to use Glyph of Lesser Elementals, to summon additional damage, a freezing field (again 5% more damage for you), and healing for you and your Rock tank. Then follow with any combination of damage you feel is suitable.
I Hope this helps with speed and efficiency, Good luck, and enjoy those high crits. If you have any improvements to this build please let me know.
