Guild Wars 2

That makes a lot more sense, so you don’t try to keep mobs at bay and fight from afar, you use the aoe damage skills in close range. I was trying to stay at range, thinking that was the purpose of the staff.

I recently got to level 80 on my elementalist. I actually got to about 70 back before HoT but stopped playing and just recently got back into the game.

I pretty much exclusively have been playing open world pve, and have mainly been using d/f and s/f fresh air builds, which I have really enjoyed. I also played around with s/f condition builds, but I enjoy the attunement switching of fresh air more.

That being said, in the forum I see plenty of people that use staff in open world pve, and I have tried to use it but with very little luck. My issue is that enemies always immediately leave my lava font and it seems like it takes them a long to die. I was wondering how people who play staff actually do it. Do they just stay close to the enemies so that they stay in the ground target? Or do they use the skills like static field and unsteady ground on every single encounter and just wait for them to recharge in between fights?

I should mention that I don’t have HoT yet, so I do not have access to the tempest, so maybe staff needs tempest in open world. I just feel like I am playing the staff wrong and wanted to see how other people did it.

Thanks for the help