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Boooo, not available on mobile boo!
Dear Bobby, you have got a cute account name
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And, please try the video on different browser, happened with another friend too, changing browser sorted it.
Apologies Guys! I just figured I inevidently deleted my original post while I was trying to edit it. Thank god I had the text saved on a word doc. This is from the prospective of spvp, let me know your views guys ^^
Diva’s Condi Signet build
Hey All,
I havn’t seen this around after the patch so here I present you with this awesome condi signet build which I have been playing in tpvp/ solo q for quite a while and it totally dominates any fight specially in 1 v 1 scenario. This build is very easy to use in fact some might gonna call it “skill less” play etc but if it works, I won’t mind using it. Basically, all you have to do is stay in earth attunement all the time and never change it during the fight, reasons being, you HP is very little and you don’t wanna die instantly taking any critical hits while in earth we have “Stone Heart” trait, so you’re always safe there. This is a great dueling build as cheesy as PU condi mesmer used to be.
Sigils used are: Earth and corruption, along with Rabid Amulet.
Here are some pros n cons for this build:
Pros:
1. You can’t get critially hit while having a high condi damage (around 1700), 30% extra duration (could use more condi duration runes) and around 3400 toughness (with Rock barrier) so keep pressing earth skill #1 and use signets whenever you can.
2. You got a variety of additional conditions available at your disposal like immobilize, chill, cripple which are good to mess up with foes mobility.
3. Signets CDs are so low with Fire Shield to yourself which will burn your foes hard.
4. Frequent Blinds – Blinding Ashes will be your saviour many times and be used a lot more frequently in a fight (because of Signet’s fire shield and burning precision traits in fire)
5. No attunement switching hassles, no need to make those mind freaking combos with this build.
6. It’s awesome cause it’s 1st ever easy-peasy-ele build I have come across lol
7. See your foes melting away like never before, this build has potential to even do vs 2 or 3 if you play well.
Cons:
1. You won’t be using any other attunements.
2. Limited condi cleanse but you could change healing skill to Ether Renewal (and trait it with Rock Solid)
3. Low HP Pool
4. As any other condi class, you will be bursting enemies down slowly.
And because celestial ele is so mainstream, we need a variety now!! No more standing at safe spots, no more fun being squishy, time to facetank them!!
Here is the build link:
Sooo, let me know your views on this if you try this or with your own tweeks
P.S. I could record some fights and post a video if anyone wants.
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Soooo guys, I have been using this new assassin trinket on my staff ele, quite fun I must say. With Fury, my crit chance goes to 98% and crit damage goes up to 230% isn’t that amazing!!
Here is a video of one such match, we were doing a TS organized Tpvp match. I’m impressed by the crits even tho my hp pool was compromised a bit but that wasn’t a prob tbh. Anyway, do share your views on it and healthy feedback.
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Please enable for mobile devices
Oh, is it not available for mobile devices? hmm so could you tell me how to do that please?
EDIT: Fixed it.
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So curious of to know who won the amazing price
It really has to be a very kind person to have the will to give away their Eternity to a stranger. Thanks Maya! and, count me in for this wonderful contest, never know if I get super lucky
@aphrodesiac : yeah in the video I havnt much but normally I use it a lot to immobolize foes. Dont feel bad pls lol
@kishter: thank youuuuu… Yeh jpop I love too
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Staff Eles unite!! :-D
Wow, such a glass cannon build though — glad you can handle it, I wouldn’t be good enough to pull it off and not crumple instantly. No way would I ever throw the Vital Striking trait into a PvP build, but I guess if you’re going to focus solely on burst damage you have to go big or go home. Seems you know how to handle yourself in the vid, so I guess the risk pays off!
Thanks!! yeah you gotta be in love with Staff ele to play it well I solely focus on doing max damage I could do, however, this kinda setup is playable with an organized team only.
and @runeblade.7514, thanks for your suggestions. I have now removed Vital striking trait for tempest defense.
TO ALL OF YOU GUYS WHO REPLIED TO THIS THREAD, THANKS FOR YOUR COMMENTS, I HAVE MADE SOME CHANGES CONSIDERING ALL YOUR GOOD SUGGESTIONS, I HEAL MORE EFFECTIVELY NOW USING BLASTS AND I DON’T INTERRUPT METEOR SHOWER MUCH EITHER
VIVA LA STAFF ELE \O/
Hey All,
I’m a fan of staff ele ever since I started playing this game. Post 15th April patch, even though the whole DPS has been nerfed but imo a lot can be recompensed through new sigils and runes available to us. I recorded a new video of my staff ele in pvp group arena, it may not impress some of you out there who seek a “proper” build for a long 1 v 1 etc with some technicalities like ‘stun breaker’ ‘condi cleanse’ etc, but this high dps ele is very good for killing opponents faster due to it’s high burst/ crit damage. You obviously have to dodge/ position yourself correctly and cannot face tank anything. If you manage to keep yourself at a good distance, you can pretty much kill anyone (with using your cc skills) in 1 v 1 also as shown in some clips at the end. I personally enjoy it a lot every time I play pvp with my friends and I thought I should share it with you guys also
Here is my video:
EDIT: Here is my build: http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fFAQFAWnMISLDW9AmNAdEIgAQIlMcgILEWKTp3A-TJBBwAVeAAAuAA12focZAA
Hello Diva! I’m really amazed to see your video, you played really well being a squishy staff ele in a pvp arena. Very helpful to your team and a perfect skillful staff play :-)
I will definitely try your build I know I need to practice a lot with it since I play a warrior mostly but I always wanted to play a staff ele……… just as you played in the video
THANKS A LOT^^
@ The Scars of Time.6324 @Mijo.3274
Personally I would interrupt meteor shower everytime in pvp to be able to focus on other powerful skills quickly cause you cannot fully kill an opponent with only meteor shower, however, it’s aoe blast surely adds hugely to the damage around. If I cast full meteor shower, it wouldn’t benefit me as much as you do with Lava Font (which you can cast pretty fast for huge damage) etc skills on your opponent. So in pvp, if you are focusing to kill single target quickly, you would tend to interrupt meteor shower and jump to other skills. It would still do 2-3 hits on the target which should be enough :-D
@cheese.4739 Okay so I tried “Lightning Rod” trait, I was NOT impressed by it as compared to my old trait “Vital Striking” so I changed it back. Reasons being, I do interrupts but not that frequent enough but not worth taking it over VS. Secondly, it’s damage is as good as my Fire ball normal crit damage so I chucked it! Also, cheeze, Persisting Flames is a very good trait but I usually don’t use combos for might with this very build cause I have ample options of might available to me already, so I use Arcane Wave for direct damage sometimes. Moreover, in team fights, you will often have fury on you through your mates (provided you don’t try to solo anywhere else it’s absolutely safe for you)
The main challenge with this build is to keep yourself very safe and mobile, we have great damage options available to us, that’s never an issue! =)
Thanks Duran.
I do understand your points and the high risks involved in this build, unfortunately I cannot record every match but mostly, chances are if you don’t step into wrong situations, you can be safe! Example, if I would only start attacking if I see at least one of my mates is around to face the opponents and as I said above, every map has such locations, for ex, temple storm has some good sheds at every capture point.
Secondly, even if opponents are very good, they cannot chase me if I’m standing at a good distance and possibly can run away too but our idea usually is that my mates will interrupt them and let me do my job. Anyway, I used Arcane Brilliance cause in Air, I took ‘Arcane Lighting’ trait that increases my critical hit damage for some 15 secs, it wont stack so I try to use arcane brilliance and arcane wave separately. So my idea was both the skills have option to be either used as a blast finisher or solely for this trait. Your inputs will be appreciated if any. :-)
Hey All,
I’m a fan of staff ele ever since I started playing this game. Post 15th April patch, even though the whole DPS has been nerfed but imo a lot can be recompensed through new sigils and runes available to us. I recorded a new video of my staff ele in pvp group arena, it may not impress some of you out there who seek a “proper” build for a long 1 v 1 etc with some technicalities like ‘stun breaker’ ‘condi cleanse’ etc, but this high dps ele is very good for killing opponents faster due to it’s high burst/ crit damage. You obviously have to dodge/ position yourself correctly and cannot face tank anything. If you manage to keep yourself at a good distance, you can pretty much kill anyone (with using your cc skills) in 1 v 1 also as shown in some clips at the end. I personally enjoy it a lot every time I play pvp with my friends and I thought I should share it with you guys also
Here is my video:
EDIT: Here is my UPDATED build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFAQFAWnMISLD2zAWPAdEGgAwCHAiALAxlgMwQs0bA-TJBFwACuAAI3foaZAAPAAA
I now use Lightening Rod trait in Air, build is same though 6,6,0,0,2 berzerker trinket.
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