Guild Wars 2

Michael.3279:

Staff is inferior to D/D in 1v1. I argued for it, tested it in a true isolated environment, and was proven wrong.

We dueled after D/D vs. D/D and I won 1 out of 3 matches, so while I have to admit Razor is better than me toe-to-toe, I wouldn’t say it was wildly imbalanced skill-wise.

I love staff in WvW, PvE and sPvP where I can avoid focus-fire like that, but it’s crystal clear to me now that it can’t compete 1v1 against a D/D. Time to start reading the 1000x D/D theorycraft posts :-P

This thread can die now. I am shamed.

Nah, nothing to be shamed for, at least you had the guts to admit it and discuss it. To address your early question about why so few staff threads as compared with d/d threads, here’s my throry: staff is the typical mage style we’ve all played so many times before in other games. Stand back and fire away while the tanks holds aggro. d/d turns the mage’s world upside down. It is completely counter-intuitive. Deliberate melee range for a mage? Constant, blurring movement by a mage? Daggers? So it takes more thought and strategy for someone with the typical mage mindset. This playstyle is really more of a mage assassin then the typical mage. To make it work you have to gear up right, trait right, learn and practrice the skills until they are second nature, and adopt unfamiliar strategies. So all the threads are both proclaiming the unexpected greatness of this style, but also teaching other mage enthusiats how to do it.

Honestly I can’t believe anet camne up with this. I’m a mage charater in every game I play. This is by far the most fun I’ve ever had with the class. I gotta believe this is the product of some very late night brainstorming in Seattle, by some very tired devs looking to blow of some steam. “Hey, how bout an ele with daggrers. Yeah, that would be hilarious, he’d last 2 seconds….wait!”

I don’t get the OCD part. It seems to me that your OCD tendencies would make you more inclined to “obssessively” attune swap like crazy , and “compulsively” use every available skill to squeeze every bit of intended potential out of the character. I can tell you that’s what this OCD guy does.