Long live Staff Mesmer!

At last staff has come into its own. How long before it gets nerfed, I wonder?

well, i am betting it will be LONG before the nerfs needed else, i have 2k toughness and i took over 10k damage form a Thief dagger auto attack chain ALONE. This update is SO bad its hilarious. This isnt balance.

Staff has always been my favorite weapon and I am thrilled it's finally really good.

@Anela.3867 said:Staff has always been my favorite weapon and I am thrilled it's finally really good.

Is it for mirage mesmer? and is it good for pvp and spvp?

@kventura.8356 said:

@Anela.3867 said:Staff has always been my favorite weapon and I am thrilled it's finally really good.

You will have to ask someone else about it's viability in pvp or spvp because I don't play that mode enough to give an intelligent answer. I would like to know myself.

satff mirage will be fixed very soon , it is bugged . dont live in your dream

@musu.9205 said:satff mirage will be fixed very soon , it is bugged . dont live in your dream

Curious, why is it bugged? What does it do?

Anyone have a link to this staff build?

@ArmageddonAsh.6430 said:

@musu.9205 said:satff mirage will be fixed very soon , it is bugged . dont live in your dream

Some people say that Chaos Vortex strikes one target multiple times on medium or large hitboxes. Can't confirm because I haven't tested it though.

@ArmageddonAsh.6430 said:well, i am betting it will be LONG before the nerfs needed else, i have 2k toughness and i took over 10k damage form a Thief dagger auto attack chain ALONE. This update is SO bad its hilarious. This isnt balance.

What's thief AA chain got to do with mesmer staff? Also this update only focused on deadeye.

@bart.3687 said:

Some people say that Chaos Vortex strikes one target multiple times on medium or large hitboxes. Can't confirm because I haven't tested it though.

Ah, so something that doesnt really matter when it comes to PvP or WvW as it wont affect anything in those modes?

@bart.3687 said:

@ArmageddonAsh.6430 said:

@musu.9205 said:satff mirage will be fixed very soon , it is bugged . dont live in your dream

It's still good on small targets so I don't care.

@Fat Disgrace.4275 said:What's thief AA chain got to do with mesmer staff? Also this update only focused on deadeye.

Pointing out, THIS will get fixed but things that should be getting fixed ABOVE this, wont be.

@ArmageddonAsh.6430 said:

@Fat Disgrace.4275 said:What's thief AA chain got to do with mesmer staff? Also this update only focused on deadeye.

Thief's AA was buffed to high-heaven because of the asinine amount of powercreep after HoT launched, so that it could remain a viable option for Raids. If you want it toned down again, everything else has to be as well.

Actually, I'd be in favor of EVERYTHING being toned down. The last thing the game needs is to continue this cycle of powercreep it's been swept into.

@TwiceDead.1963 said:Actually, I'd be in favor of EVERYTHING being toned down. The last thing the game needs is to continue this cycle of powercreep it's been swept into.

And so would i, 10k damage in 3 AUTO attack hits Vs 2k Toughness seems a little excessive...

Staff is all over the place at the moment. On one hand its doing less damage then it should because the bouncing of the auto attacks will probably not hit the enemy twice and staff clones still do vuln instead of torment . On the other you can get the ambush attack to hit the same enemy twice greatly increasing its damage.

Hard to say where it will end up when they finish with it.

Well looks like its just been heavily nerfed.

Winds of Chaos: Reduced bleeding duration from 7 seconds to 4 seconds. Fixed a bug that caused clones using this skill to inflict vulnerability instead of torment. Reduced torment duration from 5 seconds to 4 seconds.Chaos Vortex: Readjusted condition application on this skill to apply 1 stack of bleeding for 8 seconds, 1 stack of burning for 2 seconds, and 1 stack of torment for 8 seconds. Fixed a bug that allowed this attack to hit the same target multiple times.

Axe now has torment though.

@Levetty.1279 said:Well looks like its just been heavily nerfed.

Winds of Chaos: Reduced bleeding duration from 7 seconds to 4 seconds. Fixed a bug that caused clones using this skill to inflict vulnerability instead of torment. Reduced torment duration from 5 seconds to 4 seconds.Chaos Vortex: Readjusted condition application on this skill to apply 1 stack of bleeding for 8 seconds, 1 stack of burning for 2 seconds, and 1 stack of torment for 8 seconds. Fixed a bug that allowed this attack to hit the same target multiple times.

Axe now has torment though.

Staff will never be in a good spot until they get rid of the rng nature of it. Why they couldn’t have just fixed this bug without nerfing the durations on a condi weapon is beyond me. Maybe they’re going to move staff towards more support and will give us an improved chaos storm.

Ah well. Looked promising for a moment.

Did they fix the clones doing vuln at least?

It was fun while it lasted

@Lahmia.2193 said:At last staff has come into its own. How long before it gets nerfed, I wonder?

Doubt gw2 is a DPS race game, if players dont complain Anet will never touch it.