there's open world like central tyria where you can AA your self to victory with no coherent build, using all white vendor gear, while never needing to dodge....and then there zones like hot, lw episodes, and pof where squishy builds start to struggle with soloing/large events, at least for me. w/e, i have been messing around with this build in OW like dragonfall and it generally works quite well. it can be super hard at times to do proper rotations when things get chaotic though, especially with staff...but over all i am quite happy with it's performance. plus it's a fun build to play which is nice. this patch was good for my ele, for sure.