Traits are kitten when you use staff

[Junkpile.7439]

Annoying that all traits feel sucha lackluster when you play staff. Hard job find at least some traits that do something with staff.

[pallas.8150]

Its because its stuck in a 2012 design. Let's hope we see some Ele love in October's balance patch.

[Sunshine.5014]

Ele traits are stuck at the melee range. They need to make traits work at range.

[Infusion.7149]

I doubt staff is getting major changes again after they super buffed fire attunement on staff last patch. It is currently benching 36-40K on weaver according to Fennec. The build uses 1-1-1 in fire, 2-1-2 in earth.

That's not even including any staff tempest running aura share or alacrity builds (even in WVW). You can make full use of water 2-3-2 or 3-2-2 , and air 3-2-1 is always relevant for DPS.

The biggest problem I see with traits overall while using staff is Pyromancer's Puissance. This used to be quite popular in WVW but they changed it to remove 10 stacks of might which means more or less you don't have full might unless people are dumping out might.


 

[Ace.1784]

41 minutes ago, Infusion.7149 said:

I doubt staff is getting major changes again after they super buffed fire attunement on staff last patch. It is currently benching 36-40K on weaver according to Fennec. The build uses 1-1-1 in fire, 2-1-2 in earth.

That's not even including any staff tempest running aura share or alacrity builds (even in WVW). You can make full use of water 2-3-2 or 3-2-2 , and air 3-2-1 is always relevant for DPS.

The biggest problem I see with traits overall while using staff is Pyromancer's Puissance. This used to be quite popular in WVW but they changed it to remove 10 stacks of might which means more or less you don't have full might unless people are dumping out might.


 

As always, Infusion provides a great perspective. 

If you want some inspiration on Staff traits, WvW is a good place to look. Nearly everything will translate over into an acceptable PvE build. One thing to watch out for is typically you can remove some of the survivability elements for more damage