Infernal Staff Solo PvP Build

Overview

Weapon: Fire Staff

Focus: Range DPS

Mode: Open World, Corrupt Dungeon and Mist (Solo)

Strengths

• High Burst Damage
• Good Kiting Potential

Weaknesses

• Low Mobility

This build is up to date for the September 18, 2024, Paths to Glory Patch #4 .

Overview

This Elder's Infernal Staff build focuses on kiting enemies and delivering high single target DPS in quick bursts. It performs well as a solo build for open world PVP and Solo Mists but it can also do well on Greater Mists when coupled with a healer or a CC heavy build that allows you to deliver damage quicker. The build remains easy to learn and play as it has a very straightforward playstyle.

Equipment

Main Hand Weapon

Elder's Infernal Staff

Head

Elder's Hunter Hood

Alternatives ⇅

Cape

Elder's Morgana Cape

Armor

Elder's Cleric Robe

Shoes

Elder's Guardian Boots

Potion

Major Healing Potion

Food

Pork Omelette

Keep in mind: Gear shown in this build is meant as a reference. Choosing the correct tier of gear is very tricky as there are many variables. Some of them being your budget, your spec and minimum Item Power requirements of your guild if used for ZvZ.

You should always check prices based on IP of the items. For example, a masterpiece quality 4.3 Elder's Cryptcandle could be cheaper while providing roughly the same IP as an 8.0.

Usage

Elder's Infernal Staff

Fire Bolt — This is your main damaging ability as it couples perfectly with both Aggressive Caster and Mark of the Raven. You should use this at all times to do damage without bothering with auto-attacks as this skill essentially replaces the auto-attacks.

Flame Blast — A great, versatile skill that can be used both offensively and as utility providing you a bit of extra movement speed. However, most of the time you want to use this ability on enemies. With it's instant cast time, you can start off the fight with it and use it on cooldown for movement and damage.

You should swap to Wall of Flames vs enemies that have to be in melee range to apply their damage as you can play around the wall and kite them quite easily that way.

Combustion — This is the skill you use to trigger Mark of the Raven and start your burst damage. You can also use this to interrupt the enemy casting as the ability fears anyone hit by it and leaves a trail of fire behind that also does the same short fear that is very similar to how Wall of Flames works.

Aggressive Caster — This will passively increases your damage as you make use of all your abilities, the 10% increases is good to have!

Elder's Cleric Robe

Everlasting Spirit — While it takes good timing, Everlasting Spirit is a great defensive ability to help you mitigate a lot of burst damage. Make sure to use this while anticipating damage from auto-attacks or other abilities as the first hit you take during the short duration of the Everlasting Spirit will create the shield that makes you invulnerable and acts as a great defensive ability when you have your Wall of Flames on cooldown or right after you've already used it on a melee enemy.

Aggression — The passive offers you a great flat damage increase.

Elder's Hunter Hood

Retaliate — Another defensive option, Retaliate increases your damage resistance for a short duration while also reflecting 85% of incoming damage back to the attacker. You should try to use this against skills like Electric Field or other skills with high damage potential. Keep in mind that some abilities cannot be reflected (like Exploding Shot).

Balanced Mind — You want to choose this passive for the raw damage increase.

Elder's Guardian Boots

Giant — This defensive is fantastic as it doesn't decrease your damage done and helps a lot with your staying power and denying enemy damage. Use this as your first defensive in order to force enemies to kite away and allow you to deal free damage through Fire Bolt. You can change this skill to Rejuvenating Sprint as well if you are up against a build that needs to be kited.

Toughness — This defensive option is preferred over Authority. You can also use Courier if you need extra bag weight.

Elder's Morgana Cape

Mark of the Raven — This cape skill pairs perfectly with Aggressive Caster and increases your cast speed even more, allowing you to deal quick damage by simply spamming Fire Bolt. Keep in mind that this skill is activated by using Combustion

Rotations

Burst DPS ↴

• This remains one of the easiest rotation. You want to start off by casting Combustion in order to trigger Mark of the Raven and increase your cast speed. You should then start spamming Fire Bolt while following your enemy. If they fight back, you should use Giant to counter damage while making use of the Mark of the Raven.

Consumables

Major Healing Potion — Use this to keep your HP up. However, make sure that you aren't using it while Giant is active because then you wouldn't be healing much as your max HP is increased by a lot.

Pork Omelette — The omelette is a good choice as it offers great cooldown reduction for all your spells. Not only this but it also increases your casting speed. Using a 7.1 is great as it offers you even more of the original stats without a great cost.