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Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Open World and Open World General

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Easy

Overview

A long-ranged staff build for elementalist for open world. This build will mostly spam

Lava Font

and is easy to play.

Unfortunately, staff is not a high damage weapon, but it offers some nice healing and utility to compensate, and is fully ranged.

This build will work good enough for average open world and story content, but if you need to tackle harder challenges, consider other of our elementalist open world builds. Most of the damage of this build comes from AoE pulsing ground attacks, so this build can struggle against very mobile targets.

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Skill Bar

Staff

Utility

Skill Variants

Healing

We default to

Glyph of Elemental Harmony

, it provides strong burst healing and a boon based on attunement. You can consider other options:

Arcane Brilliance
- potentially the strongest heal if there are 5 enemies in range, plus a blast finisher, but very weak healing if there are no nearby enemies.
Ether Renewal
- very situational heal that removes up to 8 conditions throughout its long channelling time. Arcane Shield can help with channelling it without getting interrupted.
Signet of Restoration
- passive healing over time, but very weak heal on demand, leaving you vulnerable to burst damage.

Utility Skills

Glyph of Storms

provides ranged AoE damage, use it on Fire for consistent damage, or on Air for burst damage but a longer cooldown. Can be replaced.

Arcane Wave

provides ranged AoE burst damage. Can be replaced.

Arcane Shield

is a stun break and blocks 3 attacks. Can be replaced.
We have chosen utility skills that compliment staff's ranged AoE damage, but feel free to replace them. Here are some alternatives:

Arcane Blast
- Good single target damage.
Primordial Stance
- great AoE damage but in melee range.
Lightning Flash
- Mobility.
Template:SKill - stunbreak with Stability.
Twist of Fate
- stunbreak and dodge, and has two charges.
Cleansing Fire
- condition cleanse.

Elite Skills

We default to

Glyph of Elementals

. Cast it on Fire for damage, on Water for support, healing and

Knockback, on Air for a

Stun, or on Earth for defense. If you don't like having a pet and/or would like more burst damage, replace it with Fiery Greatsword.

Conjure Fiery Greatsword
- provides high damage with skills 4 and 5, and mobility with skill 3.

Specializations

Trait Variants

Ferocious Winds
+
Stormsoul
- when playing in groups that provide Fury.

Specialization variants

Arcane

Replaces Air. Adds defense and utility at the cost of damage.

Final Shielding

has excellent synergy with the active skill of your elemental from

Glyph of Elementals

.

Arcane Resurrection
- Improves revive power in groups.
Bountiful Power
- Use this when playing in groups that give lots of boons.

Equipment

This build uses the same gear as Build:Weaver - Power DPS, making it a good option for general PVE.

Ascended gear is not required for open world, exotic works fine.
Note the second staff is for stacking sigil purposes and is not required.

Head
Berserker

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Staff
Berserker

Sigil

staff
Berserker

Sigil

Rune
x6

This setup provides 100% critical chance with Fury thanks to
Zephyr's Speed
,
Elements of Rage
, and
Superior Elements
.
- Dual Attacks are key to help maintain Weakness for the bonus of Superior Elements. Your Earth autottacks
  Stoning
  will also help.
- If you don't have infusions, use an Assassin head armor.

Consumables

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
Plate of Spicy Moa Wings
/
Bowl of Sweet and Spicy Butternut Squash Soup
Superior Sharpening Stone
/
Tin of Fruitcake

Consumables

Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.

DPS

Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
Plate of Spicy Moa Wings
/
Bowl of Sweet and Spicy Butternut Squash Soup
Superior Sharpening Stone
/
Tin of Fruitcake

Farming

Prioritize Steak Ascended food.
Birthday Blaster
/
Feast of Delectable Birthday Cake
Peppermint Omnomberry Bar
Sharpening Skull
(and variants)

Usage

Damage

Your damage skills are
Lava Font
,
Flame Burst
,
Pyroclastic Blast
,
Eruption
,
Lightning Surge
,
Plasma Blast
,
Shock Wave
, and
Ice Spike
. Fill in the gaps with auto attacks.
Lava Font
is your main source of damage, make sure to spam it. When attuning to other elements, go back to Fire as soon as possible. Generally speaking, you only want to double attune to Fire, unless you really need the healing of
Geyser
, the crowd control of
Gust
, or (in extremely rare occasions) the Magnetic Aura of
Magnetic Aura
.
Use
Firestorm
and
Meteor Shower
on groups of enemies.

Opener

For burst damage, start combat attuned to Earth + Fire and do the following:

Fill the gaps in cooldowns with auto attacks.

Defense & Support

The best defense is to dodge attacks or get out of the way. Your Dual Attacks provide Swiftness thanks to
Swift Revenge
to help run out of attacks.
Burning Retreat
is a powerful defensive evade and movement skill, can be used in any direction by rotating your character.
Sandstorm
inflicts Blinded in a large AoE, useful against groups of trash mobs.
As a weaver, you can attune to water and then to another element to access
Healing Rain
to remove conditions, provide Regeneration, and a water field. You can double attune to Water to use
Geyser
for healing and a water field.
Ice Spike
,
Eruption
and
Transmute Earth
can be used on water fields for additional area healing or on fire fields for extra might.
Magnetic Aura
provides Magnetic Aura for projectile reflection.
If you need more defense, you can slot and use
Stone Resonance
.
Lahar
provides 1 stack of personal Stability.
Arcane Shield
can be used to block dangerous attacks.

Glyph of Elementals

Elementals from

Glyph of Elementals

can be commanded to do an additional skill.

The Fire Elemental can be commanded to deal damage and Burning in an AoE. Use this one for damage.
The Ice Elemental can be commanded to deal damage in an AoE, while healing nearby allies by 6401, knocking back enemies, and removing 1 condition. Use this one for support.
The Air Elemental can be commanded to Stun for 1.5 seconds. Use this one for on-demand crowd control.
The Earth Elemental can be commanded to inflict nearby enemies with 1 second of Immobilize and 5 seconds of Cripple, while providing 3 seconds of Protection to nearby allies. Use this one for tanking.

Crowd Control

Gust
- Knockback
Pile Driver
- Daze
Static Field
and
Unsteady Ground
- Stun and Knockback, respectively. These only work if an enemy crosses the edge of the skill, they have no effect on targets that don't cross it.
Frozen Ground
and
Shock Wave
- Soft CC options.
Crashing Waves
- From Ice Elemental.
Shocking Bolt
- From Air Elemental.
If you need a lot of crowd control you can use
Conjure Frost Bow
so that you and an ally can use
Deep Freeze
.

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 ==Overview==
-A long-ranged staff build for elementalist for open world farming with a zerg. This build is primarily focused on dealing area damage in group farms and does not function well solo. Most of the damage of this build comes from AoE pulsing ground attacks, so this build can struggle against very mobile targets.
+A long-ranged staff build for elementalist for open world. This build will mostly spam {{Skill|Lava Font}} and is easy to play.
-The build can be played as a weaver or as a tempest:
+Unfortunately, staff is not a high damage weapon, but it offers some nice healing and utility to compensate, and is fully ranged.
-* Weaver: this is the default variant, a fully ranged build with even more pulsing AoE ground attacks through {{Skill|Pyroclastic Blast}} and more long range attacks with {{Skill|Plasma Blast}}. On top of that, as a weaver, the cooldown for swapping attunements is much shorter, which greatly benefits this build that, while wanting to use different attunements like all elementalist builds, has the bast majority of its damage tied to Fire Attunement so it wants to return to Fire as soon as possible.
-* Tempest: this variant has to be played in melee range but is simpler and provides more melee AoE attacks through {{Skill|Overload Fire}} and {{Skill|Overload Air}}, better tagging potential by using shouts like {{Skill|"Feel the Burn!"}} or {{Skill|"Aftershock!"}}, and some boons to your subgroup. However, it greatly suffers from the increased recharge to attunements. If you leave Fire Attunement, it goes on cooldown for 10 seconds, or 20 if you overload, and the bast majority of this build's damage comes from Fire Attunement. But if you never leave Fire Attunement, you obviously cannot cast skills from the other attunements. Tempest does have much more party support and team defense than weaver, which can make it the superior choice for certain farm groups.
+This build will work good enough for average open world and story content, but if you need to tackle harder challenges, consider other of our elementalist open world builds. Most of the damage of this build comes from AoE pulsing ground attacks, so this build can struggle against very mobile targets.
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 ===Skill Variants===
-Let's explain why we recommened these skills, and alternatives you can consider:
 ====Healing====
-{{Skill|Glyph of Elemental Harmony}} is a great burst heal and povides a boon.
+We default to {{Skill|Glyph of Elemental Harmony}}, it provides strong burst healing and a boon based on attunement. You can consider other options:
 * {{Skill|Arcane Brilliance}} - potentially the strongest heal if there are 5 enemies in range, plus a blast finisher, but very weak healing if there are no nearby enemies.
-* {{Skill|Ether Renewal}} - very situational heal that removes up to 8 conditions throughout its long channeling time. Arcane Shield can help with channellig it without getting interrupted.
+* {{Skill|Ether Renewal}} - very situational heal that removes up to 8 conditions throughout its long channelling time. Arcane Shield can help with channelling it without getting interrupted.
 * {{Skill|Signet of Restoration}} - passive healing over time, but very weak heal on demand, leaving you vulnerable to burst damage.
-* When playing the tempest variant, {{Skill|"Wash the Pain Away!"}} is a weak AoE heal, but also cleanses 1 condition.
 ====Utility Skills====
-{{Skill|Glyph of Storms}} provides ranged AoE damage, use it on Fire. {{Skill|Arcane Wave}} provides ranged AoE burst damage. {{Skill|Arcane Shield}} is a stun break and blocks 3 attacks.
+{{Skill|Glyph of Storms}} provides ranged AoE damage, use it on Fire for consistent damage, or on Air for burst damage but a longer cooldown. Can be replaced.<br>
+{{Skill|Arcane Wave}} provides ranged AoE burst damage. Can be replaced.<br>
+{{Skill|Arcane Shield}} is a stun break and blocks 3 attacks. Can be replaced.<br>
+We have chosen utility skills that compliment staff's ranged AoE damage, but feel free to replace them. Here are some alternatives:
 * {{Skill|Arcane Blast}} - Good single target damage.
 * {{Skill|Primordial Stance}} - great AoE damage but in melee range.
 * {{Skill|Lightning Flash}} - Mobility.
-* When playing the tempest variant, {{Skill|"Feel the Burn!"}} or {{Skill|"Aftershock!"}} provide good AoE tagging and support.
+* {{SKill|Armor of Earth}} - stunbreak with {{Tooltip|Stability}}.
+* {{Skill|Twist of Fate}} - stunbreak and dodge, and has two charges.
+* {{Skill|Cleansing Fire}} - condition cleanse.
 ====Elite Skills====
-{{Skill|Conjure Fiery Greatsword}} - provides high damage with skills 4 and 5, and mobility with skill 3.
+We default to {{Skill|Glyph of Elementals}}. Cast it on Fire for damage, on Water for support, healing and {{Tooltip|Knockback}}, on Air for a {{Tooltip|Stun}}, or on Earth for defense. If you don't like having a pet and/or would like more burst damage, replace it with Fiery Greatsword.
-* {{Skill|Glyph of Elementals}} - Cast it on Fire for damage, on Water for support, healing and {{Tooltip|Knockback}}, on Air for a {{Tooltip|Stun}}, or on Earth for defense.
+* {{Skill|Conjure Fiery Greatsword}} - provides high damage with skills 4 and 5, and mobility with skill 3.
 ==Specializations==
-{{Specialization|Fire|top|bot|top}}
+{{Specialization|Fire|top|top|top}}
-{{Specialization|Air|bot|mid|top}}
+{{Specialization|Air|top|mid|top}}
 {{Specialization|Weaver|top|mid|top}}
 ;Trait Variants
-* {{Trait|Burning Fire}} - If conditions are a problem.
+* {{Trait|Ferocious Winds}} + {{Trait|Stormsoul}} - when playing in groups that provide {{Tooltip|Fury}}.
-* {{Trait|Zephyr's Boon}} - If you lack Fury and swiftness and are using aura traits/utilities.
+;Specialization variants
-* {{Trait|Master's Fortitude}} - Bonus vitality at the expense of the 10% critical chance from Superior Elements.
 ===Arcane===
-Replaces Air. Adds defense and utility at the cost of damage.
+Replaces Air. Adds defense and utility at the cost of damage. {{Trait|Final Shielding}} has excellent synergy with the active skill of your elemental from {{Skill|Glyph of Elementals}}.
-{{Specialization|Arcane|mid|bot|mid|variant=y}}
+{{Specialization|Arcane|top|bot|mid|variant=y}}
-* {{Trait|Arcane Resurrection}} - Improves revive power in zergs.
+* {{Trait|Arcane Resurrection}} - Improves revive power in groups.
-* {{Trait|Bountiful Power}} - Use this when running with a group that grants lots of boons.
+* {{Trait|Bountiful Power}} - Use this when playing in groups that give lots of boons.
-* {{Trait|Evasive Arcana}} - Provides good defensive abilities on dodging while in {{Skill|Water Attunement}} or {{Skill|Air Attunement}}.
-===Tempest===
-The tempest variant has to be played in melee range but is simpler and provides more melee AoE attacks through {{Skill|Overload Fire}} and {{Skill|Overload Air}} and better tagging potential by using shouts like {{Skill|"Feel the Burn!"}} or {{Skill|"Aftershock!"}}, and some boons to your subgroup. However, it greatly suffers from the increased recharge to attunements. If you leave Fire Attunement, it goes on cooldown for 10 seconds, or 20 if you overload, and the bast majority of this build's damage comes from Fire Attunement. But if you never leave Fire Attunement, you obviously cannot cast skills from the other attunements.
-{{Specialization|Tempest|top|mid|top|variant=y}}
-* {{Trait|Unstable Conduit}} can replace {{Trait|Gale Song}}
-* You can use {{Trait|Lucid Singularity}} to provide some {{Tooltip|Alacrity}}, but you will spam less overloads.
-* You can use {{Trait|Fresh Air}} and just focus on spamming {{Skill|Overload Air}} much like the normal power tempest build [[Build:Tempest - Fresh Air]].
 ==Equipment==
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 | sigil3 = Superior Sigil of Force
 | sigil4 = Superior Sigil of Bloodlust
-| infusion1 = Mighty +9 Agony Infusion
-| infusion1-qt = 14
-| infusion2 = Precise +9 Agony Infusion
-| infusion2-qt = 4
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-| shoulders = Assassin
 }}
 * This setup provides 100% critical chance with {{Tooltip|Fury}} thanks to {{Trait|Zephyr's Speed (elementalist)}}, {{Trait|Elements of Rage}}, and {{Trait|Superior Elements}}.
-** Nearby allies will help maintain {{Tooltip|Weakness}} for the bonus of Superior Elements. Your Earth autottacks {{Skill|Stoning}} will also help.
+** Dual Attacks are key to help maintain {{Tooltip|Weakness}} for the bonus of Superior Elements. Your Earth autottacks {{Skill|Stoning}} will also help.
 ** If you don't have infusions, use an {{Tooltip|Assassin}} head armor.
-===Variant Equipment===
-;Gear<br>
 ==Consumables==
 Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.
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 * {{Utility|Superior Sharpening Stone}} / {{Utility|Tin of Fruitcake}}
-===Defense===
-* {{Food|Bowl of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew}}
-* {{Food|Fried Oyster Sandwich}}
-* {{Food|Bowl of Lemongrass Mussel Pasta}}
-===Farming===
-* Prioritize '''Steak''' Ascended food.
-* {{Item|Birthday Blaster}} / {{Item|Feast of Delectable Birthday Cake}}
-* {{Food|Peppermint Omnomberry Bar}}
-* {{Utility|Sharpening Skull}} (and variants)
-<br>
-* {{Tooltip|Marauder}} - Trades 10% damage for +60% effective health.
-* {{Tooltip|Knight}} - Defensive (trinkets only).
-;Runes
-* {{Rune|Superior Rune of Vampirism}} - provides a huge increase to sustain in a zerg.
-;Sigils
-* {{Sigil|Superior Sigil of Stamina}} - Extra defense in a zerg.
-* {{Sigil|Superior Sigil of Strength}} - Option for more self {{Tooltip|Might}} generation.
-<br>
 ==Consumables==
 Budget consumables are acceptable for use in open world.
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 * {{Food|Plate of Spicy Moa Wings}} / {{Food|Bowl of Sweet and Spicy Butternut Squash Soup}}
 * {{Utility|Superior Sharpening Stone}} / {{Utility|Tin of Fruitcake}}
-===Defense===
-* {{Food|Bowl of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew}}
-* {{Food|Fried Oyster Sandwich}}
-* {{Food|Bowl of Lemongrass Mussel Pasta}}
 ===Farming===
 * Prioritize '''Steak''' Ascended food.
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 * {{Food|Peppermint Omnomberry Bar}}
 * {{Utility|Sharpening Skull}} (and variants)
-<br>
 ==Usage==
-===Damage / Tagging===
+===Damage===
-* Your damage skills are {{Skill|Lava Font}}, {{Skill|Pyroclastic Blast}}, {{Skill|Eruption}}, {{Skill|Lightning Surge}}, {{Skill|Plasma Blast}}, {{Skill|Shock Wave}}, and {{Skill|Ice Spike}}. Fill in the gaps with auto attacks.
+* Your damage skills are {{Skill|Lava Font}}, {{Skill|Flame Burst}}, {{Skill|Pyroclastic Blast}}, {{Skill|Eruption}}, {{Skill|Lightning Surge}}, {{Skill|Plasma Blast}}, {{Skill|Shock Wave}}, and {{Skill|Ice Spike}}. Fill in the gaps with auto attacks.
-* Use {{Skill|Firestorm (Glyph of Storms)}} and {{Skill|Meteor Shower}} on large, static groups of enemies or bosses.
+* {{Skill|Lava Font}} is your main source of damage, make sure to spam it. When attuning to other elements, go back to {{Tooltip|Fire}} as soon as possible. Generally speaking, you only want to double attune to {{Tooltip|Fire}}, unless you really need the healing of {{Skill|Geyser}}, the crowd control of {{Skill|Gust}}, or (in extremely rare occasions) the {{Tooltip|Magnetic Aura}} of {{Skill|Magnetic Aura}}.
-* {{Skill|Flame Burst}} - Very fast small AoE tagging.
+* Use {{Skill|Firestorm (Glyph of Storms)}} and {{Skill|Meteor Shower}} on groups of enemies.
-* {{Trait|Electric Discharge}} Instant cast single target tagging when attuning to Air in combat.
+;Opener
-* {{Skill|Arcane Wave}} - Instant cast wide AoE tagging.
+For burst damage, start combat attuned to {{Tooltip|Earth}} + {{Tooltip|Fire}} and do the following:
-* When playing the tempest variant, {{Skill|"Feel the Burn!"}} is an instant cast AoE tagging. And other shouts are fast cast AoE tagging.
+# {{Skill|Eruption}} and attune to {{Tooltip|Fire}}+{{Tooltip|Earth}}
-* {{Skill|Arcane Blast}} - Instant cast single target tagging. (if equipped)
+# {{Skill|Lava Font}}
+# {{Skill|Pyroclastic Blast}}
+# {{Skill|Shock Wave}} and attune to {{Tooltip|Fire}}+{{Tooltip|Fire}}
+# {{Skill|Flame Burst}}
+# {{Skill|Firestorm (Glyph of Storms)}}
+# {{Skill|Lava Font}}
+# {{Skill|Meteor Shower}} and attune to {{Tooltip|Air}}+{{Tooltip|Fire}}
+# {{Skill|Lightning Surge}}
+# {{Skill|Plasma Blast}} and attune to {{Tooltip|Fire}}+{{Tooltip|Air}}
+# {{Skill|Lava Font}}
+Fill the gaps in cooldowns with auto attacks.
 ===Defense & Support===
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 * {{Skill|Burning Retreat}} is a powerful defensive evade and movement skill, can be used in any direction by rotating your character.
 * {{Skill|Sandstorm}} inflicts {{Tooltip|Blinded}} in a large AoE, useful against groups of trash mobs.
-* As a weaver, you can attune to water and then to another element to access {{Skill|Healing Rain}} to remove conditions, provide {{Tooltip|Regeneration}}, and a water field. You can double attune to Water to use {{Skill|Geyser}} for healing and a water field. As a tempest, you access these skills by attuning once.
+* As a weaver, you can attune to water and then to another element to access {{Skill|Healing Rain}} to remove conditions, provide {{Tooltip|Regeneration}}, and a water field. You can double attune to Water to use {{Skill|Geyser}} for healing and a water field.
 * {{Skill|Ice Spike}}, {{Skill|Eruption}} and {{Skill|Transmute Earth}} can be used on water fields for additional area healing or on fire fields for extra might.
 * {{Skill|Magnetic Aura}} provides {{Tooltip|Magnetic Aura}} for projectile reflection.
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 * {{Skill|Arcane Shield}} can be used to block dangerous attacks.
+====Glyph of Elementals====
+Elementals from {{Skill|Glyph of Elementals}} can be commanded to do an additional skill.
+* The Fire Elemental can be commanded to deal damage and {{Tooltip|Burning}} in an AoE. Use this one for damage.
+* The Ice Elemental can be commanded to deal damage in an AoE, while healing nearby allies by 6401, knocking back enemies, and removing 1 condition. Use this one for support.
+* The Air Elemental can be commanded to {{Tooltip|Stun}} for 1.5 seconds. Use this one for on-demand crowd control.
+* The Earth Elemental can be commanded to inflict nearby enemies with 1 second of {{Tooltip|Immobilize}} and 5 seconds of {{Tooltip|Cripple}}, while providing 3 seconds of {{Tooltip|Protection}} to nearby allies. Use this one for tanking.
 ===Crowd Control===
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 * {{Skill|Static Field}} and {{Skill|Unsteady Ground}} - {{Tooltip|Stun}} and {{Tooltip|Knockback}}, respectively. These only work if an enemy crosses the edge of the skill, they have no effect on targets that don't cross it.
 * {{Skill|Frozen Ground}} and {{Skill|Shock Wave}} - Soft CC options.
-* {{Skill|Crashing Waves}} - From Ice Elemental if equipped.
+* {{Skill|Crashing Waves}} - From Ice Elemental.
-* {{Skill|Shocking Bolt}} - From Air Elemental if equipped.
+* {{Skill|Shocking Bolt}} - From Air Elemental.
 * If you need a lot of crowd control you can use {{Skill|Conjure Frost Bow}} so that you and an ally can use {{Skill|Deep Freeze}}.

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