Catalyst - Staff Backline

This is a rough draft. Once adequately written, it will progress to the testing stage, where it can be rated by the community. You can help by proposing changes with a comment.

Focused on: Strike damage, Utility and Crowd control

Designed for: WvW Zerg

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on March 01, 2022.

Overview

A backline zerg WvW DPS build for Elementalist providing damage, CC and field support. Requires a precise usage of skills and positioning to survive.

Skill Bar

Staff

Utility

Variants

Elemental Celerity

Template Code

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Specializations

Equipment

Head
Marauder

Shoulders
Marauder

Chest
Marauder

Hands
Marauder

Legs
Marauder

Feet
Marauder

Backpiece
Dragon

Accessory
Marauder

Amulet
Marauder

Ring
Marauder

Staff
Marauder

Sigil

Staff
Marauder

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Consumables

- personal option

Usage

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Ratings

This build has a rating of 5 stars based on 4 votes.

Bonemiser gave this build 5 stars • August 2024

If your goal is to AoE an enemy boonball at 1200 range, I can't think of any other builds that do it better. Burning Retreat and Lightning Flash compensate for Meteor's standing cast weakness quite well. It is shocking how often players will let you chain cast Meteor -> Lava Font -> Glyph of Storms -> Celerity -> Lava Font -> Meteor for extreme AoE output on a single point. Also supplies Staff's great CC along with Ice and Water fields for your team to blast. That said, this build cannot stand up to any kind of actual pressure, so play smart if you enjoy not folding like a napkin.

Alexkz gave this build 5 stars • December 2023

pretty good dps on this one, let's you hit many targets quickly. Can't get as much dps with staff weaver

DEL gave this build 5 stars • July 2023

I play this and variations of it and if you can handle the APM and know where to put your stuff it is pretty much the #1 stat padder build out there.

Arete gave this build 4 stars • April 2023

Solid build, has much more control over its attunement access and weapon skills than weaver, but maintaining elemental empowerment can be pretty challenging. With extra auras on staff now it can compete with weaver pretty well.

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