Arcane Staff Support Tempest - GW2 PvP Commentary

[@Insig385]

I played a lot of gw2 pvp back in like 2016-2017, and oh boy staff temp would've been unthinkable. it's so amazing to come back in 2023 and I saw mult staff support tempest in last month's AT! it's kinda unreal to see, but very welcomed!

[@Nedwig747]

Glad to see some PvP content! :)

[@fandasubacraig]

So glad I found this video. I recently came back to GW2 since starting my ele back on the Steam launch. One thing I remembered that originally put me off the game was how bad the staff felt on ele compared to how strong masteries felt with their associated weapon. it gave me the false impression the ele was a battle mage class rather than a ranged magical class as I originally thought it was. So much so I was thinking about re rolling to Druid for the ranged healer playstyle. Glad I don't really need to now ^^

[@finkster7178]

The ArenaNet ele mains strike again! Tempest support is so awesome. Sad that I just got done with my legendary medium armor lol now I need to work on light I guess.

[@Nora-transspire]

I've been playing this build once a day for 6 days now and omg it is so fun and I haven't lost a single match. I'm kind of a pvp noob und only play unranked pugs so it definitely works there! Thanks for the nice build and video ^.^

[@biomagic8959]

you're my favorite vallun 🥰

[@temashik]

With that elem "changes" (buffs) I think recreating "one build for rule them all" for it would be awesome. Cuz that dagger 3 dash affected me personally.

[@anders8461]

Lol same

[@avielp]

Why is it so different for you?

[@tfulookinatm8]

@@avielp because now you can use dagger 3 in fire and earth as dps and evade frame without dashing past 508 blocks, 387 counties, 4832 states, 74892 continents and 473829 universes in a single pvp match.

[@PeterKhal]

@@avielp it's just weird, specially if you play focus offhand, all water and air focus are target, if you still want to get max ranger in those dashes you gotta untarget, and then target back cuz of the focus skills. Also the dashes range arent that big, so it's not like untarged ranger gs 3, it just feels weird. If you talk about pvp firedash could hit all targets on node for massive dmg, 5k to 9k each, now if you don't untarget you can hit a solo target. It was a very specific instanced content update, that ended up being worse for every other content in the game.

[@dhenderson7752]

Wondering if you could highlight the new Willbender changes. Fell in love with it on your suggestion.

[@Vallun]

nothing much changed for them, if you use the virtues at the same time you just dont lose their effects, but it doesnt really change the playstyle

[@lilijhonston]

Id love to see a build using the new guardian hammer changes! I've been playin hammer willbender but since youve already made a build for that maybe hammer dhunter, or core?

[@bdemar2k12]

I tried to make a hammer dragonhunter build and pull them into my hammer 5 with traps but couldnt get it to work well. Maybe someone else will figure something out but I doubt it will be anything that op

[@drios8809]

it got updated??? that's why so manny hammers 😅

[@kurt759]

What would you recommend for when ur being targeted will benders seems to just stomp me and sometimes mesmers and it just makes it hard to live and can't always hope to have help from allies

[@avielp]

Been expecting this

[@JRZTT]

I wonder can I do this on weaver too :P though losing all overload and shout but you can switch attunement faster, but that 2 lost I wonder would it worth it.

[@Vallun]

i dont suggest it but go ahead and try it

[@MrWowMember]

Awesome video, thanks as always! Is the dagger version still stronger?

[@Vallun]

i would say staff is stronger, but not as safe, so it can carry much harder if you can position and if the enemies dont hound you, so in higher tier play you may prefer to use the dagger focus

[@dariocarrasco1728]

any new build for thief on arena pvp?

[@Alwaysthere376]

Good build for NA Unranked, when your enemies just know how to press w,a,s,d

[@Vallun]

you ok mate? this was recorded on EU

[@TheMrFelin]

Looks really fun, is the staff core guardian something similar? Do you have a build for it as well?

[@Vallun]

there is a build for it on guildjen.com but theyre not that similar

[@defleshed2]

staff wvw tempest build plz

[@Omegafork]

hi, nice vid, is there any good build for cond scrappers? I like the pistols, but I think it's too weak

[@JRZTT]

Blast finisher give aura? I thought only leap do that?

[@Vallun]

blasts always do an aoe effect, leaps give aura to only you, and it depends on the field. For ice field it gives frost aura on leap and aoe frost aura on blast

[@DemethVLK]

Water 2 into water 4 gives aoe frost aura, it's a main combo for support tempest on staff

[@avielp]

"Protecotion from Arcane" where? how?

[@Vallun]

minor traits, swapping into earth

[@gkoogz9877]

Unfortunately you didn't show the traits.

[@SirRichardGranger]

The build is available in the description.

[@lussdoru3108]

Some of us want to see how you would perform as a scourge in pvp and your advices according to your experience. We know it is weak for pvp but anyway.