Guild Wars 2

I just wanted to ask the guys who played the raids, seeing how there is a need for condition builds, if the condition ranger build is viable in this content?

Ty

Viable yea but not optimal since most of the dps on condibranger comes from bonfire and the boss isn’t the easiest to keep in one spot all the time. Still perfectly usable even if it’s just for the spirit buffs.

I haven’t done it, but also haven’t heard of anyone who has. But, as someone who’s been playing a lot of condi, mainly Engi and Ranger, there’s no reason you shouldn’t be able to get by with a ranger, it’s just Engi is the king and all the raids I knew of were focusing on that for their Condi guys. Been a while since I saw the math but I want to say Ranger was at like 17k vs Engi’s 20k, where Ranger like 1.5k of that is pet and the rest is around 90-95% condi or something like that. Engi is like 90% condi IIRC So it’s like ~14k vs 18k in condi damage? Just rough estimate going off what I think the numbers were, I will say I feel it’s easier for Ranger to actually get their full condi where Engi you can easily get mixed up in the rotation and miss a lot of damage (just my opinion there).

As Taku mentions though, you’ll actually be able to make up some of that difference just by giving your Engi’s that Sun Spirit then of course Frost spirit for power users.

So, if you dont mind me asking. What would the preferred classes/builds be then?

Chokolata.1870:

So, if you dont mind me asking. What would the preferred classes/builds be then?

Lots of Sinister Engineers and Berserker Heralds coupled with a couple tankier/CC-heavy/supporty classes like Guardians, Druids, and Warriors.

Rising Dusk.2408:

Chokolata.1870:

So, if you dont mind me asking. What would the preferred classes/builds be then?

Lots of Sinister Engineers and Berserker Heralds coupled with a couple tankier/CC-heavy/supporty classes like Guardians, Druids, and Warriors.

Don’t forget Chrono

btw, to those who did the raid, how are the soft CCs working on breakbar. I watched the one Reaper viewpoint I saw but I didn’t see him doing the RS5→RS4 rotation for breakbar, was thinking that’d do some work on it.

Anyways for Condi I’d imagine it’s something like Engi>Ranger>Guard with maybe berserker thrown in there somewhere (still waiting to see what people figure out for that, not huge on warrior but looks interesting to me).

Whirl finishers were bugged on gravedigger, I got no procs all weekend while standing in hitboxes. RS 4 only activated a couple whirl finishers, didn’t notice anything happening on break bars(didn’t get to try on the raid boss). From what I heard berserker trait line will replace arms on warriors.

SlyDevil.3952:

Whirl finishers were bugged on gravedigger, I got no procs all weekend while standing in hitboxes. RS 4 only activated a couple whirl finishers, didn’t notice anything happening on break bars(didn’t get to try on the raid boss). From what I heard berserker trait line will replace arms on warriors.

Did you get messages but no effect? I was seeing 3 messages when I was doing it, but I never checked to see if they actually worked.

I was getting 3 pop-ups per gravedigger, but no effect was being applied, and no extra damage numbers were popping up when I used dark fields instead.

Soul spiral was getting like 12 popups, but after 2/3 the bolts stopped being applied because they were hitting the condi caps, likewise life steal bolts were only appearing a couple times on dark.

Never got into raids to fiddle with a break bar and chill bolts, work and UI problems conspire against me.

SlyDevil.3952:

I was getting 3 pop-ups per gravedigger, but no effect was being applied, and no extra damage numbers were popping up when I used dark fields instead.

Soul spiral was getting like 12 popups, but after 2/3 the bolts stopped being applied because they were hitting the condi caps, likewise life steal bolts were only appearing a couple times on dark.

Never got into raids to fiddle with a break bar and chill bolts, work and UI problems conspire against me.

Interesting, and I didn’t even think about that, I knew chill capped at 3 but I figured it’d just re-up, but yeah they don’t, darn. I was thinking how great that paired with the chill→vuln trait, but naw, i mean still not bad, but not that wtf amount of vuln I thought. Sometimes I forget to think.

Jerus.4350:

Sometimes I forget to think.

I feel you man. So does 90% of this forum.