Guild Wars 2

I noticed you have to earn them most the gear and recipies fopr accended stuff with those stats and wondered if those stats are in a way elite compared to others

Not really, they’re just new with the expansion, so require playing the expansion content to earn them.

anytime you have to earn something is usualy better is why I ask

They aren’t new stats, they are old stats with new names.

Expertise is Condition Duration, Concentration is Boon Duration

Giver’s weapons and armours still give boon and condition duration. And for a long time, they were the only equipment source of these stats. Unfortunately they have no ascended counter parts.

Well, technically they are, but not in the way you think.

Yes, boon duration and condition duration are nothing new. They’ve been around for forever. The new expertise and concentration stats just standardized how they were applied (somewhat).

However, the gear prefixes from HoT are better than the ones from Legacy GW2 on a technicality: they have more point. If you compare the total number of points added by Valkyrie to something like Marauder, the fact is that Marauder has more total stat points, making it the all-around better armor set.

This gets a bit more technical when you go into theorycrafting builds, particularly when dealing with enrage timers, so HoT armor prefixes aren’t always better than legacy ones. But, they do add more points overall.