Guild Wars 2

At the moment I mainly do PvE content, so this question has zero bearing on PvP builds.

Which profession does the best Condition Damage in PvE? Both for single target and area.

I already have a Warrior for the best DPS, but now I want to try out the other kind of damage.

I’m not really sure what the ‘best’ would be, but I do know that Warriors can be great with Condition Damage in PvE.

Sword/??? and Longbow. I use Sword/Axe, but Sword/Shield and Sword/Sword are great for conditions as well.

My stats basically look like this—
Pow : 1500
Pre : 2000
Tuf : 1600
Vit : 1100
CndDmg : 950
Healing : 150
CritDmg : 15%

It feels really good. I’d try conditions with your Warrior before you move on to something else.

I am fully aware that the Warrior is possibly the best “anything” in GW 2. I have no real issue with that.

I am sorry if I didn’t make it clear, but I want to play a profession other than Warrior for Condition Damage.

Also, by “best”, I mean largest Condition Damage possible.

Probably necro. They can get 10+ bleeds with a skill or two.

Oh okay. In that case, based on my experience, I’d say go Bleed/Poison Necromancer. Rangers are also great with Bleed/Poison.

I dunno about what they say above, but my Elementalist can easily get up to 20+ stacks of bleed, completely alone, in Earth Attunement with Scepter/Dagger. My condition damage is at roughly 1300, and my bleeds do over 110 damage a tick, and I can also apply an almost constant burning as well as blinding them a lot. When I actually stop and fight anything, I never have any issue with it.

My traits are
Fire: 30
Air: 10
Earth 30

My equipment is not even exotic yet and I have that much condition damage. I am wearing Carrion armor so on top of the natural toughness I get for going into earth traits, I get a lot of vitality as well. My health is at 16k in PvE and my Toughness while in Earth Attunement with rock barrier on is over 1500 as well.

I think people underestimate the raw condition damage/survivability of an elementalist. I also roll dungeons quite easily as well, able to stack plenty of bleeds and blinding bosses is a huge boon to any party. You can also swap to water and put a decent amount of vulnerability on, as well as chilling them.

My utilities btw are Glyph of Storms, Signet of Fire, and my third is typically Signet of Earth but it changes a lot in dungeons depending on what is needed. I usually run tornado in dungeons as well because it removes those determined stacks off bosses nicely

hmmm… I’ll give the Necro a shot first, and then an Elementalist, Earth.

Any other suggestions?

Oh, and thank you all