Guild Wars 2

So between, say, Ranger, Thief , Mesmer and…. Necro I suppose, which are the best to focus on condition damage with? I’m enjoying Ranger and Thief, which are also two of my highest, and I have not made a Mesmer nor a Necro. I was just curious which are, in your minds, the best for a Condition Damage based build.

Well, the Necro is pretty much the master of conditions, because thats pretty much all he does (given the few average direct dmg builds).

For pure condition dmg, I’m not sure, but in condition handling, it’s the Necro all the way.

I thought the Mesmer was all conditioned based skills…

Necromancers and Engineers are definitely the condition masters of this game right now

Necro and Engi plus Thieves I guess. Mesmer condition builds I have no clue about. Why go with condition builds when you have a perfectly working phantasm burst build that requires crit, crit damage and power, which you can get by only dipping into 2 of your trait lines?

The phantasms might die quickly but they have silly short CDs and massive burst.

I play an engi as main, dual pistol condition build. Melting people really fast.

One thing I’m still trying to figure out with my engi is the following. Can DoT crits proc extra bleeds and vulnerability or no? Or can they only proc on the DD crits of the attacks?

DoT’s can’t crit. I guess thats answers more than your question.

I play a ranger and they certainly have a wide range of conditions to apply. I don’t know how they compare to necros, thieves, engineers, etc. but with a short bow, axe/torch combination along with some traps I can apply weakness, daze, cripple, cold dmg, burning, poison, bleeding all in a matter of seconds. =)

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DoT’s can’t crit. I guess thats answers more than your question.

Thank ya, that solves my question perfectly. My oh my do I feel noobish now. :P

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DoT’s can’t crit. I guess thats answers more than your question.

Wow! Really!? But that’s rubbish… I wanted to go 100% crit on my (to be condition built) necro and do the trait with siphon health on crits…. Man I feel dumb now… :/

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Asum.4960:

DoT’s can’t crit. I guess thats answers more than your question.

Wow! Really!? But that’s rubbish… I wanted to go 100% crit on my (to be condition built) necro and do the trait with siphon health on crits…. Man I feel dumb now… :/

Yeah I got %103 crit chance on my warrior and I went to my bleed build and pfffffffffft. Basically just stack +condition instead.

Mesmers are pretty bad for condition builds. They basically loose out to a powerbased phantasm build.

You can run condition builds, though you either have some strange staff/sceptre build which is mediocre or you run a build which stacks up bleeds through phantasmal duelist, at its core its a phantasm build but slightly different.