Guild Wars 2

But here is a summary of how it would impact the classes anyway (see entry below). The focus will be what the amulet could change for the most powerful build options of the current meta. In almost all cases, the amulet would not make any new combinations of traitlines or mechanics viable, rather just help out existing specs in certain regards.

It is important to emphasise that this is a hybrid condition damage – power damage amulet with no precision (4% crit chance) and one defensive stat. The following things should be considered when understanding how powerful a hybrid spec can be:

• how does the defensive stat complement the class` defensive capabilities?
• does the class have any proper methods of accessing good damage modifiers and good application of damaging conditions at the same time?
• what Might stacking options and Vulnerability access does the class have?
• what access to Fury and what precision enhancing mechanics does the class have?
• can all of the above form a synergy together?

The classes where this amulet could be used effectively and be quite strong:

Warrior

• High Toughness, high Vitality, easier time dealing with conditions rather than power burst combos -> already has high vitality and enough clears, extra toughness would help.
• Such a hybrid amulet allows hybrid weapons or power/condi weapon combinations to pull-off skillshots with Sigil of Intelligence: Final Thrust, Arc Divider, Headbutt, Fan of Fire, Arcing Arrow, etc.
• Would benefit from this amulet because the passive regeneration works better with lower Vitality when it comes to things such as Thick Skin and fast recovery back to above health percentage thresholds (Executioner, Swift Termination, etc.).
• This amulet would just add a bit of DPS (through power damage) to the Lb/m+sh Rabid meta build, plus some options to pull some skillshots. The spec was not using the precision from Rabid to begin with except for maybe some on-proc sigils.

Necromancer

• Low Toughness, High Vitality, easier time dealing with conditions rather than power burst combos, synergies with taking conditions on itself -> already has high vitality + shroud vitality and ways to deal with conditions, extra toughness would help.
• Necromancer has some many mechanics that scream hybrid: Might stacking options and synergies, Vulnerability access and synergies, 3 precision enhancing mechanics, good damage modifiers in Reaper Shroud. However, it still remains weak to focus, very slow rotationally, and intended primarily for teamfights rather than 1v1s.
• This amulet has the potential to shift necromancers back to a hybrid damage focus and into using Soul Reaping instead of the Blood Magic gimmicks around rezzing. This whole combination (hybrid damage with shroud advantages from Soul Reaping and toughness as a defensive stat) could help meta necromancer in the realm of not needing a babysitter in teamfights as much as it does now and with performing better in some 1v1 matchups (e.g. guardian, druid, thief, power warrior, revenant, even easier to counter power Scrapper).

Classes for which the amulet could represent an alternative option:

Revenant

• High Toughness, Medium Vitality, weak to conditions, synergies with taking conditions on itself, can chain defences to negate power burst combos;
• Resistance uptime available in Corruption line to off-set loss in vitality from this amulet;
• This amulet adding more toughness provides poor synergy with Infuse Light unless you are mindless focused by 2+ people -> hints at Shiro/Mallyx combo;
• Revenant`s weapons are clearly segregated into power-related and condition-related. Damage modifiers (power scaling) on the only condition weapon, Mace, are bad; off-hand axe has some good damage modifiers but lacklustre condition application through Temporal Rift. Damage modifiers of Mallyx skills are terrible – skills which represent the only way to have reliable condition application outside of weapon skills (other forms are Diabolic Inferno, Elemental Blast and Pulsating Pestilence, which are lacklustre on their own).
• Good access to Might through Unrelenting Assault and Herald line boon sources. Mediocre access to Vulnerability through Sword auto-attacks -> better access implies taking Devastation line (that supports only power builds) or Glint as a legend (for Burst of Strength).
• Precision enhancing mechanics in Invocation line (access to Fury and Roiling Mists), Corruption line (Maniacal Persistence), and through Embrace the Darkness.
• This amulet could potentially create a powerful hybrid option for Revenant that would resemble something like this:
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  Shiro is needed because of the access to evades, stunbreakers, and mobility that it has. Mallyx and axe off-hand are there to provide condition application. Toughness is in the place of Infuse Light for the gaps when chaining defences.

Mesmer

• Medium Toughness, Medium Vitality, has the tools to escape focus and deal with condition application, countered more by power damage builds because they can destroy the clones fast compared to condition builds.
• The most powerful meta build for Mesmer does not require any might stacking, vulnerability or precision enhancement to be a good hybrid. The direct damage relies strictly on the damage modifier of Mind Wrack, the damage modifier of sword auto + Blurred Frenzy and the power scaling of the Retaliation on the clones (from Persisting Images). This amulet would only help the spec a tiny bit against the power builds that already counter them.

Ranger

• Won`t be able to benefit properly from the amulet because any spec that has a chance at becoming meta requires Druid line -> Druidic Clarity, Celestial Shadow, Ancient Seeds, together with Celestial Avatar are too OP compared to anything core offers, thus becoming mandatory.
• Problem with Celestial Avatar is that it needs to be properly refilled -> needs healing ticks from: staff, AoE Regeneration from Shouts and Natural Healing -> makes the Beast Master line mandatory as well (on top of the pet benefits it provides).
• So now you have only one line left to choose and only one weapon set. Staff has no condition application and its damage modifiers are mediocre. Going for 1+ traps or 1+ spirits is counterproductive, and Sharpening Stone isn`t that great -> traitlines don`t give you any condition applications unless you drop the Wilderness Survival defensive traits for the Poison related traits -> pets that can apply some damaging conditions have trouble actually reaching targets or die to easily -> you are forced to get most of your condition application from weapons -> no weapon set on its own gives you that great condition application (compared to what other classes have), not even buffed shortbow, not even Quick Draw buffed anything.
• Maybe something like this might have some minimal chance with the amulet:
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  Maybe using some drake pets with Beastly Warden could actually help them land their condition-related F2 skills. Their stats are good enough compared to the meta pets such that they should survive equally well.

Classes that won`t be able to make this amulet work:

Egineer

• Class designed around being countered by conditions and relies on uptime of boons (even more weak to corruptions) -> cannot afford to drop the vitality without suffering severely in effectiveness.
• Has access to high rate of hits and AoEs, potent Might stacking, Vulnerability, and good damage modifiers, however these together are not good enough together in the absence of proper precision enhancing mechanics (situational +20% crit chance and bad Fury uptime from the Firearms line), not really benefiting from the defensive stat of the amulet, potent re-application of damaging conditions without sacrificing too many defences (Engineer either has a gimmick burn burst with long cooldown or gimmick confusion burst that is extremely difficult to land).

Thief, Guardian, Elementalist

• These classes will not be able to benefit from such an amulet due to a combination of: cannot afford such a low vitality, and lack of mobility when maximising defences -> available defences, negations, mitigations not potent enough to survive with lowest vitality and high toughness.
• Guardian has the Force of Will trait that gives 3k Vitality, however the Honor line cannot function as the sole defensive line and be viable, thus lowering the options for the other traitlines. Furthermore, the Honor line has poor synergy with the Guardian`s condition mechanics. Ultimately, DH virtues are too good compared to core virtues and the sustain from Meditations is mandatory, so you are already locked in two lines (that don`t have any options towards building into condition application).