Firstly; I’m not gonna say don’t go condi, but in PvE it’s not ideal, although if you’re just running around solo doing map comp or something I guess go for it? But most groups won’t really be happy if you run this for dungeons or something…on the other hand if you roam with this in WvW you can probably have some fun trolling people.
That being said, I’m returning your build with my fixes and I’ll try and explain my changes, warning this is going to get LONG:
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WEAPONSET + SKILLS
I left it as d/d since I don’t know if you’re comfortable playing other weapons, but I recommend trying out s/f for condi, sceptre earth AA is much easier to stack bleed with and focus has some nice defensive utility to help outlast your opponent You could even try going d/f since you don’t need the burst of offhand dagger in a condi build.
Arcane Brilliance >> Ether Renewal: AB heals for less than a fully-cast ER, and you do not need the blast finisher to stack might since this build is not power based. Also, condi-cleanse is a good thing to have.
Signet of Air >> Lightning Flash: Personal preference, but in WvW there are lots of spots where LF can get you out of a bad situation or to use it as a gap closer on an opponent running away.
Arcane Shield >> Signet of Earth: Normally I would never seriously put a signet into a build, and condi builds usually take Signet of Fire for the burn on activate, but the patch tomorrow (today??) will add bleed on activate to SoE and its passive brings your toughness to 3k. (I’m going somewhere with this, I promise.)
TRAITS:
Taking 6 out of Fire and redistributing to Water and Arcane: You get 300 power and condition duration from this, the latter of which is nice but the power is unnecessary (the difference between 900 power and 1200 power is pretty negligible, you still hit like a wet noodle) and nothing you get out of traiting into Fire is better than what you get out of traiting into Water and Arcane, especially for the added sustain via condi cleanse and boons on attunement swap.
Geomancer’s Alacrity >> Strength of Stone: The reduced CD on earth skills is not nearly as good as gaining 300 condi damage (on top of the 300 you get from traiting full Earth) from your toughness.
Serrated Stones >> Diamond Skin: You have 3k toughness, they can’t apply condi until you’re below 90% health: you’re going to be a nightmare to try and get below the threshhold, and then you have ER/Water Attunement to cleanse condi and heal back up over it again. You don’t need the extra bleed duration since you are taking Krait runes, and the 5% damage increase compared to being last man standing is meh.
GEAR:
Sigil of Hobbling >> Geomancy: You have 3 sources of crippling, 1 of which is probably not going to hit most of the time (Churning Earth) Rather than duration of a condi you can barely apply reliably, geomancy gives you access to bleed even when you swap out of Earth to heal, and more bleed to proc your Krait Rune +duration.
Sigil of Agony >> Doom: Poison is a handy condition to have, especially against warriors with healing signet. Also, gives you another type of condition you can apply to mask your bleeds when they condi cleanse. You already have an absurd amount of bleed duration, you really shouldn’t need anymore.
Also, I gave you food/utility. Yay.
Take whatever parts of this you like or change it up, just tried to explain all the choices I made so you can make your own decisions about you want this build to be or not to be. Super sorry it got so long!
But if you see something i should completely change, to better fit my vision of the playstyle above, please… let me know, especially on the gear and traits. I don’t wanna sound snobish, just don’t want a bunch of replies with, don’t do condi, its overdone!