Guild Wars 2

What builds does everyone run and what gear have you chosen to supplement it? I assume most DD Eles are bunkers and use PVT armor and PVT jewelry. Are these the optimal stats to get? Is it viable to stack power toughness and healing power instead of PVT? Or is have that not viable due to low health pool? Has anyone tried stacking condi damage with power? Or going condi over power?

I’m thinking of getting carrion armor for condi damage, vit, and toughness and getting sapphire jewelry for power, toughness, and healing power. Pretty much hitting all stats.

Or perhaps get toughness, healing power, power armor in conjunction with sapphire jewelry for as much toughness and healing power I could get. Viable?

Be a man. Full berserker’s with a little survival on jewelry.

@Dreztina: I let out a heartfelt lol when i read that.
@Second Note: I went with PVT for my armor, but after doing lots of Spvp and Wv3 I feel like going pvt for your armor is a safe route. For trinkets I am making Zerkers, and use that while i get PVT Trinkets. So use what you like for trinkets and use PVT for armor.

I use power/tough/vit armors and a mix of valkyrie’s and knight’s trinkets and weapons. With 20 points in air, that gives me pretty decent crit/crit-damage without sacrificing much defense.

I used to run full carrion 20-0-30-10-10 and the condition damage was pretty brutal, and I could survive fine, but for WvW I felt it was lacking since there are so many players with condition removal, and to maximize damage I had to use a scepter and spam the #1 attack a lot to really keep bleeds on. If you want to go full carrion gear, I’d highly suggest 30 in earth with the grandmaster trait giving signets passive even after activation, and using signet of earth and S/D (mist form and whatever other utility you prefer). Assuming it ticks for full duration, one churning earth can have around 10k backloaded damage in additon to whatever the first hit is, with a might stacking power/cond damage build, add in several more stacks from scepter earth #1 and it’s pretty sweet.