Guild Wars 2

Alright, so I can afford and am considering making either incinerator or bifrost. I’ve been a longtime d/d user, using it from the beginning from everything to leveling to dungeons to WvW. I love the quick playstyle, mobility, and access to multitudes of quick non-target AoE. This is really the weaponset that made me choose ele as my main. For this reason I initially considered incinerator.

However, as I’ve been getting into high level fractals, I seem to be using staff more and more, since the risk of going melee often just is not worth it or even viable (especially since d/d damage isn’t top tier in terms of melee dps). Additionally, with how many people have been in WvW with the recent patch I’ve been using staff almost exclusively in WvW and am getting tons of kills and badges with it. I am in Crystal Desert (tier 4) and am unsure if this influx of mega-zergs everywhere will continue, yielding d/d forever subpar from now on.

D/D certainly is still the king of sPvP, but since you can’t use pve gear in spvp that’s a bit of a moot point. There is still dueling in WvW but that can be few and far between, especially lately.

Lastly, I do think bifrost looks a lot cooler and certainly more “legendary” than incinerator. It looks like they put a lot more work into the design (with the floating crystals and whatnot), the theme is a lot more interesting (rainbow vs fire), you get an aura, and it’s also just plain bigger/more noticeable. There is also the allure of it being a two handed weapon, so I won’t feel “incomplete”, compared to the incinerator where I’ll still have a non-legendary dagger in my off-hand.

Any opinions on which weapon I should pursue?

After reading your post it seems you’ll get more use from bifrost, also keeping in mind you’d need 2 incinerators anyway.

Hmm, well I’ve been thinking and think I’ll probably go with incinerator after all. It just feels more true to my playstyle, and dagger is still plenty useable in fractals and wvw (especially for mobility). Plus it will probably look pretty cool coupled with the arah, ghastly, or corrupted dagger (if only ghastly stayed glowing all the time it would be absolutely perfect as a companion).

Feel free to try and convince me otherwise though!

>However, as I’ve been getting into high level fractals,
> I seem to be using staff more and more, since the risk
> of going melee often just is not worth it or even viable
>(especially since d/d damage isn’t top tier in terms of melee dps).

exactly, in hard content dd is uneffective and after frac 40+ unplayable unless in very good party. I found that s/d is often a better choice than staff for fractals, you still have the "kick" from offhand dagger and some range main hand skills + you alone can give the party perma 16+ mights.
So go for meteorlogicus probably some day aNet will realize how bad scepter auto fire and air are and buff them and we get quite nice weapon.

Lavadiel.6231:

probably some day aNet will realize how bad scepter auto fire and air are and buff them and we get quite nice weapon.

Arc lightning did get buffed last patch. It now hits anyone who touches the arc between you and your target.

I got the incinerator first (With corrupted shard, fire/ice ftw).

Bonus since you can run S/D as well and still use your incinerator.

Working on a bifrost also. Bifrost is neat too. I’m glad I got Incinerator first though.

Meteorlogicus, scepter is all-around weapon.

If the Bifrost had a white aura instead of rainbows, I would like it more. The rainbows just kill it.

Incinerator looks like a blow torch out of the movie Aliens with an animal head stuck on for decoration. I wouldn’t spend money on that.

Incinerator, bifrost is one of the worst looking legendaries