Guild Wars 2

I came across a D/F viper burn build on youtube the other day that looked pretty fun. 100% burn duration, You can stack over 10 burns easily on low cooldown and if you do the full spell load you can get upwards of 25+ just from yourself.

Anyone trying this? Looks more interesting than a boring old zerker staff build.

Yay all the way

Nay. Don’t waste your Sinister stats to get Viper if you only care about burning.

Runes of Balthazar (45)% + Sigil (20%) + Trait (20%) = 85%. Even in basic PvE, if you just consume a super veggie pizza (18%) you’ll cap out on burning. There’s no need to add Exerptise when you’re capped already (and the precision loss = less burning).

If you’re running a burn/bleed set, you’re lowering your own dps by swapping out of fire, so I wouldn’t advise it.

Agreed with above. NAY. Viper is for professions who do more than 1 condition.

The concept of condition elementalist is a good one. It wasn’t a bit underpower before, but the Tempest Overload give him just enough boost to be good.

Now whether or not you should get Viper or Sinister is another story. Like other people said Viper is good for build with 2 conditions, but you mostly only give burning. It’s not that viper would not be good, but that it’s expansive for not much return on investment. You are better off with Rune of Balthazar, Silgil of Smoldering, etc. Just make sure you reach 100% condition duration on burning and after that try to get the max condition damage you can.