Guild Wars 2

Sup, peeps!

Basically I want a Diamond Skin condi build to troll the other condi builds that I constantly find when I’m roaming. I looked around but didn’t find anything up to date, so I’ve made my own, but would like your opinion, ‘cause I don’t have enough gold for more than 1 build

Cheers!

Well the big disadvantage running d/d is you can’t really stack bleeds that well like most condi classes can. The advantage though is you have a lot of interrupts so it seems silly not to be using perplexity runes. That being said you seemed like you were stressing gold and the builds all exotics.

After the patch in a couple hours signet of earth will be an absolute must for any condi build. Lightning flash on the other hand can be easily replaced with mobility from FGS as your elite. You can’t really use lightning flash as a strong damage attack considering your using a condi build. That being said you’ll notice that perma burn + poison isn’t really enough to kill most people even if your doing 1300/second conditions potentially, which is why I suggestion signet of earth and perplexity runes to add another potentially like 1500-2000/second.

Signet of earth is now a kittening must have, it is so OP

Windborn dagger ? … really ???
Renewing stamina FTW bro! ^^

Balthazar rune has ele with fire signet ? you already have 100% burn uptime, its overkill => its a bad choice.
As said the guy above me, perplexity is nice on ele.

You can keep diamond skin if you really want to troll, but you can destroy condi build without this crappy trait (you’ll get it, i highly recommand you to take something valuable)

Thanks for the answers!

Really don’t have the gold for perplexity. Any other alternative? And besides the skills changes and the windborn dagger -> renewing stamina, the other traits are fine (I’ll keep diamond skin for now, just for the lols)

“just for the lolz” is a good argument Kappa

You can check condi-runes in jcj, its always nice to check them pretty fast ^^
A cheap one and still decent is the Undead rune
(nightmare is nice, and krait is the one i’d recommand you … if we had any valuable elite x) )

meh I hate undead runes, condi damage scales so poorly, the best scaling condi in the game which is burning only scales at 0.25 so a 6 that just adds more condition damage is really meh, and rune sets with stats on the 4 are pretty meh. access to another condition to cover + doing a ton of damage, you really should save up for perplexity runes, the runes alone might be 30-50% your damage on a d/d condi build.

good condi builds imo have the following things:
(at least 2 of the 3 things as your main source of damage)
-100% burn uptime
-5+ confusion stacks
-10+ bleed stacks (or torment as a mesmer)

High condition duration is a must imo, a lot of people run 100%, if your traitline gives you the 30%. For burn to round up you need at least 87%.

And good condi cover in the forms of vuln/cripple/poison/chill

I actually have been running this build and I’ve been VERY successful with it so far, but I also feel like perplexity runes would make it amazing if I could afford them:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFAQJAodhcM6cW2wvBd0AfAFxP4BGXABQ/XsGSBA-TFSHABfpWRa7PUnSwO0DsoqKF8AAaS5HAnAACBoYOA-w

And yeah, signet of earth is pretty OP now lol. It’s like warrior’s longbow 5 skill only not a projectile.

P.S. This would work with dire or rabid gear too, I just use celestial because I had already invested so much in getting so many ascended pieces that I have a hard time letting go of it lol.