Guild Wars 2

Is it still perplexity?

Or these days do you look at undead, scavaging or something else as being better?

WvW focused question.

Balthazar looks really good for condi spec.

Depending on your spec and the food you use, Balthazar runes lose a lot of potential.
Engineers can keep a target burning permanently quite easily without the bonus from Balthazar. Also with 6 in explosives and Koi cake (rare pizza) you already have 70% condi duration bonus and iirc duration is capped at +100% so 15% from the rune bonus is wasted.
I really like runes of Grenth as they help a lot to keep your targets locked down.

I get torn between perplexity because I do interrupt and confusion stacks intensity not duration and undead given the extra bonus to all condition damage.

My issue with Balthazar is that burning stacks duration and I have so many ways to burn you again if you were to lose the condition that I just don’t get enough out of the extra duration (and I use koi/6 grenades too).

Choices! Anyone else have a thought?

Balthazar/grenth/perplexity/krait(with nades/earth sigil/shrapnel/sharpshooter)/scavenging/adventurer/antitoxin/tormenting. There’s quite a lot of good options.

Rozbuska.5263:

Balthazar looks really good for condi spec.

Balthazar is good in PvP with the lack of condi duration food, but in WvW it is relatively outclassed by other options.

When roaming, I think Perplexity is best.
When zerging, I think Antitoxin is best.

I enjoy Balthazar for bombs (bombs, tool, elixir) and Scavenging for nades (nades, tool, elixir).
I suppose Aristocracy runes would do better work than undead.