Guild Wars 2

Full dire items and weapons, sigils are sigil of earth and sigil of bursting.
PVE build.

Dont use this in pve

Tal.2709:

Full dire items and weapons, sigils are sigil of earth and sigil of bursting.
PVE build.

I think meta PvE is like 30/30/0/0/10 or that last 10 you can move around grenades with shrapnel. You run zerker though. I think thats meta engineer pve at least what I saw in one of DnT Nikes videos.

In PvE conditions are supplement damage not main source because of how condition damage works overwriting and stack caps.

Guys I know zerker is far superior to condi but I already have 3 zerker chars so I wanted a condi one.

Undead or Noble. Former is cheap, latter has a bit more potential. I’d recommend some Rabid trinkets at least to get some precision up and make Incendiary Powder / Firearms Bleed Procs worthwhile.

scavenging will give you the most amount of condi damage and the lifesteal it provides can help you survive. undead gives the 2nd most amount of condi damage and it’s 6 silver for a full set but it doesn’t have any other effects. noble runes rae good for might stacking. and then there’s my personal favorite, adventurer runes, which i think are the best runes in the game.

Perplexity gives you extra condition stacks and is clearly the best of the bunch imho.
Scavanger typically won’t increase your damage more than getting extra confusion ticks.

confusion is a worthless condition in pve.

ArrDee.2573:

confusion is a worthless condition in pve.

why? it does double damage but npcs do 1/2 the actions… and they dont cleanse or try to avoid actions when its on them

insanemaniac.2456:

ArrDee.2573:

confusion is a worthless condition in pve.

why? it does double damage but npcs do 1/2 the actions… and they dont cleanse or try to avoid actions when its on them

Most NPCs do less than half the actions.

Personally I recommend Noble Runes. They work great on my hybrid build. Those 3 stacks of might equal 105 malice and 105 power, and even in a condi build you’ll still use power.

If you want to really take advantage of the runes, you can pop med kit every 14 seconds or so to keep the might permanently on. If not, they’ll still make a great addition when using healing turret.

Noble if your build stacks lots of might, through traits or fields. Scavenger otherwise. Undead isn’t a bad choice either if you’re using full Rabid, it just lacks the extra healing Scavenger brings.

I’d actually recommend using carrion gear instead of dire gear, with some rabid in the trinkets. It’s better DPS, and still very durable for PvE. Carrion gear still synergizes well with the aforementioned scavenging runes due to it giving you as much vitality as dire does.

If you are strongly inclined towards using full dire, you should consider scrapping the sigil of earth since your crit chance will be fairly low, even with 30 points into firearms. Although if you have a source of fury this might be an acceptable level.

if you really want to be hybrid i’d recommend rampager or celestial over carrion. you don’t need any defensive stats in pve.

not rampager, never rampager
ever
ever
even with the “dont need defense” justification

insanemaniac.2456:

not rampager, never rampager
ever
ever
even with the “dont need defense” justification

How about you leave them the choice instead of acting like this? Rampager can still have some appeal.

MrForz.1953:

insanemaniac.2456:

not rampager, never rampager
ever
ever
even with the “dont need defense” justification

How about you leave them the choice instead of acting like this? Rampager can still have some appeal.

cuz been there done that, other combos are way better. rampager lost its niche to celestial.

It’s not a reason to shove that down the throat of everyone.

insanemaniac.2456:

not rampager, never rampager
ever
ever
even with the “dont need defense” justification

i run rampager amulet with carrion jewel in SPVP/TPVP and won 88% of my matches. ive played 180 matches in 5 days to testit out. works gr8

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vcAQJAqalUUp6q9ZxELseNiMqQnB6BgZXj4nHvFbBhA-zgCB4MAYNgk3gkIApQFRjtGsIasKZo6aYKXBSHLxAA-e

This is my build that I like to use in PvE. You can kinda use it as a basis, but as said before, it’s a hybrid between condis and damage. You can probably switch out the superior sigil of battle and customize the trinkets a bit more to your choosing . I just haven’t bothered switching the pistol of its sigil and the weird stat trinket combo from an old build since it still works pretty well . I’ve used this in fractals, dungeons, and general PvE. Overall I’m very satisfied.

Travlane.5948:

insanemaniac.2456:

not rampager, never rampager
ever
ever
even with the “dont need defense” justification

i run rampager amulet with carrion jewel in SPVP/TPVP and won 88% of my matches. ive played 180 matches in 5 days to testit out. works gr8

celestial isnt viable in spvp, different story >.>
plus dat rampager version has some defense

rampager amulet is terrible terrible terrible, probably the 2nd worst next to celestial. for the 289 power you lose, you gain 229 condi damage and 569 toughness. now if they took off some precision and added it to power then MAYBE it would hvae some use, but still probably not because of the tanky meta.

Why is it that lately people around here are so intent on telling others that the way they play is wrong? The guy using it clearly had success with it, why is it so important to tell him what he was doing is wrong?

Could it possibly be that some of you don’t actually know everything?

i usually try not to except when i see rampager recommended for pve/wvw :/