Guild Wars 2

So I’m running a build primarily focused on burns and was just curious as to how important condi duration is for burns since they don’t stack in intensity only duration. We have so many sources for burning that application really isn’t the problem. My question is this. When condi duration food/runes/sigils etc.. are applied , does it just drag out the same damage as before just over a longer period of time.? Or are higher burn ticks achievable with a shorter duration?

It ticks every second. You will still deal the same damage/second. Condition duration only increases the duration of the Condition… so you will get more ticks, but the dmg per second remains the same.
And you have to keep in mind, that you will only get a extra tick, if you longer the duration to a full second.
So 1s of burn does the same dmg as 1,5s of burn in total, because both only tick once.
But if you apply two times a 1,5s burn you get a 3s burn and therefore 3 ticks of burning.

K thanks for the clarification. I normally don’t run condi builds. I think I’ve opted for more condition damage stat over duration. Like I said with so many sources for burns it’s incredibly easy to apply plus I rather like having 2100 condi damage before sigil stacks.

jlneedham.8219:

K thanks for the clarification. I normally don’t run condi builds. I think I’ve opted for more condition damage stat over duration. Like I said with so many sources for burns it’s incredibly easy to apply plus I rather like having 2100 condi damage before sigil stacks.

Usually the sweet spot is around 70% duration for condition engi. You want them to be meaning full with warriors running reduction and melandru they will kite to heal but if your burns are ticking they can’t heal that damage back.

Because burn is a single condition easy to clear i focus in condition damage to tick as high as possible.

IMO you should use Runes of Undead or Scavenger. And 2 pistols (sigil of Corruption and Bursting), a sigil of Corruption on your harpoon gun, so you can swap them and don’t lose your stacks. You offhand can have sigil of Battle, Doom, Earth or Tormenting.

But you can still have 70% from traits and food.