Guild Wars 2

I’ve been discussing this question with a guildie and he’s been saying that for all his alts he builds condition damage (including his engineer), but I want to ask you guys about this because in wvwvw and farming (the two things I do most) condition damage does not do much since they’re mostly overwritten by other people’s condition’s.

Been planning on gearing Berserker’s for PvE and Soldier’s for WvWvW. Thoughts?

Lol, that couldn’t be any more cookie-cutter, which means it’s good.

For a ’zerker’s set running hard-hitting sets like ‘nades, bombs, rifle and toolkit are going to land you big numbers for farming and dungeons. I personally use Static Discharge when going ’zerkers. As for Soldier’s having that tankiness is definitely useful and can be converted for extra damage, via traits and food. Though personally, I would run condis as well for wvw and instead of Soldier’s, I would actually go for rabid and use ’nades for the great AoE spread, condis, and 1500 range.

if your going rifle, and playing it melee you want soliders for the toughness. You can use berzerker but you’ll explode quite easily.

unless if your mainlining a kit with rifle you do not really want condi gear since rifle only stacks bleeding, and maybe burning with traits.

But if you use grenade kit or bomb kit condi can work well.

I did a mostly Zerker set of PvE and run either Grenades/HGH or Rifle/SD and they both work great. For WvW I did a full Rabid set and with Grenades and gadgets mostly, stuff that improves movement. Its nice that rabid can be acquired through Karma for the most part.

GL out there,
Blood~

Warrior for pure burst and direct damage
Engineer for flexibility

Although if you want to use a rifle as a main weapon go for warrior…most of the time engineers end up using grenades or bombs to be more effective.

Normally I play Rifle / SD, in the last weeks I played around with alot of condition builds, sometimes more tankier sometimes more healer, somehow I always had the feeling I’m SO USELESS in a spvp match. The condition dmg is not what I hoped it was, I have to play piano on my keyboard to be at least on par with the other classes. I waste so much time consuming elexiers in order to do anything on the field. I tried 50% cond duration as well as 100% duration, the time it takes to kill an enemy is just too long. During this time not only does the enemy hit everythign he got into my face (so I need more hp/tough to compensate for that) but also his regeneration is reducing my condition tick dmg…. I’m not sure, I would LOVE to use the turrets again…but nowadays they are super broken Saw some other engis in some matches who used all turrets, joined them, it was fun to look, but it would have been more fun if those little bunnies were actually usefull

But the cond build, maybe I’m doing something wrong, not so sure, but it felt super weak compared to SD. Do I even need ANY crit at all in a proper condition build ?