Guild Wars 2

So basically like everyone else I’ve been running the HGH condition build and owning with it, however after the recent buffs to toolkit I just can’t play without it. It just absolutely owns. So I started running it in place of elixir b and tweaked my traits around a bit and came to the conclusion that due to the insane amount of conditions that we can apply HGH while awesome, just isn’t necessary at least for me.

I would like to say I doubt I’m the first person to run this, but it does really good in spvp and seems even stronger in wvw due to double confusion dmg and I just wanted to share it with others.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqalspicHxSfF17IyoCdmoH5Hl9YfewWpFEC;ToAAzCpo+y8l4L7XuvkfN8YuA

Average fight starts like this, see an enemy pull them to you prybar them in the face, switch to grenade kit which procs geomancy, then hit them with shrapnel grenade followed by chill grenade, switch to pistols and unload everything. Against 90% of the people its over. Those that aren’t dead are hurt bad enough that they are on the run. If you get jumped you have elixir S to save your kitten as well as the added ownage of gear shield. You somewhat lack condition removal, but between the thrown variants of h and s and the elixirs themselves you do okay.

Anyway hope you guys enjoy.

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Tool Kit can certainly work well with condition damage due to Pry Bar. Box of Nails won’t really do much though. You can very well run Tool Kit with conditions, but I do question running HGH without Elixir B. That may end up just being my own opinion though.

As an aside, watch the Nightmare runes. The +20% condition duration isn’t working at all. No condition duration increases from runes are.

I’m not running HGH, and I didn’t know about nightmare runes, not sure what a good alternative would be at the moment? But 10 points can be pulled out of elxir tree and put into firearms to pick up hair trigger, and sharpshooter, both are viable options the infused precision gives you more survivability whereas the hairtrigger gives you more damage. Just personal preference.

The condition durations are working (Explosive triat, Lyssa, Mad King, Nightmare runes), the only thing: it doesn’t show up in tooltip. I do run a condi build with 30 Explosives, 4*Nightmare and 2* Lyssa runes, and Rare Veggie Pizza, and eb. my explosive shot bleeding is on the target for 4 secs.

Unless it’s been very recently fixed without my knowledge, the testing in the Mists indicate that Rare Veggie Pizza and 30 Explosives woks, but not Nightmare or Lyssa. I did this right after the last patch.

I’ve never trusted the tooltip. Although I did notice that Rare Veggie Pizza actually shows up on the character sheet now.

So what would be our other best option at the moment adventuerer or undead possibly?

Mad king runes are not working as well

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Unless it’s been very recently fixed without my knowledge, the testing in the Mists indicate that Rare Veggie Pizza and 30 Explosives woks, but not Nightmare or Lyssa. I did this right after the last patch.

I’ve never trusted the tooltip. Although I did notice that Rare Veggie Pizza actually shows up on the character sheet now.

They are still not working, so you are indeed right! The runes never showed up in the tool tips, but since last patch they don’t apply to the condition,I have just tested it again today and it ain’t working!

I’m actually just using Undead for now. It’s probably mathematically better for me to use Might stacking runes since I run HGH, but even then it didn’t feel quite like it was as much damage. Feelings aren’t really an accurate sense of measurement though.

Adventurer and Undead are solid full set options. You could enhance something else in the build too, or just focus on getting +50% Burn duration since that is the primary reason we want condition duration anyway. Burn duration is still working. I’m not sure on the best answer. The reason I prefer Nightmare was because it was +20% condition duration to fully apply +50% duration to everything, it gives a healthy chunk of condi-dmg, and the 6pc bonus is extremely strong.