Guild Wars 2

I know it may be situational, but which do you think is better with 30 points in the Firearms tree. Adding gear with Crit damage increase or adding gear with condition damage?

What’s your spec?
Rifle SD builds, go Crit Damage all the way.
Most of the time, however (for engineers), I’d recommend condition damage.

Here’s an equation you might find useful, also.
[% Power Source] * Power(1+[(Precision-822)/21](.5+Critical Damage)] +
[% Condi Source] * [Base Damage + (Factor*Condition Damage)]

yea depends on what your aiming for in you build, for me personally I normally never go 30 into firearms with conditions unless I’m running a very specific build, it also comes down to what weapons/kits you wanna use to since some are more effective with different damage sources

PvE? No question what you do – don’t go condition damage, go for crits.

nope, condition damage beats crit damage in 90% of pve-cases, where u don’t have enough cit chance for it to become relevant. engi’s bomb and nade builds focus so much on condition, and these are THE pve builds. also, condition damage works best vs hard bosses and longlasting enemies, which are in 95% of the cases the enemies you should spec for.

Thanks for the input, well I was thinking more WvW and I like using the pistols which do apply lots of condition damage, I have the thing where crits will set target on fire as well. My crit% is like 36% currently.

I know burst damage is a big thing with PvP, maybe the extra damage from crits is worth more than the amount I gain from condition increase. Just wonder if anyone noticed a difference going one route or the other.

well depending on your build you can completely forget your typical power burst and go a condition burst, some engineer builds get upto 2k+ condition damage very easy and can rapidly stack up a lot of bleeds burning and poison, which ends up being a huge amount of damage over a short period of time and with all the extra conditions you can stack up will allow you to easily sustain really good damage over time, the benefit of going all into condition damage also gives you a great tank which in a lot of cases can be better then taking extra burst because you need 3 different stats to really get the most out of pure damage where as conditions you only need 1 stat, your best bet I think would be to check out YouTube a bit and see if there are any builds you like the look of since most builds have been covered.