Guild Wars 2

So I’m interested in making a PvE Flamethrower Build.

I’m curious as to what stats I should concentrate on besides Condition Damage.

Do you guys think it’s better to get Condition Damage and then just add Vitality and Toughness whenever possible?

Or should it be a combination of Condition Damage and Power with some Toughness thrown in.

And for Traits, I assume you max out Precision, but what else after that? Anybody have any builds or experiences on pros and cons they would care to share?

depends if you want to be more “tanky” or “killy”. For pve having more toughness is better because it allows you to take on larger mobs (and running when things go bad). Condition Damage + Power + Toughness seems like the best option. As far as secondary trait, Alchemy is a solid but boring choice (boons and all that). You should look into sigils and runes as well

Good Luck.

I run flamethrower for PVE and PVP, and use similar stats for both.

Precision + traits (and now sigils) that proc conditions (10 hits over 2 seconds, youre bound to get loads of crits!

Toughness is important, and can be buffed up with juggernaught (obviously a necessary trait for this build)

try to keep both prec + toughness above 1800 if you can (1600 toughness + juggernaught works)

The rest I split evenly between power and condition damage for PVE, and place it all into condition damage for PVP.

I don’t worry too much about vitality, because we have plenty of nice knockbacks and blinds, plus enough condition removal with elixirs.

As for your main weapon, you can make it work with any combination, but I like pistol+shield. It gives me all 4 damaging conditions at once on a very high uptime, and an extra knockback + stun.

This is all my opinion and experiences of course, no doubt there are other good ways to use flamethrower.

Final tip, get 10 points in explosives for 100 power, but also for the 33% burn proc on crits. I can’t tell you how much burn this gives you, which is fitting for a flamethrower afterall!