Guild Wars 2

hey guys

Are there any Condition Builds for fractals? or sth else except berserker?

I run a typical HGH grenade build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcEQJAqalspSXHxSfF17ICoC5loHPGlNZfe8WsFEC-jECBIhCh0CAkIJMDtIasVhFRjVJTQWdDTHLpSBAx0I-w

Gets you a nice variety of conditions, plenty of might stacks, and you can manage your own condis and such. Also some nice group utility with AoE stability and stealth to help rez someone. It’s also not full glass, so you will be able to take some hits and not rely on your buddies rezing you all the time.

I’ll swap out the elixir S for elixir U if the situation calls for it… usually if projectile walls are needed (i.e. harpy fractal), or if the group is just functioning so well that the survivability from elixir S isn’t needed.

You can probably also slot bomb kit and go to town with that if you want in addition to grenades… can swap out shrapnel for forceful explosives.

thanks yamsa !

You probably don’t want to do any type of condition builds for fractals due to stacking limits and conflicts with conditions applied by teammates.

take a berserker build like 30/30/0/0/10 grenades. swap berseker gear for rampager gear. bam you have a pseudo condition spec that’s not as good as full zerk.

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You probably don’t want to do any type of condition builds for fractals due to stacking limits and conflicts with conditions applied by teammates.

In my experience, this is generally not as much of a problem in higher level fractals unless everyone is condi-focused. The only real problem would be overdoing the poison and burning since bleeds will tick down fairly quickly. However, an HGH build can easily have the highest condi damage in the party, meaning the rest of your party should adjust to you if that’s the case.

The nice thing about using grenades with carrion gear is that the grenade skills scale well with both power and condition damage. As such, even if your condi damage isn’t as good as someone else’s, you’ll still be able to inflict decent direct damage (especially with all the might stacks).

On lower level fractals it would possibly be better just to use direct damage though since everything dies much faster.

shouldnt you use rabid instead of carrion for better direct damage scaling in conjunction with might and crit proc synergy?

or do you need a major crit damage investment to make precision worth enough to pass power in marginal returns even when you already have like 1800 power

cant math atm

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcEQFAUlIqiYHvynF17IyoCdGoHAmfNifeMftFEC-j0BBIhIkIIUBAZmFRjt4qIas6aYKXER1SBAx0I-w

This is the build, if you won´t be useless.

Do these grenades build really work in high level fractals? It’s funny cause that’s the build I used to work with during the first days of GW2 and then discarded after they nerfed the grenades damage….

I run 30/30/0/0/10
Using this now and been using it for awhile. But a mix of berserker, knights and cavaliers armour and trinkets.

Explosives
Bombs have bigging radius
Short Fuse
Grenadier

Firearms
This all depends on what im doing the only trait that I keep is modified ammunition.

Tools
Speedy kits or what ever is needed depends on the area.

I also run
Toxic Sharping Stone
Koi Cakes Giver Weapons.

I feel this helps with Modified Ammunition

Don’t go for a crappy condition engineer. The flaw is not only that the conditions overstack (poison and burn max. 8 stacks, no more are applied until the first runs off) or get rid of themselves (25 stacks bleeding, new bleeding overwrites old, careless of condi dmg), no it’s also that the damage still is much lower than a full zerk bomb / grenade engi. The condition scalings are just terrible for damage in PvE. I kick condi X immediately at high fotm due to their lack of dmg.

30/30/0/0/10 for full dmg, 30/30/0/10/0 for some survivablity and support (boon duration):

The first 30 are definitly:

• bomb range
• explosives +10% dmg
• traited grenades

The 2nd 30 are kinda free, however you MUST trait vulnerability on crit.