Guild Wars 2

Greetings,

I was wondering if it’s worth it using giver’s weapons for the 10% condi duration instead of the more traditional weapons with 3 stats.

I feel like condi duration is important however I feel rather bad about losing all those precious stats. Anyway, looking forward to your input.

Build i’m currently using: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqelIqiYHvyuF1LJyYGd2ECWgoC53nHvVaBhA-e

Thanks for taking the time.

Word of warning.

There are No ascended Giver’s weapons. So if you get them you will be stuck at Exotic gear.
Leaving out Givers as the only stat combination from ascended weapons was a deliberate choice made by arenanet, so dont count on a bugfix.

- If you’re not running Grenade Kit Giver weapons are never worth it.
- If you’re running Grenade Kit and Rifle Giver is virtually never worth it.
- If you’re running Grenade Kit and Pistol/Shield (or Pistol/Pistol) is depends on your group. With a grenade Engineer no group should have problems to get to 25 stacks of Vulnerability against trash mobs. Against bosses you may spike over 25 stacks if there are more than two other professions who can inflict multiple stacks quickly, in particular Axe/Mace Warriors and Sword/Focus+Greatsword Guardians with Blind Exposure.

So my advice:
Giver Pistol and Shield, Berserker Rifle. Switch depending on team.

Hey, thanks for the replies.

I never really thought about ascended gear not providing giver stats.

Guess i’ll stick with the givers weapons for the time being and swap to regular stats when I reach ascended.

I think it’s worth it if you feel you need it to get to a nice condi duration threshold (i.e. 50%) and don’t want to adjust your traits to compensate for it.

For instance, if you have no points in explosives and using runes without condi duration, you can take a giver’s weapon to get +10% condi duration and then eat the +40% condi duration food to get +50% condi duration. I used to do that with my p/p builds, but I now usually slot at least 10 in explosives for incendiary powder, so I don’t need the giver’s weapon anymore.

Terrahero.9358:

Leaving out Givers as the only stat combination from ascended weapons was a deliberate choice made by arenanet, so dont count on a bugfix.

Where did they post this statement at?

Since kits do not scale and hide your wep, Engy should be the last class you consider any wep other than the crafted/cheap ones. (unless you usually go kitless, but imo thats more pvp) Therefore Giver is great on any condition heavy build. However besides vulnerability, imo there are other classes who affect conditions better.

Explosives 30 points – 30% Condition Duration
Food – 40% Condition Duration
Runes of the Traveler 4 piece – 10% Condition Duration
Runes of the Mad King/Lyssa – 10% Condition Duration
1 Giver Weapon – 10% Condition Duration

Total : 100% Condition Duration