Pistol/Grenade Build?
I think if grenades are your focus then rifle may synergize better than pistols. Simply because power and precision appear to be more beneficial to grenades and rifle, whereas pistols generally benefit more from condition dmg.
I have been P/P until recently when I tried P/S both with condition dmg gear. Works well and pushes some nice dmg esp with piercing. The annoying thing is trying to build in defensive stats.
Difficult to find tough and cond dmg gear, it’s all vitality. The whole point is to be at range and let the conditions do their thing while reduing incoming dmg. P/S worked well but the shield cd’s are too long.
btw could not check build as getting bad link message.
Honor of the waves, and Twilight arbor tokens give prec/tough/cond gear.
That should be the ideal p/p gear.
I leveled p/p, grenades/alch.
Even with a +cond focus grenade toolbelt skill is crazy strong.
At 80, tried swapping grenades for elixir gun. Which is pretty decent as well in that spot. A regen toolbelt. Nice water swap, good aoe damage, conditions, another heal in super elixir, etc. It even outdamages p1 in auto attack with that prec/cond gear.
The more I break down the math though. I am really questioning the viability of +cond though.
power, crit, crit damage, and weapon damage just scale SO much.
for giggles, I swapped to a grenade build. half my gear is still +cond, but my damage tripled.