Condition Damage and guardian
This is a difficult discussion because the Guardian only has one condition he/she can apply. And since conditions cannot crit, precision is pretty much a useless stat for it.
This is a difficult discussion because the Guardian only has one condition he/she can apply. And since conditions cannot crit, precision is pretty much a useless stat for it.
There is only one playstyle amenable to conditions, which is to spike and kite. You can keep the person burning while you dodge damage forever.
For this reason, you need crits just to proc Vigorous Precision to keep dodging while your opponent burns and also to spike them to get them into the 25% HP danger zone, where burning is arguably the most dangerous condition (since it can be reapplied easily without having to stack up for max damage).
I guess the best reason to go for precision is that without needing to tank damage and rely on retaliation and protection, you can free up your skill bar for spirit weapons or signets if you really want. If you go against, say, subject alpha or some similar boss where you do more dodging than hitting, I guess you go for condition damage, precision, and vitality to just burn them to death. Too bad there is no such stat combo.
True but the problem is that since it’s only one condition, it’s relatively easy to dispel. It’s not like Guardians can stack 5 different conditions.
The neat thing about guardian is that he can repeatedly lay down burning forever and triumph over any amount of condition removal.
I just had a funny thought: Full apothecary and specced for block burning and pretty much every burning skill.
Teleport into a group, do greatsword pull, and pop blocks and all the skills that lay down burning. Continue fighting until downed, then push away burning dunkers and heal to full with 3 due to the healing power stat, and port out of there. Essentially, suicide firebomb.
It’s crazy enough that at least a few people will be doing it in sPvP and WvW.
Condition damage is the worst stat for guardians.
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Lets just say there is very little reason to go for a burn build over your standard precision/power/crit damage build
Burn will do much less damage however you gear or trait for compared to your meelee direct hits
And i say this from experience…….
I already use Purging flames and Judge Intervention in pvp
Coupled with fire combo field and finishers its about 13-14 seconds of burn for about
6-7k damage.
And this 6-7k damage is with me already with about +400 condition damage with 20pts in zeal and 12 stacks of might
Not bad right..?
But then your greatsword swings hit for 2k crits doing the same damage in 3 seconds and you realize your burn damage is essentially crap…
With full condition damage gear you could probably boost it up to like 8-10k over 15seconds???? not that it matters though since i can crit 8k on 2 second whirling wrath anyway =.=
Its a nice supplement for our damage but i see no point in building your entire character over it
(edited by lcc.9374)
If you can’t use a greatsword I guess it’s viable, since it will tide you over between scepter smites
For things like the great karka event it would have been superior since there was no way you could get in there with a greatsword and live, and you can really say the same of most mobby events.