Guild Wars 2

I’m at 85% with Balth Runes and Smoldering Sigil.

Is that too much?

for pve it helps for vs players based game deppends the class and cleanses ur fighthing.

I would say its more important to have the “right” burn duration so it matches the skills you are going apply burning with.

Btw i have the same as you in my build and i think its very adequate in wvw.

What is the “right” burn duration :/

Well the easisest way to determine that is how many seconds of burning you get from a skill.

lets say you get 3,5 s from passive VoJ. This means the skill will only tick 3 times even though you invested in 0,5 more seconds in duration. Either you invest more or you invest less. Im a bit unsure about the specifics after they changed burning as a condition so i wont swear on it but the general idea is correct. Just invest enough to get a new tick, no more and no less.

Ofc you need to make this decision based on the other skills you are using (burn on block, JI, Purging flames etc) and intuitively decide what is a good balance. Imo in a perfect world each skill should generate an exact time of burning and this would mean no investment you made in gear/food is wasted.

If you do this check you might find that sigil of smoldering isnt needed to maintain the same burn duration as with balthazar runes alone.

I havent checked this but i suspect i could remove the smoldering sigils and use something else and still have 19,8k burning on JI and PF while still having 4s burning on passive VoJ.

Brutaly.6257:

Well the easisest way to determine that is how many seconds of burning you get from a skill.

lets say you get 3,5 s from passive VoJ. This means the skill will only tick 3 times even though you invested in 0,5 more seconds in duration. Either you invest more or you invest less. Im a bit unsure about the specifics after they changed burning as a condition so i wont swear on it but the general idea is correct. Just invest enough to get a new tick, no more and no less.

Ofc you need to make this decision based on the other skills you are using (burn on block, JI, Purging flames etc) and intuitively decide what is a good balance. Imo in a perfect world each skill should generate an exact time of burning and this would mean no investment you made in gear/food is wasted.

If you do this check you might find that sigil of smoldering isnt needed to maintain the same burn duration as with balthazar runes alone.

I havent checked this but i suspect i could remove the smoldering sigils and use something else and still have 19,8k burning on JI and PF while still having 4s burning on passive VoJ.

I believe that this is old information.

Burn stack also tick for fractions of their remaining duration after a full tick. if this checks out (which it does imo) it basically does not matter where you stop with burn duration.

I also would advise on getting to 100% if you are running Condi gear. The duration does hep more dps vise except if you would find a way to apply a lot more stacks like runes of the mad king which are awsome for bursts in scenarios where you have moren than two opponents close to each other and if you are running permeating wrath.

You are ofc right, im mixing stuff up here. Sorry OP.

It depends on how you want to play burn guard.

Burn Duration can matter more in 1v1 fights where you can literally time your burst condis around a single target’s cleanse rotations. You don’t have to worry about an outside source randomly cleansing your 12s+ Purging Flames.

Burn Duration matters a whole lot less when it’s more than one person around, when another player can cleanse any of your high duration burns at any time.

I like to run a mixture of high duration burns, like Smoldering sigils, Radiant Fire, Koi Cakes
and
Higher burn proc items like Supreme Justice, Permeating Wrath, Guardian runes.

Oh, and I still use Tuning Crystals but tbh, I don’t even know if there are newer foods available now, as I haven’t WvW’d in awhile.