Guild Wars 2

Are we goign to have strong Condition builds which do good dmg as zerker does?
Or is Zerker still the way to go even with the new changes?

For the most part Berserker still seems to be king until we see how the new condition overhaul affects long term DPS. For burst based attacks Berserker will still get the quicker kill, but now it’s a matter of on bosses will the ramp up time of conditions overshadow the linear DPS from our current meta builds.

Guardian and Ele specific I can see something like Flame Legion runes being very worthwhile over the current scholar runes due to their regular access to burn. Though if burn uptime is harder to manage then it’ll be a DPS loss due to not maintaining the 6th ability.

My guess is that Berserker will still be the way to go as passively applied conditions won’t be in a fight with one another.

I see 2 new possible builds now for maxing damage:
1. Will still use Zerker Scholar Runes and rely on symbols so it will use Hammer and/or Mace combined most likely with GS and Focus as offhand.

2. Will use Zerker but with Flame Legion as Savacli said or condition runes (maybe Balthazar) and will use GS and probably Mace with Torch as offhand.

My guess is burning will add to your damage but Zerker will still outshine it, so going full Rampager or Sinester won’t be a thing. Maybe a mix of Rampager, Zerker and Sinister will work but it’s all theorycrafting.

Apothecary is pretty good!

Check out my thread about the new condition builds. It might be better than zerker.