Guild Wars 2

A while back ive done play testing with it pre maim nerf. Had some ups and downs, noticed other people on forums also had ideas and suggestions.

But now since the new changes, and main not being as good, but lets be honest, it’s not really hard to get torment sigs, or atleast get roughly 15 or more stacks of condis up on a target. But I have noticed that some classes tend to benefit from cele condi, Engi. What about us?

But anyways, with the new traitlines and what not, what are your thoughts on cele condi mesmer?

This is actually what I’m doing, cele weapons and trinkets, but not sure if I’ll do cele gear. Might just stick with Dire. Dire imo is best for maxing condi damage, but cele offers a little power and burst and also +healing (great for when speccing inspiration which is one of my favourite specs). There’s also something fun about having gear with every stat, and it’s great for when you want to switch playstyles but don’t have different stat items. I’m using Dire exotic gear, cele ascended staff, dire scepter and a mix of zerker and cele trinkets (haven’t replaced them all yet!) and am able to get some huge torment and confusion hits/ticks against mobs. Of course getting those huge numbers will be a lot tougher against any player who knows how to dodge.

Imo, go Dire if you want wicked condi damage; sinister if you want to decent condi but decent burst as well; cele if you want some burst, some survivability, some healing and good condi; and zerker if you want pure burst. So Dire beats cele but cele beats the rest for condi damage.

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This is actually what I’m doing, cele weapons and trinkets, but not sure if I’ll do cele gear. Might just stick with Dire. Dire imo is best for maxing condi damage, but cele offers a little power and burst and also +healing (great for when speccing inspiration which is one of my favourite specs). There’s also something fun about having gear with every stat, and it’s great for when you want to switch playstyles but don’t have different stat items. I’m using Dire exotic gear, cele ascended staff, dire scepter and a mix of zerker and cele trinkets (haven’t replaced them all yet!) and am able to get some huge torment and confusion hits/ticks against mobs. Of course getting those huge numbers will be a lot tougher against any player who knows how to dodge.

Imo, go Dire if you want wicked condi damage; sinister if you want to decent condi but decent burst as well; cele if you want some burst, some survivability, some healing and good condi; and zerker if you want pure burst. So Dire beats cele but cele beats the rest for condi damage.

Currently since the new patch I have a full set of cele rdy to be made, currently I have full rabid w/ torment sig and dire/rabid trinkets/rings

If you were to go full dire, which you like, torment sigs which apply a stack on crit, would be very hard to use considering dire armor doesnt give crit chance.
I also have a full dire set of course, but different sig and armor runes, it’s a bit tankey but it doesnt have as much torment pressure.

But on the 2nd hand cele armor also gives all stats along with it which makes torment sig still work, I’m curious on behalf of the new traitlane inspiration which gives us alot of condi removal and healing on top of cele gear?

If you’re relying on crit, then Dire isn’t the set for you. Rabid is actually really good for crit which is its highest stat, while also giving good condi damage. You certainly won’t have as much crit with cele gear, but you’ll have more condi damage, survivability and burst, but obviously not as much as Dire or Beserker etc. Cele is not a min/max stat choice. It’s really best when you want a bit of everything. It suits certain playstyles better than others.

That’s really what determines your gear imo, your playstyle. Think about how you play and want to play in the future and go from there. Personally, I like having all those stats and my playstyle works well with cele stats.

So those are my thoughts on cele gear in a condi build.

Yes,as said above,cele aint working for our condie.I tryed it for like 20 fast maps in pvp,and bleeds were nonexistent even with 2 duelist up.I didnt tryed phantasm with fury thou.Also if u aiming for healing on shatter,it doesnt make much of healing difference with healing power “cele amulet”.Maim is nerfed so shattering aint a way aswell.I tryed both maim and might on shatter,none was working well,as i said,bleeds were rare and mind wracks still didnt hit hard enough and heals werent that better than with no healing power “like 1.2k heal with all clones”.

So overall my experience was,its not viable.You can kill only some builds,while u have almost no chance against eles,shoutbow warrs,and everything is so slow and unfunn.