Just so you know, with a 20/20/30 PU/Condition build, rabid gear is still the #1 choice. you keep the same amount of toughness, however, its the precision which plays a very important role.
I will cut this part out of my thread, which was posted by Pyro a number of months back.
_"A massive amount of mesmer condition pressure and sustain is obtained through crits. Your dueling 15 point minor trait causes all of your illusions to bleed on crit. That’s massive. Since illusions take your precision, having high precision is a must for good bleed pressure. You will also be doing more base damage with precision, it isn’t much, but over time it adds up.
A slightly less direct reason is the interaction with the 5 point minor in dueling, 5 seconds of vigor on crit. Vigor = 100% faster endurance regeneration = twice as many dodges = twice as many dodge clones, which leads to more damage and more damage avoidance."_
The drop in health is not too noticeable, I currently sit at around 18k health, which is more then enough in almost any encounter, and considering I have an extra 30% chance to crit over a build using dire, I do significantly more damage.
Whilst being an interesting idea, trying a Condition/PU build with dire or carrion, it just wont be as effective as a build using rabid, (just take some dire trinkets if you don’t like having 16kish health)
Also, whilst a nice video to watch, it really was painful watching you use your signet of ether to heal every time you dropped to around 14/15k hp because as a PU Mesmer, you are going to have 3 clones out most of the time, and the passive heal is much greater then the active over the time it takes for the cd end.
And I just have to mention, at around the 2 minute mark, that was a ranger not a thief ^^
