Guild Wars 2

So, I’ve been looking at builds for awhile and I’ve seen a ton with rabid gear. If you are doing a condi build how important is precision and wouldn’t dire gear be better?

And how important is precision to the mesmer in a PU build?

Depends if your build and playstyle is using the “Sharper Images” minor trade. If yes, then precision is important.

Precision is good if you have any points into dueling – keeping Vigor up 100% is important since Mesmers are fairly squishy, and even more so if you have DE.

Sharper Images is good as well, or if you are using any “on crit” sigils.

Without precision and SI, you are cutting yourself off from your main source of bleeds. So you’ll have to find other conditions to stack damage, and confusion isn’t viable on its own. I’m not sure what’s really left.

All that said, with the coming sigil changes and ‘on hit’ instead of ‘on crit’ option, there’ll be more options surrounding this.

Depending on your build you can still crit well in full Dire too. It’s really users preference. Vitality is great, but you can certainly live without it.

I believe the build I made a while back was one of the few that used Dire armor, It was 20/0/30/0/20, Taking all standard PU traits and in Illusions the first trait is up to you but the second should be IE. Weapons are Scepter/Torch and Staff with doom sigils for some great poison. I was very, very, very hard to kill and my biggest weakness was Conditions, which were mitigated by torch and phantasmal defender.