Guild Wars 2

First of all, I did not create this thread to start a flame war or bash anyone’s opinions. But whenever i browse the forums, there is this one guy who posts about his/her condition build at PvE, and majority of the responses is Condition builds suck/not good/whatever term at PvE. Well Imo, It doesn’t suck, it just does not kill as fast as a power build.

Ever since I found Chaos’ and skcamow’s Interrupt builds, ive enjoyed them so much, call me weird but i use them at PvE and incorporate condtion damage on it with full condition gear. Don’t get me wrong i went power based builds before (shatter/phantasms) but they all feel so linear to me. The story is all about dmg. Whereas condition builds take more i don’t know how to say it but it feels more engaging in a sense. So im just wondering is the mesmer really inferior to the condition side of things? or is the inferiority often just exaggerated? or just a majority of people conform with the Berserker setup without having tried other builds/setups before?

Im saying this because i see the berserker power setup responses from other forums too.

Again guys, Sorry if I happen to offend any of you but, IMO mesmers just do some of the things (if not almost) that other classes can do better. It’s not just really straightforward but the gameplay is really rewarding.

You can only stack so much conditions and there are better condition classes.

Its really quite simple:

You join a group that now consist of 3 Mesmers and 2 Necros (yeah a little extreme lol).

Who do you expect to be condition specced and who do you expect to be direct damage specced?

If both of the Necros run conditions – which would not be surprising at all – 3 Mesmers running conditions will be completely ineffective. Basicly, you can only have a couple condition builds in a dungeon group or its pointless. People dont really expect Mesmers to run conditions because they are very good at direct spike damage by class design. In terms of conditions they are far, far more random than any other condition built class. Mesmer conditions is ALL RNG.

In open world PvE (ie boss events) the condition builds are even less effective.