Guild Wars 2

For context, I’m running a shatter build emphasizing confusion: 15/25/0/0/30.

All my upgrades are ruby jewels or ruby orbs, so there’s kind of a berserker-y feel to him too. He got lucky drops of an exotic staff and greatsword, so those are the weapons I use.

Right now his armor is a hodge-podge of rampager, rabid and carrion. I hear people swear by rabid gear, but to me the points given to toughness seem wasted since he’s never going to survive more than a few hits regardless. I’m leaning towards going full rampager and playing like a true glass cannon.

Can anyone give me a good comparison between the benefits of rabid and rampager in WvW practice?

Been trying to figure this out too, and think I’m going with full Rabid. Need the Precision for 100% Vigor uptime for more clones-on-dodge for Shatter fodder.

Going to run two builds, Shatter/Confusion and Glamour/Confusion .

Shatter/Confusion needs Precision for vigor and clones-on-dodge. Glamour/Confusion doesn’t but I don’t think it will be terribly gimped by going heavy on Precision and light on Power, since its focus is Confusion damage. At least I hope not…

If necessary I’ll carry a set of Carrion jewels if I find I need more Power or Vitality for the Glamour/Confusion build.

kurtosis.9526:

… think I’m going with full Rabid. Need the Precision …

But … rampager has higher precision than rabid.

dybryd.1358:

kurtosis.9526:

… think I’m going with full Rabid. Need the Precision …

But … rampager has higher precision than rabid.

Yes but highest stat priority is Condition Dmg (and duration). Rabid wins there.

I’m pretty sure that a full Rabid set will have more than enough Precision for 100% vigor uptime, even if it’s not the primary stat.