I think it’s more complicated than that…
Ryuujin’s answer certainly is true for PvE…although there is one issue-assuming you go with a zerker build, but you still have traits/weapons that cause conditions, then you still run into the issue of overwriting other’s conditions. The difference is that, rather than overwrite them with suboptimal conditions, you’re overwriting them with mediocre conditions. So to really play nice in PVE, the important thing would be to play in a way that results in few conditions – don’t use staff when playing with a necro. Don’t take traits that allow your clones/phantasms to cause bleeds…which means no dueling… Basically as a mesmer, it is hard to do this.
Either way, I just carry around several sets of armor anyway, so if you already have zerker’s, there’s nothing wrong with trying rampagers and just swapping out if you’re grouped with a necro. The same build should work with both sets.
I do think a zerker set makes sense as a first step – though honestly I don’t run either rampager or zerker gear on my mesmer…since I like to roam in wvw, and like to play a tankier build…I’m almost always using rabid. clerics or p/v/t. I’m not going for max dps of course.
In PvP/WvW you rarely get 25 stacks of bleeds on a single opponent for long, and if you do, they’re in pretty big trouble, whether you’re overwriting a necro’s bleeds or not. Poison and fire are potentially a different story, but they stack duration anyway…right?
Personally, I’m excited about this celestial gear. I think mesmers, more than other professions are in a great place to take advantage of them. Almost all stats benefit almost every mesmer build.
