Guild Wars 2

Hey i main an engineer and have most other things to 80, i enjoy playing them all but i wanted to ask about the new sinister gear for mesmers and if it would be any good since i dont pve enough to have plenty of those dammed time gated crystals and as of current trying to make a celestial set of armour for my engineer for which i also want a sinister set i couldn’t help but think a set would be great on a mesmer, so if you guys think a set would be good on a mesmer i guess i can take a short time out on my engineer to play my mesmer with some sinister gear otherwise ill just stick to my engineer.

frifox.5283:

Assuming everything is ascended, zerk has 342 more power than sinister. How much % that would be will depend on your might stacks and your build.

Anyways, did some calc for a condi build (0/4/6/0/4, staff, 3 clones up):

• 4,612 dps – Berserker
• 5,380 dps – Rampager
• 5,752 dps – Rabid
• 6,070 dps – Sinister

And for a power build (6/4/0/0/4, sword aa, 2x Swordsmans + 1x Duelist)

• 5,869 dps – Berserker
• 5,843 dps – Assassins
• 4,756 dps – Sinister

All calc assume solo situations. Looks like Sinister is the “zerk” of the condi build – glassy as ****** but delivers awesome dps output.

Its awesome when you are soloing in PvE, thats all. In PvP take Dire instead IMO.

it seems wrong weapon set tested for sinister gear. I feel GS, Scepter or Sword/Pistol should be right weapon set for sinister gear where you depend on your phantasm crits for condition application and damage (phantasm damage only effected by your power and precision instead power, precision and ferocity). 0/4/5/5/0 build (http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQBYEcjxsT0wZjpmSGwvA-TVgPAAw+DAA-w) in my mind for it but I really don’t know even it would work or not.

eozturk.7205:

it seems wrong weapon set tested for sinister gear. I feel GS, Scepter or Sword/Pistol should be right weapon set for sinister gear where you depend on your phantasm crits for condition application and damage (phantasm damage only effected by your power and precision instead power, precision and ferocity). 0/4/5/5/0 build (http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQBYEcjxsT0wZjpmSGwvA-TVgPAAw+DAA-w) in my mind for it but I really don’t know even it would work or not.

The thing is that duelists or even the izerker scales so effectively with power that if you’re able to maintain them, a zerk build will do far more damage.

hmm I see. I feel sinister is more like hybrid stuff , in before people used to mix berserker/knight with rabid for roaming.