Guild Wars 2

When I made my ascended armor for my PvE mesmer I chose rampager stats (major precision, minor power, minor condition) but I’m no longer convinced it was a good choice. I think I sort of chose it to do a combination of power and condition damage with the precision helping proc on crit effects but I suspect that cut rate power plus cut rate condition damage might not be terribly effective. I’ve learned that you can now pretty easily change your ascended armor stats via a mystic forge recipe but I’m not sure if I should and I’m not sure what I should select.

So I guess my questions are
1) Are rampager stats effective?
2) If not what stats should I go with for a PvE mesmer?

2) is easy, zerker for general use, pure assassin for spamming reflects in PuGs, zerker/assassin’s mix if you run with fully optimised groups a lot (if this option applies to you, you probably shouldn’t be asking this question in the first place…)

As for 1), rampager has several problems: damage condis on mesmer aren’t all that good in PvE (enemies don’t move/attack a lot, iDuelist bleeds are single target), you want precision and ferocity when running reflect-bot, and you’re forced to maintain a weapon+trait loadout that supports “hybrid” damage (so basically Dueling and/or Illusions)