Guild Wars 2

I have a condition/aoe necro staff and scepter/dagger and am finally leveling my crafting so I can make ascended armor. What ascended set would be best?

for condi,

as of yesterday, “Sinister”

Would also help if op said if this was for wvw or pve

Berserker is the way to go. Condition damage needs a perfect storm of supporting factors for Necromancer to benefit from any minor stat improvement.

I have found there is little difference in actual dps between condition armor sets. Direct damage is noticeable, though, barely. Sinister ascended may play like exotic Carrion.

My set is rabid, but sinister might be better now. However it is important to note that due to the way scaling works, condition sets benefit the least of any set when upgrading from exotic to ascended. Zerker will see ~20% dmg increase, while a rabid set will only see a ~4% dmg increase.

Sinister will fair better since it has 3 offensive stats, and power scales well, but you need to combine it with a hybrid build to see an improvement since a pure condition spec does very very very little direct dps.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Zerker will see ~20% dmg increase

What?
Afaik the best part of upgrading to ascended is the weapon since its strength coefficient is increased by 5%. The pure stat difference of all gear combined amounts to far less than that.

I think the best thing about ascended light armor is the expensive crafted skin.