Guild Wars 2

I’ve search, but the most recent discussion I can find is about a month old.

It seems the popular choices seem to be nightmare, undead, and 5 perplexity + another cond rune.

But beyond that, I’m a bit lost as all three sound promising. So what do you all find most effective?

5x Perplexity for me in WvW, if only to add another condition to cover the real damaging one.

In PvE Undead would be the better choice for maximum damage I guess, but I always preferred aiming for a 100% condition duration build, with 4x Nightmare or Lich and 2x Lyssa.

[pve] There’s two approaches imo; max condi damage (stat) and max spreadsheet damage.
Max condi damage takes into account the ‘sub-par’ condi system in the game and just aims to make those actual ticks count. Go Scavenger imo
Max spreadsheet damage aims for big numbers on paper, which is +100% for the target conditions, then condi damage.

• Hemophilia (20) + Pizza (40) + 3Krait/3Afflicted (2*15) + >=10 Spite got you covered for bleeding. You can go 30 Spite and skip Hemophilia, or choose a cheaper pizza, or switch the runes for 6 Nightmare runes, or…
• Pizza (40) + 30 Spite (30) + Toxic Crystal (10) + 4Nightmare/2Lyssa (20) is the combination that keeps the highest condition damage stat while reaching +100% condition duration for everything afaik.

I chose 30spite, 36pizza, 20hemophilia with scavenger runes for now.

[wvw] Scavenger for frontloaded damage. I have no experience with perplexity.

Currently running Scavenger but working towards picking up a second set for Antitoxin Runes.

runes of the undead

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I like Perplexity with Rabid in WvW, the damage from Confusion even without the 6 pc is nice in pvp. Scavenger is nice for the lifesteal but with Rabid you don’t get nearly as much stat conversion as you do with Dire.

I haven’t tried Runes of Anti-toxin those look interesting.

I run 6x rune of torment in PvE.

Yeah, I dont get +100% burning duration, but I still have it with other conditions (pizza,30 spite, lingering curse) and I like the idea that our healing skill can apply torment.