Guild Wars 2

Getting bored with power reaper. Again. Thinking about switching to condi. Again.

Can anybody provide some contemporary PVE build (fractal/raid oriented) and give short explanation on how it plays? I keep hearing GS is a thing for condi now.

May not be the most optimized but consider something like this:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNArYRjc0Q3N2cDW2A7NWMGMqgQUoWF9zCAHg4d4Q8IC-TRSFQB+6BA0QlfjUJIa0Egv9HAwRAYBnCg+p+T70DQKgF1VB-e

http://qtfy.eu/build/necromancer — substitute as appropriate, but that’s pretty much the build™ for this stuff, right now. I swap out with Bone Fiend for healing, and Signet of the Locust for Blood is Power, to get the move speed. Oh, and bleed-on-crit instead of bleed-on-swap, because I’m lazy.

SlippyCheeze.5483:

http://qtfy.eu/build/necromancer — substitute as appropriate, but that’s pretty much the build™ for this stuff, right now. I swap out with Bone Fiend for healing, and Signet of the Locust for Blood is Power, to get the move speed. Oh, and bleed-on-crit instead of bleed-on-swap, because I’m lazy.

Well, this actually looks interesting. Thanks a lot!

Yea, my build is pretty close tothe one slippy posted. Tho I figured it out on my own. With the right trait selections even greatsword is effective condition wise against multiple enemies.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNArYRnc0AV3gtbCe3A0biFjBjKIEFqVx5wf4RM6nFAOAA-Tpw+AAQZAc/BA

Khailyn.6248:

Yea, my build is pretty close tothe one slippy posted. Tho I figured it out on my own. With the right trait selections even greatsword is effective condition wise against multiple enemies.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNArYRnc0AV3gtbCe3A0biFjBjKIEFqVx5wf4RM6nFAOAA-Tpw+AAQZAc/BA

You do realize that not taking blinding darkness defeats the reason of taking a GS on a condi build right?

FrostDraco.8306:

Khailyn.6248:

Yea, my build is pretty close tothe one slippy posted. Tho I figured it out on my own. With the right trait selections even greatsword is effective condition wise against multiple enemies.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNArYRnc0AV3gtbCe3A0biFjBjKIEFqVx5wf4RM6nFAOAA-Tpw+AAQZAc/BA

You do realize that not taking blinding darkness defeats the reason of taking a GS on a condi build right?

I do. was an oversight. Was posting builds in a few threads and just overlooked it.

Khailyn.6248:

Yea, my build is pretty close tothe one slippy posted. Tho I figured it out on my own. With the right trait selections even greatsword is effective condition wise against multiple enemies.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNArYRnc0AV3gtbCe3A0biFjBjKIEFqVx5wf4RM6nFAOAA-Tpw+AAQZAc/BA

I still flip around between the “vulnerability on target to crit”, “might when hitting a chilled enemy”, and “reduce GS cooldowns” traits, because they are all nice. Most recently it’s been decimate defenses — vulnerability to more crits — because I kill things fast enough outside boss/champion level things, where others supply plenty of stacks of vulnerability, and I wasn’t camping GS enough to get the full might stacking benefits.