Condi necro and Fractal
I find myself rarely using my viper set in fractals. When doing quick daily runs it feels worse since groups all stand on the tree and if you can not cleave you get line of sighted by the tree and can’t really do your full damage. I more or less have the second set just to change it up. In lower fractals bosses die before you can really stack bleeds up making a zerker build far better.
But if you are actually doing fractals that are not mossman on tree you do more overall damage as condition if the fights that last long enough. Also if you are going to craft vipers remember that you can change stats and save a lot of gold.
I always use viper’s and just change trinkets for the AR. I have no complaints, except on the fractal where we pour molten metal on the boss which is where we do crap damage compared to berserkers.
Fortunately I only had one group yet that insisted in Mossman on a tree and which I accepted since the group had not been formed by me. I’ve had others try to insist but since it was my group I told them to stay there or fight with the rest of us.
I have no problem in fractals at any level with my viper build, I deal enough damage and I build it quite fast. You will never be as rapid as a zerk but you can deal a lot of damage nevertheless and, sometimes even better.
My rotation uses Terror because you both decimate the break bar and deal damage in conjunction with the poisons fields from Chillblains and/or Corrosive Poison Cloud +* Soul Spiral* will deal about 8k of poison damage per secs (I personally reached 10k several times). This will wears off quickly but in the mean time you can build your conditions whether with the sceptres or with autoattacking in Shroud with Dhuumfire.
You are squishy as a common berserker, so you may need a bit of practice in some specific fractals, change some traits (like Parasitic Contagion instead of Lingering Curses) or try wells + whirl (it heals a lot).
Would you say there’s a good reason to go Vipers over Zerker in higher level fractals or both work just as well?
For high level fractals i would recommend *The Warlock Build* Which is also good for open world as it can self sustain might, but it’s not that good when it comes to raids
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Would you say there’s a good reason to go Vipers over Zerker in higher level fractals or both work just as well?
They work both well. You can choose one or the other depending on your playstyle.
Of course they both have advantages and disadvantages: if you get down you still deal damage with a condition build but the zerk is faster to build damage, etc etc.