Guild Wars 2

Hello Fellows,

I am planing a new Armor as condition Mancer for Necro.
I choose Scepter Main Hand and Rabid Armor / Gear.

My question is should i go for Runes of Undead or Crests of the Rabid.
Or more general what is better Runes or Crests?

You will get more overall stats from the Runes.

Depends what stats you are after and your build.

If price is a factor then crests are usually the most bang for your gold.

How important is crit to you in your build?

Do you use a bleed on crit sigil?

More info on your build would help make the decision easier.

First, thank you for your responses and oh yes I use Crit alot I mainly Play Scepter to Bleed and use the Curse Trait Line to Stack Bleed if I crit and the sigil to bleed if I crit but i also run abit poisen for Condition Dmg.
My Main Att offensive are prec and cond damage.
I also run the spite trait line for some condition duration to max my stacking so I dont need any krait or nightmare runes.
As I mentioned above my deffensive Att is toughness, therefore I am considering Runes of the Undead or Crests of the Rabid.
And iknow that i get a bit more stats from the rune on Condition Damage, but a lack of toughness and no precision.
So is it worth that little more damage or should i get a higher crit chance and more blanaced stats from crests.

You could also consider orbs – they offer some other stat permutation choices.

alanis.6094:

You will get more overall stats from the Runes.

incorrect.

orbs/crests when fully used in armor AND trinkets, give an upwards of 280/196/+196 bonus to a stat combo when stacked.

even when it’s only gear in question, that’s a 140/98/98 bonus slotted in armor.
the highest stat total bonus a full set of runes can get you is +185ish. (that’s still far below the whole stat bonus of 6 orbs/crests)

there is a reason why berserker jewels/orbs are so kitten expensive.

just from my experience, the two most optimal setups (for two seperate extremes) on power<=>Condition scales are..

PTV/Emerald gear with Soldier crests/Rampger jewels for power

Rabid gear (khilbrons or dungeon) with Carrion Trinks w/ rampager/carrion jewels in trinks. runes of krait, mad king, and afflicted (2 each) in gear. it subs out or adds an additional +33% bleed duration total.

the middle ground (crit hybrid, usually scept/dag or dag/dag) is rampager full gear with carrion jewels or emerald orbs/jems slotted.