Guild Wars 2

Hello all,

I would like to know how to maximize bleed stacks as a conditionmancer. Would you please share your tips? I am currently using Scepter/Dagger and Staff, but we don’t have to limit this discussion to those weapons.

I would love for this thread to become a great resource for the necro community. Some areas to consider,

What weapon skill and utility skill rotation to use?
What armor?
What runes?
What sigils?

I haven’t played a strict conditionmancer in a while, but as I recall a good combo is something like:

spectral walk and run in → staff 2 → staff 3 → DS 2 → dodge for free mark → swap weapons → scepter 2 → dagger 5 → spectral out → scepter 1 spam.

Rabid armor, undead runes, sigils of earth and corruption.

Hit min. 2 targets with your AoE condition based atacks (Graspings, Enfeebling, Marks if you wish), switch out from your main target, target other AoE affected mob, cast epidemic. Gz, now your main target has his own condis+extra stacks and duration from epidemic. Other way is using condi duration + food (rare veggie pizza e.g.), take some +bleed duration runes( my favourite combo for PvE and W3 is 3 afflicted, 3 krait), don’t take sigil of agony or put points in Spite. Not worth anything

Does anyone else have any good tips?

The easiest thing to do is to stay in scepter/dagger to maximize stacks. With decent condition duration you can get to 25 easy. What I usually do is Grasping Dead/Enfeebling Blood > Death Shroud > Have trait enfeebleing blood on DS (15s CD) then use Dark Path > Out of Death Shroud, blood is power, Dagger #4 or Staff #4. Then you can epidemic if multiple enemies or keep your stacks up there with Scepter #1. With decent condition duration you’ll get 25 stacks easy with that setup and 15 stacks on average with just scepter skills.

100% Bleed duration (133% with Sceptre) – Via Runes + Food + Traits. 2x Krait, 2x Afflicted, 2x Centaur for 45% Bleed duration. Up to 40% from Food (Rare Veggie Pizza), 20% from Hemophillia Trait. Lingering Curse allows the duration to go up to 133% for the Sceptre Bleeds (Auto-attacks + Skill #2)

For gear, use Rabid (Rampager can also have some use in certain slots, but you lose out on some Condition Damage) to gain high enough precision to proc Barbed Precision more often (1 stack of Bleed for 1 second base (Up to 2 seconds with 100% duration)

Sigils – Earth is the standard one, it’ll proc a lot when gearing for crit to get Barbed Precision. However, the duration and internal cooldowns does make Geomancy slightly better for getting more stacks (Maximum of 6 stacks compared to Earth’s 5)

Geomancy requires either Weapon-swapping or hopping into and out of Death Shroud (Synergises well with Weakening Shroud Trait) every 9 seconds and being in close proximity to the targets (Geomancy procs in a PBAoE) but this also means you can hit up to 5 targets with those 6 Bleeds, which makes Epidemic even stronger (Possible to get 12 Bleeds out of Geomancy on multiple targets)