Guild Wars 2

any one got some tips for a good condi pve build. i’m so used to running power necro i haven’t run a condi build for at least a year or 2 now and with some of the changed wanted to give condi a try. i currently have all zerg ascended armor, weapons and trinkets. what stats should i go for? should i go for viper stats or stick to the rabid side? any help on this would be appreciated.

You want viper as a condi reaper, It does far more dps than rabid or sinister.

http://www.sickestguild.com/forum/m/31644179/viewthread/25151391-spirit-vale-condition-reaper-guide

That link should have everything you need to get started, personally I would run the blood magic varient he has listed there.

got most of that looking at the meta builds. i can craft exotic viper armor, but will have to farm more for the ascended viper recipe. but what about trinkets? what stats should you go for that since viper stats are only attainable through the raids and i doubt i’ll be doing those any time soon.

I’m using rabid since I cant get anything else easily…I don’t know the “numbers” but you can craft exotic viper trinkets I think but I don’t know if it is worth it.

Go for sinister trinkets. I do raids and I still don’t have any vipers trinkets.

Can somebody clarify the moment with condi duration cap? I’ve heard some time ago that it’s not worth to go full viper, becouse you run into maximum cap somewhere half-way. Is it true?

Its not true for reaper at least. Technically we cap bleeds easily. Except our bleed trait changes base duration so that ignores cap.

Wintermute.5408:

Can somebody clarify the moment with condi duration cap? I’ve heard some time ago that it’s not worth to go full viper, becouse you run into maximum cap somewhere half-way. Is it true?

The cap is the 100% condi duration. You can’t go higher than that so any condi duration or expertise after that will be wasted. But there is several ways to get there depending on your profession, and some trait that give condi duration to specific weapon won’t count toward this limit. For reaper it’s the Lingering Curse trait which is specific to scepter and won’t count toward the limit.

The reaper can only have 20% chill and 20% bleed duration from trait that will count toward the limit. So you have 80% left that can come from different sources. A full set of Armor, weapons and trinkets of ascended Viper would only give you 50% condition duration, still enough place for 30%. Of course if you take Sigil and Rune that give you condition duration, then the additional viper would be useless.

For an engineer you already have trait that give you 33% Bleed and Burn duration, meaning that a full set of viper would waste at least 3% of condi duration.

Add to that the fact that Ascended Viper trinkets are hard to make and that Sigil and Rune with condition duration are plentiful and you see why most people are using sinister trinkets and talking about the cap.