Guild Wars 2

I know that the meta reaper atm is the full viper gear/weap/trinkets with the condition duration runes, but I need some critique on a near full sinister asc set (asc viper weaps) with full krait runes. I use the toxic focusing crystal, and rare veggie pizzas for food. I mostly raid with the reaper.

My skills and rotations are exactly the same as meta (I don’t want make this post overly long with info everyone is already familiar with)

My traits are curses 313, spite 112, reaper 132

The logic I was going for is that my condition damage is much higher than with the viper set, and also my crit is higher (which also improves my condition damage due to “Target the Weak” in the curses line. I’m also fully maxed out with my bleed duration. The reason I chose Spite over Death was I thought Spiteful Talisman was good against raid bosses that typically don’t have boons, and Close to Death which does 20% more damage to foes under 50%. I don’t know the dps differences between that and the typical death traitline with the minions.

I don’t have a way to really compare the two builds side by side, what does the reaper community think?

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/ Use this to describe your build.

Honestly I think rampager’s is a better and cheaper solution, especially if you’re not running soul reaping to boost your crit rate. Sigil of Earth, barbed precision, and target the week all benefit from the higher precision.

Ok here we go:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRIQJArYnMbCV3gN3Ae3Ac4gFcBL+K+FHjRbgOwIAaAEAaBA-TxhPABU+AAq8EAkp6P5rEcTlfErHAg9HIFwiKrA-e

I already have all the gear and am playing with it now. Crit isn’t the main focus of the build though. I just was wondering if this build is either comparable or better than the viper’s build based on what I was theorizing.

Ugh, typed out a detailed response but forum ate it.

Anyways, crit chance is basically null with the 70% we get from just decimate defenses and fury.

Bursting isn’t better than Geomancy last I checked, so that leaves you with only about 100 condi damage higher than the berserker rune variation of the meta. Considering the 5% bonus on berserker rune you actually end up higher damage per stack of bleeding with that. The Thorn rune option just needs 2-3 stacks to beat out this full sinister setup’s condi damage. Both of those variations also boost poison (and torment) which is not negligible damage.

Also the Spite trait line, I’m quite sure the damage bonus modifiers only work on physical damage, not condi, so that’s a loss I’m quite sure.

Certainly a build that will work, but I’d at least go Death Magic. And, I’m quite sure the more popular options do prevail in potential damage.

I’d take plague sending over chilling darkness. You only have one hard blind and no way to blast dark fields. You also make heavy use of corruption skills, so all the more reason to send those conditions to your enemy.

Cool, thx everyone for your input! I’ll play around with your suggestions. Good point about the Spite vs Death on the traitline. It was something I was also thinking about as well, but wasn’t sure. Will definitely switch that out and also will switch to plague sending.

Ryn Shaia.8640:

Cool, thx everyone for your input! I’ll play around with your suggestions. Good point about the Spite vs Death on the traitline. It was something I was also thinking about as well, but wasn’t sure. Will definitely switch that out and also will switch to plague sending.

The Plague sending vs Chilling darkness thing is something I’d be swapping back and forth regularly. What use is plague sending if you won’t reach the condi threshold? Might as well pick chilling darkness. But, when plague sending can be used it’s very nice.

Ryn Shaia.8640:

Cool, thx everyone for your input! I’ll play around with your suggestions. Good point about the Spite vs Death on the traitline. It was something I was also thinking about as well, but wasn’t sure. Will definitely switch that out and also will switch to plague sending.

In that case you will have fixed the main two things I would have changed with this. Plague sending is why you do want crit, though between the 2% crit for each condition, and decimate defenses, you should be close to 100% crit, so you just have to make sure you dont get stuck with 1 or 2 conditions on you. If that seems to be an issue, you can switch to consume conditions for your heal skill until you get the timing/rotation down.