Guild Wars 2

….Choosing between equaly potent and viable builds !

I’m playing necro since forever, and i’m used to respec a lot and to choose between broken, and less broken but less useful builds….Now, i’m discovering the choice between good builds, and i must admit i’m kinda lost, a little bit help would be nice.

So i’m playing condition master and really love it but i can’t decide, fo wvw, if i go 30/30/10/0/0, or if i go 0/30/20/0/20 terror condimaster…I have full exo precision/toughness/condition damage stuff, undead runes (i can go for necromancer runes, but (i’m low on cash so it’s the only change i can afford now).

How hard can a condimaster with terror hit ? better than a pyrocondimancer ?

Thank in advance !

I havent been able to play since patch [it’s killing me] but at a glance the 30/30/10 fire build looks a lot better than variations which include 20 into soul reaping for master of terror.
Even if you are using terror in 30/30/10, just by grabbing necromancer runes you will match the fear duration of master of terror from 30% duration in spite and the 20% from runes. So full length fear plus fire, the extra power is more useful than crit dmg/lf too.

The only problem I can’t comment on but can see coming is that the fire trait has a 10sec cooldown, but lots of our condition attacks are aoe, so how often is burning accidentally hitting pets/clones etc is something to watch out for, might even be better to autoattack or DS 1/2 until you proc burning on the target you actually want.

For wvw definately go for a 0/30/20/0/20 terrorbuild. With master of terror, koi cakes and sigil of paralyzation you can go for 100% fear duration. That’s 5 seconds of fear if you chain reaper’s mark with doom in which you do 6k+ dmg. All while your enemy is cc’d. The new spectrall wall also benefits from this.

The only time you really want to go deep into spite is for the condi duration as a condimancer, but since the cap is 100% it’s rather useless as you benefit more from other trait lines.

In spvp where you can’t benefit from food and where you can’t get 100% fear duration, a burning build would be more suitable. Also since dhuumfire is single target it’s also more suitable for spvp.

Pardon me, I completely failed to read the part where you pointed out that you want wvw builds. I instantly went to pvp

Picked my hibernating necro back up now, and ended up going 30 in Soul Reaping, something i have not bothered with since the game launched as i found DS a lackluster mechanic. Between the new GM trait, new skill and reworked Life Blast however…

Thanks a lot for thoses answers. I think i will give it a try. Dhuumfire is good….. when it procs on the right target, but i’m using the spite tree mostly with the new signet of spite (with the cd reduc + might ability), wich is better than cb now, and is almost a “i win” ablity when it lands (and crit, and so proc fire….pure joy!). I think i might get use to play without it however, and try the terror mastering thing.

Thank again !