Guild Wars 2

So in your opinions – which combinations is better for pve? Full rabid, full dire, or some kind of mixing them?

Going Dire armor with rabid trinkets + weapons doesn’t seem to have any trade off. Condition damage and vitality increase, toughness stays the same and everything procs more or less the same. I’ve only been testing this for the last thirty minutes, so this is just a quick observation.

PVE? Full rabid. Why would you need Dire like soldier in pve!? Rabid gives 2800 armor, if you die with that, dire won’t save you either.

If it’s wvw then we can talk.

In terms of effective health, Dire armour gives roughly 3k more then Rabid and Carrion, but loses either 10% critical chance or 200 effective power for it.

Dire maybe the best defensive condition stat, but its not the best overall condition stat. It just depends on your playstyle.

full dire synergizes better with fearmancing imo (0/30/20/0/20). no dhuum so you dont worry about crits. youre just stacking bleeds and spamming fears with a huge tank.

dire armor + rabid weapon and trinkets with coral jewels gives you enough crit to proc dhuum all the time. may synergize better with a 30/20/x/x/x build.

i dont see a reason to go full rabid any more in WvW. thats my 2c anyway.

Dire armor plus runes of scavenging = 1800 to 2kish condi damage with rare veggie pizza and master tuning crystals. Thats HUGE. Toss in a superior sigil of bursting and your talking massive amounts of raw damage in addition to being super tanky due to the vit and tough off dire gear. Plus at around 20ish crit you will still see dhuumfire proc plenty as all you need is 1 crit for it to go off. Couple that with the minor trait that gives fury when you enter DS and you are guaranteed to throw burn up on something/someone. Just food for thought here.

whats the name of the dire trinkets? btw, for anyone who doesnt know yet, u can get dire armor from COE. and weapons!

Trinkets are all named pieces, cant remember off the top of my head since I am at work. The armor you can buy on the tp is called jatorro’s or something along that line.

currently I have full Dire gear with scavaging runes.
and a 1 Dire/rabid ascended item and the rest is full rabid.

I run with around 23-24k hp 1990 condi dmg with my s/d (sigil of bursting) and close to 2800 armor.

I am a tank in wvw, im just waiting to get full Dire/Rabid items to reach the full potential I thing it has.

What’s your crit %?

Xavi.6591:

What’s your crit %?

If I remember correctly im around 33%
But I dont use sigil of earth on any weps so I could really care less about my crit rate since I can stack bleeds pretty fast other ways