I was just looking on efficeiency in pvp between scavenging and nightmare runes in pvp with standard condi build http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQNAW7Yjk0UebfNG3wfbighSyWoDi+ACgzlykIKA-TJhGwAEuAALLDA4gAU4JAAA .
(1): +25 Condition Damage
(2): 25% chance when struck to cause your next attack to steal life. (Cooldown: 25s)
(3): +50 Condition Damage
(4): After using your healing skill, your next attack skill steals health. (Cooldown: 10s)
(5): +100 Condition Damage
(6): 7% of Vitality is converted to Condition Damage.
vs
(1): +25 Condition Damage
(2): +5% Condition Duration
(3): +50 Condition Damage
(4): +10% Condition Duration
(5): +100 Condition Damage
(6): 50% chance when struck to cause Fear for 1 second. (Cooldown: 60s)
First is 15% condi duration vs aprox 100 more condition (7% of vitality):
-Nightmare has aproximately 4% increase in bleed damage, which can rise if overlap with other bleeds and are not removed also to around 8% dmg increase. But usualy if the targets let you overlap so much bleed without cleansing it is dead in both cases. But if your bleeds are cleansed mch sooner and no overlapping the scavaging set gives you little more dmg.
-For poison if it doesnt overlap, scavenging runes do more damage (15% condi durration isnt enaugh for extra tick). If you overlap it, ex. with staff 3 and transfer from corrupt, you can get more ticks also increasing dmg by aproximately 5%. But dmg increase with poison isnt very noticeable anyway, but if no cleansing and heavy overlaping you can get around 2 extra seconds of healing reduction also (excluding auto attack, since you can maintain perma poison with only using that).
-As for fear, if you dont overlap your staff 5 and ds 3 your fear will do more dmg with scavaging runes (3 ticks, around 130 more dmg). With fear overlaping you get 1 extra fear tick with nightmare runes doing around 1000 more dmg (670 without extra condis on target).
-On otherside nightmare runes also increase duration of “utility” condis (weaknes….) and you get aproximately 0.5s increase for all of them on your weapon spells.
(hoelbrak runes not taken into consideration)
For more active part of runes scavenging you can get 4 siphon proc for 1 fear proc. Meaning scavaging runes give you almost 4000 extra dmg and healing (975 per hit) in 60s period (cd time for fear). With nighmare runes you get around 1000 dmg (670 without condis) and around 1 second of enemy being feared. But this active parts are very situational meaning in some situation they will proc but you wont get anything from them (blinded, blocked…).
Conclusion:
I would say that both rune sets are on similar level. Both runes increase passive dmg aproximately the same amount. In some sittuation you might do more dmg with either of them. Only standing out extra 1000 dmg for extra fear tick if they are overlaped. So the only true difference is their utility. Do you prefear 3k more dmg in long run and almost 4k extra healing or 1.65 second of random, single target fear if both happen in perfect situation and in time of 60s (but in my opinion fear much more prone to fail or not activating at right time). So i would say if you take either of them you will do fine in high rank necro pvp.
I personaly atm use scavenging runes and have just a feeling i perform better than with nightmare. (also they cant call you passive fear nub
)
So, fellow necros, whats your opinion about that?
(edited by Emapudapus.1307)