Guild Wars 2

Hi everyone!

Sorry for this noob question, but I recently came back to play GW2 and everything has changed. I’ve always played power necro and it’s what I’m still doing. However I’m about to start tier4 fractals and I really want to try out raids as well… and from what I’ve seen condi necro is the main thing.

Now.. Viper be it exotic or ascended is really expensive and I don’t even now how if I’m good playing with it. It’s a completely different play style.

Is there any way to play “Viper” Horror condi necro with any other gear – like rampager – so I can just get a feel of the build, without being a burden to the party? Or just being carried around. I’d hate that.

I read something about using the rune of the Krait to increase bleeding duration… you know, something like that.

Thanks everyone!

All the builds on metabattle and qtfy are the “absolute best possible min/max” builds. You don’t actually need to be running those to test things out, for sure.

Simply find gear with condition damage and/or condition duration on it, and you should be fine. The more condition duration — overall, or for bleeds — you have, the more damage those will do, but really, it’s only on longer fights that it makes a significant difference.

So… yeah, grab whatever and try it out. You will be fine. Maybe try it in T2 or T3 fractals first to reduce the amount that “non-optimal build” hurts your team.

For equipment your best bet will be to transmute your light ascended equipment via Mystic Forge. This way is cheaper than crafting or buying from FotM or PvP, even if they tried to fix this on last patch. The procedure is described here https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ascended_equipment (changing attribute prefix).
You still will need to craft Viper’s Orichalcum Imbued Inscription for your weapons and Viper’s Intricate Gossamer Insignia for your armor, but it’s way cheaper than crafting ascended from scratch.

Now for backpìece, earrings, amulet and rings you might take some time but your safest bet is to complete and daily farm the new maps (Bloodstone Fen, Ember Bay, Bitterfrost Frontier and Lake Doric) BF seems to be the fastest one. You can also get them from raids or some story instances (look for them on the wiki page). In the meantime you can always run exotic Rampager but optimal condition damage and duration will be the Viper (and some Sinister) build that you’re talking about. There’s no alternative due to the lack of the new stat (Expertise) and the distribution of the attributes.

Ahhh thank you!!

I picked rabid gear with krait runes. It’s not as good, but it kinda works. I only played with it once… but meh… xD so I made another ascended berserker.

I’m gonna try it more tho ^^’