Guild Wars 2

For pve, 5sec of weakness on crits or +33% duration of condition inflicted by scepter? Condition build ofc

Lingering Curse.

In PvE: Lingering Curse.
In PvP: Lingering Curse
In WvW: Lingering Curse

Underwater where Lingering Curse doesn’t apply? Chilling Darkness/Hemophilia/Weakening Shroud/Terror.

Hybrid build? depends on utilities. Weakening Shroud is still better. Higher weakness uptime and in an AoE with free bleeds.

When they changed Withering Precision, they nerfed it HARD.

Yeah withering precision was nerfed into the ground when they buffed weakness. Its not worth taking on any build.

Anytime an “on-crit” gets an icd, it becomes single target. Personally, I don’t think any “on-crit” proc should ever have an icd because it negates the whole point of having a high crit chance for proccing conditions. Withering Precision proves that sometimes the devs just have no idea what they’re doing. Who in their right mind would ever take a 30 point trait that gives a single target weakness for 5s with an abysmal 20 second internal cooldown. What’s even more silly is that Weakening Shroud is a 4 point trait in the exact same line that does AoE weakness (plus bleeding) for 6s on up to 5 people with only a 15s cooldown. I would venture to say that Withering Precision is the worst 30 point trait in the game.

Withering precision is worth taking, but it is very niche.

Also, the real answers for this should be for most situations:
PvE – Lingering Curse
PvP – neither
WvW – neither

Neither of them is worthwhile in PvP or WvW. If you are using it, you are giving up far better traits, because that duration increase just isn’t worth it when its rarely going to have much effect, especially when it only applies to auto attacks and 2 bleeds from S2.

And the cripple on Grasping Dead. That is still a condition applied by the scepter.

Withering Precision – 20sec ICD, rand proc so you can’t focus it as you want it.

Lingering Curse – The 33% extra condi duration from scepter, allows you to go over the usual 100% cap.

(They say, next patch they are updating the tooltips to show more of the hidden rules, to make builds easier to work out.)
(Oh Im guessing you can get Weakness from 25% up time randomly on 1 target to a max of 50% up time randomly on 1 target with condi duration getting to 100%)