Guild Wars 2

I’m running the typically Sinister A/T build, except I’m using 4 Nightmare/2 Trapper runes instead of 6 Balthazar runes. Can anyone confirm that DPS is higher going with 6 Balthazar runes before I make the change to it?

You have +100 condi dmg and +25% duration from those, yes?

Balth is +175 Condi dmg and +45% Burn duration.

Lome.8239:

You have +100 condi dmg and +25% duration from those, yes?

Balth is +175 Condi dmg and +45% Burn duration.

Yes, that is correct.

Just stick with those ones, the difference in damage is so little, its not worth replacing them with Balthazar. It is more versatile that way, you could play SB with it too. If its purely for A/T, I’m pretty sure Balthazar is the best, so you can get to +95% burn duration and still hit 70% bleed agony and food/utility.

200 condi dmg, 25% ALL condi duration
175 condi dmg, 45% burn duration, aoe burn on heal & random quickness

Assuming dungeons,
If you are running:
Axe(yes)
2x Geomancy sigil(?)
spike trap (?prob not)
Entable (?)

id stick with your nightmare/trapper mix.
If you arnt running at minimal double geomancy sigil I would go balthazar.

Sorry I don’t got numbers. But the answer fairly obviously depends on how much focus you are putting in burn/bleed/balance.

Justine.6351:

200 condi dmg, 25% ALL condi duration
175 condi dmg, 45% burn duration, aoe burn on heal & random quickness

Assuming dungeons,
If you are running:
Axe(yes)
2x Geomancy sigil(?)
spike trap (?prob not)
Entable (?)

id stick with your nightmare/trapper mix.
If you arnt running at minimal double geomancy sigil I would go balthazar.

Sorry I don’t got numbers. But the answer fairly obviously depends on how much focus you are putting in burn/bleed/balance.

This is the current build I use for fractals/dungeons:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQJAnPjMqQrK2uCUtYoQo+EIaDg+DG2Xgng29BqwJTA-TxxCABAcCAcW5HV7Dss6PhvwAyPAgxUCSIAFzBA-e

Metabattle also suggests taking sigil of geomancy? Is that a clear favorite over sigil of corruption, bursting, the plus 20% bleed duration sigils?

Also its 100 (not 200) condi, 25% all condi duration

Leodon.1564:

Justine.6351:

200 condi dmg, 25% ALL condi duration
175 condi dmg, 45% burn duration, aoe burn on heal & random quickness

Assuming dungeons,
If you are running:
Axe(yes)
2x Geomancy sigil(?)
spike trap (?prob not)
Entable (?)

id stick with your nightmare/trapper mix.
If you arnt running at minimal double geomancy sigil I would go balthazar.

Sorry I don’t got numbers. But the answer fairly obviously depends on how much focus you are putting in burn/bleed/balance.

This is the current build I use for fractals/dungeons:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQJAnPjMqQrK2uCUtYoQo+EIaDg+DG2Xgng29BqwJTA-TxxCABAcCAcW5HV7Dss6PhvwAyPAgxUCSIAFzBA-e

Metabattle also suggests taking sigil of geomancy? Is that a clear favorite over sigil of corruption, bursting, the plus 20% bleed duration sigils?

Also its 100 (not 200) condi, 25% all condi duration

Sorry math fail. I’d go full Balthazar, but I wouldn’t worry too much about it.
If you already got bursting I wouldn’t overwrite it. Obviously you don’t need two corruption sigils so run geomancy opposite. Agony sigil is meh. Instead of increasing splitblade bleeds by a second, aoe 3 bleeds for 10sec.

I should say I don’t dungeon. I didnt realize dungeon people use stacking sigils.

Stacking sigils aint the best for dungeons, imo, because a majority of mobs do not count towards them, which is annoying.

Stacking sigils are really good for soloing and in coe 2+3 where you can stack them really fast, but in groups 5 people aren’t going to spend time at the start of a 5minute dungeon run stacking sigils, that’s just a waste of time.