Guild Wars 2

I’m going to be gearing up a new ranger for the expansion. And I want to choose equipment-stats that will work best for the soulbeast. I noticed that a lot of the new skills seem to place an emphasis on condition damage. Is it reasonable to assume that most soulbeasts will be running around in Viper’s gear? Or does it look like Berserkers gear would be more viable? I really just don’t want to waste time getting all the wrong stuff (esp. those nuissance trinket farms). Any thoughts?

There is going to be a new attribute set in PoF that is a hybrid of berserkers and viper’s, which is looking pretty solid.

I would just wait on crafting ascended really, just save reagents in your bank for a full set of ascended armor, weapon and save your laurels for jewelery.

Just hope either a hybrid or berserkers is going to be the new thing, because viper playstyle is pretty darn boring honestly, especially for open world, you are better off going power for that anyway.

Its called “greavers” if i am not mistaken.
Condi dmg
Power
Precision
Ferocity

I would take this for SB

Definitely Berserker because they have much more synergy than the Viper ones for SB.

Dagger sucks.

Aomine.5012:

Definitely Berserker because they have much more synergy than the Viper ones for SB.

Dagger sucks.

There is as much condi as there is power synergy, thats what makes SB great honestly, it gives you alot of options.
You are not locked into daggers, just because the weapon you unlock with the elite spec is not what you have hoped for(honestly, I think dagger mainhand damage wise is fine, it just needs a quicker attack chain) doesn’t mean you have to write a whole DPS style (condi) off.
Axe-Torch + ShortBow condi build will still be very good if not better than power. We really have to wait and see what happens, that’s why i suggested to keep your options open and just save up materials for a new ascended set and stick to exotcs until then (honestly the dps/survivability difference is not that big between these 2 rarities anyway)

Fallesafe.5932:

I’m going to be gearing up a new ranger for the expansion. And I want to choose equipment-stats that will work best for the soulbeast. I noticed that a lot of the new skills seem to place an emphasis on condition damage. Is it reasonable to assume that most soulbeasts will be running around in Viper’s gear? Or does it look like Berserkers gear would be more viable? I really just don’t want to waste time getting all the wrong stuff (esp. those nuissance trinket farms). Any thoughts?

I forgot to ask which may be important.
What weapons do you like most?
Depending on that we could give a suggestion not depending on the upcoming meta.

InsaneQR.7412:

Its called “greavers” if i am not mistaken.
Condi dmg
Power
Precision
Ferocity

I would take this for SB

Ya, given what happened with HoT stat sets, I would hold off on singing this stat’s praises until we know how easy it will be to get.

Could be as simple as diamonds or as bad as lilies.

Substance E.4852:

InsaneQR.7412:

Its called “greavers” if i am not mistaken.
Condi dmg
Power
Precision
Ferocity

I would take this for SB

Ya, given what happened with HoT stat sets, I would hold off on singing this stat’s praises until we know how easy it will be to get.

Could be as simple as diamonds or as bad as lilies.

Stat changing is a thing

Skuzz.6580:

Substance E.4852:

InsaneQR.7412:

Its called “greavers” if i am not mistaken.
Condi dmg
Power
Precision
Ferocity

I would take this for SB

Ya, given what happened with HoT stat sets, I would hold off on singing this stat’s praises until we know how easy it will be to get.

Could be as simple as diamonds or as bad as lilies.

Stat changing is a thing

Only if you have full ascended and only if you have all the inscriptions etc.
The question is how hard will it be to get these recipes and components.

I’m not sure which will actually be best. I have one for condi and one for power, figure after some play I’ll get it figured out. For condi I found the axe during the demo the better weapon than the dagger. In it’s current state the dagger isn’t going to get much play.

Skuzz.6580:

Substance E.4852:

InsaneQR.7412:

Its called “greavers” if i am not mistaken.
Condi dmg
Power
Precision
Ferocity

I would take this for SB

Ya, given what happened with HoT stat sets, I would hold off on singing this stat’s praises until we know how easy it will be to get.

Could be as simple as diamonds or as bad as lilies.

Stat changing is a thing

It is and pearls are still 9g a pop.

Don’t think Grievers will be worth it for Ranger/soulbeast. It doesn’t give any condi duration so you have to get it from Runes, Sigils, food and traits for the most part.

Grievers looks like it’ll synergize best with something like Rune of the flame legion: 7% power dmg, 175 power, 30% burn duration. 20% from sigil, 15% from food
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bowl_of_Fire_Meat_Chili
20-33% burn duration from traits (on classes that actually have one) and Grievers could work.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fancy_Truffle_Burger
There is also poison duration food but I don’t see any good poison runes that work for power/condo hybrid soulbeasts.

I don’t think grievers is going to work well for PvE dps rangers. Keeping my zerker and viper sets which I think will both be viable for soulbeast. Possibly a different set that comes out will be viable and I’ll just transmute my old healing set to it.

It depends on what you want to do if you want to go Condition then go Viper, if you want to go Power then go Berserker, as said above there is going to be a hybrid Condition/Power with Greaver, but I’d argue that a Power Soulbeast doesn’t need condition damage, because it’s going to almost never use condition, and a Condition Soulbeast doesn’t really need the Ferocity, but Greaver might be nice for WvW/sPvP and open world.