Guild Wars 2

Hey all,

so I’ve decided to start with a new ascended armor for my ranger and was just thinking about the new specialization druid. Currently I’m running my ranger and my thief as zerkers, but I’ve seen anet will make thief more condi based and I was wondering if the same thing might happen to the druid.

Also is it possible that mobs in HoT will be more voulnerable to condi? I think this already be the case in SW.

So any one have more info on that?

regards

I really didn’t see any info on it yet.

Despite that though, condition builds need a lot of changes to make it viable or on par with berserker. (Sinister is still viable ish for solo though)

First of all it depends on how much the condition caps change, if less then 100 bleed is the cap and burning/poison don’t stack in effect then it’s not gonna work out for dungeons, fractals, boss fights or most of the open world content.

Secondly, condition dmg is in need of a dps boost even after the cap improvements.
It’s not that bad, but there a few things holding it down:
-Bosses or mobs that turn invul lose all conditions.
-Condition dmg needs time to reach maximal dps which is troubling. (for boss fights with limited attack windows especially)
-Technically skills can remove it, but i don’t know of any mobs that actively do so. Might be some in HoT that do though.

Honestly don’t get your hopes up, because there’s still 1 giant hurdle left.
Namely they want it to be balanced for pve & pvp at the same time, and due to all the differences between these modes that’s godkitten near impossible.

I’d say prepare all the materials for a sinister ascended armor (& recipes, those can be annoying to get) and just don’t craft it till we see the condition damage work in our favor ingame.

Condi is pretty good for WvW and SB with Sinister is a match made in heaven. But I would be making the zerker set 1st. Since it is all you want for PvE with the Ranger, if you want a separate set of condi later for Druid, use cheap exotikittenil you can make another set of ascended.

Couple things to consider:

• Ascended only matter for high level fractal or WvW roaming. For most dungeons, the downscaling means there is literally no advantage at all over exotic.
• As far as we know, no new dungeons are being added in HoT.
• Ascended armor is expensive, so it’s probably worth waiting till the expansion so you have all the facts.

Assuming you do mostly solo or small group open world content in HoT and play a good amount of WvW, I’d lean towards using exotic gear with several stat combos, and make your ascended for whatever makes sense in WvW with a druid.

If you do a lot of high level fractals, you have probably won’t have much choice but to make ascended berserker.

Fluffball.8307:

Couple things to consider:

• Ascended only matter for high level fractal or WvW roaming. For most dungeons, the downscaling means there is literally no advantage at all over exotic.
• As far as we know, no new dungeons are being added in HoT.
• Ascended armor is expensive, so it’s probably worth waiting till the expansion so you have all the facts.

Assuming you do mostly solo or small group open world content in HoT and play a good amount of WvW, I’d lean towards using exotic gear with several stat combos, and make your ascended for whatever makes sense in WvW with a druid.

If you do a lot of high level fractals, you have probably won’t have much choice but to make ascended berserker.

This and this only.

All good points there. I do play mostly PVE, dungeons, lvl40+ fractals, bosses and sometimes wvw.

I think it’s best just to gather mats for now and wait what anet will do with classes, there is no telling what they are planning.

Thanks all!

I agree with waiting until the expansion to craft … if you can wait.

The current meta for fractals is still largely zerker and fractals are the primary reason to get ascended gear. So if you couldn’t wait, that would be your “safest bet”.

While you’re waiting, you can always get lucky and loot ascended chests from the daily fractal chests

just wait until xpac. im holding onto all my armor chests and laurels.