Guild Wars 2

Currently using rabid weapon/armor with rampager (coral) jewelry. Traits are 0/30/25/0/15. Sigil of earth in short bow, runes of the undead in armor.

So far I love the build and it has served me very well in PvE, dungeons, and my brief trips into spvp. My conditions hit like a truck (110+ per bleed tick at L80) and I have tons of AoE CC effects to keep targets at bay. My question is this, should I switch some/all of my jewelry from rampager (coral) to carrion (crhysolica or however the hell it’s spelled)? I would gain a fair bit of HP, something the build lacks, and even more damage. The trade off would be a big chunk of my critical chance which means far fewer triggers on sharpened edges and my sigil of earth.

Would this potentially be worth it? Opinions, comments, questions are welcome.

-Buy green version (Very cheap)
-Test it out
-???
-Profit

For PvP.
Carrion or rabid.
Rampager is pretty mediocre since rangers are a lil bad at getting bonuses to critting (fury and the likes) and have bad bonuses for critting (that one tier one major trait for a 1s bleed on 2/3 of your crits other classes have as good if not better minor trait versions of this, its roughly a 5% dmg buff on condi heavy, crit heavy builds. Not enough to cover what you lost for going crit instead of power.)

Carrion if you aren’t running troll ungent and something like signet of the wild or allot of regen/evading/stalling.
Rabid if you are.

garethh.3518:

Carrion or rabid.
Rampager is pretty mediocre since rangers are a lil bad at getting bonuses to critting (fury and the likes) and have bad bonuses for critting (that one tier one major trait for a 1s bleed on 2/3 of your crits other classes have as good if not better minor trait versions of this, its roughly a 5% dmg buff on condi heavy, crit heavy builds. Not enough to cover what you lost for going crit instead of power.)

Carrion if you aren’t running troll ungent and something like signet of the wild or allot of regen.
Rabid if you are.

Would love to run rabid jewels, but to my knowledge they don’t exist. What do?

And I do run troll ug. Love the huge regen on it.

Crest of the Rabid.