Guild Wars 2

Over the last beta, I found that I was able to get a lot more damage output via Condi build and found any zerk build to be severely lacking behind it. Which kind of bums me out because I spent a month creating a whole zerker ascended set in anticipation of the Shiro.

With that said, I myself will probably be going condi build. Any wild guesses on what stat set will be best so I can start changing my stats on the gear? I would assume Sinister, But didn’t know if Dire / Rabid would be any better?

IIRC, for condition builds, the general rule of thumb is:

PvE: Sinister
sPvP: Rabid
Wuv: Rabid or Dire with Dire/Rabid trinkets (as in, trinkets that have a mix of Dire and Rabid stats, which ironically enough, 3 of the possible pieces are Shiro/Factions inspired)

…and while there are definitely variants for this, nothing I’ve seen from Revenant seems to change it for them.

That being said, I think I might hold off until at least tomorrow before you start changing all your ascended zerk into Sinister. Roy has promised to post the changes planned for Revenants based on last weekend’s testing this Friday, and it might include changes that will make you want to keep that zerk set.

Also for the pvp variants, always worth testing Celestial. Not really necessary in pve, and damage can be significantly lower, but at times it can prove beneficial. Especially if you are able to stack might.