Condition damage equipment
Is this for PvE, PvP or WvW?
I myself run full carrion except for soldier on the armor for WvW and (sometimes) use food for condition duration, sigils of corruption and agony on the daggers, hydro on the SB.
Melenkurion Abathas (Thief)
Desolation (EU)
I haven’t tried sPVP yet, so mostly PvE but I do run around with zergs in WvW when things are slow. my SB at the moment is just an MF bow, probably won’t change it for a while.
full carrion with chrysocola jewelery will probably be the easiest to use. there is no diminishing return on condition damage. you could also try 3 krait 3 afflicted runes, you lose a bit of condition damage, but will gain 2 extra ticks from DB bleeds. what is your build? if you go the full 30 into shadow arts, toughness/condition damge/healing gear for your jewelery would be beneficial for the extra toughness and healing.
Gungnir Aurus – 80 Guardian
[AUX] Isle of Janthir
Full carrion. Also, if you utilize stealth alot, the healing in stealth trait is invaluable.
thanks for the replies, good to know there isn’t diminishing returns for cond damage. my build at the moment is 20 deadly arts, 30 acrobatics, 20 trickery. mostly relying on dodging via V and DB spam to not die as opposed to stealthing. I was also considering dropping 10 points from acrobatics to another field but i didn’t really like the look of anything else, and i figured 100 extra vitality was okay. I didn’t know there was a toughness/condition damage/healing set, at the moment i’m leaning towards that since it won’t detract from my damage output.
thanks for the replies, good to know there isn’t diminishing returns for cond damage. my build at the moment is 20 deadly arts, 30 acrobatics, 20 trickery. mostly relying on dodging via V and DB spam to not die as opposed to stealthing. I was also considering dropping 10 points from acrobatics to another field but i didn’t really like the look of anything else, and i figured 100 extra vitality was okay. I didn’t know there was a toughness/condition damage/healing set, at the moment i’m leaning towards that since it won’t detract from my damage output.
it will detract from damage output, just not by a lot. the majority of the damage loss is non condition damage, which adds up if you are in full carrion. I’ve seen the math somewhere before. it is also worth noting that set is usually used more in p/d builds, or if you stealth somewhat often, combined with 30 points into shadow arts, so you recover hp while in stealth while not taking a lot of damage due to high toughness. if your gonna brawl it out, carrion will probably serve you better. you will kill faster in it, and if you know what to dodge you wont take many of the big hits people can throw your way.
Gungnir Aurus – 80 Guardian
[AUX] Isle of Janthir