Has anyone ran numbers on these two runes for WvW purposes? I can see how Torment would be very effective but is the burst with Fire more effective? I know it is highly build dependent if they are close but if someone already figured out a clear winner I am interested which one it might be. Thank you.
Torment vs Fire
Well, you’d want to run fire or air if you’re running a power build since they both scale with power. Torment scales off of condition damage, so it would have little utility if you’re geared and spec’d for direct damage.
Even for condition specs, you’d generally would want to avoid grabbing precision since we don’t really have many useful crit procs – not to mention you can’t crit on conditions, so the precision will mostly go to waste. Grabbing precision just to see more torment proc (8 sec duration 7 sec CD) means you’ll lose out on more useful stat like power/vit/toughness.