Guild Wars 2

I enjoy running S/S and I know Rabid’s major stat is condition damage and Rampager is precision, although would there be a greater gain in overall base damage from having the “power” stat that comes with the Rampager? This way you have all three stats that focus on damage unlike in Rabid where you would have toughness instead of precision.

It would be better if it didn’t have the + vitality & instead focused completely on precision, power, condition damage.

However because the power bonus is so small I wouldn’t bother.

It also has a downside of not giving any + toughness which makes you more vulnerable to burst. (and also greatly lowers your condition damage if using rune of the undead.)

Depending on how far your going into arms however you could alter your build and grab carrion amulet. If your using a build with good fury uptime & the sword trait that grants +10% critical with swords you should have more then enough crit chance for on crit sigils.

I see what you mean, I was thinking I was better off taking the extra power over the toughness because I do tend to dodge when ever it’s needed. So I thought the power would help with dealing more damage. I’m not one to just stand in the red circles.

If you don’t mean pvp then you could use sinister gear if you want to trade the toughness for more damage.

Akrib.4297:

I see what you mean, I was thinking I was better off taking the extra power over the toughness because I do tend to dodge when ever it’s needed. So I thought the power would help with dealing more damage. I’m not one to just stand in the red circles.

All depends on your exact build & what your fighting.

Generally speaking though since a good portion of the stat allocation on the Rampager amulet goes to vitality, I find it’s not worth using because it doesn’t go far enough into offense to negate losing the toughness from rabid or vitality/power/condition damage from carrion.

Hey!

First of all, please clarify if you are interested on PvP or WvW (I don’t think you want to do PvE with S/S-LB).

To my WvW with Warrior S/S LB is that right now you can use hybrid builds more given you balance your attributes right(*).

If you are to use Rampager’s though, keep your precision on check cause if you go fully Rampager’s you get too much crit chance but too few power and condi and you ’ll be flimsy.

Even if you try to go rampager’s armor only, with more survival-oriented accessories, you still have to keep an eye on precision in order to avoid building up excessive crit chance at the cost of power/condi.

One thing is for sure, going Might Stacking runes (Aristocracy ones gives you might duration +condi dmg) is the best thing you can do. This will boost your otherwise lacking power and condition damage to respectable levels for the duration of the fight.

You won’t get a build that will win you every fight against anyone else but its rather good and interesting.

Instead of Rampager’s I would suggest Sinister’s though!