Guild Wars 2

I slapped some dungeon rabid armor on my berserker, and noticed the PvE damage even this bad gear does is completely off the charts. So I want to craft ascended condi armor. With no food, I’m currently sitting at 98% burn duration and 33% bleed duration. The question is, do you think I should go with full sinisters over vipers, since vipers will only affect the bleeds? Does full viper’kitten any important checkpoints on a sword warrior?

That’s my tentative plan, just want someone to tell me if I’m crazy or missing something before I blow a few hundred gold.

I have no real goal of where to use this, but maybe raids, maybe fractals, maybe even WvW roaming. I just have been enjoying the berserker and feel like gearing up an alt.

If you want to go Vipers, you should drop the Smoldering Sigil you probably have on your bow for something else (Torment, Doom, Geomancy, whatevs) so you aren’t wasting a stat.

Whether the loss of a bit of condi damage and precision for the slightly higher power and bleed duration is worth it, I’m not sure. I’d be surprised if there was a huge difference especially if you expect condi clearing opponents, but I’ve not run any numbers.

This might be helpful:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Sinister-vs-Viper

EDIT: Or, if you want to keep your smoldering sigil, you could drop Balth runes (I assume) for Nightmare. You can still reach +100% burn and will get pretty close on the bleeds too. That being said, don’t forget the importance of maintaining a reasonably high crit chance to maximize KoF.