Guild Wars 2

@daphoenix

Whats the reason for the different rune setup between sPvP and WvWvW?
I’ve just bought 3 superior divinity runes, would you recommend me to just replace them with the boon duration runes instead?

Thanks for making all these guides btw. I don’t think ive said that before.

@daphoenix

What happened with the divinity runes plan?

@daphoenix

So, if you would have to lower one of your stats to pump up your cond.dmg by say 100, which stat would you sacrifice? Would it be more than one to spread it out a little?

Do you have a minimum you want your toughness at? I mean, -72 toughness and -29 power doesnt seem too much to sacrifice to gain 100 cond.dmg. My overall stats with dolyak rune + traits and stuff would end up at:

Power 1732
Vitality 1622
Toughness 1715
Cond.dmg 351
Healing. P 536
Precision 1016

And btw, I thought you liked the dolyak rune but your previous post tells me you don’t. :P Which rune are you aiming for instead? Changing rune will most likely lower both vit and toughness, especially toughness. What’s your thoughts concerning this?

Edit:

I noticed in your first post that you’re going for the divinity rune. The stats you would end up at in total would be something like this:

Power 1831
Precision 1076
Toughness 1682
Vitality 1632
Healing 596
Cond. dmg 310
And + 12% crit dmg.

What doesnt make sense to me is why you would use the divinity rune. This build doesn’t stack any crit chance what so ever, so why would you want critical dmg? I think we’re as low as 10-15% crit when running this build and if I’m not wrong, I think I’ve seen a spread sheet showing that for crit dmg to be very effective you wanna get up to 40%+ crit chance.

After looking into the build some more, I found a rune called rune of the undead. The superior version’s stats are:

+28 cond dmg.
+15 toughness
+55 cond. dmg.
+35 toughness
+100 cond. dmg
+5% of toughness becomes cond. dmg.

Using this rune would give us the following stats:

Power 1761
Precision 1016
Toughness 1672
Vitality 1572
Healing 536
Cond. dmg 517

I’ve calculated the cond. dmg added from the 6th attribute to be 1672*0,05. = 84.

Differences between undead and divinity in undead’s perspective:

Power (-60)
Precision(-60)
Toughness(-10)
Vitality(-60)
Healing (-60)
Cond. dmg(+207)
-12% crit dmg

This means in total -250 stats and – 12% crit dmg compared to + 207 cond.dmg. But I cant say I really care much about the precision or the crit dmg since we’re not relying on those factors.

What are your thoughts? I hope I’m not coming out in a wrong way here(dunno rly know how to explain), because I really like your guides and build, but as someone else also stated, I would personally try to buff the cond.dmg a little bit.

With this build I would probably switch to a + power sigil instead of cond.dmg (not sure though).

Hey! I havent joined the discussion yet, but I have read the entire thread.
As reQuiem stated in one post, saying the condition dmg was pretty low, I couldnt disagree.

Now, I havent yet been PvPing that much, so I dont know which stat would be best to sacrifice.

But from the calculation shown in one of his posts, the stats are given in this way:

Power 845
Toughness 706
Vitality 656
Healing Power 536
Cond. dmg 250
Precision 100

So what if you just replace say the chest piece with a Power, cond.dmg, vitality.

This would net us at
Power 816 (-29)
Cond. dmg 351 (+101)
Toughness 634 (-72)

All other stats would be the same. Another solution might be to swap out an earring which would lower the stat of healing power and toughness, to gain vitality and cond.dmg. We’re speaking of +50 for vit and cond, -50 for HP and toughness.

My only concern is that you’re sacrificing toughness. I havent played PvP/Wv3 enough to tell how important toughness is. So what do you more experienced players say?

Edit: What’s the easiest way to gain PVT gear? You can’t craft it, and I’ve only found the gear at exotic karma merchants and dungeon merchants. Are those two the only ones?