Thing with conditions is that they ignore armor. On a lightly armored target the greatsword is going to win. But on something heavily armored you might see something different. Why not try your experiment on those golems in the mists using steady weapons?
Bow is quite a good support weapon though. You can lay down fire field, give area might and blind. You can immobilize too. If you play support banners you probably don’t have much condition damage but I think (might be wrong) that when your team mates combo through your fire field it is their condition damage that matters. So a player built for bleeds is now doing high burning damage as well.
I think they should have used a reputation system. Each dungeon has a heart that you fill by running it. Running new wings gives more points to the heart, running the same old wing has diminishing returns. You unlock the heart across your account and when you have done so it turns into a karma vendor. The vendor sells the gear. Alts will still need to earn karma but they can spend it here if it’s unlocked. Emblems system just makes no sense, it forces really unfun gaming practices on people. A karma system is better, you get the karma however you want but you can only spend it on the gear if you have unlocked the heart proving that you mastered the dungeon.
This does work, though not without problems. I went to another server to do a bugged skill point and while there I tested this with my wife. We both went to the same zone but on different servers. When she entered I got the pop up message. I clicked but nothing happened. We left, degrouped, grouped, tried again with me going in and this time it worked.
I’m getting the same error since one hour ago. I have had no problems since headstart and have made no change to my PC or router. I log in fine, I start to get large lag spikes, then after a minute or two I get disconnected with the 7:11:3:189:101 error. I play on the Whiteside Ridge server from Spain.