TheAgedGnome.7520

> @"Stand The Wall.6987" said: > it takes too long to explode. I can certainly see this being a deal-breaker in pvp or even wvw.

> @"Yasai.3549" said: > Yes. > It's pretty decent on Heal Scourges. > > What kind of thread is this anyway? It's for my curiosity. I use it but never see it used by others. I'll update the topic if I can.

> @"Zhaid Zhem.6508" said: > You need 80% (77.777%) for perma alacrity with only Orders from Above. But don't forget you also grant alacrity with Ventari; not to 10 players but still alacrity. > You don"t need 100% precision to cast, on CD, sigil of water. Fury + the 33% already give you 58% precision; then the mace #2 + AA ensure you trigger the sigil on CD. > > Sure Devastation brings AP, one trait at the cost of a totaly useless traitline for yourself in this configuration. Does people in group event deserve you to struggle when alone ? > You have no benefit to play with condition damage rather than harrier/zealot sword/sword with your build. This is not for soloing. I have other condi builds for that. This is just support for OW metas, bounties, etc.; not raiding or fractals. I think, just as the OP wanted to show, that a condi Alacrity build is at least viable.

> @"Zhaid Zhem.6508" said: > Why Devastation ? Why condi and precision when you have nothing to apply condition but mace, nor on crit, nor power ? > You already have healing power + ventari/salvation, excessive sustain with battle scars is useless; play Corruption or don't play condi at all. > > Plus imo boon duration / concentration is really too high, you don"t need that much. Particularly with ventari/salvation you can already loop alacrity with few BD. * Devastation is for Assassin's Presence. In order to reserve enough energy for Alacrity, you won't be putting out much damage, so Corruption isn't going to be a big benefit and it has no group benefit. * Precision in Seraph's was for an alternate iteration which used Water sigil on crit. I suppose this version could be full Plaguedoctor. * Boon duration needs to be around ~89-91% for full Alacrity uptime.

(Yes, I'm necro'ing a thread...) I've been trying out a variant of the OP's condi alacrity build for OW metas/bounties/etc. and it seems to work quite nicely. I know its not meta and that makes me a terrible person, but oh well. http://gw2skills.net/editor/?PmwAUlfltQJsMiipRTsNqiNShMDagn/V97H-zRZYRRMCENKQfvJ2pkmEIdFQHChQEBecWA8cD-e I chose Devastation instead of Invocation since I'm primarily sitting in Kalla most of the time, rather than swapping. The Apothecary pieces are just what I already had.