LucianDK.8615

Dont forget that new players wont have the hot masteries, which means the first round takes a lot longer.

yeah, looks quite unlikely that renegades will play much different from current condi revs, kalla is just a straight up upgrade to condi rev, since she allows us to pair two condi legends. I heard the bleed spirit is pretty good, so im going to take advantage of it for sure. and I dearly miss not having a ranged wep as condi, will be sweet for sure. Jalis is going -out!- Maybe anet will surprise us and buffs shortbow to be primary weapon viable. That would sure make for a different playstyle.

> @Simeonus.9237 said:

> Renegade is fine, consider it upgrade to base condi revenant. Shortbow is the problem, condi duration on SB's skills are too low to make it any good compared to mace/axe. So unless you need to stay ranged I doubt anyone would use SB at all.

I think you are overreacting. Renegades can trait 25% increase to bleed duration, which is more than enough to cap out on with viper gear. And it only takes a smoldering sigil to get fire into the same territory.

Dont forget the rune of bursting for another 6% condi damage.

Will be interesting to see the math on if +condi damage% can compare with +condi duratin

And what would your second sigil be, beside geomancy? And what about Sigil of Bursting with its 6% increased condi damage?

I think malice + smoldering is the way to go for me, I dont do raids and is mainly open world these days. I recently -finished- with fractals and have little incentive to go back to them now that I finished Ad Infinitum. I mainly save my consumables for hard encounters, than having them up constantly. So im better served with higher uptime on conditions permanently.

Makes me wonder why QT advocates malice and geo with nightmare+trapper then.

all ascended gear. Let me have a look. yes, rare veggie pizza adds 100 expertise, had missed that. With rare veggie pizza, i reach 100% on torment and burning with malice and smoldering. Without malice and using rare veggie pizza, my torment and burning drops to 93.86%

as I said, I have full viper gear, 4x nightmare runes and 2x trapper runes. With malice and smoldering, my poison is at 100%, my torment and burning is at 97.19% - removing malice and my torment and burning drops to 87ish.

Do remember they removed +condi duration from consumables, i think its there the disconnect is. I use rare veggie pizza and toxic focusing crystal, and neither has +condi duration anymore.

Ah, that is a good point. Though its impact seems still minimal in pve at least for condi revs. Power would benefit a lot more as you said.

I see so many builds using it over Cleansing channel, which puzzles me. It seems to be a fairly weak trait, 50% increased damage on a single attack every 15s, IF one of your attacks got negated. Which means it might not even happen, whereas Cleansing channel helps with our glaring condi weakness.

I know geo triggers on both legend swapping and weapon swapping. But surely optimal geo use doesnt require you to swap to offset constantly? That would loose you a lot of dps moves from equipping staff.

I am currently in full viper gear, and I know the standad sigil choices is sigil of malice and sigil of geomancy. My poison is at 100% duration, Torment is at 97.19%. But I could not see a listing for burning, so i tried to replace geomancy with smoldering. Then burning showed up at 97.19% on the screen. So my standard burning must be 20% lower. So I wonder, does geomancy really outclass longer burning? Especially since it benefits both our searing fissure and diabolic inferno.

Arent they already in the store?

> @Alatar.7364 said:

> > @Velaethia.6820 said:

> > Is there a way to restore deleted characters?

>

> Sadly, there is not.

Not true, make a support ticket, they can restore them. Did for me.

Ive been trying to find a matching color for Ad Infinitum, and so far eyeing Blue Steel. But is there other better matching ones?

Not a fan of the new forum style. The posts looks -extremely- cluttered together and it feels hard to catch individual posts with a glance, because there is not enough distance between them, or missing much more visible divide between them so you clearly can tell each post apart.. I feel i have to squint to focus on indivual posts now, i am thinking my forum use is going to go drastically down now.