condition builds require way more skill than cheesy power burst ones

[UmbraNoctis.1907]

> @"GenerationX.9178" said:

> Condition requires only condition damage. Burst Requires Power,Precision and Ferocity need I say more?

 

That's not true in general. Thanks to plenty of dmg modifier, crit change and crit dmg from traits, it doesn't need that much investment into offensive stats from gear in oder to deal decent dmg. Power builds just have the option to go full glass and gain amounts of burst which condi builds can only dream about. But for the most part this is an option, not a requirement.

Likewise if condi builds want to maximize their dmg output, they also need additional stats. Namely expertise and precision, and they also benefit from power and ferocity. So condi builds need actually more offensive stats for a maximum of dmg - and burst will still be lower than the burst of power builds, even before taking cleanses into consideration, due to weaker scaling.

Overall the strength of a build depends on a lot of different factors and generalized statements like "condi is better because X" or "power is better because Y" are usually wrong.