Build Rating (Subjective)
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3/5
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Difficulty |
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Condition Firebrand camping Axe has a fairly straightforward rotation and is lots of fun to play in open world. It has good burst damage for a condition build, since it mainly relies on Burning. It has lots of utility built-in, making it an excellent choice for Guardian players in instanced content and open world PvE. It can provide itself with many essential offensive boons ( Might, Fury, Quickness, Stability, Aegis, Protection) and can share all those with allies.
Link to the DPS Build in the Editor
Playstyle + Skills[edit]
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Rotation Concept & Video Showcase[edit]
You can find my most recent rotation showcase here.
Damage Log
Rotation Flow[edit]
Gear & Traits[edit]
For gear, you can freely mix pieces of Viper's and Ritualist's. Each piece of Viper's gives you a slightly higher damage output than Ritualist's (~3% damage difference for a full set), but comes at the cost of more difficult Quickness coverage. Power of the Virtuous
Important Stats (descending in Importance):
- 100% Burning Duration
- ~60% Overall Condition duration - Radiant Fire and Superior Sigil of Smoldering provide the remaining 40% on Burning
- Maximize Condition Damage
- Since the vast majority of damage comes from Burning, it is important to reach 100% condition duration on it.
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- For a budget variant, simply replace all armor pieces of Viper's with rare/exotic Ritualist's. This builds converts Vitality into Condition Damage and has low Power damage, meaning that you do not lose substantial damage form going with Ritualist's.
- Ascended gear is always ideal, but exotic gear is fine for everything aside from higher-tier fractals.
Open World Build[edit]
You can find my most recent open world build showcase here.
Link to the Open World Build in the Editor
Increasing Survivability[edit]
For OW, it can make sense to make a build more forgiving, so that you can sustain on your own.
- The first major step to increase survivability versus bosses is to stay on Pistol. That allows you to deal damage from range so you can kite dangerous enemies instead of facetanking their damage. You will have to go into melee for Tome of Justice periodically.
- Staying alive on condi guradian builds is made easier by Litany of Wrath, which heals you based on your damage dealt. If you have a bunch of burning stacks on the enemy, this will keep you alive for its duration. As pointed out above, it boils down to surviving the downtimes of Litany of Wrath.
- The gear can stay the same as for instanced content, but the more pieces of Ritualist's you have, the easier maintaining the Boons listed below becomes. Ritualist's Armor and Trinkets are cheap to buy, so you can just replace Viper's pieces with them. That will get you right between the two builds in terms of stats and provides a good allrounder setup of all kinds of PvE.
- Use the survivability food and utility item listed above for -10% damage taken and 150 Toughness.
Boon Coverage[edit]
- Mantra of Potence,
- Liberator's Vow,
- Swift Scholar,
- "Feel My Wrath!" and
- Litany of Wrath.
Dealing with Incoming Conditions and Control effects[edit]