Guild Wars 2

Looking at the new armor, the point of celestial is to give a small bonus to all stats. But when comparing the two armors, explorer’s is SEVERELY lacking. The two are not balanced, Celestial has just as much magic find as in a major slot. I would say it is more so balanced if the magic find was on the minor side, but all major magic find items seem like nothing compared to celestial now.

Comparing the two, ignoring both magic find and critical damage, celestial gets almost double (1.875x) the stats compared to gear like explorer’s.

Comparing it to something else with 3 stat bonuses, not including magic find and crit damage, celestial has about 1.1 times more stats.

I notice that, with, the ascended jewelery, the ratio of magic find from celestial stats to explorer’s is 1:2.5…so shouldn’t explorer’s be more so 7 or 8%, or celestial 1 or 2%?

So…I think explorer’s magic find should increase, or bring down the celestial armor to make it more equal…

I dont’ understand the logic. If I’m farming. I definately going explorer. It have more power and precision. Why would I want to kill slower if I’m farming.

Explorer’s lacks crit % though, so you possibly end up dealing less dmg.

Kain Francois.4328:

Explorer’s lacks crit % though, so you possibly end up dealing less dmg.

Crit damage scales really bad without power and precision.

People keep mentioning the crit damage and fall to the trap.

I’m not necessary telling you explorer is better. But for power build farming. Explorer is definately the way to go.

People who are condition/power hybrid will be more incline to use celestial. Every kind of gear have its use, that’s the whole point.