Guild Wars 2

What classes / builds would gain the most benefit out of the new Settler exotic stats:

Toughness > healing + condition.

I could concider putting that on my dagger dagger thief

A handful of ranger builds benefit from toughness being the main stat.

A lot of ranger bunker builds have stats like these (apothecary) Good to see that they are selling them for such low prices . And the small difference between settler cloths and apoth. is that apoth is healing / tough / condi and settler is tough / healing /condi

Bunker builds are good outside of sPvP?

It does look like pretty tanky gear – but wondering if without power or precision there’d be value in a PvE environment. I tend to like knights, soldiers, and rabid when I go in for toughness.

Kichwas.7152:

Bunker builds are good outside of sPvP?

It does look like pretty tanky gear – but wondering if without power or precision there’d be value in a PvE environment. I tend to like knights, soldiers, and rabid when I go in for toughness.

PVE is all about damage. This set is more for WvW bunker builds. Engies come to mind.

Lévis.5489:

A lot of ranger bunker builds have stats like these (apothecary) Good to see that they are selling them for such low prices .

2 gold and 70 karka shells per piece is a low price?

So where are these Settler armor merchants? The “Southsun Economists” have only junk white weapons.

Pretty much agree with everything above. The armor set, like apothecary, benefits any build that has:

1. Has access to group or self heals and good regeneration. Group Heals and regeneration scale the most from healing power.
2. Have a bleed auto attack weapon and can generally apply lots of condition stacks without critical chance.
3. Benefit from high toughness due to lack of avoidance and have average to high base vitality as a class.

This narrows the armor set to Ranger, Necro and Engie Bunker builds. Again using higher condition dmg and constant condition application to circumvent the need for power/prec/critical damage combos, that would leave little room for toughness and healing power. The damage reduction from high toughness improves the healing effectiveness of good healing skills considerably. Especially if the build has access to the protection boon.

Good for most WvW encounters and PvE zerg/group support. The builds also shine in sqiushy, inexperienced and/or balanced PvE dungeon teams, that truly need a bunker or support heals etc.

Huck.1405:

So where are these Settler armor merchants? The “Southsun Economists” have only junk white weapons.

The Southsun Economists are those merchants, but the zone needs control of all four settlements for the Settler stuff to appear.

morrolan.9608:

Lévis.5489:

A lot of ranger bunker builds have stats like these (apothecary) Good to see that they are selling them for such low prices .

2 gold and 70 karka shells per piece is a low price?

Since the unveiling of the new gear the shell price has crashed to 1-2 silver a piece.

Meaning you can land yourself a set at 3 gold a pop or there about.

morrolan.9608:

Lévis.5489:

A lot of ranger bunker builds have stats like these (apothecary) Good to see that they are selling them for such low prices .

2 gold and 70 karka shells per piece is a low price?

I agree with you, since it takes 12 gold and 420 Karka Veterans to get full exotic set. They should have used some other solution instead of gold + shells.

I got ton of Karma and Skill points that I’m holding, it would be great if I could use them somewhere.

Thank you Balekai!

digiowl.9620:

morrolan.9608:

Lévis.5489:

A lot of ranger bunker builds have stats like these (apothecary) Good to see that they are selling them for such low prices .

2 gold and 70 karka shells per piece is a low price?

Since the unveiling of the new gear the shell price has crashed to 1-2 silver a piece.

Meaning you can land yourself a set at 3 gold a pop or there about.

You mean a SINGLE PIECE.

This gear is specially made for healing necro’s ^^
but as expected the skin is terrible, awefull, horrible generic.

Alternative to a clerics necro. Using condi damage to deal reasonable damage while supporting. Still a pretty awful stat combo.

Got 4 pieces for my ranger (she’s level 72 so this is pre-emptive).

I’m not a CoF farmer so I use balanced builds and it looks like a tweak to the bunker concept might be good for normal PvE and dungeon running.

With those 4, might have the remaining gear go all carrion, rampage, and berserk. She’s sitting on 180k karma atm, and an army of unused karma jugs, so the remaining armor might not cost me any gold (the weapons though… sword/torch axe/axe – gonna cost me).

12g+ 470 shells ~18g-20g

That is completely on par with all the rest of the exotic sets, I don’t see the problem.

Avatara.1042:

You mean a SINGLE PIECE.

Did you see the price of any crafted exotic 80 armor set yet? That Settler thing it’s kind of cheap currently.

stof.9341:

Avatara.1042:

You mean a SINGLE PIECE.

Did you see the price of any crafted exotic 80 armor set yet? That Settler thing it’s kind of cheap currently.

A full medium apothecary set from tp will cost 12-13g. Settler’s will cost 12g + 7,5g in shells. If u sell the 420 shells u only need 4,5g to buy the full set from tp.