Guild Wars 2

Exotic celestial armor has really screwed over those of us with 5 Celestial ascended accessories.

Why? The exotics are better. In order to make my character stronger, I should trash the 5 ascended items I have, get exotic celestial, and then swap to berserker trinkets.

This is beyond the normal kind of annoyance that would come with new gear coming out that is better to min/max with.

This is just unbalanced. Celestial ascended either needs a buff, or exotic Celestial needs a nerf.

i agree /10char

Might be better to request this thread to be moved onto game bugs.

Doing a quick stat comparison of Syzygy (ascended amulet) and Charged Quartz Orichalcum Amulet (exotic amulet), both of which use celestial stats:

Charged Quartz Orichalcum Amulet
+40 Power
+40 Precision
+40 Toughness
+40 Vitality
+5% Critical Damage
+40 Healing Power
+40 Condition Damage
+3% Magic Find
Exquisite Charged Quartz Jewel (stats below)
+11 Condition Damage
+11 Precision
+11 Toughness
+11 Power
+11 Vitality
+11 Healing Power
+2% Critical Damage
+3% Magic Find

Combined amulet and jewel Charged Quartz Orichalcum Amulet:
+51 Power
+51 Precision
+51 Toughness
+51 Vitality
+7% Critical Damage
+51 Healing Power
+51 Condition Damage
+6% Magic Find

Syzygy (bear in mind stats from amulet and ‘jewel’ are combined since a recent patch)
+54 Power
+54 Precision
+54 Toughness
+54 Vitality
+7% Critical Damage
+54 Healing Power
+54 Condition Damage
+4% Magic Find
Unused Utility Infusion Slot

Why does the exotic amulet have higher magic find and same Critical Damage despite both being Celestial stats? XD

/signed
A nice buff to givers would be nice too.

but you can add 20% magic find on ascended… or 20% gold… they still give something better and room for improvement

Amadan.9451:

but you can add 20% magic find on ascended… or 20% gold… they still give something better and room for improvement

I could do a ring or accessory comparison instead, and with the utility only applying to amulets, I suspect I will get the same sort of comparisons with MF.

yes, you are right, and yet you can add +5 stat of choice +5 agony resistance in rings and trinkets, but yes, ascended should definitely be better than exotic on that i agree

Every other stat combination in the game gets a hefty stat boost going from exotic —> celestial.

When the patch hit, threads about this were being deleted for some reason. Not sure what Anet is planning.