Celestial ascended gear any useful for PvE?

Celestial ascended gear any useful for PvE?

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Posted by: NeoSoul.4198

NeoSoul.4198

I mostly do PvP and I got a box the other day that lets me pick any ascended armor piece but the stats are celestial…

I think that most PvE builds go with Berserker. The only thing close to celestial that I think of is ele but that’s the D/D PvP build. I’m just wondering if I pick whichever piece is a nicer transmog (none I truly want) and salvage it or if it can actually be worth something for a specific class.

Celestial ascended gear any useful for PvE?

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Posted by: kolompi.1287

kolompi.1287

Nope, celestial stats are not really useful for anything in PvE. But now you have the option to change the stats of the item, so i would pick a light coat (which costs the most gold to actually craft, so you would get the most ouf of your drop) and then use the Mystic Forge recipe to change it to berserker.

Unless of course in the case that you are not playing any light class at all. Then pick the coat for the armour weight you actually play.

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Posted by: Purple Miku.7032

Purple Miku.7032

I will try to help your decision by explaining it in a little bit more of detail for you.

Thing is, once you learn the mechanics of encounters on this game for dungeons & fractals you’ll start to realise that as far as combat efficacy is concerned none of the attributes besides power, precision, ferocity and condition damage will matter. In all optimal circumstances, the best gear set will always be a combination of these 3 attributes with I guess some rare circumstances with condition duration (givers prefix).

That said, celestial gear does not excel in any particular attribute at all as it gives almost evenly-distributed stats. Healing power is not needed for combat unless you for whatever reason want to go all-out healing. Toughness and vitality can be helpful for people that are trying to learn and do not feel comfortable with the game’s mechanics, but see the thing about gear is that it is expensive to replace and maximise.

tl;dr – Not really, it’s never the best choice. Is it ascended? What you could do with this box is pick the celestial item then use the mystic forge to convert it to something else should you want to.

(edited by Purple Miku.7032)

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Posted by: NeoSoul.4198

NeoSoul.4198

Ok, that’s what I thought. Thanks. I had no clue you could change the stats with the mystic forge. I haven’t really looked into crafting and didn’t check the forge at all yet. I only played the GW2 core beta and 1-2 weeks after release before quitting. I just started back 2 weeks ago and have 3 80s now (mostly from pvp tomes, I’m not a big fan of PvE). I do think that I might like my Necro best so light chest could be a possibility for me.