Guild Wars 2

I didn’t even know this existed till I got my new skull backpiece from ember bay. And one of the stats is Berserker+valkyrie.

My first thoughts were: “Wow here’s a way I can deviate from the zerker only gear without missing out on much if any at all damage (is if ur running a warrior then ur losing a bit since blood reckoning converts precision to ferocity….which is dumb)”

I quickly realized why I didn’t know this existed….its on trinkets only. Why….can’t this be a thing for weapons and armour too?

I honestly don’t understand why you add more trinket stat types or mixed up trinket stats from their armour/weapon variant……but then don’t add those to weapons/armour as well. I mean we have stats that are in everything……and stats that are in one or the other and it makes no sense to me.
Is anet planning to slooooooowly introduce all stat types to all 3 types of gear? (armour/weapons/trinkets)? Are they doing it so painfully slow cause they can’t come up with any other reason to get us to grind for new gear? Why can’t they just create more and more geartypes for pve……ferocity is already an awkward stat given how its always tacked on or missing completely, its an easy way to create new gear. Zerker players really only have 1 type of gear to use…..2 if they are playing certain classes where assassin and its precision buff is more relevant.

To be honest, I’ve given up trying to understand what Anet is doing with stats.

The bezerker + valkyrie stat option just simulates taking half zerk and half valk. Which you can do with normal armor. You don’t have to wear a matching stat set, there’s no set bonus from it.

Also marauder exists.

Marauder is strictly better. There was past incentive to run both by splitting armor between berserker and valk to achieve the same or custom distributions of stats.

Really, there’s pretty much no incentive to play run marauder. Almost all of its shortcomings can be negated by other gear/trait choices and in most cases, a few stacks of might.

Originally there was the crafted rings (Jeweler).
All crafted rings were based upon a stat and could hold a jewel.
You could have a orichalcum (and lower) band with an exquisite (and lower) gem these could be 2 completely different stats

This was flexible but in ascendeds these 2 values were fixed, and no longer changeable
eventually these stats were listed as 1 set of stats instead of trinket and jewel on ascneded and this is where berserker/valkyrie comes from.

Imagine crafting a piece of armor and then slotting stats into it.. that would solve the entire problem of having dozens of stat combos that are unavailable. You’d simply make your own.

the reason it exists on accessories is simple.

Berserker trinket, with Valkyrie jewel.

armour and weapons can do this too. You just can’t also use a rune.