Guild Wars 2

This stat combination has taken some major hits, and yet is still important to many builds in the game, especially on Elementalists and Engineers. I feel that with the upcoming expansion and what the Weaver can do (like damage and healing simultaneously without losing Fire/Air DPS), its importance for Elementalists will not fade away, but instead becoming stronger.

The reason Celestial is such a common stat combination is because it allows people to make supportive builds without doing zero damage; this is especially important in PvE where people will yell at you 24/7 if you don’t do any damage. Yes, I know you want us to use your new “support” stat combos like you introduced with Dry Top, Heart of Thorns and Lake Doric, but its not a good idea outside of WvW.

And even in WvW, these sets make you into mince meat when you are alone.

Considering the cost and time required to create this kind of gear, could we please at least have it looked at in relation to other gear sets, especially four-statters? Lacking Expertise and Concentration in particular is a severe downside in the coming updates severely nerf these bonuses from foods.

If you want to keep it as-is, at least reduce the overhead of creating it. It is the most expensive (time- and effort-wise, maybe not gold-wise) set in the game.

I wouldn’t mind them adding a small number of the new stats to celestial. Certainly a lesser number than the rest of the set’s numbers. But putting something there seems fitting.

Celestial is popular because it already offers a bigger stat boost for those builds that can make use of at least 3 (and sometimes 4) of the stats. It seems like a fair trade-off already: you get more. I suppose they could reduce the existing numbers to make room for two more