Guild Wars 2

Wonder what spec won’t never ever get nerf so i don’t never ever need to make new ascended gear set?

Turret builds :S

Penguin.5197:

Turret builds :S

heh, so I’m not the only one that sees this as an issue with ascended gear…
(not promoting build diversity)

In my experience, no build is nerf-proof. I made something like 11 different builds for my Elementalist and they were all nerfed within a span of a couple months. Every build I’ve ever made has been nerfed eventually.

Builds will rise and fall, but celestial gear will always be equally as bad no matter what your build. So the safest bet is to build a whole set of ascended celestial gear. Then no matter what happens to your build your gear will still be just as effective.

Gear is not nerfed, builds are.

Venom share thief

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Builds will rise and fall, but celestial gear will always be equally as bad no matter what your build. So the safest bet is to build a whole set of ascended celestial gear. Then no matter what happens to your build your gear will still be just as effective.

Or just as ineffective. That’s like saying your insurance policy is to destroy everything you own so you cannot ever possibly have it stolen.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Builds will rise and fall, but celestial gear will always be equally as bad no matter what your build. So the safest bet is to build a whole set of ascended celestial gear. Then no matter what happens to your build your gear will still be just as effective.

You’re being serious? Celestial gear is some of the best in the game for everything you can’t berserker-cheese and is extremely useful for a ton of specs. All around stat builds are nothing to sneeze at.

Distaste.4801:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Builds will rise and fall, but celestial gear will always be equally as bad no matter what your build. So the safest bet is to build a whole set of ascended celestial gear. Then no matter what happens to your build your gear will still be just as effective.

You’re being serious? Celestial gear is some of the best in the game for everything you can’t berserker-cheese and is extremely useful for a ton of specs. All around stat builds are nothing to sneeze at.

Yeah, because if you sneeze at them they’ll fall apart

Clerics

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celestial hybrid necro would like to have a word with you

Just grind out/get all the ascended sets, then your covered for everything >_>

I read the title as “Nerd proof specs” >.<

Just make Berserker ascended armor and you’ll be safe. Condition builds are too risky to be rendered ineffective, and Tanky stats on armor is always questionable and/or shunned.

You can also always leave trinket to handle V/T stats as they’re easier to get.

Viking Jorun.5413:

Venom share thief

Heh, that’s actually true. It’s literally the only Thief build that will ever be buffed and never nerfed. Unfortunately nomatter how many times they buff it it’ll still be crap,

mrauls.6519:

Distaste.4801:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Builds will rise and fall, but celestial gear will always be equally as bad no matter what your build. So the safest bet is to build a whole set of ascended celestial gear. Then no matter what happens to your build your gear will still be just as effective.

You’re being serious? Celestial gear is some of the best in the game for everything you can’t berserker-cheese and is extremely useful for a ton of specs. All around stat builds are nothing to sneeze at.

Yeah, because if you sneeze at them they’ll fall apart

I’m pretty sure they only suck when you don’t have an all round build. So if you have a warrior that’s all blunt force and has no conditions to apply then yea they do fall apart because you’re wasting a stat but if you get something like a a hybrid anything(mesmer in my case) they can be very diverse and very effective vs many other classes, build and stats. Of course player skill comes into it as well.

Pick your primary role, the one where you are in situations where slightly better gear could mean the difference between AoE looting and respawning at the waypoint. Pink that build up.

For situations and roles where you need not be minmaxed, oranges will be fine.

At least, that will be my approach.

Warrior you can play it with any Build

Viking Jorun.5413:

Venom share thief

Doggie.3184:

Heh, that’s actually true. It’s literally the only Thief build that will ever be buffed and never nerfed. Unfortunately no matter how many times they buff it it’ll still be crap,

Super unicorn Thief has be getting steady buffs with every balance patch for around half a year now. Dec 10 looks to include even more buffs for the indestructible acrobatics thug-tanks of Tyria .

And venoms is looking to become one of the stronger group-support options for Thieves.

mrauls.6519:

Yeah, because if you sneeze at them they’ll fall apart

Really? Lets put a ‘Zerker and a Celestial load-out side by side in a perma-field of Toxin and see who sneezes last? I’m thinking celestial… ’Cause the Zerker will be on the floor dead.

Zerker is hands down best for pure DPS, power-based weapons. Its awesome in all the spaz-based combat this game shipped with. Which is why we’re going to see sources of Vigor nerfed into the ground and things like Toxin more and more often. Because they made survivability a one-dimensional exercise in dodge-spam and now they know it.

Celestial ends up being the best for almost every Support build because no Support build is allowed to not do DPS too. Similar situation with bunkers. You can’t win by just being tough, so you end up having to get survivability stats AND DPS stats to be fully competitive. And once you’re wearing celestial, you can start using some of the hybrid direct damage/condition damage weapons and get pretty decent results.

Zerk gear is safe if you don’t run condition builds. You can always supplement zerk gear with PVT, celestial, clerics trinkets…depending the build.

Nothing is sacred. Every nerf is permitted.

no build is nerf proof when the balance criteria is a spinning wheel.

BobbyT.7192:

Just grind out/get all the ascended sets, then your covered for everything >_>

One must first achieve eternal life in order to go through the timegating and grind to get all Grindscendent sets…

Build around all the traits which give you bonuses when downed. It’s pretty safe to say those won’t ever be nerfed.. as you’ll be the only person who ever uses them.