Guild Wars 2

Ok so….. I have 1 question, 1 question I think some of us want to know and that is:

After spending 4-6 months saving laurels, spending time collecting mats and doing general things to save up for our ascended Berserker trinkets, weapons and armor is there any chance of re-selecting the stats to these items like you gave us with explorers gear a while back?

I don’t know if I’m the only one that feels like I made an impressive house of cards for someone to blow it over on me but I’m personally not keen to rebuild that house of cards unless the person who blew it over can compensate for it a little bit?

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It might sound harsh, but games are a waste of time in life but playing a game that reminds you of this is kinda…. a wake up call I guess.

And what stat will you choose ? Berserker will be the better DPS option.

sephiroth.4217:

Ok so….. I have 1 question, 1 question I think some of us want to know and that is:

After spending 4-6 months saving laurels, spending time collecting mats and doing general things to save up for our ascended Berserker trinkets, weapons and armor is there any chance of re-selecting the stats to these items like you gave us with explorers gear a while back?

I don’t know if I’m the only one that feels like I made an impressive house of cards for someone to blow it over on me but I’m personally not keen to rebuild that house of cards unless the person who blew it over can compensate for it a little bit?

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It might sound harsh, but games are a waste of time in life but playing a game that reminds you of this is kinda…. a wake up call I guess.

Ascended grind will never be over. Even if they dont introduce a new tier of gear for us to grind.
You just finished your Zerker Ascended gears and have nothing else to do? Nerf Zerker. Now everyone has to grind new Ascended gear.
Meta changes to Soldier Ascended? Nerf Soldier.
Now everyone has to grind new Ascended gear.
This is horizontal progression at its finest.

It could also be a mix of both. They change the meta 3 times, they then introduce a new tier of gear. Repeat.

Dev’s stated that the gear would still be the BiS as far as DPS goes. This leads me to believe that there will not be an option to swap stats.

That’s not to say that they couldn’t do so if they felt it was needed or there wasnt enough community backlash.

Welcome to horizontal progression! At least it isn’t vertical!

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Welcome to horizontal progression! At least it isn’t vertical!

A 10% nerf is vertical regression, not vertical progression

too much speculation at this point imo. Wait to see the implementation of the patch and changes. Trust that if significant they will allow for stat changes like they did with Explorer and like they do with traits.

The gear will still be the gear with highest DPS, so what would you want to change it for?

And lets be honest, most people went for Zerker because they knew it was much stronger than everything else and should have known that it would be nerfed sooner or later.

With explorer gear they changed the stats when they removed Magic Find. This Berserker nerf is so minimal that it shouldn’t affect anyone. If the current speculation is correct, only Celestial gear will see a significant nerf, Berserker will still be the best DPS gear and the DPS meta won’t change the least bit.

Care to tell us which stats you want to change your Berserker into?

Its most damage but least survivability. So I dont see how that makes a nerf legit.

lordkrall.7241:

The gear will still be the gear with highest DPS, so what would you want to change it for?

And lets be honest, most people went for Zerker because they knew it was much stronger than everything else and should have known that it would be nerfed sooner or later.

This isn’t true tho.

Berserker gear = 1700ish DPS
Soldier gear = 1400ish DPS and 500 DPS mitigation

Soldier is actually quite a bit stronger than Berserker gear statistically prior to the nerf, after the nerf that gap will be massive. Vitality and Toughness scale better than Precision or Crit Damage. The only reason Berserker gear was ever considered better is because the encounters are faceroll easy.

Once they redo the encounters, like they say they will. Berserker will not only need to be reverted to where it is now, it will need to be made stronger.

Its just another of Anets mindless decisions. There are reasons why berserker is not used by serious WvW players. Its just that much worse against non brainless stuff.

Gunsnroll.2657:

And what stat will you choose ? Berserker will be the better DPS option.

What ever best fits the build, I run hybrid gear on some of my toons….

I’m a pure WvW player by the way so the bits of gear that are zerker across the 9 toons I have play a vital role into the build that makes it work :/