Guild Wars 2

Hi I have a question, I’m a Mesmer and I’m running around with 2700 armor, (1794 toughness). However Iv heard that any armor above 2000 is a waste due to some kind of cap? However i gain condition damage (Which is my primary stat) with toughness. So I’m wondering, would my damage output be better (Without losing much of my survivalbility) if i swapped out some of my toughness out for a more offensive stat combo. Am I simply overdoing it with the toughness? //Juan

Keep the armor, if you’re a high-Chaos Condi-build. Your goal’s less to “tank,” and more to sling nasty DoT on fools. My own spec runs with ~2650-2700 Armor, and Mesmer’s got a lot of ways to avoid damage. Not to mention, assuming full-Rabid EQ, you’re packing a good enough crit rate for Sharper Images to proc regularily.. Lowering that, lowers your proc’ed Bleeds, and thus some of your Condition DPS.
Unlike a Power-DPS build, we don’t gain extra damage/DoT from +crit damage, so a 45-50% crit rate is plenty. Although an option I used to use was Rampager Weapons, for a bit of extra Power on straight hits, like -say- iWarlock.

Hmm thanks Il look into that, Thanks alot

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Hi I have a question, I’m a Mesmer and I’m running around with 2700 armor, (1794 toughness). However Iv heard that any armor above 2000 is a waste due to some kind of cap? However i gain condition damage (Which is my primary stat) with toughness. So I’m wondering, would my damage output be better (Without losing much of my survivalbility) if i swapped out some of my toughness out for a more offensive stat combo. Am I simply overdoing it with the toughness? //Juan

Looking at your 2,000 and the fact that the base armor at level 80 is 1836/1980/2127, I am inclined to believe that what you heard was basically someone talking about going full Zerker.

There is no cap to the effect of armor, but most people in PvE do not bother with armor simply because a lot of champions and legendaries have skills that pretty much kill you in one hit regardless of how much armor you have. For example, if I’m at 2,300 armor on my Warrior getting hit for 40,000, even if I went full-on armor and ended up with 3,700 armor, I would still get hit for 25,000 damage, which is still enough to 1-2 shot me.

That is to say: if you’re already getting oneshot with full berserker, adding a ton of armor is going to make it 1-3 shots instead. Which in most people’s books isn’t worth the trade.

Of course, for PvP/WvW, armor is always good because players lack the ability to oneshot you.

Im usually on 2050 armor in pve, but sometimes i swap some stuff to get up to 2250, i dont think more than taht is needed though.

but it also depends on waht you want to do, if its wvw then the armor with condi will be nice.

on a sidenote: condi builds are sub-optimal in pve :/.