Guild Wars 2

I’ve gotten back into playing GW2 and am in the process of gearing an old char.

Before crit dmg was changed to ferocity the best weighted armor pieces would be chest and leggings (maybe helm?) After the conversion to ferocity, is this still optimal? I want to mix in some PVT for survivalbility. Btw this is in regards to exotics.

For ascended armor, I assume it would just be better going all zerk?

If you are mixing in PVT for survivability, then it’s no longer “optimal”. Ferocity is a stat, so just as any, there’s most of it on chestpieces / leggings.
With Ascended armor, Zerker is okay, but I would go with Celestial simply because ascended armor is account-bound. You can swap it around on toons. Also, it should do an okay-ish job for all builds.

I’d recommend having a full zerker set ( for when you get better at the content), and taking something like a couple of celestial accessories. That’ll give you enough to survive some of the 1 hit ko’s – assuming you started at full health. IDeally asc cele accessories so you can swap em about as you learn new classes.