Guild Wars 2

Hi Guys,

i dont play much pvp so i was gonna ask if the new celestial armor is available in pvp.

There is a celestial amulet…

peter.9024:

There is a celestial amulet…

Yeah, i know, but is there celestial armor now as well?

I wanted to try, if there is a viable celestial build for warrior and thought i might try it the cheap way in pvp.

divinity runes + celestial amulet will simulate celestial armor.

they have been in the game since launch.

Just incase you don’t pvp at all, keep in mind that armor has no stats in pvp, its all runes traits and amulets.

Testing pve/wvw in pvp is hard to do with builds that have high crit damage, which celestial does in pve. This is due to drasticly different opportunity costs for crit damage. As well, celestial has more stats in pve compared to its counter part. The celestial armor in pve is 60% of a corresponding minor stat with crit damage ratio’s at 7-8. In pvp its 52% of a minor with ratios for crit at 19. Ie: Celestial is much stronger in pve then in pvp

Edit: The new armor, the old ascended celestial has varying ratios

^Nikkle comment is very important.
PvP celestial amulet gives a stat total of 1704 + 15crit damage vs 1936 points on other amulets. (or 1651 + 15% crit)
PvE Full celestial armor on the other hand gives 840 + 15 crit damage vs 763 ( or 539 + 15crit) compared to regular gear. ( I don’t know the stats of full exotic celestial accessories, so this is only the armor).

So you’ll find pvp celestial isn’t as powerful as pve celestial gear.

^ it should be noted that celestial amulet also gives crit damage, so comparing it to amulets that give crit damage is a better comparison.

Zerker’s amulet gives 1651+15% crit.
Celestial amulet gives 1704+15% crit.

^Yeah, my bad. Originally I was converting the crit damage to points to make a % comparison, but then I realized the ratio was different on pve and pvp, so I changed it quickly. Even if you just count the crit damage part as another x amount of stat points as you’d get in another stat, pvp celestial is about 2.7% more stat points, where as pve is ~28% more.

what do you mean celestial armor…theres no stats other then amor on armor in pvp..