Guild Wars 2

I know every class/build has its own optimal weapon build selection. However given how expensive and difficult it is to build an ascended does it make sense to anyone to roll a Celestial rather than say a Zerker for the build flexibility? Sure a specific stat weapon is more optimal but a Celestial covers a lot of ground for the ever changing build optimizations.

Thoughts?

Ever changing build optimizations? My warrior has been using zerker weapons for over a year now, just with different armor and rune sets. Pretty much any power build can just make zerker weapons and use them for both wvw and pve and then make up the survivability difference for wvw with armor or trinkets.

I tend to do the same thing as Blix. When I want to change things up I will change out accessories or runes first, than armor if required. I tend to like P/T/V weapons though.

That’s why legendary weapons look so appealing now. the versatility. I had no plans to ever make one because I thought it would be a waste of time. but I like changing builds a lot and making a ton of different ascended weapons just isn’t going to cut it. So i’m kind of forced to get a couple legendaries now.

Both sets have the same crit magnitude (5%) but celestial is a full 252 stat points while zerk is 161. Even if two of the stats are useless on celestial, say healing and condition damage, that is still a big stat differential. Course not all stats are created equal.

Tough choice since I flop between condition, healing and power builds.

Nikkinella.8254:

That’s why legendary weapons look so appealing now. the versatility.

With the price difference, I could easily afford 4 ascended items for the price of one legendary. The time sink to get an ascended is much less as well. I would love to have a legendary and it is future proof but spending most of my gold on a precursor (about 900g saved) to build one seems like a big stretch.