Guild Wars 2

I’m about 2/5 pieces of my Celestial Exalted and I’m suddenly wondering if I should continue pursuing it.

Is anyone using this set and have any thoughts on it?

I made a set to see how it is, I’m mainly using staff but I can already tell the crit damage is better, with not much less hp than one of my other sets. I still have not tried the celestial with s/d or d/d. I can only guess if my crits on staff are 3.5-5k then other weapons would be more. *note I also have ruby jewels on the celestial gear. Hope it helps.

I have all celestial armor pieces but they’ve just sitting in my backpack. The survivability you gain from it is negligible. The sheer amount of damage you lose is not.

With the MF, its a decent all round PvE armor, with enough stats and damage (if you focus on Air for Precision and use Cavalier’s of the Valkyrie trinkets/back) that you won’t notice too much of a slowdown in kill speed, as well as a buff to general survivability.

I like having a set for the simple fact that as ANet buffs and nerfs builds, skills, traits and gear weights, the Celestial will be the one armor set that will always retain SOME effectiveness. Call it insurance armor if you like.

That being said, once ANet removes MF from Celestial (and especially with no other additions to counter the stat loss) its appeal will lessen some, but will still act as a good buffer against game changes. For example, if ANet ever makes condition damage on an Ele the meta, Celestial will allow you to use the build while you acquire Carrion or Rabid (or even Rampager’s) gear. But in high end PvE, where 1 hit KOs are common (i.e. high Fractals) it makes sense to always run full Berserker’s with Ruby Orbs or Scholar Runes.

Save your mats.
The new time gated arsended gear comes out soon.