Guild Wars 2

With the new ascended armors coming soon I want to ask my fellow eles what set are you going to get first and why.

I enjoy wvw and I’m saving now to get a wup wup set.

I would say there’s little to no reason NOT to go full celestial acended.

I look at it this way. Most people will still be in exotics, and your acended celestial will basically let you have every single stat in acended gear as most people will have minor stat on their exotic gear. That’s in addition to decent crit dmg.

If they keep formulas the same, that’s what I’ll be doing, although I could see points for other gear types, like Cav.

Mbelch.9028:

I would say there’s little to no reason NOT to go full celestial acended.

I look at it this way. Most people will still be in exotics, and your acended celestial will basically let you have every single stat in acended gear as most people will have minor stat on their exotic gear. That’s in addition to decent crit dmg.

If they keep formulas the same, that’s what I’ll be doing, although I could see points for other gear types, like Cav.

What happens when everyone has ascended armor?

Zerk. Zerk, Zerk, Zerk. …. and maybe Assassins.

Celestial is balance between offense and defense in wvw. Valkyrie or Celestial for me.

I normally just play pve and pvp so I’ll be getting zerker. I have a powerful need for that light chest piece skin, though.

Full celestial is the way to go.

Going from exotic—>ascended has less marginal benefit if you have a piece that has crit damage vs. those that don’t.

For instance:
Knight’s goes from (90, 64, 64) PVT to (94, 67, 67) for a dagger
Zerker’s goes from (90, 64, 5%) Power, prec, crit dmg to (94, 67, 5%)

The benefit for non-crit pieces is+10 stats, but for crit pieces is only +7.

However, if you are going for a sustained damage build, celestial is do-able. However, I only use it to fill in a few points here and there and get more crit dmg w/o giving up all defense.

I will be going for a full-soldier’s set, as that provides an excellent base for a power ele to build off of with zerk/cav trinkets. I might mix in a few zerk/cav pieces eventually as needed for the stat combo I want.

Mbelch.9028:

I would say there’s little to no reason NOT to go full celestial acended.

I look at it this way. Most people will still be in exotics, and your acended celestial will basically let you have every single stat in acended gear as most people will have minor stat on their exotic gear. That’s in addition to decent crit dmg.

If they keep formulas the same, that’s what I’ll be doing, although I could see points for other gear types, like Cav.

It isn’t so much about the stats but the Defense rating will be higher on asended armor. It is the same with ascended weapons where the weapon strength rating is higher that is the real impact the stat difference is hardly even be noticeable if it was just all about stats. Also there is no way celestial top will get +72 all stats on the coat but you are probably correct on the minor pieces matching exotics minor stats.

Myself will go with my current setup Celestial helm (because the difference from knights is very very small) everything else knights. I think my trinket setup is perfect for me right now. I really hate running guild missions so I’ll leave my 2 accessories as celestial. my rings are cav and ammy is zerk/valk and my backpiece is zerk/valk now thanks to quver of thousand arrows.

I’m not a fan of celestial armor though I know it is a great place to grab it but it doesn’t out dps knights unless you can stay ahead in might stacks by 14+. Knights can have those same might stacks. The critical damage number looks good but the loss in power and precision keeps it behind knights always.

I’ve played around with a build generator and I think that I would like an all Celestial set, since I am running something slightly balanced out for WvW now anyway. The all Ascended Celestial (+ Berserker/Valkyrie daggers) would have all the strengths of my current setup + getting rid of the weaknesses (low healing & condi damage e.g.). With a high chance of crit-attacks your DPS from raw damage + conditions should be good, so you can pair it with a Superior Sigil of Torment for the almost permanent AoE Torment. I imagine that being quite lethal if you do not run a burst build (which would probably substitute a few trinkets to Berserker/Cavalier as already mentioned.

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Mbelch.9028:

I would say there’s little to no reason NOT to go full celestial acended.

I look at it this way. Most people will still be in exotics, and your acended celestial will basically let you have every single stat in acended gear as most people will have minor stat on their exotic gear. That’s in addition to decent crit dmg.

If they keep formulas the same, that’s what I’ll be doing, although I could see points for other gear types, like Cav.

It isn’t so much about the stats but the Defense rating will be higher on asended armor. It is the same with ascended weapons where the weapon strength rating is higher that is the real impact the stat difference is hardly even be noticeable if it was just all about stats. Also there is no way celestial top will get +72 all stats on the coat but you are probably correct on the minor pieces matching exotics minor stats.

Myself will go with my current setup Celestial helm (because the difference from knights is very very small) everything else knights. I think my trinket setup is perfect for me right now. I really hate running guild missions so I’ll leave my 2 accessories as celestial. my rings are cav and ammy is zerk/valk and my backpiece is zerk/valk now thanks to quver of thousand arrows.

I’m not a fan of celestial armor though I know it is a great place to grab it but it doesn’t out dps knights unless you can stay ahead in might stacks by 14+. Knights can have those same might stacks. The critical damage number looks good but the loss in power and precision keeps it behind knights always.

I don’t think the loss will be that much DPS wise, and certainly not 350+ power worth.

I’ll need to see numbers, but my speculation is it’ll be a great set of armor.

I’m sure we’ve arrived at the same conclusions now, (I run knight’s armor) and I’m sure we’ll agree after the patch, too.

Mbelch.9028:

I don’t think the loss will be that much DPS wise, and certainly not 350+ power worth.

I’ll need to see numbers, but my speculation is it’ll be a great set of armor.

I’m sure we’ve arrived at the same conclusions now, (I run knight’s armor) and I’m sure we’ll agree after the patch, too.

I partly take back my opinion on celestial head, legs, and lastly chest are the pieces I would use it on. As I just added a piece to my armor to hit my final stat combination rofl. It isn’t a huge loss on those pieces if you are looking to get a bit more critical damage.

Yeah heh. It fits into several of my equations.

I personally use three pieces.