Guild Wars 2

Hey guys, I’m coming back to the game for the first time since before Christmas, and I’m trying to make an effort to finally craft Ascended armor, which I haven’t done before. My main is a staff ele that I mainly use for solo PVE or map event whatnot.

Given that I’ve never made the armor before, and I know there’s been several changes to stats and stuff since I last seriously played, does anyone have any suggestions as to stats and such? Or is Celestial still the go-to set?

Thanks for any help!

Celestial was never the go-to set for PvE.

Marauders is pretty nice for Ele, since it pretty much gives you 25% more HP while losing only about 3-5% damage.

Using the example build below you’d be loosing 16.5% damage. I’d say that’s a significant amount that should be considered when choosing the equipment.

Don’t even accuse me of nitpicking, your estimation is off by about 300% to 550%.

@Op Marauders is a viable stat for PvE open world. Most fractal groups will also welcome you if you’re wearing marauder’s. However berserker’s is still the preferred stat-combo. You can use soldier’s trinkets as training wheels until you don’t need them anymore. Replacing only the trinkets once you get the hang of it is much cheaper that replacing the whole armor and weapon set.

Edit: corrected wrong link.

Both your builds are Berserker’s.

And I guess I should have clarified, though he did ask about armor only. I mean Marauders armor with Berserker’s trinkets (maybe throw in a Marauder’s amulet, too, if you really need to), which gimps your effective power by about 3-4% (http://bit.ly/1LJO1Bw).

Solo staff for PvE means maurauders is a totally solid choice. But its harder to get then berserkers.

I did go with celestial for mine, but its exotic not ascended, and I’m not doing high level fractals with it. Its done well for me in pve, largely cuz I like changing my build around a lot. I know it’s not the glass cannon most people go for, but it works for me for now.