Can/should you mix and match gear ?

Can/should you mix and match gear ?

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Posted by: threeyearsofhell.1065

threeyearsofhell.1065

Hello everybody,

I have reached 80 with my elementalist a few weeks ago, but I wasn’t sure what kind of gear I wanted since I wasn’t sure what type of play attracted me the most.

After consideration, I am mostly interested in group play, especially dungeons. I want to be able to survive and take a couple of hits without dying, I also want to play more of a support role. Having played with the different weapons combinations, I have come to realize that I just enjoy the staff more and, while I learn the game better, it is the staff that I’ll be using a lot more for that reason… Right now, I have a very sorry looking green/yellow armor/jewelry, but I have enough karma for a full set, plus enough AC tears for two parts of armor. The only decent thing I have right now is the (exotic) staff with :
-179 power
- 128 precision
+ 9% crit damage

I was thinking of getting armor with mostly Power/Toughness/Vitality, more specifically :

- Mantle of Dwayna
- Gloves of Dwayna
- Garb of Balthazar
- Shoes of Balthazar
- Leggings of Melandru
- Helm of infiltration

This combination would give in all :
- 24 cond. Dam
- 67 healing
- 248 power
- 48 precision
- 176 toughness
- 224 vitality
Plus the following bonuses with the built-in runes :
+25 healing
+20% regeneration duration
+25 power
+25 Toughness
+15% burning duration
+2% damage below 50%

Can anyone tell me if I am on the right track and, if so, what type of jewelry / traits I should go for… Should I change the runes ? I am also open to any alternatives considering my playing type. In addition to the kama, I have about 35 globs and around 10 gold, plus guildmates proficient in all crafting disciplines

Any help will be very welcome !

Can/should you mix and match gear ?

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Posted by: Arkenjul.1867

Arkenjul.1867

for PVE (althought haven’t personally tested) I was planning to regear my jewelry with the ones with ALL STATS, as elementalist can really utilize all of them…we heal, we crit proc, we condition, we do damage. For survivability you can definitely go PVT on your armor, power/vitality/toughness. For runes everyone seem to rock the boon duration bonus. I just recently change from dolyak to water/monk runes. Seems to work out pretty well especially with bouncing around attunements for the bonuses with Arcane trait Elemental Attunement (V).

Just tailor your elementalist to your playstyle and it should work fine. what trait/stat improves your gameplay just focus on that.