Choosing ascended back peice stats

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Posted by: Alienmuppet.1942

Alienmuppet.1942

I’m trying to choose the stats to apply to my Light of Dwayna back piece. Since the thing has been so expensive to craft I don’t want to make a mistake! I know ultimately only I can make the decision, but I’m just after some thoughts in case there is anything I’m not taking into consideration.

I play a lot of WvW (solo and team); if it was just PvE I would probably choose Zerker.

My current build is PVT armor (though I’m thinking of swapping out a few pieces for Knights and/or Celestial), I use full Melandru runes (though again, might swap some of these out to go a little less defensive), and I currently run 0/0/20/20/30 including using Geomancer’s Freedom. Food is lemongrass poultry soup and I use Superior Sharpening Stones. As you can tell, I really hate conditions.

My trinkets are currently (Ascended): Zerker Amulet, 2 * Cavalier rings, and 2 * Zerker/Valkyrie accessories.

I can get replacement trinkets fairly easily and armor for varying the builds (until I go ascended of course), but the ascended back piece is the one item that I don’t particularly want to swap out later on due to the cost, and obviously I’d like to get use out of it by wearing it as much as I can!

I’m currently thinking either:
Cavalier, Knights, or Celestial, or at a pinch, Zerker, or PVT.

Cavalier is my current favourite, after all an ele always needs lots of toughness, power and critical damage.

I guess with being able to vary the rest of the build it perhaps doesn’t really matter that much, but before I go ahead I wanted to get some thoughts from others in case there was anything I hadn’t thought of.

Thanks!

EDIT: Forgot to mention, I play D/D most of the time.

(edited by Alienmuppet.1942)

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Posted by: oZii.2864

oZii.2864

it’s minor cav or zerk is fine. Backpiece is awesome crit damage ratio so one of those 2 will do. The celestial backpiece is terrible. Its basically a glove whereas the other backpieces are basically legs with coat crit damage.

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Posted by: Alienmuppet.1942

Alienmuppet.1942

Thanks! Forgot it was so minor. I went with cavalier in the end.

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Posted by: Mochann.5298

Mochann.5298

You may want to hold off in case the zerk nerf makes zerk utterly horrible.

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Posted by: Vissarion.6509

Vissarion.6509

I would wait till next patch hits cause right now, we dont have any idea what will happen to crit.dmg and its effectiveness after the patch.

They called us TEMPESTs, but we can use our elite to cheat death instead