Guild Wars 2

Hey guys, i am using the standart 10 air 30 arcana 30 water build, with PVT armors/weapons, clerics jewels, and i’d like to know if its viable to go P V T armor, with berserk weapons and jewels.

I dont really like sceptre or staff in any ways, so it would be only D/D, mostly for dungeons and fractals, i feel that i can put some more dmg, i just dont know if its viable to do so with D/D, i can manage myself very well with d/d already, very used it to it, the only problem with this would be the lack of defense.

Would i drop very fast using this berserk weapons and jewels? Is it viable to be dps d/d or only staff and sceptre?

With all the mobility i got with d/d i feel i can put some more damage in dungeons, since i can easily run back and evade major damage, and come back really quickly to do dmg again.

Any help here?
Thanks in advance!

With your current setup, I would presume you would be fine. The extra crit chance from fury would help your output damage and the Tough / Vit on armor would help you survive. As long as you KNOW when to use your skills and not just trying to put things on cooldown, you should be fine. I’m assuming since you are d/d you know all about dodging the big attacks. However, remember that in dungeons, there is a lot of aoe, so every extra bit of toughness / healing helps. Less healing = Need better tactics. All I can say is start with Rare items and if you like the play style, go for exotics. Best of luck!

I use Aura sharing to stack fury / swiftness on my group mates.

Seeing that your main concern is about survivability, you can buy the masterwork trinklets and give it a try first. I’m thinking about the same thing as well just that currently don’t have time to try it yet.
Can you please let me know if you can survive in dungeons or fractals with those jewels? I would like to know the results from others as well.

For pve sure. For wvw and pvp I would not use berserker.

Mogar.9216:

For pve sure. For wvw and pvp I would not use berserker.

I run a full suit of berserker’s armor, p/v/t weapons, and beryl/emerald jewelry in wvw and do quite well solo, small scale, and group vs zerg.

This is how I run:

• Both Daggers Berserker (Pow/Prec/Critdmg)
• Trinkets all Knight’s (Tou/Pow/Prec)
• Soldier’s Armor (Pow/Vit/Tou)

Hope this helps

This is excatly the same question I posted in the Daphoenix thread. I would love to hear more reports about different gear compositions, especialy droping the healing power stat in exchange to something else (knights).

dreztina.4820:

Mogar.9216:

For pve sure. For wvw and pvp I would not use berserker.

I run a full suit of berserker’s armor, p/v/t weapons, and beryl/emerald jewelry in wvw and do quite well solo, small scale, and group vs zerg.

You can get away with that with most player but I really don’t see how you can win vs skilled bunker of any class with that setup. Heck I could be wrong. It’s just my personal experience that everytime I gimp on heal or toughness I get away with it for a day or two until I meet that good player and he/she shows me why I ran bunker in the first place…

I currently run a D/D zerker build with full zerker armour w/ a mix of Valk and P/V/T jewelery and weapons (AC weapons and WvW rings). The trick I found is that I don’t run a full zerker trait set. Currently I run 0 20 0 30 20. This makes it so I share auras and auras give me fury and swiftness. I sit at around 20k health 2.1k power 1.6k prec 1k toughness 1.6k vit, which is more than enough to survive most burst builds and to escape from zergs if need be. My advise for a zerker build is to use the sigil of superior energy (the one that gives you 50% energy from weapon switches every 9s) this makes it so I get 1 dodge every 9s on attunement switch along with near constant vigor due to Arcana trait. As a zerker anything dodges are your friend and the way I run I get a lot of them. The only real 1v1 I’ve lost where I didn’t make an a horrible mistake or get jumped at some point was against a bunker guardian and that lasted for over 10 minutes.

You can go full zerker if you’re good with dodging. If you want some passive survivability, get knight’s/valkyrie’s armour or trinkets (trinkets, not counting backpack, give a bit more statistics). You shouldn’t stack defensive stats just because eles got less hp/armour. There’s a good reason for it.

Thanks for the answer guys, and after ive been thinking about it i think i will stay with pvt armor/weapon and clerics jewels.

The question was only to dungeons, at pvp there is no question that i am using this setup, which really works for me. My question is mostly fractals, and i think that little damage, won’t help as much as me staying alive almost always. I am still able to do nice dmg with 3k power, even though i wont be critting.

The issue that led me to thinking about swapping a few gears, was to make use of that fury that we get for free, but ill just ignore it, and stay focused on my survivability with some nice dmg from 3k power.

I feel that there is no need to put more damage on me,, so i guess ill stay this way, again thanks for the feedback!

Run d/d zerker on high level fractals without a guardian or bunker ele carrying your kitten with boons and come tell me that it worked. Better yet, film it.

Try an actual berserker set, no full water/arcana, and tell me how well it goes as well.

A zerker set without maximizing power/prec/crit is not an actual zerker set. You’re running a hybrid, and the fact is you won’t touch the damage of a warrior or thief, let alone my mesmer’s.

If you want to run a full zerker build, go for a scepter/dagger for frontload or a staff for lesser burst but more supportive options.

i wouldnt recommend anyone running full zerker build in any dungeon. 2 many things there have big heavy hit or multi location aoe that requires dodging, a single mistake means death there. of course if ur really confident in ur abilities, its doable, just really harsh.

I never said I would run full berserk, i said about mixing a little, but after thiking a bit, i feel there is no need for me to get more damage, as long as my party knows i am there ALIVE dealing a mediocre dps, feels right for me, this ofc for d/d, which is the only setup i like for elementalists

I primarily run dungeons and have found my current D/D setup works perfectly for me. I use the 0/10/0/30/30 build for aura sharing and evasive arcana. I have an equal mix of both P/V/T and P/Prec/Crit%. I use 3 monk runes, and 3 water runes. Sigil of leeching on one dagger, sigil of bloodlust on the other.

I may not be pumping out the numbers that full zerker gear could do, but I can still do really decent damage along with buffing and supporting my party. I can rez ppl mid-boss fight, pass boons around to everyone, and still manage to pull off 4k hits if that bloodlust sigil is stacked.

Zerker only means stats from items. Running 30/30 fire and air doesn’t mean you’re zerker, it means you’re maximizing your glass cannon status. Can’t say a lot about fractals because I don’t play them but it works good enough in harder dungeons like arah. I can 2man lupi without guardian/ele carrying my kitten (mostly because no guardian or ele melees him).