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Posted by: MrTitan.1654

MrTitan.1654

Hello fellas.
First I’d like to thank ArenaNet for this great living world update, you did a great job! Second I’d like to hear your opinion on the Celestial gear and how well does it fit our profession. I have full AC PVT armor and I’m running D/D auramancer and couple of weeks ago I started farming CoF p1 in order to buy the power/pres/crit armor. Now the question: Is the new Celestial gear better then AC PVT and CoF P/P/C and what play style would best fit the new gear?
I hope I’ll get some good advice from you.
Cheers

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Posted by: Solo.9027

Solo.9027

Celestial is like a weaker combination of the two but with magic find. Its better than regular magic find gear but is not really a best choice for anything serious.

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Posted by: Durzlla.6295

Durzlla.6295

It fits extremely well for ele (and a few other profs like engi and ranger if built for it), the thing is you don’t want to be using a build that is focused on something in celestial though.

You don’t want to be going for MOAR DAMAGEZ! Or Being a tank, or being a condi user. You want to try to use a bit of everything and take traits that fit that theme (Serrated Stones is a prime example of this). If you do this then Celestial gear will be very strong, however if you go with the mindset of most RPG players go which is total Min/Max then don’t even touch the stuff it’ll only hurt you.

If you’re like me and you like to play as a Hybrid and do a bit of everything, then the gear will work extremely well and surprisingly works better than the other gear. But keep in mind you’ll be a hybrid, so you will NEVER out damage a zerker geared player or out tank a bunker, but you will have a good amount of everything.

TLDR: If you want to be a specific role don’t touch Celestial, it’s for hybrids, if you want to be super tanky or deal a lot of damage (normally specific type of damage like condi or direct) go with another gear type.

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As their mother, I have to grant them their wish. – Forever Fyonna

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Posted by: MrTitan.1654

MrTitan.1654

It fits extremely well for ele (and a few other profs like engi and ranger if built for it), the thing is you don’t want to be using a build that is focused on something in celestial though.

You don’t want to be going for MOAR DAMAGEZ! Or Being a tank, or being a condi user. You want to try to use a bit of everything and take traits that fit that theme (Serrated Stones is a prime example of this). If you do this then Celestial gear will be very strong, however if you go with the mindset of most RPG players go which is total Min/Max then don’t even touch the stuff it’ll only hurt you.

If you’re like me and you like to play as a Hybrid and do a bit of everything, then the gear will work extremely well and surprisingly works better than the other gear. But keep in mind you’ll be a hybrid, so you will NEVER out damage a zerker geared player or out tank a bunker, but you will have a good amount of everything.

TLDR: If you want to be a specific role don’t touch Celestial, it’s for hybrids, if you want to be super tanky or deal a lot of damage (normally specific type of damage like condi or direct) go with another gear type.

Looking at the gear stats I was thinking the same thing but i find it kinda hard to make a build for a hybrid. Do you have any ideas and would you like to post your build?

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Posted by: Durzlla.6295

Durzlla.6295

It fits extremely well for ele (and a few other profs like engi and ranger if built for it), the thing is you don’t want to be using a build that is focused on something in celestial though.

You don’t want to be going for MOAR DAMAGEZ! Or Being a tank, or being a condi user. You want to try to use a bit of everything and take traits that fit that theme (Serrated Stones is a prime example of this). If you do this then Celestial gear will be very strong, however if you go with the mindset of most RPG players go which is total Min/Max then don’t even touch the stuff it’ll only hurt you.

If you’re like me and you like to play as a Hybrid and do a bit of everything, then the gear will work extremely well and surprisingly works better than the other gear. But keep in mind you’ll be a hybrid, so you will NEVER out damage a zerker geared player or out tank a bunker, but you will have a good amount of everything.

TLDR: If you want to be a specific role don’t touch Celestial, it’s for hybrids, if you want to be super tanky or deal a lot of damage (normally specific type of damage like condi or direct) go with another gear type.

Looking at the gear stats I was thinking the same thing but i find it kinda hard to make a build for a hybrid. Do you have any ideas and would you like to post your build?

In PvP i used 20/20/20/10/0 for a while, it was surprisingly good but it could probably use some fine tuning, and i was still working out the kinks in the utility skill synergy. i took all the attunement CD skills and then took the more damage while your enemy is burning, bleeding, and under 20% health, it was pretty freaking good in damage, and fairly good at healing and defense when in water/earth attunement so you can start there.

I know a looooooooooong time ago i use 10/10/10/10/30 which worked really well and essentially just swapped attunements all the time, but idk if it still works or not, i’d need to try it out again.

PS: Both those builds i used Staff and Scepter/Focus (would swap back and forth between them) i’d imagine D/D or S/D or D/F would also work well, but i just don’t like those play styles so idk how good they’d work.

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Posted by: Izer.2083

Izer.2083

This is what you’ll get using Celestial Ascended Trinkets
Ascended Soldier Back
Full Celestial Exotic Armor and weapon
6 Divinity Rune

The Stats are without trait bonus

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Posted by: Durzlla.6295

Durzlla.6295

This is what you’ll get using Celestial Ascended Trinkets
Ascended Soldier Back
Full Celestial Exotic Armor and weapon
6 Divinity Rune

The Stats are without trait bonus

Those are some really nice looking stats, this just solidifies my choice in gear xD

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As their mother, I have to grant them their wish. – Forever Fyonna

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Posted by: sonicwylde.2906

sonicwylde.2906

hmmm I do a spec htat pretty much gives boons to everyone, staff ele… what do you think the celestial armor would do for that build?