Guild Wars 2

i have mained ele since launch (tried all other classes of course but came back) and have always run a power ele. i really just dont like condi so much.
lately ive started doing fractals and gotten up to about lvl 80 frac, and because of the instability boon on crit (dont remember the instability name) ive been running a PVT ele

my question is this.

is it worth it? with full ascended armor, weps, rings, back and accessories that are all PTV (and power runes { dont remember which ATM} of course).

my base power is at around 3.5k and with meteor shower and IB4 and fire glyph of storms i can major spike the bosses.

what do yall think? think that a power/no crit build can work as well as the boring zerk (boring because everyone mainly runs it)

sounds awful to me. offering half or so as much damage as zerker (how much damage do you do?), for a lot of personal defense. teamwork is pretty important for high lv fractals

but how is 3.5k power possible without might?

The instability you’re thinking of (No pain, no gain) is only present at levels 41-50, which means you probably won’t need to switch your gear for any of the higher up fractals. Even when doing 41-50, you’re best bet is to either rely on your teammates for boon strip or conditions, or just ignore the instability all together. Yes it is a pain, but going in with soldiers won’t make it better (especially considering there might be four other people still using high-crit builds).

The offensive traits are synergistic, so when you ignore one stat entirely, the dps loss is pretty heavy. The rule I follow is either armor or trinkets as solders, but not both. Weapons are always berserkers.

There is only a small percentage of content where I feel the need to wear my soldiers and that’s usually open world solo content in HoT. In groups, there just is no need, particularly if you are running staff