Guild Wars 2

I am totally loving the new Fresh Air trait! But I have a question – now that we have a lot more flexibility in our viable builds, which gear do you think works better (for solo’ing PvE) – Knight or Berserker?

I’m currently running a full Knight D/D Elementalist with a setup of 0/30/30/10/0 and all sigils on healing and utility. Took the Earth Grandmaster trait that lets you keep the passive effect of sigils even after activation. I noticed immediately that I’m way more potent (and durable) now that I’m not dumping 30 points in Arcane, so I was curious if I could manage to make the switch to Berserker – for Crit chance of over 60% and Crit Damage over 100%. Concerned about the drop in Toughness though.

I ask this here because I don’t have the gold to drop on an entire new set of gear for the sake of experimentation. : P

PS – I am NOT a skilled player. I do okay. And I stick to solo’ing around PvE.

I say mix between knights and zerk. Typically, I run zerk weapons, zerk/valk jewels with some zerk/knights jewelry. Since it is PvE I would put more zerk than knights. But if you want some more toughness just put in more knights.

As for 30 Arcana you should consider running it since it synergies with Fresh Air really well. Since Fresh Air only procs when you air attunement is on cooldown and you are in another attunement. With lower overall attunement cooldowns you can proc more fresh air.

Hmmm… I’ll consider trying a mix then. Now just need to make bunches of gold. Hah!

As for still going for 30 Arcana, I don’t think it’s necessary. I’m doing quite well with my current build – much better than I ever managed to do with my previous Arcana build. Really enjoying the change. : )