Thoughts on All Stat Ascended Trinkets?

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Posted by: Wolfaen.9461

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It’s time for me to buy some Ascended Trinkets for my D/D elementalist and was wondering what everyone thinks about the all stat ascended trinkets.. My current build is 0/15/10/15/30. I mainly roam/solo in WvW and am trying to get my gear in order. My armor is 4 PVT and 2 Zerker(major water,sup water, and sup fire runes) 2 knights daggers with bloodlust/battle sigils, all knights trinkets with valkyrie gems. Thinking about other runes, at least changing fire out for something else. I am interested in divinity runes but they are so kitten expensive..

So, are all stat ascended trinkets worth it, or is it better to choose the trinkets with more specialized stats? I am also getting more and more curious as to how the celestial armor will compare to more specialized armor. I am really looking for the best way/suggestions on how to optimize my d/d elementalist for roaming in WvW! Any help would be appreciated!

[Wolf] Wolfaen
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Posted by: Xunleashed.5271

Xunleashed.5271

Hi, I’m very exeprienced with builds and have like every ascended kind of trinkets. First thing: if u need critical damage, get it from trinkets and not from armor/weapons if u aim best effectivness of items. Second thing: the more celestials you equip, less power you have. So having all celestial gear means that you will have very low base damage (ignoring condition damage). New celestial armor is very stat-effective too.
As conclusion, try to stay on 1900+ power using all celestials you can, remember that you have foods to help you with that.

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Posted by: Kodiak.3281

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With the new Charged Quartz items there’s no way I’d buy them for that many Laurels. The Charged Quartz rings are like 1-2 stat points off even if it’d take 25 days for a full set.

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Posted by: Wolfaen.9461

Wolfaen.9461

Hi, I’m very exeprienced with builds and have like every ascended kind of trinkets. First thing: if u need critical damage, get it from trinkets and not from armor/weapons if u aim best effectivness of items. Second thing: the more celestials you equip, less power you have. So having all celestial gear means that you will have very low base damage (ignoring condition damage). New celestial armor is very stat-effective too.
As conclusion, try to stay on 1900+ power using all celestials you can, remember that you have foods to help you with that.

Thanks for your reply. In your opinion, would you go with all stat trinkets over the celestial armor? Or would you say they are about equal? Also, can you go into any more detail on the armor combinations you use to achieve the stats that you suggested?

With the new Charged Quartz items there’s no way I’d buy them for that many Laurels. The Charged Quartz rings are like 1-2 stat points off even if it’d take 25 days for a full set.

Are you saying that just because of the cost of the item or because you think the more more specialized trinkets are better? I am less worried about the cost, because even if it is hard to obtain, I still want to work towards a goal. But, if you think it is just not worth it at all then do you have suggestions on which trinkets you prefer? Thanks for your reply!

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Posted by: Kodiak.3281

Kodiak.3281

Are you saying that just because of the cost of the item or because you think the more more specialized trinkets are better? I am less worried about the cost, because even if it is hard to obtain, I still want to work towards a goal. But, if you think it is just not worth it at all then do you have suggestions on which trinkets you prefer? Thanks for your reply!

I’m saying that the new Charged Quartz items are like a very few stat points off of the Ascended Celestial items so to me they aren’t worth buying the Ascended version when you can make the Charged Quartz version instead.

Personally I only use the Gems in my gear because I think specialized stats are where it’s at outside of upgrade slots.

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Posted by: Xunleashed.5271

Xunleashed.5271

an example with your armor can be celestial rings + amulet and not celestial accessories (maybe berserkers). This is a good way to use celestials and still be offensive

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Posted by: Blaine Tog.8304

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I have all ascended Celestial trinkets (+ a zerker amulet) and I love it. Everything I do is useful!

I main Ele and Necro, though I have an alt of each profession at level 80.
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Posted by: Kodiak.3281

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an example with your armor can be celestial rings + amulet and not celestial accessories (maybe berserkers). This is a good way to use celestials and still be offensive

Which is more or less what I do. I mix and match various pieces of various types in various slots to come up with a good mix of offensive stats as well as defensive stats.

Works very well.

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Posted by: floppypuppy.5789

floppypuppy.5789

I’ve been using full Celestial trinkets for about two months and I would never go back. Occasionally I swap one out when doing something special purpose, but prefer using runes for specialized stats and effects. I stayed away from divinity runes because there are no trinkets with the same kinds of effects as the other runes so you lose a lot of experimentation possibilities by using them.

Personally I would limit celestial stat use by your least important stat. For example: if condition damage then when it reaches ~300 (or whatever) use specialized stats on the rest of your gear. This is essentially when the stat efficiency of celestials starts going to waste. For each playstyle there is a good enough point for toughness/vitality too so crossing that threshold is also wasted. I guess that also means there may be a viable “celestial playstyle” that nobody has had a chance to find yet…

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Posted by: Nikkinella.8254

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I’d advise against going full celestial. Your def and power will be low. I just have an amulet, 1 ring, 1 earing, and the other 2 are cavalier. I’m not sure how decent the armor will be as it’s impossible for anyone to have a full set now. I doubt going full celestial armor will be good though. Probably just the weaker pieces like shoulders and gloves since you won’t be taking a huge loss in other stats that way if you want to focus on something specific, but still get a decent benefit from them.