is celestial gear still useful ??

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Posted by: lislis.8075

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Hey i have been played as elementalist for for couple months.. when i look at gears.. i think celestial is pretty goood for ele still… but alot of people say differently.

So feel freee to give input Thanks in advance!!!!

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Posted by: mygamingid.5816

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It depends what you want to do. If you want to enjoy open world PvE, it’ll be just fine. You’ll be able to use the skillsets of all your elements well whenever you want. You’ll be fine in dungeons and low-end fractals, too.

Things will get more difficult in PvP, WvW, high-end fractal PvE, and raid PvE. Celestial is too much a generalist stat set and those modes favor specialization toward damage or an auramancer build.

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Posted by: sokeenoppa.5384

sokeenoppa.5384

Yes it is. You can Solo any pve areas, most champs and Even dungeons (zerker can too If no mistakes are Made) i personally do wvw roaming with full cele, durability runes and arcane/water/tempest, its a lot of fun ;D

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Posted by: Amen.4293

Amen.4293

Cele in PvP? RIP 2014

Amen
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Posted by: lLobo.7960

lLobo.7960

Cele in PvP? RIP 2014

Cele weaver on wvw? maybe…

There has been a few petitions to bring back the cele ammy to PvP, since what made it so powerful was might-stacking and fury and that will be hit hard by boon hate on PoF…

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Posted by: Henrik.7560

Henrik.7560

Honestly, celestial tempest works fine for me in WvW and PvE excluding raids.

Cele d/d arcane water tempest with LF aftershock and mist form, with auras for self cleanse all traited works really well in solo roaming.
Celestial staff works great for zerging as you can deal substantial damage while being able to provide good heals and not dying instantly.
And cele d/w earth air auramancer fresh air is great in solo pve, you can solo t4 fractals even because it sustains so well.

I have more details on builds if you need too, pm me.

Arcane Bastion [AB]
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Posted by: Wiseman.4075

Wiseman.4075

I really enjoy Celestial “armor”. I have been going with Runes of the Berserker but thinking about switching to Flame Legion. Trinkets and Weapon stats I switch out depending on if I want more straight damage or more condition dmg. Lately, I’ve been going more of a Power/Burn spec. I think ideally in the future I’m going with a combo of Viper and Grieving for armor/weapons and adjust trinkets to get my defense were I want it. Celestial is a great set to get comfortable with while slowly shedding your defense for more dps in advanced content.

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Posted by: FrownyClown.8402

FrownyClown.8402

Since it isn’t available in pvp I will talk pve and wvw.

For wvw, celestial can be good for roaming and decent for support ele in zergs. If you roam build just celestial trinkets or build just celestial armor, but not both. Focus on building damage and maybe a bit more defensive stats.

For pve its good for casual play, but I don’t think optimal for high tier pve


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Posted by: Magnuzone.8395

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Celestial isnt terrible, but it was great. I miss when cele eles were op. Was so fun to play then. I play my ele in WvW with marauder armor and pvt trinkets, but Im no roamer. Its for my semi support dmg build in large groups.

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Posted by: apharma.3741

apharma.3741

Since it isn’t available in pvp I will talk pve and wvw.

For wvw, celestial can be good for roaming and decent for support ele in zergs. If you roam build just celestial trinkets or build just celestial armor, but not both. Focus on building damage and maybe a bit more defensive stats.

For pve its good for casual play, but I don’t think optimal for high tier pve

Agreed and to add to this:

In higher level PvE gameplay it’s zerker power ele or viper/sinister condi ele, the extra vitality, toughness and healing power is unnecessary.

For WvW if you’re playing tempest and support you want more healing power and probably a bit more vitality and/or toughness than celestial provides. You’re not there to deal damage, you’re there to heal, cleanse, protect your allies and help set up kills so you should focus on that.

As said above roaming on celestial or celestial + other damage stats hybrid is perfectly fine, D/D is very good for this with durability runes. Weaver is also likely to be very good with the above stats as it puts out decent condi pressure on the dual skills and likely will have good power scaling too. You probably need some might stacking ability though to really make the use of that condition damage stat.

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Posted by: lislis.8075

lislis.8075

Thanks for everyone’s input on this topics. I personally use arcane/water/tempest with cele and durability runes as well but with a staff! I feel like I am doing perfectly fine lol. TBH I think this combination is pretty strong in open world or in wvw! If u guys are insterested I would provide my build when I get home !!

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Posted by: sokeenoppa.5384

sokeenoppa.5384

Im also cele durability water arcane tempest with Staff. Itbworks great.