Guild Wars 2

I just got all the stuff to make a set of ascended armor, and I was wondering which stats I should go with? Everyone was telling me to go zerker initially since apparently it’s the best for dungeons/pve, but I’ve found I mostly do WvW/EOTM. I don’t really like doing dungeons, and PVE’s just whatever. I’m sure most armor would be fine with PVE.

Any suggestions?

Ascended armor is a really small dps boost and is only useful in fractals, where you want to be zerker anyway.
Edit: as an engi assassin would be better*

Assassin? Really? I read a lot of things saying assassin wasn’t a good choice, but then again they were posted a few months ago. Why’s assassin a better choice for engi?

You want to aim at 62% crit chance (20% from fury, +8% from disc banner, 10% from traits) if you’re not running with a ranger ( in that case i swap my rifle to berserker instead of assassin- cba with berserker trinkets) since engis have a lot of on crit effects, getting to 100% crit chance is a dps increase over a bit more power, especially since you already have 300+ power with 30 points in explosives.

Okay, thanks. Is assassin’s only good for fractals, though? Would I need to switch to an exotic set of soldier’s or something like that for WvW?

WwW roaming is mostly about either hard hitting burst spec ( static discharge- but it’s really too glassy without enough disengages, i wouldn’t recommend it outside of some fun nights) or tank-ish condi specs. I used to ran a condi 6/0/0/4/4 nades/tk/ elixir s or r roamer, with a mix of different condi stats and 2 berserker trinkets i believe, did the job quite well. If you’re roaming in a small group or solo, i’d say buy an exotic condi set, be it a mix of rabid, dire, or whatever. IF you’re zerging, well engis aren’t quite good at it, but a mix of berserker and ptv to not die of retal instantly would probably work.

iirc, i aimed at 35% crit chance, 1k7-1k8 power and a moderate high condition damage.

Cool, thanks. Do you think assassin’s would be good for any other classes if I ever wanted to use my ascended armor for them? Thief, ranger? I’ve never used either of those before so I have no idea about what would also work with them, but I plan on making them both one day.

Don’t quote me on that as I only play them in casual runs so they aren’t min maxed, but thieves and rangers should be better off with berserker instead of assassin. Thieves have a precision signet and a +7% while flanking so it’s sure they won’t get a benefit from ‘sin. Now for rangers, they have spotter, but that’s about all, so I wonder. For www, i’d say zerker is superior for both ( if power based, obviously). Also from a pve point of view since rangers and thieves are good conjures wielders they may get the extra precision from lightning hammer.

Hrm. Makes it hard to decide now beteen zerker or assassin if zerker would be better for other classes. Is the damage difference between zerker & assassin for engi really noticeable?

Not much. If your plan is to do a general purpose gear, i’d go for zerker.

i’d go celestial or knight for zerging

(knight only if you want to be in the zerg and you don’t like condi )

If you like to play a condition engineer – go full rabit.

If you like hybrids go full celestial.

If you like Pve go full assassin.

I`ve been running all of the three, and they all work pretty well – choose what you like to play the most. Mabe by an exotic one first to check it out. ( and don`t forget to set infusions into all slots )

What do you generally do in WvW? That will honestly make the difference in the answer. I have no idea why everyone is giving you PvE advice when you specifically stated you were kind of “eh whatever” for PvE and primarily WvW. Many forums posters have this odd habit of pushing there personal preferences at you instead of actually ready what aspect of help your looking for. I have no idea why, but as you can see, folks do it.

To honestly help you, I will ask a few questions
What do you tend to like to do in WvW?
What style of build do you prefer to run?
Do you have any particular utility skills or kits you prefer?
Do you prefer P/P, P/S, or rifle?

Because ascended armor only matters in fractal?

To be honest ascended armor is the biggest waste of gold possible. Especially now with the [KING] research showing that rewards are better at 40-49 than 50. Unless you go for ascended armor boxes which probably will have stats and/or pieces you don’t want.

Outside fractal 50 ascended armor is irrelevant. The stat gain is a joke unless you add some infusions to it which cost around 150g each last time I checked.
With ascended berserker armor, assassin rifle and 2 assassin accesories you’re looking at 59% crit chance before buffs. It’s pretty good unless you want to absolutely minmax.

I just ended up going berserker so I can use my armor with other classes. I was mostly only really getting the armor for how it looks, not the stat bonus, but I figured if I was gonna do that, instead of locking myself into something like assassin’s gear, I might as well make the stats something other classes can use, too.

For WvW I just decided to use exotics since I can swap them around that way.