Guild Wars 2

I used to run an ascended celestial rifle build. With the current meta is celestial still viable with rifle or hammer, or should I change my stats to marauder/zerker?

For what content?

mainly PvE right now, but some WvW.

The usual for WvW is marauders weapon&armor with knights trinkets. This should also serve you fine for general PvE minus raids/fractals.
And sadly no old cele engi isn’t what it used to be. Sure you can stil play it but most people have switched to power or straight up condi.

Marauder if you want to be safer, smallish dps loss for more survival.
Berserker for max power damage
Viper/Sinister for max Condi

All are viable. Marauder probably best for dual PVE/WvW though I go with full zerker in there without too much trouble. Scrapper and standard Engi are both good, for WvW though scrapper for sure IMO.

For wvw in my opinion celestial with hammer is really viable. If you take celestial armor with ascended berserker jewellery it is not bad at all. Probably marauder is better , ok , but if you ( like me ) already have and ascended armour and you don’t want to craft marauder insigna for changing it , you can easily use your celestial ascended armour. I use it and i don’t feel so weak . For core engi , in my opinion the best stat to use remain rabid now. I am using a classic ft toolkit, elixir S build with balthazar, rabid , firearms , alchemy and tools and i have to say that it is really strong. It has not the sustain of scrapper , but in my opinion , as core class is not that bad and if you learn to avoid 1vs 1 against necro and condi warrior , you can really have fun becouse it has a great condi burst. If you like condi engi you have to learn to remain ranged from some enemies ( condition spammers) but if you succede in spam bleed ( pistol autoattack) and burning you can win even hard counters ( not easily but possible ) . Only condi warrior is really quite impossible for his absurde resistance

I’m trying to run celestial stats with rifle in WvW roaming, but sadly rifle doesn’t give enough damage mitigation.

Nowadays Im running really good with this…

Due 55% Boon duration U can stack really easy around 15 might, (Power > 3000) reliable fury (50%+20%=70% crit chance) combined with 200% ferocity hits like a truck

On defense side, reliable protection boon ( fron gyro, runes and protection injection added to 10% from food and 2900 armor with adaptave armor trait) and good condi cleans make it a really tought fighter in 1v1 1v2 or smalls groups.

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQNAR8enknBlphNqB2oBEgilTj6sKiirreav2tlMAWggC-TVDFAB7fEAMUFC23fggLAQhqqclSwEVLIJlVLcQAA4BA0mGh00FgkSlAAIA/G6MghO0hO04m3co3co3sUAPt1C-w

ApaWanka.2698:

Nowadays Im running really good with this…

Due 55% Boon duration U can stack really easy between 15 might, (Power > 3000) reliable fury (50%+20%=70% crit chance) combined with 200% ferocity hits like a truck

On defense side, reliable protection boon ( fron gyro, runes and protection injection added to 10% from food and 2900 armor with adaptave armor trait) and good condi cleans make it a really tought fighter in 1v1 1v2 or smalls groups.

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQNAR8enknBlphNqB2oBEgilTj6sKiirreav2tlMAWggC-TVDFAB7fEAMUFC23fggLAQhqqclSwEVLIJlVLcQAA4BA0mGh00FgkSlAAIA/G6MghO0hO04m3co3co3sUAPt1C-w

Links to a Chrono build.

Sorry, ponting with my mobile xDDD

I use this for wvw Roaming…. and with some small modifications for GvG

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQFASncoCtbhFpCGYBEqilJjKc7SmwS8ZKgAg+vz79G-TFyHAB+pSR47P0jyv4vAAepDAgHAgTKB1TdlNDCA+/jJPPSBk5QL-w

Samug.6512:

I’m trying to run celestial stats with rifle in WvW roaming, but sadly rifle doesn’t give enough damage mitigation.

Problem is not celestial in my opinion. Problem is in rifle. Now there are only 2 weapons really viable : hammer and pistol pistol with a condi setup ( hammer power is stronger and simple to play but condi engi is viable too )