Since I don’t have full celestial yet (16 more days) I went to the mists and tried out a celestial engineer build with the amulet. Obviously, it’s nowhere near the amount of stats you’d get in wvw/pve full celestial, but it was something.
I thought to myself, why not try out something strange with this amulet, and went with p/p static discharge. Against all possible odd, I was actually quite pleased with the results.
The build was
10 in explosives, taking burn proc
30 in firearms, taking coated bullets, recharge rate, and modified ammo.
10 in inventions, taking stealth on root.
20 in tools, taking speedy kits and static discharge
Utilities were
med kit
utility goggles
pbr (I know no suprise shot)
tool kit
supply drop
Rotation was, pull with magnet, prybar, analyze, auto attack, poison dart volley, pbr, launch battering ram, static shot, blowtorch.
The damage was unique and surprising. Modified ammo was really noticeable on blowtorch after stacking 6 conditions (confusion, vuln, cripple, bleed, poison, and burn which will probably proc off of the explosives trait). The combination of somewhat decent SD burst, in addition to the somewhat decent condition damage ticking, seemed to throw a lot of opponents off guard, coupled with the fact that you are also throwing a knockdown into the mix with pbr.
I figured, with the increase in stats you’d get in wvw, this build might be a unique roaming variation on the p/p hgh build (that I have grown bored of after several months of playing it).
As far as sigils and runes go, I was experimenting and just went with runes of melandru and two 5 percent dmg sigils in each pistol. I’m sure there are better options, but I will have to research this more to find out.
Anyway, if anyone does have full celestial (trinkets and armor) and wants to try out this build in wvw, it would be great. I have 16 more days until I have enough charged crystals to give it a whirl.