Guild Wars 2

I’m curios, I use several different sets of Exotic’s on my engineer because I change builds a lot. I have not made up my mind and was curious what everybody else got for their engineer for ascended gear.

Sounds like you want Celestial. Solid for damage builds if you pair it with Zerker trinkets/weapons. Solid for condi builds if you pair with Rabid trinkets/weapons.

knight armor
cavalier earrings
zerk the rest
modus operandi: wvw gear, 1800 toughness min – replace zerk w/ cavalier to make the toughness requirement after deciding traits.

I went with a Celestial armor set. No regret ever since I started wearing it. It always had huge potential on Engineer.

building dire.

http://youtu.be/lPtLpd7vnPM
this is my celestial build list
making a list of all builds that work with celestial

Out of curiousity, does the back slot count as armor or trinkets in such descriptions?

Heard celestial back item is pretty bad atm…

I consider it among the trinkets.

I don’t understand using more than Celestial armor. In just the armor supplemented by specific trinkets for what you’re doing you don’t lose much of the main stat your build uses. However if you start to use Celestial weapons and trinkets your main damaging stat is going to be too low IMO.

I’m currently building my third piece of Celestial Ascended. It’s a long process.

Rabid with rabid/dire split earrings. I only do PvP/Roaming WvW on him though.

I wouldn’t consider touching celestial without knowing how they’ll change the stats on them first personally.

Is there a big difference stats wise between Celestial Ascended gear and Celestial Exotic gear? I’ve done a little searching but haven’t come up with anything.

To tide me over in the mean time I am using Dire Exotic armor.

Aberrant.6749:

Rabid with rabid/dire split earrings. I only do PvP/Roaming WvW on him though.

I wouldn’t consider touching celestial without knowing how they’ll change the stats on them first personally.

I understand not heavily investing into something that is known to be changing, but it’s not like it’s going to completely repurpose. If you want Celestial because it’s a flexible set that you can pair with more specialized trinkets/weapons to flush out a build, it’s still going to be that no matter what they do with Ferocity. Heck it’s likely the stats get bumped up to compensate for whatever crit damage it loses so it would be even better for an Engi.

I have a full set of ascended weapons, trinkets, and armor that are all celestial gear, and I love it. Sure it may change, but it won’t be much. I use a full set of Traveler’s Runes, and I find this set of gear lets me be very flexible. I spend a good deal of time in WvW and I can change my build from one end to the other on the fly.

Celestial armor. It’s more than enough DPS to speed clear most dungeon paths in under 10 minutes, and it’s enough survivability to front-line a WvW blob with the bomb kit or melee Tequatl.

Some people may argue that Berserker is best in PvE, but we have access to so much might, vulnerability, and damage traits (Rifle Mod, Target The Maimed, Mod Ammo) we can kind of get away with it. The damage gain with Berserker is there, but in my opinion doesn’t really warrant building a second full set of armor to get it.

I feel like full Celestial is overkill, but at least for armor purposes, I can’t think of a better option that has so much application across the game.

Wupwup once I gather all the silk to make a full set. I like having a versatile or all around play style so Celestial fits perfectly. It also gives me the most optimal build, too. I plan to command with that set.