WvW Celestial Build - Power and Condi

WvW Celestial Build - Power and Condi

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Posted by: totalpwnage.6534

totalpwnage.6534

I was lucky enough to buy a lot of the giant wintersday gifts when they spewed out charged quartz crystals, enough to finish my celestial set, and have had some pretty good success in WvW using it. Relatively high condition damage and power stats allow me to be effective against most builds, condi clear builds are still hurt by direct damage and toughness builds get smacked by my conditions. You really are setup to fight almost any other build.

Stats – Full bloodlust stacks and food
2999 Attack
43% Crit chance
61% Crit damage
1056 Condition damage
2695 Armour
19622 HP
654 Healing power
20% condition duration.

Build
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqelIqae3zSfF17ISIFS49B6helXj4HFyFbB-jUCBoeBkgAkqAI5rIas12FRjVVTIV3LyqkYeeRWGA91A-w

Gear
Armour: Full celestial with 6x superior rune of antitoxin.
Trinkets: Full celestial
Weapons: Pistol- Superior sigil of earth, Shield- Superior sigil of bloodlust

Traits
20: III, IX
30: IV, VI, XI
20: V, VIII
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Utilities
Healing turret: Provides some condi clear and can blast a second time with shield
Slick shoes: IMHO one of the best skills engineer has. Can stop rush zerkers dead in their tracks, ruins thief bursts etc.
Bomb kit: Works best for this build, 2k+ crits and a lot of condition application synchronises well.
Elixir S: Stealth allows for surprise attack, good for stopping bursts
Supply Crate: all others are useless

Poison dart volley on pistol can hit around 2-3K+ depending on crits, Explosive shot hits for around 400-700, same for static shot. Combining this raw direct damage with condition damage results in some pretty high sustained dps. The hardest fights are with PU mesmers and I generally lose due to attrition.
If you’re an engineer looking for a new WvW build that utilises all the damage then you have to give this a try, you won’t be disappointed.

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WvW Celestial Build - Power and Condi

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Posted by: Egorum.9506

Egorum.9506

I’m running an almost identical build right now. i was using the p/s with it, but i recently changed to rifle with rifle mod instead of rifled barrels. i’m running HT, TK, EG, BK instead of your utilities. and i run napalm specialist if i’m roaming solo.

oh, and rock a sigil of battle and hoelbrek runes to make up for celestial’s low power. it gives you great crit and crit damage, but you need to find other ways to make up for the power loss to take advantage of it.

Holy kitten can this build burst. it’s got some solid defenses to boot!

Risen Howl etc?

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