celestial gear
My thoughts are similar as they used to be for any class. I think it’s still very close to Soldier’s survivability and damage-wise, but if you use either a lot of Condition-damage, Healing-power or combination of the both it might be beneficial. I wish I was a math-guru. Luckily for another class I enjoy someone did all the work for me: Elementalist, Celestial vs Soldier post-patch
For Guardian, I’m likely not going to run Celestial.
I think it could use more of a stat buff, when I saw the 6% I didn’t think it was enough and now seeing the 6.5% I still don’t think it. It’s a nice effort and I agree with the concept but as a guard that runs celestial trinkets, traveler runes, and 30 valor I saw a loss of 29% crit damage while a full zerker friend of mine reported to have only dropped from a total of 253% to 22X%~ and doesn’t notice a difference in damage. I for one noticed a huge dropped in my crit damage right away, not to say that I didn’t see a very small increase in my noncrit damage. I want to do some more testing but right off the bat my fear is leaning towards celestial losing massive damage and zerker losing nothing but I need to check against somebody running ascended zerker armor as well.