Guild Wars 2

I’m starting down the path of crafting my ascended armor. I play mostly solo and small group roaming in WvW on a lower tier server using a PU phantasm build (20/20/30)

I currently use a mixture of Sentinels and Soldiers armor. I’m considering switching to a mixture of Sentinels and Berserker armor. My current build gets the phantasms to be around 75% crit chance and crit damage while still getting me fairly close to 20K health and over 1600 toughness. That was my design goal from Kylia and Pyro’s optimization podcast many months ago.

Now with the 250 vitality bonus from killing guards, plus the ability to slot 30 vitality in infusions, and the increased armor values on ascended items, I’m thinking I might be better off to raise the damage potential a bit more.

Anyone run a mix anything like this? Are there particular pieces that have the most value if I do them as berserker? (e.g. the +crit damage is 1% higher)

Thx!

Only pants has an actual increase in the crit dmg % when compared to exotics.

At the very least, go for Knight’s instead of Sentinel. You’ll have plenty of HP from guard stacks, as you said. You’ll be trading vitality for precision, which gets you a lot more crit, while still having good power and toughness.
As far as specific items go, zerk is generally better on hands/feet/shoulders, and other stats on head/chest/legs (you get relatively less crit per stat on those).

EDIT: haven’t checked the numbers on Ascended stuff, so that may have changed.

You literally don’t get an increase in crit dmg % unless you get berserker pants (and that one only increases from 3% to 4%).

Google “dulfy GW2”: they have a breakdown of exotic stats vs ascended stats per piece.

(wasn’t sure if putting links is okay here, so I opt’ed not to. Hope you can find it alright)

If you craft a full set of ascended berserker armor the total increase in stats would only be .

+14 power
+11 precision
+1% crit damage

http://dulfy.net/2013/12/12/gw2-ascended-armor-stats/ has the comparison for all armor sets