Guild Wars 2

Hey folks,

my mesmer on 80 recently got his ascended armor finished, yet Im pretty confused on what attribute to choice and what runes sigills I should pick.

Metabattle fractal build:

- Assasins armor
- Berserker weapons and jewelry
- Rune of Scholar / Chronomander
- Sigill of Air / 5% damage

Metabattle Raid build:

- berserker armor and gear, except leggins (comanders)
- runes of leadership
- sigill of concentration

I really don’t want to build a complete second ascended armor/ weaponset to be effective in both areas, since that would be hundreds of gold. :|

Is there a good “middle” way of gear to use for both fractals AND raids?
Also, I’m playing lots of Open World, so the build should be suitable for that content too. Thanks in advance

I would gear up for raids if you want to do those as well. Fractals are easier, which means you can get away with “suboptimal” gear (even though berserker isn’t that suboptimal on a chrono compared to assassins) without a problem.

Also, I love that you accidentally wrote “chronomander” I’m definitely going to be using that from now on when I talk about a chrono decked out in commanders gear

So going with a full zerk set and runes of leadership would be perfectly fine, even for high level fractals and open world?

Nefarius.9702:

So going with a full zerk set and runes of leadership would be perfectly fine, even for high level fractals and open world?

Your goal is to reach 100% boon duration with sigil of concentration and food. You probably need to mix in a few commander gear.

For your raid build, just use berserker exotic armor. And that makes it easier to salvage the runes in the future if you decide to put it on legendary armor. You don’t need ascended armor for raids.

And make your fractal set ascended. since you need the infusion slots on ascended for agony.

Can get an exotic berserker set on AH for cheap. All 6 pieces will probably cost you about 5 gold.

@ HotBoy: Thats a good idea since I didnt really start with raids anyway… Currently my ascended armor has assasin stats and Im using Chronomancer’s runes. Is that fine?

Nefarius.9702:

@ HotBoy: Thats a good idea since I didnt really start with raids anyway… Currently my ascended armor has assasin stats and Im using Chronomancer’s runes. Is that fine?

Ditch the runes. They are hot garbage since the SoI and boon stacking changes. Runes of Leadership are that new new Hawtness, but they are difficult to get. Runes of Water are an easy to get alternative.