Guild Wars 2

Right now im using full ascended commander gear with 5 Rune of Surging and 1 platinum doubloons, all ascended Berserker accesories just 1 commander earrings, i can hit %100 boon duration with foods. In metabattle it says i should use ascended Berserker with exotic Berserker accesories and rune of leadership, but wouldnt that decrease my personal dps? In both scenarios im able to have %100 quickness. Should i change my gear and accesories in order to make more dps? Im using the same build as support Chrono and able to put like 7K dps on golem with only taking 25 might and fury while able to maintain %100 quickness and alacrity. I have 2400 Power %53 crit (with sigil of air, im not using sigil of force) and %186 critical damage, what would my stats looked like if i did stick to meta and how much dps would i put while maintaining perma quickness?

It doesnt matter what stats u are using as long as u can manage your boon uptime and toughness. A lot of people on alt accounts are even using soldier gear with plat dubloons and mb sigil of concentration, so ye as long as boons and aggro are managed u are fine to use what u like.

However, if u are looking to maximize dps that 186% critical dmg is really hurting u. Try to take it to at least 200%.
I use full zerk gear with leader runes (back is also ascended/kitten dubloons) except from one commander sword( with conc sigil). It sits at 87% boon duration with a bit more dmg than the qt build (without bountiful sharpening stone) and quickness uptime is permanent (u can upkeep permanent quickness with 80%+ boon duration).

I understand that leadership runes are such a pain to farm but they are the most stat effective rune u can use. On a side note with the new skirmish chests from wvw u can just get a nice amount of heroics and buy the runes from the wvw vendor instead of farming dragon stand over and over again.

First off, what content are we talking here?

Berserker will outperform commanders dps wise since even with the increased total stats on commander, berserker provides more damage stats. That is not counting runes, personally the stat increase from leadership runes beats just about everything in game (because 30% boon duration is a ton of concentration, 450 stats worth of concentration to be exact). Then again, mesmer does not get taken along for his damage, so this is not that important.

If you have no problem hitting 100% boon duration, this too is no reason to change gear. Thoughness provided by commander gear in a raid setting though very well might be. A full commander armor set will provide 196 thoughness not counting any other toughness bonus from more commander gear. This might place you above your raid tank and will definately make you prime target in fractals.

Besides the additional fractal attention (which can be useful to your group if you can deal with the extra pressure) and the tanking aspect of raids though, I wouldn’t say it’s absolutely necessary to switch to berserker from commander.

You very rarely want a full set of commander gear, so I’d suggest going with berserker armour and a set of commander trinkets/rings/amulets which aren’t all that difficult to get these days and can be easily transferred to other characters if the stat combination ends up being good on a medium/heavy armour class next expansion too.