Guild Wars 2

Hey everyone,

Just wondering if anyone has tried using celestial gear in WvW and what were your thoughts. I currently run Staff/Sw/x 0/20/20/0/30 shatter build. I’m looking to update my gear for more survivability without sacrificing too much dmg (currently using all zerk with cavalier trinkets 2.5k armor – a warrior hit me for 16k with kill shot yesterday with this gear…..so yeah…guess I need more toughness).

I run Celestial on trinkets, and swap out armour/weapons as needed. It’s worked acceptably well for me, at least. I forget whom, but one of ours on the forums ran numbers regarding Celestial vs Zerker vs Mixed. IIRC, full Celestial wasn’t something you want to do, but Mixed sets tend to not be too shabby.

Osicat has a build that uses an Ascended Celestial Amulet. (Shattercat Heavy) My version uses celestial helm and celestial legs.

But Kill Shot is a ridiculous attack, it’s okay to be one shotted by it. It’s probably the single most powerful attack out there. So I wouldn’t change because of that. I usually WvW with about 1500 or 1651 toughness (depending on build) so already have more than I usually use.

In my opinion, celestial gear is ok, but not greakittenink the damage goes

Soldiers (least) (Effective Power: 2566) -> Celestial (Effective Power 2596) -> Knights (Effective Power: 2713) -> Rampagers (Effective Power 2822) -> Zerker (most) (Effective Power: 2955).

If you want to just add one piece, either do legs or helm. You get the best crit damage that way, which reduces the harm somewhat.

From my experience celestial gear is great for Hybrid builds that need multiple stats and benefit from almost all of them. In this current meta it is rare to find a true hybrid, especially among Mesmers. I used a build way back that would have loved having Celestial gear (PU hybrid build using Scepter/torch and Sw/Sw)