Guild Wars 2

is there ANY reason to run soldier gear on mesmer? kinda curious. Im hitting the 40s in fracs and I was thinking of going Soldier armor and keeping my zerk trinkets. For the most part I can zerk it out but I feel as I get higher its getting more and more rough. Any use for Soldier in WVW?
I have about 1300 SE tokens im not using so im whatever about it

depend on what build youre running with and how you want to weigh it. think of the law of equivielent exchange and entropy. normal attacks with soldiers vs normal attack with zerk , damage is not to far off from each other. what you loose from using soldier is crit% and crit damage. what you gain is a larger health pool and physical attacks deals less damage to you. do you want to gamble and see if you can finish your opponent before he can finish you off or do you want stay longer in the fight and see who will make the first mistake and have their guard down. if you wvw i would recommend them for shatter builds using dazing/vul stacking and phantoms builds with runes of centaur…travelers for the luxury of %25 speed and all around goodness. since the condi nerf…soldiers feels like standard issued gear for wvw, everyone should have a set. when spvping for the first time mesmers starting gear is soldiers. only one way to know if you like them or not. get the set and go play wvw.

No. Soldier gear will just eventually take up valuable bank space.

I have soldier armor in my zerg build to bring me the extra deffensive stats it has, and trinkets are a mix of Cavalier and Knight.
With this setup, I can reach 2700 of armor and 19k of base health (I also have defense guards buff, so at the end of the matchup I normally reach 23,5k of health).

Out of zerguing, other options will be always better, depending on what you do.