Guild Wars 2

Thinking about the upcoming raids, and the fact that I have enough materials to craft my ascended weapons finally, I was just wondering what people thought about stat combinations in the new dungeons.

I know we have precious little to go off off, but the devs have stated there will be some forms of unblockable damage and they would like to change the zerker-only meta (although we’ve heard this before).

It seems like we need a fair mix – power for our paltry damage, precision if we need to reflect, and perhaps some toughness/vitality for survive-ability. Celestial seems like a partial waste given a few unneeded stats, but I’m not sure exactly what I should be aiming for to maximize a chronomancer (for raids or any content for that matter). Any thoughts?

Same as it ever was: As close to Zerk as you can get while staying alive.

Honestly, its very hard to tell right now. I would say what type of weapon you have will be more important then weather or not it is ascended. I cannot guarantee this. However, I have the feeling that staff and sword are going to be seen a lot of play in raids. This is simply because

A: You may not necessarily need to do a lot of damage (may). You may just need to stay alive and make sure your squad is doing a lot of damage.
B: These two weapons give you access to a huge amount of chaos armor that should help to protect you significantly in raids.

I would also not be surprised that if you made ascended now, you would have to change the stats on them sometime down the road. As of right now, no one knows what weapons will be optimal and no one knows what stats will be optimal. Perhaps the most likely situation is that you will have to change your weapons, or even stats (meaning carrying multiple armor types with you), depending on where you are at in the raid and what raid you are doing.

Xstein.2187:

A: You may not necessarily need to do a lot of damage (may). You may just need to stay alive and make sure your squad is doing a lot of damage.

This is definitely true if you’re running the Jetlab/Alacrity Support build that Fay has been theorycrafting, which assumes that you’re contributing to the raid by buffing your group’s DPS to such a degree that whatever DPS you bring is mostly just icing. So you can probably get away with some combination of Valkyrie/Captain’s/Knight’s gear, if you want an extra cushion.

Clearly the answer is nomads with
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Superior_Rune_of_Exuberance
to convert that vitality into MOAR stats.

Or we could just wait another day to check out the beta on the first wing.