Guild Wars 2

Hey all. I’m still leveling away and almost getting there. Just wondering what armor to invest in when I reach 80.

So a quick poll: what armor are you wearing these days and why?

There are no life in open space except planet Berserk

Anton.1769:

There are no life in open space except planet Berserk

Not quite true. Assassin’s weapons + armor, with ranger runes, is ever so slightly better than Berserker + anything. The reflect damage is also wayyyy higher with Assassin’s, and Assassin’s + Ranger is super cheap compared to everything else. This is mostly true for dungeons, where you can crit almost everything— in open world and WvW where there’s a lot of un-crittable bosses and doors, Berserker will be better than Assassin’s, obviously.

Everyone uses full berserker trinkets though, of course.

A little bit of everything to achieve as close to 2K/2K/2K power/prec/tough and 200% crit as I can. Why? Because zerker bores me just as much as soldier and condition damage does. Granted condition gear can achieve decent hybrid builds but I find it too random to use on my mesmer. Puts too specific demand on sigils, runes and weaponry. Zerker limit your role in WvW to a one trick pony and Mesmers are already in a bad situation there. Soldier is just… ugh… unless you want to command or run as a serious tank, you cant kill crap with it.

Having a balanced setup allow me to roam, raid and PvE on the same gear. Traveler runes of course so you dont want to smash your head in your keyboard every time your Mesmer is sluggishly trying to hobble forward at snail pace.

Its not perfectly optimal for every situation but it works.

Full zerker gear, strength runes with armor.
Trinkets I have 3 zerker and 3 knights to boost my toughness to 1,2k.
If you mean armor as in skin, then which race are you so we can recommend something nice?
You can also look at ‘Show off your mesmer’ for skins.

I’m not there yet but when I do I am thinking of running something like this:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhIQNAscWn0HSTbWgGGpBBiGx1YM9Jj0MpCo0dMxBA-TxiAABdqqSgaCE/IA0lyPE1DAgDBoU1KMcDAbWfgSlgD4FACAcAMch77vBe+5nf+5nb4hHe4hHOA-e

helm/coat/ leggins (Assassins) (because these are the three pieces of armour that give the biggest boost to what stat you are focusing on when making them. At least according to the calculator anyway).
shoulders/gloves/boots (Shaman), you might understand why when you look at the build I made up as a whole via the link.
5x superior rune of the Eagle/Ranger. I have used the eagle one in the example but since I won’t be using the 6th one the both do exactly the same thing.
1x Superior rune of Golemancer/ Air/Rage. Again since I am only using one they all raise the amount of crit damage done by increasing ferocity by 25.

Though if I wanted more damage at the expense of pulling them off less often (current build over all is 80% chance of crit and 200% more damage when achieving a crit) I would have five Superior rune of Golemancer and one of either Ranger or Eagle.

All Knight accessories. All infused with precise infusion. Where as my armour would have all vital infusions.

Then since I don’t like the look of the Ascended light armour (my character is a tailor so crafting my own will be one of my in game goals) I would decided based on what I had unlocked to transmute them accordingly to a random combination that I think looks better.