Guild Wars 2

I play WvW in most aspects, solo running, upgrading, guild groups and zergs. I also PvE a fair amount on oatch days

My question is this.

I have a lot of laurels and ascended mats to burn. I was considering a full celestial build to take advantage of the upcoming healing power additions to traits and wells and that celestial will be buffed to accommodate the nerf critical damage is receiving . It should do very good, consistent damage while set offering all round support with protection, blind, chill and the like.

Build:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vQAQNBmODbkkmaaLqxnG+bTAyMw+5JFePeMjhLG-zECBYjCykDwkFAEGQJqFRjtMsIasqaER1qkYkCYrlRA-w

Overall quick glance stats are attached. How well would this build do is all situations? I play with very organised small groups.

It was my understanding celestial is getting a nerf with its crit damage , this healing power buff you speak of is siphoning? That’s already in game… If anything celestial is getting weaker than it was… I must say I have not messed around with celestial too much but if I had enough laurels I would love to try a full ascended celestial necro.

I would wait and see what the actual changes to Celestial will be come patch day before committing to a full Ascended set.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/balance/Celestial-Ferocity-nerf

The critical damage part doesn’t concern me, as everything will be getting a nerf anyhow. However according to that post, they might buff all other stats on celestial gear, meaning I get extra in other places.

I made a full celestial armor set and bought celestial jewelry knowing it was not going to have much punch but I was a bit surprised at its utility. While not a zerker set, it does all right with its blend of stats. The first thing people think is that the stats are bad, then they think the stats are useless, followed by, “It’s not a zerker set.” However, for not being a berserker set, it isn’t half bad. The temple armor is fairly balanced and they all have mixed stats, too. This is opposed to, for example, carrion stats, which are mixed in that it includes offensive and defensive stats but is not well designed for the Necromancer because, once health starts depleting, poor healing means it is difficult to restore that health.

Many will want to debate that with me but high toughness, though it makes me a target in PvE, has a lot more benefit than additional health without additional heal capacity. So, in light of the trades between solider’s, cleric’s, knight’s, apothecary’s, dire, shaman’s, rabid, settler’s, temple of X, and so on, I think celestial holds up pretty well. Just don’t expect it to be like berserker, assassin’s or rampager where all stats are focused on damage.

For myself, I passed on the celestial runes and opted to crunch on runes I wanted and switch between jewelry to skew the performance in different directions. That way, the armor is the base from which I adjust balance. I have a modified dry bones human skin set over my exotic celestial for the look; so many of the higher tier crafted or exotic sets are plain ugly to me.

Thanks for the feedback. I hadn’t thought if using the armor as a base so I’ll take that into consideration.

I feel that since necro can use pretty much all stats in various builds, then celestial is a good choice as it gives a huge array of options. The build I use is already fantastic for support and damage, but I’d like to push it to the next level with those extra stats.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vQAQNBmQDbkjmibbtx2G+bTIyMumnB+w7R9AeYnPE-TsAAyCnISSlkLJTSyksJNIYRwuAA

I played around with this in sPvP and its surprisingly effective. Just go around popping the squishy targets with life blasts and putting aoe pressure with the staff and DS 4+5. I think this trait setup would work with a variety of power leaning stat layouts though.