Guild Wars 2

Im currently full exotic set of Cavaliers except Backpiece and Amulet, on progress of crafting my ascended materials and here is my question.

I’m just a casual PVE player which into open world and dungeon atm, will plan another viper set for future raids and fractals. I prefer to be tanky abit. Shall i run full berserker armors with 2 cavaliers trinkets or full cavaliers armors with few berserker trinkets? Will the toughness really makes a difference or full DPS will be better?

Thanks for helping!

Personally, I’d say: take whatever you like and feel best with.
The real question is: are you a busy person or do you like to take your time?
Berserker kills stuff faster, but in Cavaliers you can fight forever.

I’m running cavalier. I tried a berserker build with reaper, but I don’t like the feeling of this one.
Take reaper, soul reaping and death magic, the shout “rise” and find yourself immortal in cavaliers armor. I can tank a SW-camp on my own with this and i’m not even trying…

If you use Shroud a lot and trait Soul Reaping, you should have plenty of sustain to be full Berserker for most PvE. Dropping Cavalier does three things: It reduces your aggro from high toughness so you get less attention, it increases your dps a ton, and all that precision means you can make great use of sigils that proc’ on critical hits.

With full offensive stats, build for LF generation and use Shroud as much as you can. The stat’s carry over into Shroud so you will see a boost in your damage there. Just remember you are in a glass build that is more susceptible to condition damage and bursts. Shroud is your best survival tool.

IMO Cavalier is very bad choice.
If you really feel need for being more resilient then go Valkyrie – it is much better as Life force pool scales with HP/vitality – you can get up to 31k HP & 25k Life force with this build and still have 100% crit chance…. (it is not my idea – to give credit – see Brazil’s video on YT about this build – it is very nice).

On the other side – I run full Zerker equip and still feel more resilient then my WAR in full Zerker – so I do not really have the need for extra high HP pool.
Also Valkyrie gear is pretty much one trick pony – it will work only for your Necro – Zerker is reusable on other classes without additional cost.

I recommend Valkyrie.

As a power necro/reaper you’ll spend a lot of time on DS, so you’ll need to take Soul Reaping as a trait. By equipping the mid tier-3 trait you’ll get an extra 50% crit rate while on DS, making any aditional precision redundant. By taking Valkyrie, you’re switching precision for vitality without any major loss in damage.

Rabid. Condi necro in PvE is AFK easy mode. Plus it’s fun to play, at least in my opinion. plus great for farming, as you can quickly tag a bunch of mobs for loot.

I have been comparing valkyrie and berserker in HoT solo PvE. The lower precision out of Shroud on valkyrie seems to offset the added vitality and Lf benefits.

No clear winner right now. Will have to watch the numbers this weekend.

Anchoku.8142:

I have been comparing valkyrie and berserker in HoT solo PvE. The lower precision out of Shroud on valkyrie seems to offset the added vitality and Lf benefits.

No clear winner right now. Will have to watch the numbers this weekend.

Do keep us update! Thanks alot!

What is your build? I run full minions power reaper (Reaper/DM/BM) for solo PvE and full zerkers is perfectly fine. But it feels a bit too squishy when running a non-minion power reaper shroud build (Reaper/SR/Spite) with zerkers, so for that I am working on getting valks (mainly for grouping in dungeons/fractals). Valks should be fine in a group setting with all the other buffs. Also, slowly working on ascended vipers just because (something to aspire to I guess).

(PvE) just from my experience, but after playing elementalist main for years, Reaper is ez to survive any PvE content in berserker gear. I mean minions aside (if you take them) you have two HP bars, and one of them regenerates really fast. I don’t see any reason to take gear other than maximum DPS especially because reaper DPS isn’t that great in general compared to squishy classes like Ele or Thief.

For open world play how you like… Otherwise play how others like (viper’s).