Guild Wars 2

Hi there.

Saw Nemesis guide a while ago, which suggested rampagers plus celestial accessories.

Has anyone been experimenting with celestial accessories plus rampagers? I’ve got a few celestial accessories (ascended and exotic) and am thinking about giving it a go. I know healing is a dumpstat for necros (yay for crappy scaling), but the others should work fairly well with a 30/30/x/10 or 30/25/x/15 build.

However, I’d welcome input from you chaps. Have you tried it, and how well did it work? What’re the pitfalls, and what runes did you use?

I’ve tried it for a few weeks, and yes, it is a great build. I wasn’t able to put the money into Divinity runes so I used Coral Orbs and was not disappointed with the results, so I suppose it’s a good alternative if you don’t want to put out the gold for divinity runes. I used celestial on all accessories except for berserker back piece and rampager’s amulet with exquisite ruby, which I preferred far more to the celestial amulet.

As far as performance goes, it really is fantastic for situational combat such as fractals. The only criticism I have of the build is on long single target encounters. The single target damage is good, don’t get me wrong, but it felt very uncomfortable managing conditions and burst. Maybe it was just me. The synergy is there but you have to look for it, if you know what I mean. There are times when you wish you had better burst or better condition, but that’s understandable.

After a week or two I went back to full condition because that’s just the build I love. I was a little confused as to the decision of celestial gear over Rampager’s for accessories. I plan on trying this build again soon when I collect all the ascended rampager gear.

I am close to finishing a full set of Celestial gear just to experiment with it and because I like making new clothes. Will post a comment in a couple of weeks. Have six days left, I think, but will not be online for a week. The new armor is based on the Dry Bones style and I still need to define the stat set for the Pheonix skins sitting in the bank.

I really wish there were gossamer nodes like there are for ancient wood and orihalcum, though. I use more gos than I find.

Anchoku.8142:

I am close to finishing a full set of Celestial gear just to experiment with it and because I like making new clothes. Will post a comment in a couple of weeks. Have six days left, I think, but will not be online for a week. The new armor is based on the Dry Bones style and I still need to define the stat set for the Pheonix skins sitting in the bank.

I really wish there were gossamer nodes like there are for ancient wood and orihalcum, though. I use more gos than I find.

There is a node of infinite Gossamer in the Trading Post, you just have to with how many you want and trhow the $ in the shrine and youll get a mail about you miracle

I wouldn’t do full celestial for hybrid – won’t be nearly enough damage. Take Rampager’s armor and a mix of rabid/berserker accessories.

I run a 30/25/0/0/15 hybrid build where my gear is Carrion / Rabid (keeping a decent balance between the two), and all my upgrades are Ruby Orbs. It’s pretty effective and was a lot easier to put together than Rampager’s / Celestial since I already had all of the gear for condition builds.

It’s a really good build in open world PvE and WvW. You get enough condition damage, AoE conditions and Epidemic to manage groups, and maintain enough burst for handling single target engagements. Kind of the Necro jack-of-all-trades. I don’t know what Nemesis runs, but I use Scepter/Dagger and Axe/Focus.

In my experience, it’s not as good as a full zerker build for dungeons though (due to condition stacking).