Guild Wars 2

I want to get back into GW2 a bit, so I figured something to do would be to try my shot at getting a full set of Ascended Armor.

I only want to invest time into a single set, so what would be the general consensus on the best bang for my buck here? Is it safe to assume to just get all Berserkers? (I almost always have full Ascended Celestial trinkets. I bounce between casual PvE/dungeons and roaming in EotM). Anyone’s 2 cents would be appreciated.

i got 1 full asc zerker armor for my ranger for pve, its just the none plus ultra and best way to play ranger in pve so why i should spend so much money and time for a soldier armor? ^^

PvE/Dungeon is always “zerker or go home”, you shouldn’t have any doubt about this.
For WvW roaming, you can try to get some extra trinkets to boost the survivability with stuff like Valkyrie, Soldier and so on, but keep the zerker armor.

Like Bambula, I got a zerker asc armor for my ranger.

I figured as much. Thanks for confirming guys!

Celestial ranger works great in WvW roaming. You are glass, yet not really glassy.

might be hearsay but aren’t they nerfing the crit damage on celestials? I like knights myself.

law.9410:

might be hearsay but aren’t they nerfing the crit damage on celestials? I like knights myself.

They will nerf crit damage in all sets, that nerf is taking a while because Anet is still figuring a way to not nerf the crit damage on celestial more than in the other sets.

wait to invest in ascended until the next content path.

Ahhh alright. Good point Valinor. I may just do that for now.

Full set of ascended celestial with zerkers trinkets works fine, for now. Knights armour is great as well, but you loose out a little on natural condi damage. Celestial eventually will loose out out on OP crit damage but they will probably add boon duration or something to compensate. Full zerkers armour will make you start to hate ranger when you get to difficult content, so I would avoid it, but it’s up to you… Some enjoy the damage and such.

Hm, my current main go-to armor set is Exotic Celestial. I was thinking getting Celestial Ascended would be a bit redundant even with the stat increase (and that Exotic Celestial is tedious as hell to craft so I kind of don’t want that set to become obsolete unless the stat increase is significant enough to justify replacing it).