Guild Wars 2

I only came back in April, so I finally went through my laurels and looked into gear. I’m told the amulet is the first piece to shoot for, and at the moment I’m grappling between my Thief or Ranger.

Which Amulet am I looking for with the Ranger? It’s my understanding from this forum that Berserker is a waste because of the pet split. I pondered Celestial and read the thread here about it, and I’m almost convinced – I don’t actively play conditions, they’re just there on my beloved Swords and Axes and Shortbow.

Would Knights be a solid investment if I have a tendency for Power?

I sort of hate the Ascended and Infusion system, as it’s the sort of Mathcraft and Spec Specialization I thought I left behind in other MMOs, so I’m admittedly cranky about this choice, as most gear in the game is easy to grab and go with. Instead I’m spending a half hour researching because of how laurels are gated and the fact I don’t see guild comms much.

I PvE and WuvWuv.

Play a ranger until you find a build you like then buy the ascended version of it. Atm rangers and many other classes are supposed to get trait changes on the next patch which is in 4 weeks and our pets are getting nerfed so builds might change. You might want to wait until then to buy one.

Yeah, I’m going to wait and see what they do in the patch at the end of the month. Given Anet’s philosophy on balance changes, they probably won’t make any major ones for a while after that.

Maybe they’ll give us some trait changes that make full glass cannon berserker viable and fun, or maybe the proposed pet nerfs will push everyone into condition trapper builds. Can’t say at this point.

Good call on waiting for the patch reworks. However, even with trait changes, it’s not truly going to change the viability of Conditions (yay Cap!) or how our coefficients and stats still take pet into account, yeah?