Guild Wars 2

Hi everyone, with the new patch, once again there is no Carrion ascended gear, so what would be my next option? Rabid? Apothecary? Please help, or should I just wait it out and hope for ascended gear?

Apothecary. In the context of WvW, I’ve been running with condi/healing/vitality gear, carrion earrings/rings, p/t/v back/neck and am able to destroy any other class combo. Literally am unkillable in 1v1, and can easily take on 2-4 other players. I’d have made a video by now if I wasn’t so lazy with it.

I also want to get my hands on apothecary accessories and armor as I expect it’ll be endlessly better to combo toughness with healing rather than vitality. I’m at ~22k hp but with relatively low toughness

For PvE I’d stick with p/t/v accessories with carrion gear.

I definitely agree with mixing carrion with a apothecary. I run 5 Apoth armors and the rest is carrion gear (including carrion weapons)… and have no problems tanking a war’s 100b… which they seem to love to try to do when you go in for a stealth stomp.

I wouldn’t go full apothecary though… vit works as anti-burst/anti condition. Toughness is anti sustained damage. Having both together works very well while keeping your condition damage high… and then toughness has that annoying DR when you stack it high…

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I wouldn’t go full apothecary though… vit works as anti-burst/anti condition. Toughness is anti sustained damage…

i disagree, ive gone full apothecary before, everything, armor trinkets, weapons, and paired with undead runes you have enough toughness to take a bs, or hb with enough healing to laugh at it once u stealth or cast your heal. i was worried at first about the low hp, but you have so toughness to make up for it, and with sigil stacks and food, i was still able to do high bleed ticks

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Aberrant.6749:

I wouldn’t go full apothecary though… vit works as anti-burst/anti condition. Toughness is anti sustained damage…

i disagree, ive gone full apothecary before, everything, armor trinkets, weapons, and paired with undead runes you have enough toughness to take a bs, or hb with enough healing to laugh at it once u stealth or cast your heal. i was worried at first about the low hp, but you have so toughness to make up for it, and with sigil stacks and food, i was still able to do high bleed ticks

I’m aiming for around 18k hp combined with high toughness as a safe spot to avoid any possible burst by groups of players, if that’s possible by traits alone then I’d agree. P/D’s primary and blaring weakness is the threat of being bursted down while stunned/knocked down etc; hard cc has been the only thing I die to.

what are you guy’s bleeds like? I’m getting minimum 115 usually, max around 125ish, 25 stack via caltrops reaches 130+ (with food/crystals)

With my gear/trait set up I’m ticking at 135 with super veggie pizza/quality crystals, going up to 145+ with might stacks (usually have a ton of might from stealth/dodges) and +66% bleed duration. I use 3 Krait & 3 Afflicted… the higher food wouldn’t have bumped it up to another tick so I don’t bother for just the 10 vigor.

Could get a bit more with better crystals… but these are just so much less expensive :P

Still debating if I should get ascended for my guard or thief first… so it’s all just exotics atm.