Guild Wars 2

I really like the ascended armor chest and I’m planning to craft one in the near future but cant decide on what stats. I probably wont be crafting another one for awhile.

Was thinking of either doing Dire, Soldiers or Sentinels since the vit/tough would be beneficial to any build.

ATM running a condition venom share build and will probably run a condition set up for WvW. But at the same time, conditions have their limits and there are alot of times in PvE where hard phyiscal DPS is best.

Opinions? If you could only have 1 stat armor for a range of different builds, what would you craft?

If you keep changing builds radically then one set will never suit all your needs. The best you can do is get Celestial but then you’ll never be able to fully flesh out stats for each build optimally, you’ll just have decent amounts.

I can assume you’re not interested in speed runs or anything, since full Berserker is the best for anything like that and you’re not running builds like that at the moment. Celestial will be fine if that’s not your cup of tea.

If you don’t mind losing direct DPS in PvE then you can always try sticking to sets with Condition Damage somewhere in them that are more optimal instead of a mish-mash of everything.

Really, it depends how much you see yourself PvEing and how much you care about optimisation in that field.

Thanks for the reply. And its only going to be the chest piece for now. Just bc i like the appearance. Then again, I’m having trouble finding pieces that match it, its doesnt seem like much goes with it, so not even sure if i’m gonna craft it yet.

Just get Berserker since it will pretty much cover more builds that aren’t condition and can be used for anything~ IMO condition Thief isn’t as beneficial overall. Power/crit dmg will always get loot bags easier in WvW.

Trinkets are easier to get so you could change those to whatever if you need a specific stat like Vit or Toughness.

Dire for Condition, obviously berserker is not going to help a condition build. Soldiers is the most generally usefull, I think. But you can always transmute the skin if you want to switch, a crystal is 40 gems, which is 3 gold, max, likely cheaper then the mats alone.

gonna test out a few serker builds and see how i go. Mostly wanted to avoid serker builds bc of the constant downs but if i can find one with some sustain i might go back to dps over venomshare.