Guild Wars 2

Hi guys!

I was wondering if someone could help me make a choice for my ascended armor.

I’m a Sword/Pistol-Shortbow Thief who mainly focuses on the regular PvE content (Dungeons, World Events, …) and I rarely WvW.

Right now I’m running Valkyrie armor (of Divinity), along with Zerker weapons and trinkets, but I’m not quite sure if that’s the best way to go. So for my ascended armor to be truly ascended, I want it to be the right choice aswell.

I’ve been running Valkyrie because of the increased vitality, since us Thieves don’t really have a lot of health to begin with. But I’m also a min-maxer so I’m a bit worried about the precision I will be missing out on. People have been telling me zerk is the way to go in all of PvE, but I’m worried that I’ll become the infamous “Paper Thief”.

Any feedback?

Thanks in advance

Slockie.2351:

Hi guys!

I was wondering if someone could help me make a choice for my ascended armor.

I’m a Sword/Pistol-Shortbow Thief who mainly focuses on the regular PvE content (Dungeons, World Events, …) and I rarely WvW.

Right now I’m running Valkyrie armor (of Divinity), along with Zerker weapons and trinkets, but I’m not quite sure if that’s the best way to go. So for my ascended armor to be truly ascended, I want it to be the right choice aswell.

I’ve been running Valkyrie because of the increased vitality, since us Thieves don’t really have a lot of health to begin with. But I’m also a min-maxer so I’m a bit worried about the precision I will be missing out on. People have been telling me zerk is the way to go in all of PvE, but I’m worried that I’ll become the infamous “Paper Thief”.

Any feedback?

Thanks in advance

Either you will use full berserker build or mix in some valkyrie parts, you will still get one shoted by most bosses, even mobs, so only option here is not to get hit. Pistol whip helps a lot in that.

Slockie.2351:

Any feedback?

Prefabricate what is possible while keeping all options open but wait with the decision until the dust has settled around the introduction of Ferocity.

frans,

that is what I’m doing.

Don’t use divinity runes, honestly. It’s a huge waste of money and as S/P/sb, we don’t need the stats in condition damage or healing power. I personally like Lyssa runes the best since it goes well with valkyrie armor as it give more precision and the condi-clear/random buff is useful considering we have short cooldown heal/elites. The other alternative is just ruby orbs or rune of the scholar (with the balance patch on runes/crit/sigils there might be more options up), but I really don’t recommend transmuting your divinity runes onto ascended. Just salvage those and sell the runes so you can get cheaper and better alternatives before the patch.

Also, although we may be glass cannons with zerk gears, we have invaluable AoE blinds, tons of evasion, and Weakness condition spam which makes us more of an untouchable glass cannon.

tl;dr: Valkyrie armor will probably remain as a decent set for thieves.

Currently this appears to be the best you could aim for in terms of dungeons:
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Full berserker since assassin’s will be losing more damage than zerker will after the ferocity transformation, utilities are always situational. Thief is not the most heavily populated class for dungeons, but they are viable and in a decent spot. S/P has high survivability and self-sustain, and d/d has incredibly high damage, only outdone by FGS rush against a wall.

You are asking what is best. Berserker is best, and there is no indication pointing at any other gear coming close in the near future. Also medium armor sets are the cheapest ones to craft as ascended, since elonian leather squares are so cheap.

I’m currently in a similar position and unsure about where to go with Ascended gear.

For PvE I intend to always boast at least 15.000 HP and even with 15 points in Acrobatics that requires quite a few pieces of Vitality gear. So I too am still holding off until the changes to Ferocity go live.

But my current thinking is that it’s probably best to combine Berserker Gear with Soldier gear to reach your sweet-spot in terms of suvivability and damage.

Something like 3 Soldier pieces in your main set should suffice to keep your survivability at a good level without sacrificing too much damage.

As for Runes, I’d give Superior Runes of Strength a serious look if you can maintain at least one stack of Might at all times. They were quite affordable and are in for a nice buff with the upcoming change.

But here too we might have to “wait and see” to really make the right choice.