Guild Wars 2

I have been saving up all the materials for Ascended for months. I play open world PVE about 80% of the time with the remaining % a mix of dungeons and wvw which I usually play my Guardian depending on my mood.

I am tired of waiting for our Elite Spec to be announced, if that would make any game changing decisions of gearing (if any)

I waited for the most recent update to settle in to make any decisions.

I been rolling in valkyrie exotic armor with strength runes from a year ago, playing with might stacking . It feels outdated but I want to move to ascended.

I use S/P, D/D, SB and starting P/D shortly

Have a ton of laurels/karma/guild crests to buy jewelry from playing since headstart.

I am looking for high direct damage, and being a veteran player I like having the higher risk in PVE

TLDR: Is Berserker still the go to gear for PVE DPS or is there any reason I should wait?

don’t craft it yet!
it’s a waste of time, money and mats
wait for the next (or the one after that) balancing patch that actually balanced thief too
don’t waste your stuff
if you play pve mostly anyway your fine with exotic and crafting armor for a broken unbalanced underpowered class would just harm you

This is solely my opinion, i don’t need anyone to flame me or call the thief op because he disagrees, if you don’t agree, just ignore me.
Thanks

Changing the stats now with the forge recipes can potentially be affordable if the item doesn’t have expensive runes or sigils in it. I wouldn’t be able to change my Runes of the Pack set because those runes just cost too much right now. I’ve been rolling out my Ascended set with the same stats I had before since I don’t think much will change about our builds and if things do change we’re mostly paying for stupidly expensive Runes and Sigils.

If you mostly play open-world/dungeons, zerker is the way, hands down.

Full DPS (atm Berserker) will ALWAYS be the optimal choice; unless Anet creates BS content where you can’t survive through playskill. Less damage = less rewards per time invested, it’s as simple as that in this game. If you are comfortable relying on playskill to survive, go for it.

yeah, as far as DPS goes, craft the ascended Berserker (or Assassin’s too if you have a need for more crit chance than power). From there, I usually tinker around with rare/exotic trinkets to fine tune the build to what I want and then i’d invest in the Ascended versions. Just be careful though because some stat combo’s don’t exist in Ascended so just fyi. At least now, it’s relatively easy and cheap to change stats on ascended armor through the mystic forge so there really isn’t any reason not to craft it. and chances are, any new elite spec will work fine with it. So far the theories are Staff or Rifle and I don’t see those being anything other than power/crit trees but that’s just speculation.

u get free versetile ascended armor and weapon boxes from fractals, wvw, and pvp. One sohuldnt craft them.

I’d recommend a mix with assassin,zerk and valk.

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u get free versetile ascended armor and weapon boxes from fractals, wvw, and pvp. One sohuldnt craft them.

I Do not pvp, and in the 2000+ hours of game hours I never received one of these boxes. All I ever received were 2 rings in WvW