Help on optimising my gear

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Posted by: Pollypo.2879

Pollypo.2879

Hi,
This is my current build having lots of fun with it.
I mainly WvW roam and duel.
http://tinyurl.com/pollypobuild
I would like advice on what armour or trinket pieces I should replace.
I don’t really want to change the traits since it suits my play style currently. My playstyle being able to stack decent amount of might for a good period of time and do the standard sword mobility and teleports.
I would like to get some toughness at least so I don’t fall apart like a dry sand castle.
I’d like to maintain about 40% crit chance, 70% crit damage, at least 15k health and I like having high amount of power to make up for the lower crit damage.

Many thanks to whoever can help.

P.s. Oh and please don’t say “oh just use this weapon set blah blah blah” or “This build sucks blah blah blah”.

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Posted by: Interceptor.2653

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This is a pretty cool build. I run something similar, except using S/P instead.

You are starving for some Toughness, here. The cheapest place to get it will be in your accessories, since they are still exotic. Cavalier’s is worth looking into: you’ll give up some Power and all of the Precision, but maintain your crit damage and add 182 Toughness to your build. That’ll be a significant defensive upgrade for you, since right now you’re little better than glass. May want to try that, see how you like it, and then replace more pieces if you think you can deal with it.

I personally like to aim for around ~2400 Armor and 15-16k health.

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Posted by: Walker.3056

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You could swap You Head, Chest and Pants armor for PTV, and rest of the armor go with Zerker, and swap your back piece for Zerk too.

Like this you HP would drop 720 points and you Crit Damage 10% BUT you would get 132 more Toughness and 5% more Crit Chance, with this i think you overall defense will be higher cause of the thouness and the 5% of crit chance might give you better overall dps too than the 10% Crit damage u lost.

Obs: I didnt used the calculator but i htink you would gain more EHP and more DPS this way, got to check it though

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Posted by: Pollypo.2879

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Okay I’ve read the advice and this is what I’ve come up with now. I’ve got the target toughness. Power hasn’t really changed but I’ve dropped some health, crit damage and crit chance.
http://tinyurl.com/pollypobuild1

Edit*
Messed around a bit more this looks better.
http://tinyurl.com/pollypobuild2

(edited by Pollypo.2879)

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Posted by: Interceptor.2653

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Aren’t you going to get ascended accessories? They are reasonably cheap if you have access to guild commendations. Your current loadout doesn’t lend itself to an ascended upgrade there, since there is no Soldier/Zerker or Cavalier/Zerker combo item. I’d build around those personally, since they have higher stat budgets than Exotic and you can add a WvW infusion.

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Posted by: Pollypo.2879

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I will get ascended accessories I’ve just been a bit lazy. I have the gold and most of the materials to.

Edit*
Okay this has all the accessories as ascended.
http://tinyurl.com/pollypobuild3

(edited by Pollypo.2879)

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Posted by: Interceptor.2653

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Looking pretty good, IMO. One thing: I know this is a Might build, but are you aware of the inefficiency of your food? Endurance regen can’t go past +100%, so you’re wasting that portion whenever you have Vigor from either VR or BT.

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Posted by: Pollypo.2879

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Yeah that is a problem. Vigor uptime is pretty high with the extra boon duration. Any idea for a different food?

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Posted by: Interceptor.2653

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You’ve got options. A few that come to mind:

  1. Power-based food, to make up for the loss of Might stacks on dodge. Lots of choices here, with lots of secondary stats available.
  2. Chicken soup (condition removal on heal, plus healing power), since it makes Withdraw a lot stronger.
  3. Boon duration creams (also comes with MF). May seem weird, but it helps your Vigor/Fury/Might/Swiftness/Regen uptime.
  4. Omnomberry Ghost/Pie: life leech on crit, plus precision.

I usually carry around 4-5 different foods with me in WvW, since I never know what I’ll need at the moment.

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Posted by: Pollypo.2879

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Yeah I’ll probably get a bunch of different foods for the situation at hand and many thanks for all the help.