Guild Wars 2

Hey folks. I’ve been playing about 6 or 7 months and I have one of each class to 80 but I really only want to play thief. I’ve made my thief full ascended with zojja’s/zerk gear. Weapons, armor, trinkets, everything all ascended zerk. I usually run d/d and sb and sometimes some d/p too. I play pve and wvw and I’ve done ok so far.

My question is about the future, with HoT and future updates. With the new Dare Devil spec, should I be considering any other armor/stats besides zerk? I have plenty of resources so I can build new equips, but I’m curious, is it worth my time/resources to build a 2nd set of gear and if so, which?

The new spec looks awesome, and I’m really looking forward to it but I feel like I should still run zerk equips. If I were to start making backup gear of another set, which should I choose, if any, assuming I plan to play a staff daredevil?

You already have Ascended armor/weapons, so if the desired stat changed for some reason you can always throw them in the MF.

Save laurels/commendations/fractal relics/any other tokens for anything else. It’s just a good idea in general to save what you get for now.

I guess my question is this: Does anyone see zerk being replaced in the future, by another set? I’m wanting to plan for the future and I’ve always done reasonably well in full zerk. When I die, I realize that its an operator deficiency, and I learn from it. I’m used to getting bested by players better than me and I’m ok with that. Just wondering if anyone feels that our new elite spec somehow changes the meta.

If you play WvW and dont mind being cheesy/playing easy builds condi thief is aidstastic. You’ll want mostly dire gear for this unless HoT brings new combos. I would just hold out honestly its your safest best bet.

my best guess is that zerk will function better than it does now with the new specialization since you’ll have a lot more access to things like dodge rolling, condi removal, etc. Kind of hard to tell until HoT drops and things get going but I think for the time being, you don’t need to worry about changing it. As far as PvE specifically goes, we’re all kind of in the dark about exactly how we’ll be challenged so it’s possible other sets will be better. For me, i’m just going to stick with what I got at the moment until it releases, which is Zerk/Assassin mix so very glassy as well. If things get too rough, then I’ll look into tweaking gear.

Honestly, you may want to invest in some condition gear. I dunno, the condition dodger seems strong from what I’ve seen.