Insight on thief trinkets
Don’t worry about ascended items unless you plan on doing fractals.
In PvE, the more Berserker stat’ed gear you can grab the better.
Trinkets, armor, weapons, doesn’t matter.
Sylvari Elementalist – Mystree Duskbloom (Lv 80)
Norn Guardian – Aurora Lustyr (Lv 80)
Mia A Shadows Glow – Human Thief (Lv 80)
Norn Guardian – Aurora Lustyr (Lv 80)
Mia A Shadows Glow – Human Thief (Lv 80)
Heyo everyone. I’m wondering what kind of lvl 80 trinkets I should be looking for/how to get them? Some people say ascended trinkets aren’t very hard to get, but I don’t even really know where to begin here. All help is appreciated!
To get trinkets, check a WvW laurel vendor. If you have been storing your laurels(you get them for achievement chests and dailies/monthlies), you can probably cash out 25 laurels(+250 wvw badges which you have very likely gotten from achievements) for an amulet, 40 laurels per accessory(and 40 globs of ectoplasm) and 30 per ring. However I suggest playing fractals instead to get rings, and fractals are also a very good way to get an ascended back item of your choice.
With that said, you’ll need 500 in a respective craft line(check online guides, it can be quite pricy but if you know what to craft instead of blindly following them you can level your craft without losing any money) to get yourself a suit of armor or a weapon. As a thief you can’t really go wrong with a Berserker armor set both for PvE and WvW, and even though ascended is very pricy to get, leather armor is a solid chunk cheaper to craft and so is leatherworker to level.
Now while ascended items indeed give a decent stat boost and even more so when infusions are counted in, it’s not as gamebreaking as a player’s skill. You’ll see a ~15% increase in your damage(and ~3% increase in your survivability with defense increase from armor) if you change from full exotic to full ascended berserker with infusions. PLAYER SKILL MATTERS MUCH MORE FOR WVW, AND YOU CAN POLISH IT IN PVP. And if you are only pve, then it doesn’t matter that much either way.
(edited by Evalia.7103)