Guild Wars 2

I play a dd/pp death blossom bleed thief. I know it’s not the most effective set altogether, but it is the one I have the most fun with so I try to optimize it as best I can.

Except that it has been a year now and Anet still has not released Carrion ascended accessories, despite them saying on the forums that the last ascended release would include them.

Which brings me to this point: I have over 150 laurels, and I am tired of just watching them sit there and rot. I have been considering keeping the rest of my gear Carrion and buying all Berserk accessories.

It would decrease the dps output of my death blossom, caltrops, and pistol auto attack — but it would increase dps of dagger auto attack, heartseeker, and unload.

I wanted some opinions on whether or not this would be more effective than just keeping Exotic Carrion, or if I should just say the heck with it and blow it all on the endless cat tonic.

Depends how much you min/max stats. Personally, I chose Ascended stuff for the flavor text over the stats.

Bump for more opinions please

I went with the dire/rabid set. (Jade wind orb, etc.)

It gives you similar EHP as exotic carrion due to increased toughness, as well as more condition damage. You lose a little power, but make up for it with a little precison. You can then further tweak it with infusions. I went with all toughness infusions (omnis for the offensive slot pieces) but you could easily go with power infusions to reclaim quite a bit of the lost power.

I’ve tried a mix of Rampager + Rabid (ascended trinkets) + Berserker on my Warrior and Necro and it’s pretty powerful both ways and actually prefer them better that way. Never tried it on Thief though. Death Blossom doesn’t really do much non cond damage. Cloak and Dagger with P/D would do some nice crit damage I’m sure.