Guild Wars 2

Im getting closer to a full set of ascended gear, i do have the recipes but i have not chossen a stats yet, since people talk all about this 10% less dps. I wanna ask the good warriors about what stats to get it on. This set is mainly for Dungeons/fractals and general PvE.

I would advise just to wait and see what the changes are. Zerkers is very squishy but the High damage compensates for that. If the damage isn’t going to compensate for the squeamishness anymore. Than I would think knights would be the logical step.

Ryze.2891:

Im getting closer to a full set of ascended gear, i do have the recipes but i have not chossen a stats yet, since people talk all about this 10% less dps. I wanna ask the good warriors about what stats to get it on. This set is mainly for Dungeons/fractals and general PvE.

i would still say zerkers from my understanding (could be flawd) the damage reduction will be due to the new crit damage changes. allow me to explain using some personal experience.

a team of zerk warriors doing cof path 1 will kill the slave driver in 10 seconds if everything is done properly and no one messes up to badly. this would mean you add 1 second to it.

however if your going to do dungeons your not familiar with go with a armor with some toughness i run full zerk and honestly while it’s good for dungeons I’m familiar with ones I’m not can be kinda punishing at times or areas with excessive cc.

the bottom line however is if your not in a team of zerks or lack the dps you may over extend your self and die for it. (such as if you use pug often) I’m not worried about it over all but if i need to switch my amror and such i will.

I’m having the same problem as OP, deciding stats on ascended gear before i craft. u know what I would like is if someone could post and sticky a comparison between assassins/zerker ascended and which would be better in minmax terms assuming the standard meta dps build. thanks.

Assassin is actually the one of the worst sets in the game.

It has 4 more crit chance than berserker. With a loss of 91 power and the same critical damage.

That makes Zerker better than assassins cuz lets face it warriors don’t need to sacrifice power for 4 crit chance with perma fury and traits that give us significantly more crit chance than 4. Also we have banners and signets that give us more crit chance than assassin.

If you want more crit chance there are better ways to get it. Maint oil is one, sigil of perception is another and food and sigil of accuracy. Essentially getting more crit chance is easy and there are plent of more optimized ways to get it than take a loss of power.

Which brings us to the last point. Precision is the worst scalling stat in the game next to healing power. You need a total of 21 points per 1%. Several other things are better at giving you precision. Sigil of perception gives you 250 Precison without taking any hit to your gear. If your tougness is high Main oil will give you 7-9 Crit chance. ANd Sigil of accuracy gives you 5% crit chance for a total of 105 precison without taking a hit to other stats.

Thats how people can run around in Cavaliers or PVT and still maintain 40-50% Crit chance.