Guild Wars 2

With the new expansion coming out relatively soon, would it be worth it to craft a full ascended berserker armor set? I’m only asking because with the limited amount of time I have available in this game, I want to be sure that all the resources I have will not go to waste when berserker gear falls out of “what’s needed”.

As a mostly melee class that can take a few extra hit or two, I feel that it would be a safe bet. My issue is that once things change around in the future, will we have to switch to something tankier like soldier gear?

Any feedback/opinion will be great!

Yes it would. In wvw, survival is the key, whether you do roaming or zerging. At this point I highly recommend craft one of these 3 set I mentioned above for chest, legging, helm only. However, knight and solider will lock you into power builds. (you might be surprised on how powerful a support, conditional warrior can be at roaming, or 1v1). With these 3 pieces plus zerker everything else, you will still do great in pve content. Plus we have no idea what we get in expansion, armor that is a little tankly might just make your experience less frustrating.

Zerker set is really only needed for min maxing dungeon runs. If you came from a hard core raider background, then zerker no doubt, but then again, if you are a hardcore raider, you would have no problem craft 2 or more ascended sets.

If you plan to do pve only then zerker armor is a safe bet, otherwise I’ll wait. If you are thinking of using 1 set for muti-purpose, then I would say knight, soldier, or celestrial would be a safer bet. If you really want to craft and have limited resources, I would do chest > legging > helm and leave the other three as exotic. Since the other 3 cost about the same but give you almost no stats boost.

I do mostly PvE and will be doing WvW eventually, will having berserker gear in WvW be an issue in the near future?

Thank you for your answers!

Im also running full zerker in wvw and doing good 1v1 and in zerg aslong as active abilitiessuch as dodges and stances are being correctly used with gs hammer control. My yake is that u can never go wrong wkth full zerk as long as u know ur play. We also tend to go full in armor trait so u get an extra 300 toughness