For a pure PvE, non-WvW warrior, I recommend getting 100% Berserker Ascended items. A couple reasons:
1. You get the most stat points for your buck getting Ascended items with Crit Damage on them.
2. For a PvE warrior it’s worth having a full Zerker set so you can get into speed runs if you ever want to.
3. It’s harder to farm Ascended gear than Exotics, so get the most versatile set of Ascended gear you can first. For a PvE warrior, that’s Zerker. Then if you have any laurels/relics/commendations left over, buy any secondary Ascended pieces you want (but really only Cavalier and Zerker/Valkyrie are optimal).
4. You can compensate for the lost Health and Armor with easier-to-obtain Exotic weapons and armor, and traits. Much easier to have multiple sets of Exotic armor and weapons with different stats than multiple sets of Ascended.
So for pure PvE and no WvW, I’d replace the Soldier ring and back with 100% Zerker Ascended pieces, then compensate for the lost Health and Armor with weapons, armor, and traits.
Here’s one suggestion, optimized for Crit Damage.
Changes:
1. All Zerker Ascended
2. Shoulders/Gloves/Boots changed to Valkyrie (these slots optimal for Crit Damage)
3. Helm/Chest/Legs changed to Knights for more Toughness (optimal for non-Crit Damage, either Knight/Soldier/Sentinel ideal here)
4. Food changed to Crit Damage food
~23,000+ Health, 2600+ Armor, 3400+ Power, 77% Crit Damage, 35% Crit Chance (55% with Fury, more with Banner of Discipline and other buffs).
Think of it as a speedrun warrior with training wheels. Less squishy, but still very damaging, and includes the foundation for a full Zerker build later if you want.
Once you get good enough at evading damage, just pick up a Zerker armor and weapon set, much easier than collecting a second Ascended set.
