Guild Wars 2

I am currently rocking knights armor (melandru runes) with zerk weapons and ascended zerk trinkets when I roam with guildies. I am interested in perhaps switching knights for cavalier or soldiers while keeping the zerk trinkets. What do you guys recommend? I am open to other options not listed here as well. When roaming, I would like to maintain my relatively high dmg output with some survivability.

If I am not roaming, I follow my guild zerg. Here, I usually replace my zerk trinkets with a mix of knights exotics and ascended PVT ones for more defense and survivability. I also put on knights hammer + sw/wh.

If there is a better set of armor over knights for both these types of gameplay, please let me know below. Feel free to talk about other gear suggestions as well besides armor.

Edit: I have been using knights since my warrior got to lvl 80 a long time ago. Then I took a break. That is why I want to learn about the other armor sets that I am not familiar with.

Knights is a solid “tanky” choice, but I think you would be better off with Hoelbrak runes instead of Melandru. I don’t think the extra toughness on Melandru is all the important unless you plan on roaming in a small group/solo. You definitely want the -20% condition duration though.

Cavalier/Soldier is harder to work with due to the lack of Precision. If you do decide to use either I’d probably go with Soldiers for the higher survivability and use a “Sigil of Intelligence” (best on Hammer) for guaranteed crits.

Here’s what I run…just enough toughness for WvW while still retaining high deeps.

Cav. armor w/ Hoel. runes+knight’s weps+’zerker trinkets+ 5 points in arms and take deep strikes for your first trait+ equip 2 signets.
You now have good toughness, 50% crit chance, 200% crit dmg and (esp. if you have sigil of strength and GS trait) decent power when might stacks start piling up.
Crushing defeat for your enemies…see them tremble as you draw nearer!

I run exactly half Knight/Zerk on all my gear, hoelbrak runes (may end up switching to strength runes), GS+ either hammer or LB depends on my mood and group. Just like you I recently came back from a break, this mixture is still a solid choice

Thanks for your input guys. Looks like Knights is still a good choice of armor. I was just thinking maybe I should use Cav since my crit chance is pretty high at 75% using SoR.