Warrior Advice
Go with has many armor sets as you want, the only thing that should be holding you back is bag space.
[DONE]
Hammer build everyone is using its the most OP thing since the beta.
build carefully, hammer build will be nerfed in a month
Xaivier
Get multiple sets for different roles. I have a soldier set with melandru, soldier set with ruby orbs, rampagers for condi, I’m slowly making a celestial set bc why not
If you have armorsmith up to 400 build a draconic armor with celestial stats as soon as possible; it provides about 150 less power and a 4% less crit chance than a berserker one, but gives you a 3% more crit damage, 1.400 extra HP, a lot more armor and some extra condition damage and healing power. Works well in both PvE, WvW and roaming content. Combine that armor with full berserker trinkets and weapons; with that stats you will not need any other armor except for pure condition builds.
If celestial stats aren’t available (takes a month to refine all the quartz needed) a mix between berserker and knight pieces can be viable). For pure condition builds rabid stats can be obtained from Caudecus, Honor and Arah dungeons (rabid stats).
About the runes, is basically either Soldier or Melandru; the first ones are cheap to produce/buy, the second ones are a bit expensive -and the prices are rising due the demand, justified because their usefulness in the current meta of the game-, but you can get the 6 pieces of the karma armor with the Melandru runes at the Verdeance temple in Orr for about 270.000 karma points and then just transmute the runes.
Notice that soon ascendant armors will be available; celestial stats could be equally appealing based on how scales against other stat distributions.
(edited by Buran.3796)