User:NeverLoseGuy/ViperExpensive

Imagine...

You have less than 10 golds, probably, and you need to make sure your character well-equipped before they face their adversaries such as Pocket Raptors in the Heart of Maguuma.

Or maybe this is just your 55th alt character, and you want to make sure this guy can defend himself if you ever send him to the Desolation.

What's the take away?

Since I believe there are other guides that are better written like here and here, I'm going to instead boil down to the few essential points that pretty much sums up PvE side of Guild Wars 2:

• Run Berserker for power, Viper's for condition damage. Anything else is usually reserved for niche uses or downright bad.
• Max out Critical Chance for power builds (take  Fury into consideration too), Condition Duration for condition builds.
• Focus on "Named Gears" so that you can get the cheapest options.
• If you have trouble surviving, consider changing traits, skills and weapons before changing gears (unless it's a relic, which can have desirable effects).
• Food and utility items can give extra stats and buffs like granting  Might on critical hit. Be sure to use them even if you're not struggling.
• Dodge or block incoming damage. Facetanking is not a good idea, unless you know you won't die from the incoming hit.
• Celestial is not a "get out of jail" free card in terms of gameplay. It will do you fine, but it isn't the best of everything, just because it has everything.
• Please for the love of God, do not use Soldier's gears.