I stopped playing a bit after the first expansion was released, but I felt like trying the game a bit more now as my old favourite class, condi necro, seems to be viable again. I have changed my weapons and ascended armor into Vipers, and am now using my old rabid ascended trinkets, but I want to upgrade them to Viper as well. Well, to be honest, from that description it sounds like legendary armor is way beyond your reach, unless you plan on becoming an expert in PvP, WvW or raids since legendary armor is only obtainable if you do that content regulary for months. Ascended gear is a good start, but exotics are fine as well (unless you plan to play higher fractals). On 2/22/2022 at 9:58 PM, White Knight.5970 said: Just wondering what a good gear set would be for virtuoso, I got full ascended viper right now for my mirage figured I'd try to get a head start before Monday. Don't bother gearing for Virtuoso and gear for one of the other mesmer specs. Though a set of Berserker's never hurt anyone if all you've For condi-type builds you usually run Viper and sometimes a piece or two of Sinister gear. Sinister is taken because full ascended viper stats can overcap on your Expertise (condition duration) so Sinister gear prevents wasted Expertise from viper stats - with exotics this won’t be an issue, so don’t worry about Sinister gear. One way to Armor class Medium armor Type Chest Defense 355 Set Yassith's armor Skin Illustrious Guise Prefix Viper's Rarity Ascended Req. level 80 Binding Account Bound Salvage Ascended, Research Value 2 40 Item link Skin link External links GW2Efficiency API 76710 “ So here's a summary including some explanation of ascended armor and why it's easier to get the ascended viper armor. Exotic acquisition A: Heart of Thorns Book 3, Chapter 3 aka Overall Heart of Thorns story step 15 mission name: Bitter Harvest. You get to choose an equipment box on completion of this step; once per character that goes through Except for when they eventually add legendary armory meaning you’ll only ever need a single legendary armor set for each weight. It removes the need to have many ascended sets for many builds across many characters. Only if you apply that armor to more than 5 sets. That's assuming you craft all ascended armor pieces and don't get any dropped This is what I usually do to gear up new builds before I wanna really get into them. I can usually get the trinkets from other characters, or just get them easy ascended from t3 maps. Weapons for the most part the same. Ascended weapons are a 6% stat boost, trinkets a 4% stat boost, and armor a 2% stat boost. Zk49R.