What type of armor?

[Arrowz]

what type of armor does everyone use nowadays? for PvP or GvG?
Energy?
+15 Armor while attacking?
Health?

suggestions would be awesome!

[Sqube]

I went Radiant with everything except the chest-piece, where I have +10 armor. Just seemed good to have a little extra protection in the area where you're most likely to get hit.

[Tortugan]

I usually run with a full + health kit, I don't really get hit alot and there are times where having much hp saved my life.

[jaigoda]

I like to use Nightstalkers on my chest and sometimes legs, and radient (usually) and/or survivor on the rest.

[Kylorn Rashu]

I usually change it up, depending on what it is that I need. If I need more energy for a certain build, then full radiant, if I have a good energy managing build, then I'll do survivor. But usually its a little mix, like survivor on chest, legs and arms, radiant on legs and head.

[Scott the Green]

Full nightstalker's for me (with a radiant mask, because I had it before armour update).

[Some Dude]

Health armor with energy daggers is apparently what top GvG sins run. Whether that's the best setup is open to debate.

[jouninassasin]

i use full radiant

[Akirai Annuvil]

In PvP, full health + energy mods on daggers, in combination with vitae, sup vigor and of fortitude or of enchanting. I don't use sups so I normally have around 550-600 hp, making me unspikeable by most common solo spikers (mwuhahaha).

[Stranger The Ranger]

Radiant's Mask (Energy)
Saboteur's Body (+10 vs Physical, 10+ vs Slashing)
Survivor's Leggings (Health)
Radiant's Gloves (Energy)
Radiant's Boots (Energy)

^My usual armor setup

[Arrowz]

+5 energy daggers? wouldn't 15^50 be better for damage?

[Vahn Roi]

I like health mods on my chest and legs, radiant everything else. That normally puts me at 515 health and 28 energy with my setup.

as for the 15^50 v +5e debate, it's been a long going battle over which is more effective seeing as most of the damage you do with your daggers in bonus damage from skills. If the extra +15% only effects your weapon's base damage and you're only doing 3-4 damage with your normal attacks it doesn't seem like much a boost, in which case an extra 5 energy would be more useful.

I personally have not tested this and thus I do not know for a fact that the +15% damage bonus does not effect bonus damage.

[Sqube]

15^50 only applies to base damage, not bonus damage. If it applied to bonus damage, it would be no contest: 15^50 would be the best modifier hands down.

[Arrowz]

15^50 only applies to base damage, not bonus damage. If it applied to bonus damage, it would be no contest: 15^50 would be the best modifier hands down.

what do you mean as in bonus damage? is it like.. vampiric or conjure frost, flame, or lightning or critical strikes?

[NoPantsRepublic]

Bonus damage from attack skills. 15^50 is the way to go, because you'll want all the damage you can get, since you'll most likely be running all minor runes. I use +health armor in pvp if I have critical strikes up to 13 or I'm using zealous daggers.

Of course, if you're concerned with pve, +5 energy daggers with nightstalkers would be the way to go imo, but I just use my +health pvp armor.

[Shuuda]

+5 energy daggers? wouldn't 15^50 be better for damage?

Actually, 15^50 only effects the base damage, which is tiny for assassins, +5 Energy + 20% more damage from customisation is better in my opinion.

[Akirai Annuvil]

+5 energy daggers? wouldn't 15^50 be better for damage?

Besides the obvious: take both, 5 energy makes you far less energy dependant and allows for more leeway concerning energy which is great. As by far the majority of your damage is +damage from your attack skills, the 15^50 mod isn't as important, only giving 2-3 more dmg per hit which is mwuh, negligible. Won't save or kill a spike.

[Some Dude]

A thread (http://guildwars.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=452614) came up about this in the PvP forum a couple of weeks ago. For 14 dagger and 13 CS, you'll have an average of 4 extra damage per hit vs a 60 AL target. That's slightly better than vamp, without the degen.

Add in the fact that a lot of assassin combos are 6 hits (2 off, 2 duals), that's an average of 24 extra damage on the spike. Nothing to sneeze at.

Bring 15^50 and switch to +5e if you get DP'd imo.