Guild Wars 2

I currently have a level 80 ele, and it’s a glass-cannon build focused on WvW. I’m really interested in getting the TA armor set, as I want to turn my character into a disney villain. My issue is that my exotic lvl 80 berserker’s gear doesn’t seem to be a good choice. I was wondering if I would be able to make myself a set of exotic level 50 gear (which would be SUBSTANTIALLY cheaper) focused around defensive stats to make running the dungeon a little easier.

The main question is: am I better served wearing my lvl 80 gear in a dungeon or should I use the highest quality gear possible for the level I get downleveled to? Thanks!

I don’t know about wearing level 50 gear, but with each exotic Lv. 80 piece I got from Twilight Arbor, I became fairly sturdy.

Right, but my question is if I’m wearing lvl 55 exotics, will I have the same stats after I’m downleveled to the dungeons level that I’d have if I was wearing lvl 80 exotics?

I believe you would have better stats wearing the 80 exotics than the 55 (exotics? rares?).

If the 55 equipment has the same numeric stats as the 80s, then it would likely be the same.

Move away from glass cannon for dungeons. Keep an attitude of changing your build while in the dungeon, or while still learning a dungeon. Buy rare (yellow) level 80 gear. You will be fine.

this is a really good question i would love to get an answer on this

can someone please answer this lol i would really like to know

Decided to test it and my exotic berserker’s gear left me with a higher armor rating than rare level 65 Knight’s gear. So it seems as if the increase in armor of exotics even while downleveled is more beneficial than using high quality lower level armor (that’s still higher level than the dungeon) with defensive stats.

exotic gear at lvl 80 is not much better than rare gear at lvl 80.

but you will still have better stats wearing blue 80’s vs wearing exotic 50’s while scaled down.