Guild Wars 2

So I am currently level 35 (I’m getting better ) and this means I can enter the story mode and explorable mode in Ascalonian Catacombs. I finished the story mode and got some good masterwork gear but that’s not really the point of this topic. After I finished story mode I started wondering does explorable mode give you better gear in dungeons or does story mode give you better because of chests. Also can you repeat story mode?

Going to run through it all

Story mode isn’t great loot, but “attunes” you to be able to host explorable dungeons and invite people that haven’t done story into your exp dungeon.

Explorable chests do not drop worthwhile gear (well the can, but it is too random to count on them). Explorables however reward 60 tokens (upon completion of dungeon) per daily run of each path (so a total of 180 tokens for each path once a day), and 20 afterwards. You can use these to buy either similar level gear from AC (Rare quality dungeon gear appropriate for lvl 30/35 – forgot which). Or you can save them up and buy high end exotic level 80 quality set gear (Highly recommend this as you will out level rare quality gear easily).

You can find these merchants in Lions Arch (Use PvP button and go through portal in Heart of the mists if you do not own the WP), they are located straight north of the WvW portals near a repair merchant.

Remember explorable is great for xp (Roughly 80% a level per run) and can be a time/money saver as you collect tokens for a level 80 set before you are even level 80! Not to mention the money you make while doing it will easily cover trait books.

-Edit: Also mobs in exp (not sure about SM since I haven’t done it since early early october), all bosses reward 3 tokens + some goodies + a decent chunk of silver. As for repeating story mode – yes you can, however it provides no real benefit. Fewer people run SM opposed to EM, and EM is just more rewarding due to the higher tokens given. I would not recommend running SM more than once, but running EM as much as you can. You will learn your class’s in’s/out’s faster than the open world and it is just such good rewards.

You also get a hefty amount of silver for completing an explore path on top of whatever coin drops and loots from mobs…. Which, esp. at the lower levels, be easily turned around on the TP buy super cheap gear to keep your toon geared to the respective level, pocketed, or used to buy lower tier mats so you can level up your crafting professions if they happen to be falling behind.

yes you can repeat Story Mode, but theres no point the reward is non-existant compared to the easier Explorable Mode.
the dungeon itself will not give you good gear, the good gear comes only from the token rewards and at level 80.