Guild Wars 2

So I am having a major issue at the moment I am a tank warrior who does just that in multiple areas of the game…tank.

When I run dungeons I go in first and tank all the mobs to that they don’t go running amok. In WvW I tank all the NPC’s at each node area so that my team can deal with the opposing team / kill the NPCs faster with AoE to take over supply camps…etc.

The gear I obviously am trying to get is:

+Power
+Toughness
+Vitality

There is only 3 places you can get the level 80 exotic gear with those 3 stats as NONE of the crafted / BoE Exotics will ever generate those stats.

You can get them from:

Honor of the Waves – 1800+ tokens (Over 100 runs)
WvW – 1500+ Honor Tokens (Practically impossible to get will explain below)
Arah Vendor – Chest/Gloves (might be boots total cost 84,000 Karma)

Arah vendor has 2 pieces of max exotics with those stats that cost 84,000 Karma for both and is currently the only 2 I have because that is the only two I can viably get.

I can’t get the WvW Honor Tokens one because of the ridiculously stupid necessary means to get one is as a TANK (Low damage/high survivability) character I am not getting the “Killing Blows” in fights…a burst speed Thief or Warrior or Mesmer is…where there are insta “Finishing” people with utility skills making it impossible for me to ever get any Tokens. In the 100+ hours of WvW that I have done I have only gotten 46 tokens. It’s miserable rate of rewards for tanks in WvW.

Then we get to the real issue at hand Honor of the Waves….is the ONLY dungeon at level 80 that supplies the Heavy Armor tank Exotics…and it is the one dungeon absolutely NO ONE wants to or ever run…why?

- Because the 1 and only land path in the dungeon has been bugged for over 2 weeks where the final boss can not be finished because there is no floor. Which means that you can not get more than 10 tokens per 30min run and you have to find a new party with a new leader every run because you don’t clear the initial run.

- The other 2 paths are Water based paths where the bosses are underwater and absolutely NO ONE wants to do those….people hate the underwater combat and making them do it versus seriously hard hitting bosses is not something anyone considers fun…so at the current moment HOTW on a FULL server (Darkhaven) at prime hours….looks like the attachment linked below…

It is miserable…

I can only obtain 2 pieces of Tank exotic gear at 80.

I can’t get anything from WvW because I am not powerful enough to get tokens.

I can’t run HotW because no one wants to be forced to do underwater paths and ANET refuses to hotfix the floor bug on the only land path.

And Arah vendor has only 2 of the Exotic pieces with the +P +T +V itemization on it.

What am I supposed to do to resolve this issue?

Darkhaven-US Prime Hours HotW Screenshot (Absolutely 0 people here even looking for a group…ever…)

I wouldn’t say it’s “impossible” per say … just a bit more involved.

In regards to the “Arah gear,” it took me a while to figure out why some of the pieces have different stats than others, while all the exotic gear from the five gods’ temples and Arah are basically the same in looks. Basically put, if you want to purchase a set with basically the same stats across the board, you would have to buy them from the different temple karma vendors. The downside is that you’ll have to either settle with the mix-n-match runes in the gear or replace them with a full set of the same rune from the Trading Post.

Using your example for Vitality and Toughness, Grenth has your boots and shoulders, Arah has your chest and gloves, Melandru also has your chest and gloves but also has leggings and shoulders, and Dwayna also has your gloves and shoulders. I’d imagine Lyssa or Balthaza has your helm, but I couldn’t check them because they were contested as of this posting time.

As with Honor of the Waves, I do agree somewhat. I know some guildies of mine really loathe underwater combat. Personally, I find it rather fun but each to their own. It would be nice to implement a better LFG system … but that’s a totally different thread topic all together.

Check out Temple of Dwayne, Malchor’s Leap. They sell 4 power /tough / vit karma gear, cant remember which parts

dude u need a better graphic card first

Thats nice to know that all i need to do is play WvW for 700 hours to make up the cost of 252,000 Karma…

-.- Just to have the equivalent gear my fellow “CoF Farmers” got in 5 days without penalty.

hellokittyonline.7532:

dude u need a better graphic card first

Has nothing to do with the graphics the game takes low res jpeg photos in the stock exe and I was too lazy to load up the png exe to get a crisp picture of an empty dungeon.