Guild Wars 2

So personally I just hit 80 and crafted a set of exotic armor and purchased a weapon. Nothing fancy.

Today I finally found this:

http://dulfy.net/2012/10/03/gw2-endgame-gearing-guide/

What can I say, this game is one of the most convoluted and redundantly complicated end-game gearing systems I’ve ever seen.

The stats are all over the place, on different items, different set names, some vendors have some items and not others, not to mention how many steps and jumps to get ascended items, with additional steps for infusions and not all item slots and omgihavenoideawhatsgoingon.

I guess it’s preference, but I really like clean and clear and obvious. Gearing your character in this game is anything but.
Even skins in the latest SAB aren’t all items. Wtf why? Just..it doesn’t make any sense, it just complicates things. Why not have ‘SAB skins’ for all items >.<
And exotics available from some vendors, with different names and stats and karma and dungeons and some stats unavailable, where is celestial, why is there no instructions for this? The least they could do is have a mystic forge with a ‘discovery’ tab or something which shows the recipes greyed out until you make them. I have no clue.

what the kitten do you mean? Just google a guide and if it says get carrion gear, you get a set of gear with carrion stats. its one of the most easy gearing systems in a game, much better than WoW.

It can be confusing. To decide how to gear up, first decide what stats you want. The second part of the guild says that. However, it’s a little out of date. Celestial gear isn’t listed, because it was just added a couple of months ago. Also any gear with magic find is inaccurate.

If you’re totally lost let us know your class, whether you want power (direct damage) or damage over time (condition damage). Also it’s helpful to know if you mostly play PvE or WvW.

Once you pick a set, then you decide how to get it.

Ascended gear takes longer to get. There is no ascended armor (yet), either way you need to pick the type you want first.