Guild Wars 2

I’m fairly new to guild wars 2 and when I played gw1 i never really got too much into it. However, i’ve been playing this for a little while and I realized I have horrible, terrible, armor. I seem to get knocked out pretty quickly so its a pain when I’m trying to keep up with some of my higher level friends or even just in my own personal game experience. Also, I thought hmm… maybe I need a better staff as well. I really have no clue what the best for where I am at in the game now is. I just know I have to be level 35 or 40 before i can get some of the better stuff but its taking forever to level if I keep failing at the events that give me more experience.

Vitality and toughness will increase your surviveability.

Power will increase your killing power.

The thing is, at the point in the game that you’re at, Increasing your survive-ability really won’t help you that much. At around level 20 the game takes the kid gloves off and starts hitting you with more damage than you can soak with your HP pool (even with the right armor) The idea is that, at this point in the game, you’re going to have to learn to dodge and evade and mitigate damage, which is a key skill you will need to continue on to the rest of the game in the future.

I’d personally grab a set of level 20 Green(Masterwork) armor off the marketplace. What you’d be looking for is anything with the prefix “Strong” That will give you power, which will give you damage, which means you’ll kill things at a reasonible speed.

If you haven’t gotten jewelry yet, I’d pick up a set of masterwork jewelry as well. Garnet is the prefix for damage jewelry at that level. Turquoise for survive-ability.

You should also apply “Upgrade Components” to your armor/weapons, as that will give you a LOT of stats at your level for very little investment. You can do that with either raw Gemstones or Marks That will give you a BIG boost, and you can pick pretty much any stats you’d like (I’d recommend power/vit myself)

At the end of the day though, what you’ll want to build when you get to higher levels varys highly on your playstyle. If you find yourself trying to kill things all the time, power/precision builds will be your thing. If you find yourself taking a liking to being an unkillable tank (Which you CAN do once you get enough traits at level 60ish) Then you’ll go vit/tough. But you have time to figure that out for yourself.

For the time being, load up on power, and go enjoy the game.

Seriously, thank you so much. That was the most helpful thing anyone has told me yet.

Get used to dying early on as an Elementalist, they only start to shine once you’ve unlocked the higher traits. I found the armour didnt matter that much if I used the staff, as most things are dead before they reach you, whereas duel daggers requires almost constant melee range, which means taking hits you aren’t meant to take at that level.