Guild Wars 2

I’m about to turn 80 and have been using gear I’ve gotten from drops, trading post, and crafting. I’ve saved up all of my karma too, but I’m pretty poor from crafting (about 1g in the bank).

Anyone know the easiest way to get lvl 80 gear for WvW? Then, after I get the easy stuff, what’s the best way to get the best gear? I don’t do PvE dungeons and I’d much prefer to earn stuff via WvW (if possible)

Thanks.

Do you have a decent amount of karma? World invaders sets are sold in WvW at all the beginning way points for karma. They have blue, green, and yellow gear. Blue would probably cost around 5K karma, green around 30K karma, yellow around 100K karma to get fully decked out. Those might be a little high, but I would go get some greens as it will most likely be better than your gear now.

Even if you do a lot of WvW, it’s not an efficient way to get exotic gear via badges. I’ve done a decent bit of it and barely have enough badges for a single piece , and I’m already in full crafted exotic Berserker gear. Honestly, getting money to buy exotics with the stats you want is the fastest way (slightly easier if you have a maxed profession that can craft said gear as you only need enough gold to buy whatever you don’t collect on your own).

If you can follow a zerg in WvW that takes a lot of objectives fairly quickly, you can make reasonably good money doing what you like, though PVE+gathering will be a more stable and consistent source of income. If you plan on going for world completion, even low level hearts and random loot can be a reasonably good amount of money considering how quickly you’ll do them and how much lower repair bills will be compared to WvW.

I have about 30k karma saved.

It also looks like you need about 2m karma to get legendary weapons, so even though I probably won’t ever get that, I should probably save my karma for those exclusively.

So as far as armor/jewelry goes, as Xilodon said I’ll probably make my own. Then, I’m guessing, I can purchase my own exotic weapons from the AH for gold.

Xilo, what do you mean by “going for world completion”?

world competion = 100% world discovered. which means all hearts, skills, WY and vistas in all open world places. (pve world and WvW. afaik dungeons are not considered, thank goodness!)

for 100% world competion, i believe that WvW IS in fact included. lol. yea it’s tough when you’re blue and the maps you need are exactly not blue. : ///

this goes for all skillpoints, points of interests, WPs and vistas in all Red, Blue and Green borderlands as well as Eternal Battlegrounds. and for certain POIs you need to own the tower to get them.

OP, i am aiming for a legendary down the road as well so i refrain from spending kamra (though i majorly bleeped the other day when i was previewing cultural weps and accidentally double-clicked. O__________o 35k karma gone for a wep worse off than my current drops. lol sigh… so i’m saving up now. and just transmutating better gear while i up my crafting profession and occasionally i get better drops. i’ve only bought some runes that i wanted from the TP to stick into my armor. might shop for jewelry when i have enough gold.