The boosted gear I find — in most cases — is subpar, but reasonable until you get your own set of exotic gear. Certain vendor options from the dungeon currency vendor will get you the armor you’re looking for — Crucible of Eternity and Citadel of Flame have the berserker’s stats, e.g. — the rest is fundraising and getting the accessories. Fractals will take a lot of getting used to but it’s the faster way to get ascended gear.
Typical gear won’t really matter in pvp as you have your own loadout (or so I hear), but you’ll have to work for your exotic/ascended of choice if you want to go big in WvW.
So for plan 1, I suggest running dungeons, look through LFG or advertise your own, but look at the dungeon currency vendor in Lion’s Arch to determine what dungeon spot has the gear you want — then join up or advertise for those dungeons, running exploration paths. That’ll get your armor.
If you have the karma, I’d work your way down to Cursed Shore and do the Arah Takeover and Grenth Control event chains, and buy the armor from those karma merchants. (They have berserker’s gear, I believe.)
For 3, hit your daily completionist, tequatl daily, world bosses (sell the 80 rares or the ecto salvaged), etc. Whatever appears to be the profit run at the time, but don’t burn yourself out. For me, my deviation from standard run is to harvest elder wood nodes as big bundles sell quite well. If there’s any spot that has an abundance of them, it definitely is Orr.
But to iterate: you should replace that boosted gear with your own.
Dungeons will get that armor for you.
(Caution: You can get the armor from dungeons using an existing character, purchases are Account Bound until worn. If you choose the Cursed Shore karma vendor path, use your boosted character as it is soulbind on purchase.)
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