Guild Wars 2

In Guild Wars 1 there was an easy way to get max stat armor that didn’t look very fancy. The only thing you needed to do was get all your runes etc for the armor to make it the way you wanted it.

I was wondering if there was an option like this here in GW2?

Gold.

Easy peasy.

Don’t you have to grind for gold though? And don’t you eventually hit a grinding wall where you don’t get good drops?

Personally I’m going to use different currencies for different exotic armor pieces. Each piece will be purchased different ways:
- karma
- money
- dungeon currency
- WvW tokens (if I get tired of dungeons)
- and … maybe money again.

Thing is, masterwork armor is good enough for dungeons and general PvE. In WvW it’s where it can be a problem, with other players purchasing gems with real money to be able to afford exotic armor and weapons.

Personally, no, I haven’t felt a need to grind for gold, everywhere I go there’s gold raining from the sky :P

Easiest way i’ve found is to run karma and buy the armor or craft it. Then again you could just earn the gold and buy it out right. At 80 gold’s fairly easy to get if you just look around some. I currently make 4-8 gold a day just crafting.