Guild Wars 2

Hello! Since the new path came out, all my pvp characters (that were low lvl and were mainly wearing pvp gear) lost their items in the inventory and are now wearing basic armor. The thing is that I can replace the parts I already have, but I don’t have any helmet or shoulder parts, and I can’t seem to find any npc that sells lvl 1 parts for helmets and shoulders. Is this really how Anet intended it to be or what am I missing?

(and yes, I guess that I could lvl my characters to lvl 10, so I can buy the missing parts but I like to mix around a lot and this patch feels somewhat disappointing.)

Yeah it’s intended. There’s basically a huge culture shock with the merging of the pve and pvp character rules. They are one in the same now so you can’t wear certain armor pieces without being a certain level. Although this does NOT affect your pvp stats at all, it does hinder you from dressing your character fully.

I don’t think they thought this was ideal, but the amount of work to have exceptions in pvp after the merging was probably a lot of work to do a small change.

Well that’s a bummer. It feels like they could have just added the missing parts for the level 1 NPC since the items that are sold scales after lvl 10. It’s not like it will make the PvE easier.

I agree, I don’t see it being too much of a problem to make level 1 items (same skin as all the merchant armor) without any stats.

On the other hand, you get Tomes to level up fairly easily with the new reward track so if you have a character under level 10 it shouldn’t take long to get it up there.