Guild Wars 2

Hi guys! I’m sorta new to this game, and I’ve already hit 80 (thief class). I’d like to ask for some tips on getting gold and better gear for myself…

Dungeon tokens will get you your first set.

Decide on the stats.
Find the dungeon that rewards armor of that stats.
Run it a several times.

Especially since berserker tends to be so popular and CoFp1 tends to be so easy, a good way is to get full Flame armor by running path 1 (and 2, later on) once per day…

The dungeon also gives you gold that you’ll need for socketing your equipment. Later on as you build ascended gear, you can break the dungeon gear with Black Lion kits to get the runes/sigils back that you can place on the Ascended replacement…. while also getting back Dark Matter that you’ll need to make the Ascendeds anyway.

Remember that you don’t have to farm the same dungeon over and over again to get your armor. At least I find it very boring.
For example you can get berserker gear from CoF, CoE and Arah, and soldier from Ac, Se and HotW. You can check the full list here (almost at the bottom under ‘dungeons’)

You can also buy exotic armor with karma 42K/piece. Not really worth it in my opinion.

You have a few different options to buy exotics, and I’d say which one is best really depends on what you like doing.

• You can buy them with gold from the trading post
• You can craft them if you’re high enough level
• You can buy them from temples in Orr with karma
• Or from WvW merchants with Badges of Honor
• Or from dungeon merchants (in Vigil Keep) with that dungeons tokens
• They also drop from enemies, but very rarely so that’s not likely to be practical.

Or you can do a combination of some/all of the above.

Genbu.1705:

You can also buy exotic armor with karma 42K/piece. Not really worth it in my opinion.

I’d say it depends on what you’ve been doing before then, and what you like to do.

When my first character got to level 80 I had no dungeon tokens and very little gold but I had enough karma saved up to get a full set of exotics straight away. Coupled with the fact that I had so much because I had very little to spend it on it was easily the best option for me.

And if I didn’t have enough already I personally would much rather do events and dailies/monthlies for karma than run the same dungeon path over and over again to get tokens. The only thing more boring than that IMO would be the champ train.

Danikat.8537:

You have a few different options to buy exotics, and I’d say which one is best really depends on what you like doing.

• You can buy them with gold from the trading post
• You can craft them if you’re high enough level
• You can buy them from temples in Orr with karma
• Or from WvW merchants with Badges of Honor
• Or from dungeon merchants (in Vigil Keep) with that dungeons tokens
• They also drop from enemies, but very rarely so that’s not likely to be practical.

Or you can do a combination of some/all of the above.

Genbu.1705:

You can also buy exotic armor with karma 42K/piece. Not really worth it in my opinion.

I’d say it depends on what you’ve been doing before then, and what you like to do.

When my first character got to level 80 I had no dungeon tokens and very little gold but I had enough karma saved up to get a full set of exotics straight away. Coupled with the fact that I had so much because I had very little to spend it on it was easily the best option for me.

And if I didn’t have enough already I personally would much rather do events and dailies/monthlies for karma than run the same dungeon path over and over again to get tokens. The only thing more boring than that IMO would be the champ train.

I didn’t think there was any way to salvage runes from karma gear anymore. It would be such a colossal waste to spend up to 80g on one of the more popular rune sets and never be able to retrieve them again. You would need to be pretty confident that you’re never going to change that armor, ever again. The only reason I use karma for armor these days is to unlock the skins. I delete them immediately afterwards.