Guild Wars 2

Good day, thank you for reading my post.

I have bought the game at launch but never really gotten into it, until now.

Today i reached lvl 73 and never really looked into builds, upgrades, armor and weapons.

I probably wasted a lot of money on just random weapons and upgrading my armor to my level, but to my questions.
Wearing the pirate custome for like 30+ levels or so and i am starting to get sick of it.

On lvl 80 where do i see all the different sets of armor, and would i need to buy a complete set to enjoy the stats, are there many differences and where can i check them out?

The weapons, as a ranger i will probably look at a greatsword, short bow, longbow and later on a sword and a torch.
Looking in the TP i see legendary and exotics, but they all have a atk rate of 995-1000, is this the max? Yet some weapons are 50G+ and some are 1G. Why? Just for the skin? Some have different upgrades on them but you can switch them yourself right? So where do i need to look at for these weapons to decide?

I probably would like to concetrate on Power, precision and a bit of toughness. Considering all armors and weapons have same defence and attack, can i just look at the runes and/or sigils and buy those to switch around to accomedate my build and/or way of playing.

Finally, is it worth it to train crafting, I am currently training leatherworker and am on lvl 170, but it is starting to get expencive. I just buy some ingredients from the TP and combine with what i looted. The crafted items i sell off to the vendors and sometimes on the tp. Ussually I end up with the same money I started, give or take 10 silver.

I hope you can answer some of my questions. My native language is not english so i apoligize if my grammar and sentence building is not that accurate.

Kind regards.

Hi, I’ll try to answer your questions.

-You can view all of the dungeon sets and dungeon weapons in Lions Arch. Select the waypoint all the way near the bottom, near the Laurel Vendor…its a bit north of the WvW portals, I think called Mariners waypoint or something like that. Theres vendors there where you can check out all of the exotic armor and exotic weapons to be purchased from each dungeon’s currency. You can also go into the Mists, go to the bank thing, and view a whole slew of armor ranging from crummy blue type of skins to really good ones.

-The weapons will have the three of the base stat, and then the upgrade slot(sigil, rune, whichever one it is). Change that out as you see fit..whatever fits your build.

-Crafting while leveling was enormously helpful. Yes, it is expensive, but for once in an MMO you get loads of XP from it…loads. I think if you level two up to 400, you can obtain 10 levels that way. Cooking, while the most expensive, gives you the most XP. I would say every 5 levels or so, level up crafting to whatever level you are currently at(if you are lvl 70 now, lvl it to where youre making lvl 70 gear). You can then equip what you make so you dont feel that it was a waste. Concerning the cost of making, yes expensive. I was aided by the fact that I was leveling two at a time(in total 5 to 80). So I had a decent supply of materials all the way through, but I had to buy from the TP on ocassion.

And your English is fine.

I hope this helps.
And welcome.