Guild Wars 2

My wife and I just hit 80 and are trying to get geared up. At the Trading Post, my wife tried to buy an exotic chest piece and she wants Power, Precision and Toughness, so she looked for Knight’s armor on the Trading Post. The only Knights armor available had only one upgrade slot bonus, instead of the six that her rare had. How do you get Knight’s Armor with 6 upgrade slot bonuses? I don’t understand why some items have 1, 2 or 6 upgrade slot bonuses.

Thanks.

Armour pieces only have 1 slot. You build up 6 of them by having the same rune across all pieces of armour.

Ah, thanks. Then why is it that some pieces show the six available bonuses and some do not? How can I tell what the bonuses will be, or is that hard coded into the type of runes?

For example, some pieces say simply “Unused Upgrade Slot”, whereas others will be described as:

(1) +10 Power
(2) goodies
(3) more goodies
(4) more goodies
(5) more goodies
(6) even more goodies

etc.

6 slots is the Superior version, which you’ll want at level 80. The wiki page on Runes lists every single rune and all it’s bonuses, it’s really great for deciding which one to go with

You need to think of the armour and the rune as separate things. With an unused upgrade slot it’s just armour without a rune in it. Whereas one displaying bonuses already has a rune, if that makes sense.