Guild Wars 2

Hey guys, been playing Power builds since game came out, and avoiding crafting, as it’s something I do not enjoy in any game. However, some of the classes I like the most (Warrior, Ranger, Engi) either have or will have elites based in condition damage.

I’ve been saving gold and materials to buy myself gems, comesthics and more. I am mostly an open world PVE player and I do T2 fractals currently, but I wanna get into higher scale fractals to farm for ascendeds and also jumping into Raids later on.

However getting Viper Gear is a pain, either having to complete the HoT story several times for an exotic set, farming winterberries in order to get all the trinkets, or just putting all my gold into crafting, which it seems I must, as I want both a medium armor and heavy armor class (Ranger/Soulbeast and Berserker).

Any idea on how to get started with all this? I know there are crafting guides and I got the materials but I wanna know more.

To some degree, you actually answered your own question.

However, Spellbreaker is not a PvE specs based on what we know about it until now and Soulbeast may or may not be a good power specs, i’m sure its going to be condi anyway.

There are some achievements that give you asc like leystone armor collection, LW SS2 ep 4 – 8 ’s achievements, Caladbolg literally give you a free asc weapon, Elite specs weapon collection is also a good way to get asc weapon and with PoF mean more elite specs weapon.

Whatever you do, try to get the daily craft materials done per day and medium are the most expensive among 3 set ( Light Heavy Medium ). If you are going to craft both set it will cost you no less than 1.000 gold unless you are lucky with your drop.

Start with an easy to obtain stat set like exotic Carrion or Rabid while working towards your final build, esp for armor. You can get those from the Orr Temples or the WvW vendor.

I’m afraid if you’re looking for ascended Viper’s armor, you’ll have to start crafting as some stage:

• Ascended drops from fractals – Viper’s is not one of the available sets.
• Stat swapping at the MF – Viper insignia is account bound, thus needs to be crafted.
• Buying from fractal/WvW/PvP vendor – they all need a crafted account bound item (e.g. Grandmaster Armorsmith’s Mark)

I think the only reliable non-crafting dependent method to get Viper’s armor is via the raid vendors.

Another option is to hold off for a month and see what new stat combos come with PoF… maybe something more appealing than Viper’s will be added.