Guild Wars 2

I play solo basically, except for the dynamic events in the world ( which are really a cool thing and I always jump in those!). I have no interest in the dungeon type of quests or pvp sort of things. It would be fun to play with a friend doing the hearts and dynamic and exploreevents but people seem to focus on “dungeons” (so far as multi player is concerned) and such and go solo for all else

So, is there a way for me to get gear if I go to level 80? Seems that the Trading Post sells level 80 gear, but I know most ( perhaps all) games force you to run the equivalent of raids/dungeons/pvp etc to get anything decent.

So far, the game seems more flexible than others and has been more enjoyable for me than others due to it’s more open style, and lack of need to find a group. I am hoping it holds true overall, and I donlt find that you must do all content to obtain what you need. I want this remain fun, not be come a another job.

I left another game recently, for 2 reasons, and this was one of them: it became a 2nd career to obtain gear.

The other resason, was terrible design. There was lots of griefing due to brain-dead simple exploits to flag people for pvp and gank them. On pve servers. In reality, all the servers are pvp servers, they just name them differently. There are places where dong dailies are impossible; they are camped by griefers waiting to catch pve players in mid quest, flag them and gank them. If these were PVP servers, well, that is what goes on. But these are what they have named as pve servers.

So here it seems infinitely better. They seem to have allowed pvp players to have thier fun, and pve players to have thiers, and basically removed such absurd exploits such as those I mentioned in this other game.

I am hoping the gearing here will be a bit more flexible too. So far I amreally liking gw2 a lot.

…and please forgive my typos, I hit post by accident before I could “proofread” that

Hi there Brtiva, glad to know your enjoying the game, hopefully you find yourself trying and enjoying the other parts of the game at some point, they are quite a bit of fun and I personally think your missing out. That being said, there is nothing wrong with doing what your doing, so if that is what you want to do, awesome.

There are a few ways of obtaining level 80 armor that I know of (includes all rarities (normal, fine (blue), masterwork (green), rare (yellow), exotic (orange/gold)). They can be: dropped by enemies as loot, crafted from the associated crafting profession, obtained for dungeon tokens from dungeons, obtained for badges of honour from pvp, and of course bought from other players on the trading post (usually for not an excessive amount of money).

*Note that you can also get level 80 masterwork armor from karma vendors. Orr regions also have karma vendors that sell level 80 exotic armor.

Cheers,
Berk

The good news is that you can obtain the top level of exotic gear through several means, including crafting, buying off the tp, and from karma vendors in Cursed Shores, so you won’t have to group up or do dungeons to get that gear.

The only thing you can’t currently get in the open world are the ascended rings and backpieces, those are only available in the Fractals dungeon. Fortunately that’s going to change next week with the January update where you can work toward those just by doing dailies and monthlies.

Have fun!

You need to do the chain-events in Orr to retake the various temples of the gods. Once you’ve completed the events, a Karma vendor becomes available who sells you maxed level 80 gear for 42,000 karma a piece.

wow thanks for your replies I am happy to hear I can get gear through several paths!

In this other game, I am under constant pressure to do group quests of all sorts to get token type things, to get gear. It is tedious, slow, and really like having another job. Not relaxing and fun anymore. I have basically stopped playing it. Of course, all the griefing is even more of a problem ( this alone really ended the game for me).

A shame as I spent a long time getting a charatcer to level cap and have a few alts…but it is just work now. You are locked into a set course or stuck where you are, and they’re upping the level cap, and making a new gear grind. Typical for MMOs maybe…but really am hoping GW2 takes a different path.

I wanna play for fun, not play to get the gear ( which I need to play the content anyway; a wierd sorta paradox that irks me). I want the gear so I CAN play. I don’t wanna be “blackmailed” into running content I don’t like just to have gear.

Time is a factor too. I play when I can for as long as I can but that varies, and these long ardurous dungeon typ things don’t fit for me at all.

I’d enjoy doing these events and hearts things with a friend/friends, but people seem to run off and do thier own thing..and race to max level/sufficient level to do the dungeon type stuff.

So, the game is much more to my liking so far but still it has been hard to find a friend in world ( which would really make this fun!)

I want to level up for added abilities and nicer looking armor ( my necro in particular I am not pleased with when it comes to gear) but at the same time want enjoy the process.

Probably, I am not gonna be doing other activities than what I have mentioned. I have done “dungeon” type quests in another game and find them very irritating and they also seem to make many people ( who perhaps are the type who are already so inclined) behave rudely. I am nice to everybody and have 0 tolerance for jerks ( so, ok, I am not nice to jerks…but I am not disrespectful to them either )

And PVP type activities I have less than 0 interest in hehehehe

I think the lack of having a friend will limit me severely, as some things even in open world are too much solo. I have been soloing veterans easily on my thief and necro…but I can see there are things (even in my realm of interest)that will not be done solo.

So I would like to have a friend. I was invited to a guild and joined…but thier interest is race to 80 and do fractals etc. They have little interest in anything else. Nice people but really not my style. On Anvil Rock server, btw.

Hmm, perhaps you should look into this group/guild.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/OPERATION-UNION-Bringing-Players-Together/page/27#post1092180

They are a cross server guild that focuses on acting as a method to find players to talk to and play with. I believe many in it enjoy casual pve, it is more of a social gathering and helping guild than anything else (though I am not a member so I can’t say for certain). Might want to give them a look.

Cheers,
Berk