Guild Wars 2

Greetings at the moment I have a level 45 engineer and have decided to try and have my two main stats as power and toughness buy so far i cannot find any armor that matches these stats.

My question is does such armor exist? is it only available at higher levels?

Hello hammer,

If you look in the Wiki @ http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Item_nomenclature , you will see that at dual attributes (lower level gear) there is no combination with Power and Tougnhess.

At higher levels there are combinations of Power and Toughness in different type of gear.

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http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Equipment_acquisition_by_stats
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Item_nomenclature

Soldier’s is Power primary and Toughness as one of the secondary stats. Available from WvW (Karma or BoH for exotic) or dungeons (according to the wiki). The Vigil offers armor of those stats (must be a member of the Vigil) and in WvW it’s called Invader’s. Also Norn tier 2 and 3 (must be a Norn). You will have to mix pieces from multiple Temples of Orr to get all six.

Toughness primary and Power secondary is Knight’s. Available from WvW, dungeon or crafted.

Toughness and Power as secondary is either Sentinel (way expensive, Vitality is primary) or Cleric (way cheaper, Healing Power is primary).

Sadly there is no easy way to search.

Each armor piece only has one main, and two secondary stats (1 on lower levels).

However it is possible to mix two different stats types. So e.g. on chest, head and shoulders you could use power as main stat and toughness as a secondary stat. On the gloves, pants and shoes you can use toughness as your main and power as the second.

Triple stats are available from level 60 and up. till then you have to do with dual stats.
It seems that the combo you need doesnt exist as a dual stat.

So yes it is only available on higher levels (60+). What you want then is a mix off knights armor ( toughness – power – precission) and Soldiers (power – toughness – vitality). Keep in mind that soldiers can only be bought with tokens from WvW or dungeons.

Till then I would advise on going for rejuvinating stats (healing power + power).
Combine that with the adept alchemy trait: ‘Self regulating defense’. If you are then below 25% health and get a hit you automaticly drink elixer S. This shrinks you for 3 seocnds and makes you invulnerable. But also much more important, it recharges your healing skill. This means you can heal yourself twice shortly after eachother. Combined with +healing power this makes up for the loss of touchness. It is for me the reason I don’t use toughness on my engineer but this mechanic + healing power.

Well the WvW option is out since I never play on world vs world and I have only just started to do explore mode on dungeons so is there alternative I could find from karma vendors or the market?

Did you look at the links already provided?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Equipment_acquisition_by_stats

That tells you very easily what stats are obtainable where/how. Also if you want to buy things via karma, check here:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/List_of_karma_merchant_items#Armor

Also, for the most part (ie PvE exploring) you can make do with whatever stats you find. I force my alts to live off of drops and they can still pretty easily kill things with a lvl 20 karma axe while in a lvl ~70 zone (though it does just take a bit longer)

mercury ranique.2170:

So yes it is only available on higher levels (60+). What you want then is a mix off knights armor ( toughness – power – precission) and Soldiers (power – toughness – vitality). Keep in mind that soldiers can only be bought with tokens from WvW or dungeons.

Also available for karma from the various orr temples. One piece is missing per armor weight but that shouldn’t matter much if you are going to mix stats anyway.

http://www.gw2state.com/temples.html can be used to check the availability of the temples across all the servers.

Hammer.3294:

Well the WvW option is out since I never play on world vs world and I have only just started to do explore mode on dungeons so is there alternative I could find from karma vendors or the market?

Like I said, cleric armor is the easiest but power and toughness are minor rather than either of them being a major stat. But they start at level 60, it comes in exotic and you can buy it off the TP cheap-ish.

Also BoH from WvW are awarded in the achievement chests. By the time you hit 3000 APs you should have enough BoH to cover that cost for the armor in WvW (you also need 5-6 gold for the set). Just pop in and buy from the armor vendor, no joining the fight required. It’s level 80 exotic.

Hammer.3294:

Well the WvW option is out since I never play on world vs world and I have only just started to do explore mode on dungeons so is there alternative I could find from karma vendors or the market?

Not exactly true. Some WvW items can be obtained with BADGES and these are awarded in Achievement Chests you can get from purely playing PvE. I had 1500 Badges saved up from Achievement Chests when I reached LVL 80 on a few toons and those Badges got me some cheap Exotic gear and a wide variety of skins from the WvW vendors.

An Engi in full Cleric will lay down some MASSIVE healing…..