Guild Wars 2

I bought a set of rare armor and have started trying to finish the nonpvp world maps. I have about 6 zones left to do. The difference in good gear vs the crap I levelled up with is amazing. Not sure what other things I can be doing. I do plan to get into WvW pvp once I have the pve content mapped out.

I guess what do I need to do to get legendary or exotic gear? What should I be trying to do in pvp, just get a massive kill count or is there other stuff?

thanks

1) Get a Primary set of Exotic Armor / Accessory pieces.

2) Get a “Situational” set of Exotic Armor / Accessory pieces. (If your Primary set is focused on a glass cannon dps style, then you’ll want to have a more defensive gear set that you can mix and match as needed. Etc etc.)

3) Slowly work towards getting yourself a Legendary weapon. Or make multiples if you’re feeling especially crazy.

4) Make yourself all kinds of crazy gear using the Skill Point vendor items through the Mystic Forge system.

5) Start a new character if none of those sound appealing.

You can easily make yourself an Exotic weapon or two using the Mystic Forge system upon hitting 80th. (See the GW2 Wiki page about the Mystic Forge for more information on the “Mystic” weapons.) Then after gearing yourself up with a set of Yellow gear as a starting point, you can start to farm either Dungeons or Karma. With the dungeon tokens, you can buy yourself a set of armor. Or using Karma, you can buy armor pieces from the end game merchants (who I believe are Priests in the Orr zone).

Once you’re in mostly Exotic, you’ll be very powerful in WvW. Assuming that you’ll eventually want a Legendary weapon (which is only an Exotic weapon with a special appearance), then you’ll need to get a 100% Map Completion from all of the PvE and WvW zones.

And don’t forget, you can take up crafting to make your own exotics if dungeons aren’t your thing. (As well as purchase them, but you might as well craft them yourself should you want legendary weapons, as the gifts are account bound so you must craft them yourself)

I think some or a lot of 80s have started to get bored once we have acquired all the exotics we need, finished all the avail maps and so forth. I’m personally hoping for new maps to open up soon, especially as there are teasers already (shut gates, big walls, and NPCs giving teaser replies etc) also the fact that there are more elder dragons, i.e. Jormag, Kralkatorrik and on wards, so I’d assume there is a lot more coming in the future. Can’t wait.

Personally, I have been working to complete my serious set of exotic gear and then need to work on magic find gear and save up for tier 3. huge undertaking that requires a lot of resources but other than that, I’m also at a lost of what to do. I often don’t feel like re-running dungeons, I don’t particularly want any dungeon gear, nor am i interested much in crafting stuff. I’m also kind of just like exploring so making a new character for me is quite tedious, even though I get to work with new classes/races etc.

So other than the actual in game goals:

An idea that came out from another thread on this forum from another member was to go out and help new players. If you like helping people, start offering to answer questions, help people through maps and difficult bosses/events, dungeons, giving tips etc. I think that is very rewarding rather than the serious in game stuff. For guilds, that would be an effective recruiting strategy as well.

From that note, of course WvW and PvP. Experiment with different builds and also organize teams and strategy for WvW.

On another note, I’m thinking of transferring servers to see what other player communities are like – if there is a difference at all.

I’m really interested in getting to networking type activities in game once I have everything I need.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/So-You-Hit-80-A-Quick-Endgame-Handbook/first#post143250

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personally, im trying to find a good pistol and shield that has a nice particle effect. I particularly like the molten one (or was it the firey one), the one that has a fire effect in it, as well as the ghastly weapons (blue flame!) I’m not gonna force it though coz as an engineer, I only use my pistol/shield maybe like half or even less of combat time (mostly im on bombs).

I’m also gonna try a new armor build and see where that takes me. All in all, it’ll take me around 1.9k Ascalonian tears (AC tokens) but with being able to do 180 tokens a day, it shouldn’t be too taxing of my time.

Check your achievement tab, and look at everything you haven’t done yet. Start with the things that really appeal to you.