Guild Wars 2

Current costs for WvWvW invader set:
Head 330
Shoulders 291
Chest 396
Gloves 238
Pants 370
Boots 264
Amulet 528
Accessories 660
Rings 792
2h weapon 396
2 1-handed weapons 528
Underwater weapons: 792

Total: 5,585 Badges of Honor

The siege merchant values badges of honor as 1 silver each. You can buy an arrow cart blueprint for 6 silver or 6 badges of honor. The same ratio goes for all of the blueprints. This means that the invader’s set is valued at 55 gold and 85 silver. This number seems ridiculously high considering we are meant to spend our money on armor repairs and our tokens on siege as we play.

With the dungeon changes, it is possible to buy a piece of gear after 3 runs which takes about 2.25 hours (45minutes per run). Farming Cursed Shore, it is possible to buy a piece of crafted exotic gear after about 2-4 hours.

Playing a thief, I only net about 10 badges of honor per hour. This means for the cheapest piece of armor I would need to play for a total of 24 hours. The result is that it takes about 10X longer to get WvWvW armor than crafted or dungeon armor.

Badges of honor are account bound and have no sell value. They can only be used to buy trinkets to be sold to a vendor for a value of 8 copper per badge of honor. We should receive more badges of honor from WvWvW, decrease the costs of the armor, or both.

It is unrealistic to expect your playerbase to farm WvWvW for 558 hours and 30 minutes to complete a set of gear at this current rate.

Now you know why the jumping puzzles are popular. 5-15 badges per chest. It all adds up.

If you want your PVP gear. You’re required to do jumping puzzles as the quickest means to achieve it.

Even best case scenario with jumps tho, 45 badges a day. And statistically thats not going to happen, you are much more likely to get around 30 per day from doing all 3. And really that to is not likely, given que times and the fights constantly going on there.

So even in a perfect world, the supplement from doing jump puzzle is very low. And in a real world you may as well farm them off players because that drop rate is near the same.

I am not horribly concerned tho, the itemization on those is pretty bland with no real options for most builds.

Invaders Exotic’s are weak. Get better gear imo.

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Even best case scenario with jumps tho, 45 badges a day. And statistically thats not going to happen, you are much more likely to get around 30 per day from doing all 3. And really that to is not likely, given que times and the fights constantly going on there.

So even in a perfect world, the supplement from doing jump puzzle is very low. And in a real world you may as well farm them off players because that drop rate is near the same.

I am not horribly concerned tho, the itemization on those is pretty bland with no real options for most builds.

First off. There are 4 jump puzzles.

Second. You can do it once a day. Per character. That’s 60 x how many characters you feel like going with a day. Because badges are account bound.

If your server is dominating a map. That racks up badges pretty quickly.

Invader gear is so bad for a thief. Don`t even bother.

The real question is when there will be invader gear with different skins and stats? The level 20 invader looks like 80 exotic invader…

Stop playing this game like other loot-treadmill games and just have fun.

Its easier to do HotW for weapons and armor with invaders gear stats. Only the jewelry stats are exclusive to WvW.

Buy your exotic armor set with Karma which is a lot easy to obtain on WvW compared to Badges. Make your weapons on mystic forge if you have free skill points.

That’s my advice.

Exotic karma gear = PvP gear for many slots.

For more than half the classes in the game, the PvP gear is trash. For Thieves, it’s trash – you don’t want any of it. For everyone else, a full PvP set is possible at 500-1000 badges if you get the right karma items.

You have to think how badges play into the hands of well organised groups though. When we run our guild WvW nights, you can net around 100 badges for an evening.

I am a bit bemused about the costs of WvW as our guild finds it negligible, you may struggle more at a lower level where the gold/silver isn’t as plentiful but this scales with your level and at 80 I can earn a gold or 2 in an evening of WvW after repair and siege costs.

Most of our members don’t buy the WvW sets and spend their tokens purely on siege since the stats aren’t really that great for a majority of classes/roles.

I appreciate if you are running alone its a different kettle of fish though or if you are a lower level.

lol it takes about 20 hours to farm the mats for all craftable exotic gear. And you get to decide what stats you get on that gear. You don’t have to settle with all toughness gear.

Use magic find % food…even a modest boost will almost double you BOH from bags.

Some people aren’t staying on topic.

The point of this thread is the discuss the price of the invader’s set and how the cheaper alternatives make it meaningless for anyone to buy this set. It needs to be looked at. I know there are easier ways to obtain gear with the same/different stats. I saw a problem with the invader’s set prices and wanted people’s opinions.

The jump puzzle info was good as well as zerging for 100 badges a night. But you said that you didn’t even bother to spend your badges on armor that its still more worthwhile to buy siege with it and use the gold you farm to buy armor.

It looks like the invader’s set prices are a problem then and the fact that there is only one set available…

The OP is right. Whether or not you want to buy the gear there is definitely a problem with both the badge drop rate and the cost of the gear. If the set is not valuable in your eyes, than clearly there’s something wrong.