Guild Wars 2

Is there a guide anywhere out there that tells you how to acquire lots of this 80 gear? I should hit 80 later today, and I am still wearing greens/blues/few yellows. I have been hitting all the bosses but the 3 wurms and the 80’s. I have been doing mostly WvW type stuff to level and its my first character so buying it all off the trading post isn’t really viable.

The dulfy website + the gw2 wiki have quite some gearing information. Most relevant:

Step 1: choose the prefix / stats you want, in general for pve berzerker/soldier/knights. These also work in WVW but you will have to mix the stats to suit your playing style. If you want the popular celestial stats for wvw roaming, start with full celestial trinkets (Ascended) and mix them with for example soldier weapons + armor.

Step 2: Get the currencies you need, use the wiki to check where you can get the desired stat combo’s. If you go with berzerkers or soldiers you can spend your wvw badges + a small amount of gold to aqcuire exotic gear ( make sure you buy the level 80 stuff). Otherwise hit alot of dungeons in pve to make both gold + tokens or gain tokens/gear through pvp reward tracks.

Trinkets: It’s relatively easy to obtain ascended trinkets: Use laurels for the amulet, guild recommendations for the earrings, and pristine fractal relics for ascended rings. If you really want trinkets right away buy the best you can afford from the trading post. Only the ascended back piece is a little bit more work so buy the best you can afford.

IMPORTANT: Do not buy identical ascended rings or ear rings, ascended gear is unique, meaning you cannot equip two identical pieces at the same time. Let’s say you would like to equip 2 berzerker rings, get one with a offensive infusion slot and one with a defensive infusion slots, so you can equip both.

For runes/sigils, it depends on your funds and build, since you do not seem to have a whole lot of gold nor experience with different builds do not go for the expensive ones. ( the popular strenght runes cost 10 gold per piece).

Optional: If you don’t like the looks get a nice looking skin + transmutation charges which you can buy with gems or obtain through pvp + map completion.

Your first step would be to get an armor and some weapons of exotic level 80. Several ways to get them.

- At temple in Orr you can buy an armor with karma. A complete set of armor will cost 252 000 karma, but there is only 6 type of stats.
- Dungeon will give you token that allow you to buy an armor and weapons set. This is probably the best method as you gain gold and material while doing the dungeon. A complete set of armor and weapons should cost about 2 000 token or about 30 path of dungeon.
- Otherwise you can craft them or buy them of the TP. But this will cost gold.

For trinket, you are better to go straight for ascended. They usually cost less. Use laurel for most of them if you want. But for rings its way easier to get in fractal (if you like that). For accessories, the best would be guild mission. For back item, there is several ways to get one, use the Wiki for that. Amulet you can buy them with laurel, its the best way.