Guild Wars 2

Okay, so lately I’ve been really wanting to give WvW a shot. I’m a total PvP noob, but am knowledgeable enough that I know that even though your level gets scaled up in WvW, your gear doesn’t. You also don’t get to unlock any traits/trait points and skills that you don’t already have. So I’ve been working on unlocking skills I would like, and also getting more points into the trait lines I’d like.

So now I have all the skills I think I want, and by the time I level to forty in a few levels, I’ll have ten points in Earth, Water and Arcana. So my only last concern is gear.

I’m figuring I will probably go for lots of toughness/vit (which I do already), because I’ll need it even more when I’m battling people with better skills/gears/traits and things than myself. I will probably also go for healing power (though if I die too quickly for healing to be of any use, maybe I’ll change that.) And then obviously power/condition damage.

Anyway, my question is this: what gear, in your opinion, should I be going for? Should I use craftable gear, or should I use the uh, cultural whatever gear (which I think I unlocked at level 35, but I haven’t checked it out much and don’t know how good it is)? What about runes?

Also, any general tips or whatever you can provide for someone about go into WvW for the first time would also be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

(P.S. Creslin reminded me of this, lol, but yeah, I run a D/D elementalist. So that might help a bit.)

What weapon(s) are you going to use?

As a staff elementalist, I stay away from the middle of battle and throw in AoE nukes and heals, so I would recommend going for equipment with power and either vitality or magic find. You level up a lot faster in WvWvW than in PvE (hence the magic find to promote gear drops), so I wouldn’t invest too much in equipment. Also, if you use a staff as your primary, I would get the Blasting Radius trait at Arcane 20 as soon as you hit 40.

I’ll leave it to the S/D and D/D guys to tell you how they build, but I suspect you need more toughness and vitality.

At level 80, cleric’s gear and carrion accessories work wonders. I’m not sure what the lower level equivalents of these are, but you will want to stack…

Highest Priority:
toughness
Healing power

Second Priority:
Power
vitality

Third priority:
Condition Damage

Oh yeah, I suppose I should have included my weapon choices. Oops, sorry about that, lol.

But I run a D/D elementalist. I’m not opposed to switching to staff if it seems like it would be better for a certain situation, but I definitely don’t know it/it’s skills as well as I know D/D. And yeah, I’ve heard you level quicker in WvW, but I hadn’t been thinking about that too much. Thanks for reminding me not to waste too much money on equipment, lol.

And thanks, Creslin. I guess that answers the question about whether I should be looking for healing power or not, lol.

For WvW I kept buying the karma invader’s blue gear. It was cheap enough and I felt like I was earning more than enough karma in WvW to buy new gear every 10 levels. I didn’t feel like it was worth buying green, yellow or orange gear till I hit 80.

At level 40 it really doesn’t matter what gear you run in wvw. Just use whatever you are liking for leveling and don’t worry about getting a specific set for pvp.

By the way, I wouldn’t exactly take Creslin’s list as gospel. That’s one way of playing one build.

Okay, thanks again, guys. I think I’m just going to not worry about my gear at the moment. I’ll just use what I have equipped now, see how it goes and then learn from that. But thanks for taking the time out to give me tips/answers. It’s greatly appreciated.

And here I thought Knight armor set + Berserker jewel set was viable for all classes.
Silly me.

Also did I read right? healing power?
This is taken from gw2wiki:
“Healing scales linearly with healing power. Different sources of health gain add different amounts of healing per point of healing power. For instance, each point of Healing Power adds 0.125 healing for Regeneration, 0.06 healing for Rejuvenation.”
I’d check that stat again if I were you.

As final wvw build I’d say go:
10 Air
30 Earth
10 Water
30 Arcana.

My 2 cents.