Guild Wars 2

Hey guys,

I just reached level 80 and this is my first character to ever do so with. I am extremely overwhelmed with the amount of stuff I can and want to do and this is a great thing. I’m just curious as to how, what, and where I should get armor from. I made a bad decision of buying the mantle and robe from the temple of Balthazar right after the event because I saw the shiny exotics for karma and had literally just hit 80. Oh well, that’s done and dusted and now I just need pointing in the right direction.

I run the standard 0/10/0/30/30 build that I found online and just need help with armor.

Any help is appreciated,
Thanks.

My Ele has a good mix of stats, partially because I bought his gear back when I didn’t know any better and partially because I like options. I stress Vitality and direct damage, but I have a little bit of Toughness and Healing Power in there for better defense, and even some Condition Damage because every weapon set has decent condition application.

In general, though, the sexy things for Eles to buy are Cleric’s armor (Healing Power / Power / Toughness) or Valkyrie’s (Power / Vitality / Crit Damage). A lot of people go for Celestial trinkets to cap things off (they give slightly more total stats than other sets and Eles can use them all).

Cleric’s armor makes you an irascible monster, very, very difficult to kill. Valkyrie’s armor gives you more damage while still helping you live through burst. As I mentioned, I prefer to stress Vitality to help compensate for the Ele’s naturally low health pool. Without some Vitality, you’re going to be extremely vulnerable to big boss AoE attacks in PvE and backstab Thieves in WvW.

if you have the time and money just buy all the armor.

Depends on what you play the most. If you mainly play PvE, you want Heavy Armor and a Guardian or Warrior to wear that armor.

For WvW, you want Medium Armor and a Thief wearing it.

when i was in your situation i went for
Knight (pow/prec/thoughness) armor
Zerker (pow prec crit) weapons
PvT backpack/necklace

Celestial trinkets assuming you have access to guild missions/fractals

For runes i Always went for runes of the pack

NB: one day you will have to get a full zerker armor to swap with knight according to situation….but with a knight at least you are balanced and ready to face most situations….for what an ele can do in current state at least.