Guild Wars 2

Was running in a group doin AC Exp Mode having a rough go of it.

Was level 42 (43 now) in mostly level 33-35 Green Ravaging Condition/Precision gear with a Yellow Staff and a couple Yellow Daggers also level 35 Ravaging type.

There were other newer people in the group as well.

We were about to call it but before we all left a comment was made that some of us need to hit the Trader and gear up a little better.

Fair enough…I did just gear up at 35 with the best I could get and then got 7 levels really fast.

So afterward I went to the trader but could not find ANY Greens/Yellows available for level 40-42. Not really a big deal but the Blue Ravaging Gear I could find was just a lil bit better than what I had.

And the Ravaging Yellow Staff/ Daggers were still better than Blues of levels 40-42 on the AH.

I could also not find any healing/vitality or toughness/vitality gear in the level 40-42 range. The only stuff I could find was Cond/Prec and Power/Precision.

Is this just a fluke or is there really only a coule types of bonuses available for elementalists at 40-42.

I have run across a few Healing type gear pieces available from Karma vendors but really didn’t want to dump my tasty pool of karma for low level healing gear.

I though maybe a balance of Toughness/Vitality and Healing Vitality might increase my survivablility over just stacking as much Cond/Prec as possible.

Any thoughts?

Save your coin. Just keep your weapon within 2-3 levels of you. You will need all the gold you can get your hands on at 80. Which does not take very long to reach.

oops, sorry double post.

You can also craft gear for every 5 levels.

Drops are cheaper than crafted gear, usually, and the come with upgrade items. Just buy green gear or better for a few coppers over vendor price whenever you can, then sell it when you’re through with it.

You can even avoid repair bills that way; just sell the gear. I’ve been Level 80 for a quite a while, but one of my armor pieces is green …

At level 49 now. I stuck with the level 42 ish gear and upgraded my weapons. I found a Ravaging Staff of some such, a Ravaging Ogre Slaying dagger and a Strong Dagger that Heals Allies 30% of the time.

It seems that even thought the yellow weapons cost a little more they are usefull for several levels.

It seems more appropriate to change up when I notice either survivability or dps going down.

I kinda figured the crafted gear would be behind random drops due to the time/cost vs benefit.

Don’t forget to grab some cheap runes or marks for your gear if you don’t want to re-buy upgrade every 5 levels. The +10 to +20 or so they give to stats adds up over 6 pieces of armor, especially as you’re leveling up quickly.

I’ve noticed that gear of the same tier and same level tend to be very similar, regardless of if it was crafted or dropped. Since I leveled up my crafting evenly with my character level, I often was fit with green-level stuff I crafted (except chest and pants, buy those because crafting them is too expensive if you don’t have the mats).