Guild Wars 2

I just dinged 41 from 10 after leveling several crafting specializations. Can anyone recommend a good armor set for my level? Before turning to my crafts, I was leveling rifle/grenades with mostly power gear. I intend to continue with grenades, though I thought to give dual pistols a try. I am a sylvari and am not sure about the stats on cultural armor. +precision/condition damage seems to be mismatched. Any help would be appreciated.

wellp.. your problem with choosing armor at lvl 40 will be this: you’ll outgrow it before you know it… go power/precision or power cond damage if you plan to try out pistols but don’t give it too much thought as you’ll be lvl 50 before you know it.. then 60 then 80… it’s only then that you should plan out a more permanent armor set.

You dont need anything until level 65……Because any gears below 65 only have 2 stat~

pistols = condition
rifle = critical+perception
grenade= power+boon
bomb = power + healing
flamethrower = condition
elixir = healing+condition+boon
turret+shield = toughness+heal

Decide what build you want to stick with by lvl 60. Then choose your armor based on that stat and just buy it from trade. Personally i dont use dual pistols because if i want to play with aoe and conditions, flamethrowers are better. Rifles are versatile because you can immobilize and knock down in PvP and Blunderbuss and jump shot in pve. Shields are also good if you want to stall for turrets or allies as well as running away.

Orion the Cursed.1206:

pistols = condition
rifle = critical+perception
grenade= power+boon
bomb = power + healing
flamethrower = condition
elixir = healing+condition+boon
turret+shield = toughness+heal

Decide what build you want to stick with by lvl 60. Then choose your armor based on that stat and just buy it from trade. Personally i dont use dual pistols because if i want to play with aoe and conditions, flamethrowers are better. Rifles are versatile because you can immobilize and knock down in PvP and Blunderbuss and jump shot in pve. Shields are also good if you want to stall for turrets or allies as well as running away.

I dont think condition is a viable option for enigneer..The duration wasnt long enough to gain benefit. In my opinion, only two option suit engineer in PVE: You either choose 30 explosive for brainless Grenade spawn, or 30 firearm for rifle/pistol…….No matter which path you choose, you need to spend 10 point on Tools for Speedy Kit, and better to have 10 Alchemy for Vigor…Because engineer was more like a medium ranged class, I would be better to choose anything that gave Toughness. Personally I suggest Knight set..
Also, with 30 firearm, pistol AOE were far more effective than flamethrower~Dual pistol have immobilize ability, shield grant you stun/interruption. Both set were very handy..I suggest u bring all of them and use the right set base on the situation you are going to face. For example, I prefer shield in AC as shield 5 can stop Graveling from knocking down ppl to death. While in COF, pistol 5 was a better option.

One last thing, dont expect that turret would do any good. They were too stupid to find the right target.

Thanks for the replies. Is there a gear database that can be used to compare stats among items for a given profession level?

keeping up with your gear is important. leveling is a large part of the game and you should have as much fun doing it while possible. blue gear is very cheap to buy and keep current for your level. i suggest trying out different sets and seeing which one you get the most out of.

Moonrabbit.1543:

Thanks for the replies. Is there a gear database that can be used to compare stats among items for a given profession level?

http://www.gw2db.com/recipes
On drop down menu, choose Leatherworker…

Power for everything.
Then power/crit.
Then power/crit/crit damage.
for everything.

Just buy some stuff off the TP every 5-10 levels. Lvl 41 is a good level for this because lvl x1 stuff is often cheaper but it hardly makes a difference because stuff tends to be vendor price + 1to5 copper anyways. Crafting gives you slightly more control over what stat combos are available (if you want sometime other than berserker, which you don’t) but is normally much more expensive than this method.
Once you find something better, just vendor the old stuff. At this point you effectively paid 1to5 copper for it. Much better than running around with stuff 10 levels too low or with strange stat combos.

I am hoping to gear up when I get back from a trip tomorrow. Can anyone make some specific recommendations for armor for 41 level engineer? Again, I have been running rifle/grenades with speedy kits and putting rest of my trait points into explosives. I am considering substituting P/P for rifle, though.

From the TP, it seems my options are ravaging or honed gear. Ravaging is quite a bit better than honed in terms of overall stats but lacks power. I am unaware of any leatherworker recipes for better armor options.

Strong at that level?
Strong outlaw (master) is level 35.
Strong leather (Blue) is level 45.