Guild Wars 2

I just turned 80 a couple of days ago and I am really struggling as how to spend my karma (450k) and laurels (95), badges and tears… and where’s the best place to farm gear. Dungeons in GW2 are not that fun, so I was thinking fractals and WvW

My first reflex was to buy jewelry with my laurels but I was told it’s not worth it, is it true ?!

For karma, I was thinking of heading to Ruins of Orr and getting myself a rabid set, is that good ?

Any advice welcome
Thanks

To start out if say get a rabid/dire set, and a zerker/soldier set. How you acquire them makes no difference.

Kimmuriel.6420:

I just turned 80 a couple of days ago and I am really struggling as how to spend my karma (450k) and laurels (95), badges and tears… and where’s the best place to farm gear. Dungeons in GW2 are not that fun, so I was thinking fractals and WvW

What stats are you looking for? That is the first thing you need to decide. Do you want to be tanky direct damage, tanky condition damage, glass cannon burst damage, debuff/condition solid damage ? Give us some direction and we can tell you where to find everything.

Kimmuriel.6420:

My first reflex was to buy jewelry with my laurels but I was told it’s not worth it, is it true ?!

It was absolutely the right reflex. Once you decide what stats you want the Laural purchased jewelry is the best you can get. Find who ever told you it was a bad idea and kick them in the shins, and remember to question anything they ever tell you again……

For karma, I was thinking of heading to Ruins of Orr and getting myself a rabid set, is that good ?

Any advice welcome
Thanks

Rabid set isn’t bad at all. If that is what you want to go with, you can buy complimentary jewely from the laural vender (and don’t forget to kick your frield that said this jewelry was a bad idea.)

coglin.1867:

Kimmuriel.6420:

I just turned 80 a couple of days ago and I am really struggling as how to spend my karma (450k) and laurels (95), badges and tears… and where’s the best place to farm gear. Dungeons in GW2 are not that fun, so I was thinking fractals and WvW

What stats are you looking for? That is the first thing you need to decide. Do you want to be tanky direct damage, tanky condition damage, glass cannon burst damage, debuff/condition solid damage ? Give us some direction and we can tell you where to find everything.

Kimmuriel.6420:

My first reflex was to buy jewelry with my laurels but I was told it’s not worth it, is it true ?!

It was absolutely the right reflex. Once you decide what stats you want the Laural purchased jewelry is the best you can get. Find who ever told you it was a bad idea and kick them in the shins, and remember to question anything they ever tell you again……

For karma, I was thinking of heading to Ruins of Orr and getting myself a rabid set, is that good ?

Any advice welcome
Thanks

Rabid set isn’t bad at all. If that is what you want to go with, you can buy complimentary jewely from the laural vender (and don’t forget to kick your frield that said this jewelry was a bad idea.)

Actually since i have lots of alts, and not many laurels, i only get ascended trinkets for accessories with crit dmg on them, since they give the most stat increase than other stats. To clarify, with full exotic crit dmg gear, you can get +104%. With ascended, you can get +115%

With exotics you have to acquire mats and level crafting to make them, or spend gold on them. Why not use the laurels he already has laying around that will not be used for anything else any time soon and acquire them.

I am unclear how “your” having alts is relevant to the OPs question at all. Or how it relevant to whether or not you get ascended gear on your main. Particularly when he has laurels he is not doing anything else with.

coglin.1867:

With exotics you have to acquire mats and level crafting to make them, or spend gold on them. Why not use the laurels he already has laying around that will not be used for anything else any time soon and acquire them.

I am unclear how “your” having alts is relevant to the OPs question at all. Or how it relevant to whether or not you get ascended gear on your main. Particularly when he has laurels he is not doing anything else with.

What i was saying is since i have a lot of alts, i dont really like wasting laurels. Yes its not technically a waste, since there is still a stat increase, but you get the most bang for your buck stat-wise on pieces with crit dmg.

Anyways OP, here’s what I’d do. Use your karma for exotic rabid trinkets.(Dwayna, i think). Buy rabid armor with your remaining karma. Buy berserker ascended accessories with your laurels. Then using your tears/badges, buy soldier/berserker. You’ll end up with LOTS of different builds you can run, just from those 2 sets of gear.

If he is talking rabid gear, it would appear the OP intends to go condition damage, so I do not see any reason for soldiers/zerker gear. I guesss we need to determine what he wants to do first.

I was thinking going condition grenades… but I really cant seem to get the hang of it in small rvr and 1vs1 battles, people keep moving and I cant seem to land a good blow… In large battles its great, you kit a zillion mobs

Now im thinking of pistols… hard to decide

Well with grenades, zeker is optimal. With pistols, I recommend rabid. but you will still need to decide on kit/utilites so we know what to recommend to start.

Carpboy.7145:

Anyways OP, here’s what I’d do. Use your karma for exotic rabid trinkets.(Dwayna, i think). Buy rabid armor with your remaining karma. Buy berserker ascended accessories with your laurels. Then using your tears/badges, buy soldier/berserker. You’ll end up with LOTS of different builds you can run, just from those 2 sets of gear.

+1
This way you’ll very cheaply end up with power gear (Soldier/Berserker armor with Berserker trinkets) and condition gear (full Rabid) and with those you can run most builds.
Crit damage and thus Berserker gets the most from Exotic to Ascended so you should get Ascended Berserker trinkets first.

Personally I’d go full exo rabid with some sort of rabid trinket, use P/S instead of P/P just because the shield blocks and blasts can help in a group situation. The nades are an easy tool, simply kite to a choke point (closed in area where you’re guaranteed to hit) or you can get as close as you can do it, but you shouldn’t really be running nades without Bomb kit on.

Grind COE for Dire gear. Collect lootbags

I have a set of dire gear and I love it in WvW, but in PvE I feel rabid gear is best served.

I hope you didn’t buy any laurel gear yet. Getting then is a 3% advantage over full geared exotic. Not worth it. Get a ton of t6 mats with laurels and buy them zotics.

Iconoklast.2389:

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omg thank you, I couldn’t agree more!
I have the same 3 classes at 80. :P nice.

I’m probably late to the party, but I would only get amulets with laurels. You can get ascended rings from fractals, and ascended accessories with guild commendations. Laurels are hard to accumulate and are therefore far more valuable than guild commendations or pristine fractal relics, IMO.