Guild Wars 2

Howdy, I’m about to turn 80 and was looking for tips on gearing up. Which exotic set, what sigils/runes? I tend to WvW alot and like to play offensive GS/Hammer.

Thanks!

There are several different paths to gearing up at L80:

1) Crafted – If you’ve gone the crafting route, you can make your own armor/jewelry what have you. If not, you can purchase exotic crafted items off of the BLTC.

2) Dungeon tokens – Run bunches of explorer modes and farm tokens which you can trade in for exotic armor.

3) Karma (exotic vendors) – farm Karma and trade it in for exotic armor.

4) Drops – Kill a bunch of stuff (least reliable but has the upside of aiding in #5 below)

5) Black Lion (money) – Make money and buy what you want off of the BLTC. Probably the easiest way to gear up.

6) Exploration – Grind all of the zones and hope the exotics that drop off the quest rewards are useful to you (not exactly reliable).

7) PvP – Grind PvP honor and/or badges.

Basically gearing up is very easy in GW2 and very flexible to play style preference. The only real grinds are for certain looks (why most people do dungeons) and/or legendaries.

For PvP I highly recommend both Toughness and Vitality in stats. Past those, whatever your build and play style is geared towards is fine.

Hope that helped

Kruunch.3714:

There are several different paths to gearing up at L80:

1) Crafted – If you’ve gone the crafting route, you can make your own armor/jewelry what have you. If not, you can purchase exotic crafted items off of the BLTC.

2) Dungeon tokens – Run bunches of explorer modes and farm tokens which you can trade in for exotic armor.

3) Karma (exotic vendors) – farm Karma and trade it in for exotic armor.

4) Drops – Kill a bunch of stuff (least reliable but has the upside of aiding in #5 below)

5) Black Lion (money) – Make money and buy what you want off of the BLTC. Probably the easiest way to gear up.

6) Exploration – Grind all of the zones and hope the exotics that drop off the quest rewards are useful to you (not exactly reliable).

7) PvP – Grind PvP honor and/or badges.

Basically gearing up is very easy in GW2 and very flexible to play style preference. The only real grinds are for certain looks (why most people do dungeons) and/or legendaries.

For PvP I highly recommend both Toughness and Vitality in stats. Past those, whatever your build and play style is geared towards is fine.

Hope that helped

Thanks, very helpful… I was thinking of spec’ing vitality and toughness, gearing power and precision (berserkers) and using vitality/toughness gems for a balanced approach, does that seem reasonable?

Yep yep that should work fine.

15000 health and 2250 (debatable) armor and 25% crit chance is good enough for any dungeon, so if you don’t want to think about it too hard, stay above those and you’ll be well rounded.