Guild Wars 2

Hello, I have recently decided I want to try out WvW for the first time ever. I have never PvE’d past level 30 (which I did within the first week of game launch) and I don’t know anything about gear. My 2k+ game hours are all from PvP, so I am basically a PvE noob. Can anyone give me the gear name/rings/amulets/whatever else you use for endgame WvW for a terrormancer? I’m standard 0 6 4 0 4 staff and scepter/dagger. I also have about 100g that I wouldn’t mind spending on this. Thanks for any help!

carrion, dire, rampagers, sinisters are probably your best bet if your going for a condi build. If you have any karma/badges of honor at all you can save some gold on armor. The temple of balthazar karma merchant sells rampagers armor for 42k karma per piece. You can farm both in EoTM if you ever want to try that out.

I run full zerk necro because I never liked condi builds all that much, but hope that helps.

If you have 2k hours pvp, you should just keep everything the way it is and roam.

My recommendation would be to go for dire / rabid mix with an aim to have your crit chance somewhere around 30 – 38% or so. When buying rabid and dire gear from the TP (if you are planning on not going ascended), try not to type “dire blah blah”. Instead search for the stat combination you are looking for and look for the armor that has a name like “Jatoro” for Dire because those may be cheaper.

You can balance the stats something like this:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQNArYGmIYQk0poJAluC-TVhPwAlU+1Ufwa1fAs/AMlgkCAm5AA-w

The non-ascended version could look something like this:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQNArYGmIYQk0poJAluC-TlxAwAWUCCw8nR1fupPY3+DPV+RKAYmDA-w

Some people don’t like having rare upgrades on the trinkets (the rare rabids I put there). There’s no exotic version of Rabid for some reason so the rares are next in line. You can put other upgrades (like Exquisite Chrysocola Jewel, Exquisite Passion Flower or Exquisite Coral Jewel) but it’s up to you.

Keep in mind WvW has food, which sPvP doesn’t have. The 40% condi duration is very nice and it is needed in a condi build.
When you go to WvW, look for the laurel vendors there. If you plan on buying ascended trinkets, you can buy the amulet (for 250 badges and 20 laurels) and rings (for 250 badges and 25 laurels) but you’d need badges for that. Otherwise you can buy them from PvE for about 30 laurels. If you are not planning on going ascended then the stats will look a little different and the trinkets won’t be as clean in terms of stats :P It would still be perfectly fine though.

Edit: and as was mentioned before, the karma merchants in Orr have armor/trinkets you can buy with karma, but I don’t think you can salvage those so depends if you are fine with that or not. The merchants there have rabid stats. There’s also armor/trinkets you can buy from a WvW merchant which is very cheap but required badges along with a bit of money. You can buy rabid from those merchants as well but once again, you can’t salvage that armor. You CAN salvage armor/trinkets you buy from the TP though.