Guild Wars 2

So aside from leveling my thief and necro to 80, all I’ve done in this game is s/tPvP since BWE #1. I’ve never done a dungeon, I’ve never really played WvW. I took a month or so off after my thief hit 80 because I got bored with the playstyle and the game itself, and then came back to play my necro to just under rank 40. I switch builds and playstyles constantly, like after every couple of maps almost, just because I enjoy playing every build so much, so the thought of having to tediously farm a set of gear for a only one specific build seems absurd to me and there’s no clear instructions on how to go about doing this in the game itself (that I’ve found).

Long story short, now I’m trying to consider actually leaving the mists once in awhile to attempt dungeons and WvW and I need to figure out how to get decent gear for it! I bought a full set of exotic berserker gear (Berserker Acolyte gear) off the TP for my PvE build so I should be good to run dungeons anyway (however that works, like old school EQ days of /LFG in map chat or what?). Now I’m trying to find a full set of rabid gear for my (current) tPvP build to transfer over to WvW, but I’m having trouble figuring it out and I can’t make sense of what information I did find. I saw the Khilbron’s set was perfect but not worth the $50 I’d have to spend to buy gems to convert to gold to afford it all. The only P/T/C gear I found after that was the rare quality Strong gear, which I could do if I had to. I can’t even find any Rabid jewely on the TP. You’re talking to someone who wore whatever gear was better (power vs condition) while leveling and then only deals with “Rabid Amulet with Rabid Jewel” as a gear set in HotM lol. I have 32k karma and 2 laurels, though I’ve never done anything to specifically farm either (nor would I really know the best way to go about that if I am supposed to be doing it).

So yeah, huge noob post, but if I didn’t ask and try to get info for it I’d never leave the Mists and experience any other part of the game. No I don’t have a guild, thus no guildies to ask, so turning to the necro community for assistance.

There’s basically three “currencies” used for obtaining level 80 exotic armor: gold, karma, and dungeon tokens. Gold allows you to buy gear off TP. Karma vendors in Orr offer exotic armor pieces for ~42,000 karma a piece. Dungeons net you 60 dungeon-specific tokens per day per path (20 for each additional run a day); dungeon armor costs 180-330 tokens a piece.

If you just want a full set of Rabid stats, the quickest way to accomplish that would be running dungeons. Dungeon runs give you gold, karma, and dungeon tokens. Save up your gold for the cheaper pieces, such as gloves and boots (see Khilbron’s on TP), and save karma for “larger” pieces (coat and leggings) and use your dungeon tokens to round out the rest.

Check http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/List_of_armor_sets#Karma_armor_sets for Orr Karma sets with the desired stats. For Dungeons, Caudecus Manor, Twilight Arbor, Honor of the Waves, and Arah all have armor with Rabid stats. See Khilbron’s set for the TP.

If you don’t like the hodgepodge look, you can always transmute the stats to your desired armor look later.

Sweet, thanks for the info.