Guild Wars 2

So I am relatively new to this game (couple of weeks) so maybe I am missing something but I am trying to get all exotic gear in order to start doing fractals in order to start getting what I need to get ascended gear (I believe I need the rewards from doing fractals to get ascended gear). I am trying to get all berserker gear, following this guide:

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Druid_-_Power_Glyph_Buffer

I can’t seem to find berserker back or earrings in the market place at all. I also don’t see berserker earrings in the exotic earring recipe list here:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Orichalcum_Earring

Am I missing something or do I need to do something special to get exotic berserker back / earrings?

You’re not going to be able to find an exotic backpiece on the trading post. Instead, craft a lv78 backpiece from any of the crafting professions and select Berserker’s stats, then attach a lv65 rare jewel in there (Brilliant Embellished Ruby). The stats are 2 points higher for the main stat than a lv80 exotic backpiece with an Exquisite Jewel in it, plus, it comes with an infusion slot.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Back_item#Crafting

The Berserker’s exotic earring is on the list you linked as " Ruby Orichalcum Earring."

If you have the resources, and your end-goal is fractals, you should probably just skip to the Ascended Earrings off of the Merchant. You’ll want them soon anyway.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild_commendation_trader#Ascended_Gear

You don’t need to do fractals to get ascended gear. You just craft it like anything else, but it’s a lot more expensive.

Fractals are a good source of ascended rings, but those are extremely easy to come by anyway. You can get a couple ascended backpieces via fractals, but that 1 piece is not that important and most people just use a lower quality item.

Thanks, did not realize they were named differently for earrings (should have looked at the stats instead).

My real end game in raiding so I know I want to just full ascended gear however I have not had the chance to get into guild missions (ran my first 2 last weekend) nor do I have a lot of other currency to buy ascended gear (like laurels) but I was told that a full set of exotic gear would at least let me be able to do lower level fractals as I build my currency to buy ascended trinkets (with will allow me to get Agony Resist and allow me to do higher fractals). I also have not had the opportunity to do many dungeons (only done 2 dungeons both in story mode) and figured fractals would be a good place to get familiar with co-op play in Guild Wars 2.

You don’t need perfect trinkets to do fractals, just get some karma ones from Orr or even a heart and get ascended ones when you can.

Fractals are a decent way to learn more about your class but the rewards aren’t that great. I’d recommend just doing whatever is fun rather than forcing any particular content. Right now, Wintersday is far and away the best place to get gold for crafting (sell presents or their contents). PvP is good as well. Laurels will pile up very quickly in the meantime.

Yea, I am not much of a pvp person (I will give it a try at some point but not right now) and from what I have read, with the nerf to dungeon rewards that recently happened (and maybe I am wrong but seems like only fractals have daily rewards), fractals seem like the most worth while activity that I will probably enjoy the most (dungeons / raids / trails are by far the most enjoyable part of MMORPGs that I have played in the past) until I get better at learning my class(es) and start doing raids.

fractals are probably the most worthwhile and profitable thing at the moment outside of raiding and even that’s debatable since gearing up for raiding and food costs get expensive. If you can find groups run CoF as much as you possibly can to build up tokens. Dungeons or WvW tokens are still the cheapest and easiest way to get armor if you’re relatively new to the game and don’t have 2-300k karma saved up. while the rewards from dungeons aren’t the greatest their are advantages to doing them, the dungeon reward collection rewards an ascended trinket and you can get exotic gear of different stats without spending any gold.