Guild Wars 2

Apologies if this is in the wrong section, but being a Ranger I thought it’d be suiting.

I’m not level 80 yet but I’ve been thinking recently on how gearing up will be once I reach the cap. From my understanding, exotic gear that is level 80, is what I will be aiming to get. My crafting isn’t anywhere near my level right now (I’m level 64 but just touching tier 3 on both crafts.) and I doubt it’ll be near cap when I reach 80, so i’m assuming I’ll be aquiring the exotic gear through gold and karma vendors.

What I’m mostly confused about is what currency to spend on actual stat gear and what currency to spend on gear I like the look of.

If someone could explain to me clearly how this all works it’d be much appreciated, as i’ve come across several vendors with some wanting gold, karma and what appears to be dungeon tokens, in exchange for exotic gear.

It would be better to simply level up your crafting so you can make the exotic gear yourself with the desired stats.

The Leatherworking vendor sells the exotic insignia recipes for karma right at the vendor station and they are a lot cheaper then finding exotic gear to buy. Furthermore much of the karma gear does not have very good stats and the crafted stuff you can tailor for your playstyle or build.

The exotic stuff takes all of the top teir mats so you’ll need to farm some in Frostgorge or Orr but that should be expected.

Lobo.1296:

It would be better to simply level up your crafting so you can make the exotic gear yourself with the desired stats.

The Leatherworking vendor sells the exotic insignia recipes for karma right at the vendor station and they are a lot cheaper then finding exotic gear to buy. Furthermore much of the karma gear does not have very good stats and the crafted stuff you can tailor for your playstyle or build.

The exotic stuff takes all of the top teir mats so you’ll need to farm some in Frostgorge or Orr but that should be expected.

The part about karma exotics not having good stats isn’t true. They have max stats, but the combinations of stats might not always be suitable for what you aim to do with your profession.

Now, as for your question as to which gear to look for.. stat wise, pick stats that match what you want to do as a ranger. if you want to do large amounts of aoe dps, condition damage will increase the amount of damage your traps to considerably. if you are focused more on single target, power precision and crit damage stats would be the way to go.

Also, don’t worry about the look of the gear you get, you can always get different sets to transmute on to your current gear to personalize it

Thanks for the quick reply!

So would you say Karma exotics are more for the looks?

I also forgot about gear from actual dungeons.. can you aquire gear quite quickly through running dungeons?

Im pretty sure all the karma gear in cursed shore looks the same, but different vendors have differently statted gear.

As for dungeon gear, you get 60 tokens the first time you complete an explorable path each day, 20(i’m not sure i generally only do each path once a day due to PUGs sometimes being enough of a hassle the first time.) or so for subsequent completions. Let’s say you do Caudecus’s Manor path 1, you get 60 tokens. If you go back and go paths 2 and 3, you get another 60 tokens each which is a total of 180 CM tokens a day which is enough for either gloves or boots.

So yeah I guess if you are pretty good about getting a path or two done a day dungeon gear is quite simple to get.

Imo, save gold for jewerly, and take a look at Lion’s Arch vendors and find the gear you want from dungeons stat/skin wise and then do these dungeons to get a set/weapon.

Karma is mainly for skins, the stats on the karma gear currently are not very ranger oriented…only one that it’s worth to take is power/vit/dur but you have same stats from Ascalon Catacombs and it’s very easy to get (cheapest than other dungeon sets and easy/fast dungeon)

Hi again.

I prefer single target DPS, I’m currently going with a Longbow/Shortbow but would switch out the shortbow for a more single target weapon. So the stats I’ll be after are Power/Precision/Crit Damage.

Can anyone suggest any item sets? I did check the Lion’s Arch vendors and noticed three sets have these stats (Shame the Sylvari sets didn’t have these stat combos) but are there anymore?

If you want these stats then i’d say CoF is the “easiest” to obtain, you can get like 120 tokens in 40 minutes doing path 1 and 2.

And no, dungeon sets are just these, other than that if you want these stats you would have to craft them or buy them with gold (jewerly first is more important since you can’t get it anywhere).