Ello fellow players
Welcome to the game!
I wouldn’t worry about equipment until you reach the max level (80). Up until then equipment variety is low and you’ll be frequently upgrading to higher level equipment. That said, focusing on damage stats (power, precision, critical damage, condition damage) on your equipment is always good early on as you’ll get by content faster. It is also a good idea to buy some cheap trinkets from the trading post seeing how they are difficult to get from drops.
However, once you reach level 80 you have many equipment choices and you’ll want to choose what compliments your build the most. I’m no expert on equipment stats or builds so hopefully someone else can help you out there, but you do have a good amount of time to figure it all out by the time you hit level 80 and start working towards exotic and ascended equipment.
There are no “item sets” in this game. We do have something similar in the form runes that provide bonuses the more of the same type you equip, but you can replace these with other runes as often as you like, destroying the old rune in the process. Its all about the quality of the item (white, blue, green, yellow, orange, pink) and the stat you want over anything else.
(edited by Bri.8354)
The easiest way to get geared once you hit lvl 80 is to head on over to Orr (you’ll know where that is). Get yourself a set of Exotic Armageddon Armor(I suggest Dwayna) for 242k karma(purple triangle currency) from one of the vendors there. The armor looks pretty good and you should have enough karma saved up by lvl 80. Then, use the gold you’ve saved on exotic weapons and trinkets while you grind for the skins you like.
Other advice: crafting is a good way to level, so save your materials. Sell anything you don’t need in the black lion trading company tab, not to vendors.