Guild Wars 2

Heya guys i just hit 80 on my ranger and i am very confused as to the best gear sets i can obtain and where and how to get them???? what are your thoughts? anyone have a link to all the armor sets or a guide perhaps?

I would wait until after Friday and see what changes the Ranger gets. It may make a huge difference, it may make no difference at all. That said I’ll try to answer your question anyway.

The first thing you need to decide for yourself is what weapons you like and want to use. You can start with traits, stats, or utilities if you want but I think weapons is the best place to start because it has the largest effect on play style (e.g. melee or ranged, in and out skirmishing, long range pew pew, or in your face smakitten-all).

Once you’ve decided that take a look at the skills you have and whether or not you’ve got enough conditions to make condition damage worth anything (basically shortbow, torch and to a lesser extent axe main hand) , if not then power is where you should be looking for damage. Precision is always good but crit damage is only for power builds.

Rangers have enough health by default to get by in PvE, same for toughness, but more will help you survive longer. Whether you need it or not is a play style choice.

The best piece of advice I can give you about gear is to remember there is no reason all your items have to give the same 3 stats. I use Berserker’s weapons, Knight’s armor, Valkyrie’s neck, earrings and back, and my rings are currently Berserker’s as well. This gives me a nice mix of stats but with the focus on Power, Precision, and Crit Damage. It’s worth noting that the best sources of crit damage are jewelry and weapons by a large margin. The chest gives decent crit damage but the rest is only only like 1% or 2% (weapons give 9%).

A good place to start is the wiki ‘Item Nomenclature’ page to learn what stat combinations exist in the game:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Item_nomenclature

That will also tell you where you can get the various stat combinations and what max stats per item slot are. It should answer most of the questions you have and get you started in finding the stats you want for your playstyle.

Depends on your build

Plus I also don’t recommend gearing your ranger until the Nov.15th patch