Guild Wars 2

I’m currently level 43 and I’ve often had to make a choice on gear between a power/vitality item and a power/condition damage item. I keep upgrading every 10 levels the blue PVP gear you can get, but that has vitality, which makes sense(PVP). But for leveling, should I be focused on the PVE gear with less vitality and more overall damage?

Thanks

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For leveling purposes as a ranger I would say the stat priority is as follows:

Power > Precision > Everything else in no particular order.

Condition damage just doesn’t have good returns in small amounts.
Vitality isn’t really that important as a ranger because you have sufficient base health though more is nice.
Toughness is similar to Vitality.
Crit Damage is hard to get while leveling and no worth it unless you’ve stacked Power and Precision so you need tri-stat items first (high level only).
Healing is useless at low levels and in low amounts (arguably just useless to a ranger period).

Edit: Weapon Damage and Armor Value are actually the most important things overall while leveling. I wrote the above assuming you were upgrading your equipment every 5-10 levels or so (depending on the rarity of the item, a level 50 yellow beats a level 60 blue iirc).

Another Edit: Somewhere around level 50-60 Condition Builds become reasonable. Leveling is actually a great time to experiment with builds and stat distributions because the gear is cheap and easy to get. You also aren’t stuck with it for long if you hate it. Once you have 80 exotics it stings a bit if you decide to switch your gear around, though you end up with 2 sets if you want to switch back.

power precision crit%

Actually if you spec for healing / toughness, you cannot be killed by conditions and you have enough to sustain you for a long time against direct damage, but you have to accept that you will kill slow.

there is only one build…. so yeah…. precision/power/condition