Guild Wars 2

Hey guys, so I’m about to have my first level 80 character, and I was wondering how I should go about beginning to gear him. Right now I’m doing CoF rubs to get that beautiful flame legion armor, but most of what I’m doing is for aesthetics.

I know berserker gear is the most common build, especially for dungeon runs where dps is king. So that’s mostly the angle I’m going for. But what do I use to hold me over until the long road to making an ascended weapon/armor? Do I just go into the TP and buy a cheap berserkers sword/dagger/pistol and whatnot? Or are there exotics I need to keep my eyes open for?

And for armor, do I just pick up the T3 cultural, or what? Because from what I can tell, some of the dungeon armies have better stats, like the CoF armor?

Thanks for any help, it’s all appreciated.

For PVE yes pure berserker is best. Traits should be 30/30/0/0/10 for max DPS as well. Use d/d for bosses (CnD→BS→1 auto chain→repeat) and Sw/p for trash mobs (black powder OP). For utilities, smokescreen pretty much never leaves my bar. For your other 2 slots signet of agility, shadow refuge, shadow step, scorpion wire for pulling, assassin signet, are all good.

For armor/weapons/trunks exotics are perfectly fine for now. Ascended armor really isn’t needed unless your doing fractals 40+. All exotics of the same level and star type (ie berserkers, knights, Valkyrie, rabid) will have the exact same stats as any other exotic in the game. It doesn’t matter how you acquire it, as long as theyre the same level. People get t3 for the looks, not the stats

Carpboy.7145:

For PVE yes pure berserker is best. Traits should be 30/30/0/0/10 for max DPS as well. Use d/d for bosses (CnD->BS->1 auto chain->repeat) and Sw/p for trash mobs (black powder OP). For utilities, smokescreen pretty much never leaves my bar. For your other 2 slots signet of agility, shadow refuge, shadow step, scorpion wire for pulling, assassin signet, are all good.

For armor/weapons/trunks exotics are perfectly fine for now. Ascended armor really isn’t needed unless your doing fractals 40+. All exotics of the same level and star type (ie berserkers, knights, Valkyrie, rabid) will have the exact same stats as any other exotic in the game. It doesn’t matter how you acquire it, as long as theyre the same level. People get t3 for the looks, not the stats

So, this is a super noob question but, trunks? What are those?

I meant trinks. As in trinkets. kitten autocorrect :P

You can buy the named exotic berserker armor, I think it is Nika’s, plus exotic berserker trinkets and weapons from the TP.
Start upgrading with ascended trinkets, they are easiest to get, meanwhile build your crafts to make your weapons. The armor has the least to add in terms of offense (it does add extra armor though, like the weapons have an increased base damage)

You can decide that ascended armor isn’t worth the grind. It is there to combat agony resistance in high level fractals. You can cruise through all other PvE content without it.

Exotic armor itself is pretty cheap in the big scheme of things. The runes and cosmetics can be much more expensive and require more consideration. Exotic armor from karma vendors cannot be salvaged so those are a bad place to put expensive runes.

What runes should I be looking into for armor and weapons? Right now I just stick to Air in my sword and accuracy/force into pistol and fire in my sb. I’m pretty lost with what to put into armor, though.

I saw that Nika’s set has a full superior infiltrators rune set. That seems pretty nice. And that looks like a good gear set to pick up.

GinghamLion.3614:

What runes should I be looking into for armor and weapons? Right now I just stick to Air in my sword and accuracy/force into pistol and fire in my sb. I’m pretty lost with what to put into armor, though.

I saw that Nika’s set has a full superior infiltrators rune set. That seems pretty nice. And that looks like a good gear set to pick up.

Scholar or strength runes

GinghamLion.3614:

I saw that Nika’s set has a full superior infiltrators rune set. That seems pretty nice. And that looks like a good gear set to pick up.

It’s fine, if you pick up Nika’s you’d probably go Power/Crit and with some traits in Critical Strikes you should be able to finish of anyone below 50% real fast. You can figure out what runes you really want once you’ve settled on a preferred playstyle and build.

Runes of Strength would set you back 90 gold, just saying.

lol omg 90 gold for full set strength lol it was 7-8g befor if im right.
atlist strength dont help thief alot go for full scholar that scholar 6 is realy nice if you can upkeep your health above 90% and yes full zerker is good to i would suggest to us shortbow for secendairy set and main set switch betwin dagger dagger and sword pistol =) so yea im working on my thief lots of fun and such but d/d how can you not die fast and stil deal alot of dmg to bosses i cant sim to land my backstab on the back side without dodeging out =) and sorry for hayjaking the thread =)

nathan goossen.9546:

lol omg 90 gold for full set strength lol it was 7-8g befor if im right.

I have a Soldier’s set with them, likely from before the patch and I doubt they were more then 1 g each
Unfortunately most of the gear originates from temple merchants so i can’t salvage the runes from them.

oh pitty wel have a GL next time =)