Guild Wars 2

I want power / toughness / vitality, which is what the invader set (purchased in wvw for karma) has.

However, a bare minimum rare level 80 set of invader armor costs ~350,000 karma. That’s 2 weapon-sets, armor and accessories. It does not include underwater gear or extra armor, or even sigils, runes and gems.

Searching a bit I have found the vigil set, which gives the same stats. Crap, I chose order of whispers so I guess that is out of the question (the npc says he wont sell to me).

The last set I found was Svanir, seems like it is from a dungeon :/

So, am I forced to either run dungeons to get geared for wuwu or simply be content with greens for the first month or so (at a 20% stat disandvantage)? Seems like other parts of the game you get geared up with rares a lot faster.

I would certainly prefer to gear up for wuwu while playing wuwu, not grinding somewhere first.

So, any tips?

One word. Crafting.

Rares generally aren’t crazy expensive. Think 30-60 silver a piece, but the mats are not incredibly hard to obtain. Just takes a little time mining/logging/killing. The fine mats (blood, bone, venom sacs, etc.) Might be easier just to buy off AH if you know of a friend that can craft them for you.

Exotics run a little more expensive roughly 2-3g a piece.

Nah it’s more like 1.2-1.7g a piece for exotics if you make them yourself. Even less if you already gathered mats during leveling.

Desrever.5706:

One word. Crafting.

I cant find any power / toughness / vitality recipes, at least not for leatherworking.