Guild Wars 2

I’m wondering if this is a bug or not, because I just wasted nearly 2k wvw badges on lvl 70 exotic gear. The WvW badge gear vendor sells lvl 70 exotic invader’s gear even when I’m on my lvl 80 ranger. I hit 80 last night and rushed out to one of the enemy’s borderlands to purchase weapons and gear and didn’t realize they weren’t lvl 80 until I compared them to dungeon gear.

Totally didn’t see this change explained in the patch notes anywhere, so I didn’t even think to check twice that the gear was indeed lvl 80 exotic. Can anyone let me know if this is a bug or not? Also will I be able to undo the transaction and get my badges back?

I can confirm they are 70 lvl atm.

I saw three vendors in wvw: the karma armor and weapon vendor, the badge exotic weapon vendor, and the badge exotic armor vendor. Is there a fourth that I’m not aware of? I’m pretty sure I’ve purchased lvl 80 exotics from this same vendor when I was gearing up my warrior and thief. If this npc has not changed, then what he is selling HAS changed. He used to sell exotic armor that scaled to whatever level you were at the time of purchase, but now the gear stops scaling past 70.

EricHanke.1394:

There are two armor vendors, one has the level 80 sets and the other has all the lower level sets. You are looking for the Armor Master [Armorsmith] NPC for the level 80 set.

Imo the level 70 exotics are way too expensive. They require even more badges than level 80 gear which only requires ~1g per piece which is pretty much nothing.

I really don’t think I’m confusing the vendors. Could you check to see if the Armor Master [Armorsmith] vendor sells level 80 exotics for you? A few of us have already checked and we only see lvl 70 exotic invader armor that can be bought with WvW badges.

Thanks much!

Armor Master [Armorsmith] sells 6 different level 80 exotic sets. Armor Trader [Armorsmith] sells level 70 Invader armor only. On the enemy BL, the Armor Master was on the left side while the trio of NPCs was on the right side.

Well I found the lvl 80 exotic vendor now, but he was on the opposite side of the camp from the other three armor vendors. Wish the change had been more obvious before I threw away all of my remaining badges on useless lvl 70 gear.

Not sure about ANet’s policy on armor refunds, but I went ahead and opened a ticket anyway. Now I’ll just hope and pray…

I can’t find the Lv80 vendors either. I have 1 vendor that sells whites, 1 vendor that sells Exotic Lv60 ones (badges), and 1 vendor that sells Rare Lv80 (karma).

I’d appreciate any help locating this elusive vendor.