Gearing up at L80 - a semi comprehensive guide to endgame gearing
Guide here: http://dulfy.net/201...-gearing-guide/
The guide is fairly lengthy and and to reduce the amount of vertical scrolling, I have enclosed most of the information in dropdown boxes. This allow you to skip the sections you don't want to read and jump onto the important bits right away. I will also include a TL:DR summary here.
Those who care only about exotics might find these three charts helpful
- Exotic Gear stats distribution chart
- Crafted exotic armor stats breakdown
- Exotic Weapon stats distribution chart
Basic Information
· Item tiers (White (trash) < Blue (fine) < Green (masterwork) < Yellow (rare) < Orange (exotic) < Purple (legendary)
· Item affixes (Berserker, Rampager etc)
· Salvage everything that is L70+ for rare mats w/ discussions on salvage kit usage
· Map Completion your 60-70 and 70-80 zones for L70+ exotics
Trinkets & Backpieces
· Skip rares and get Masterwork trinkets instead (stats upgrade is minimal and rares are about 45x the prices of masterworks)
· Mats you need for exotic trinkets
· You can get a rare guild backpiece for 5 gold (waste of money really)
Armor
· Fine/Masterwork: Cursed Shore karma vendor location and stats
· Fine/Masterwork: WvW karma vendor location and stats
· Rare: What mats you need to get a full set crafted (1.5-2 gold for the full set)
· Rare: WvW karma vendor also sell a rare set for 95k karma
· Exotics: Select sets based on your stats preference
· Exotics: Four ways to get full exotics: crafting (10-12 gold for full set), Dungeons (token grinds), WvW (Badges of Honor grind), or Karma (Orr Temple karma grind at 42k karma/piece)
Weapons
· Fine/Masterwork: Cursed Shore Karma vendors or WvW vendors
· Rare: WvW karma vendors or T3 cultural vendors if you got spare karma
· Rare: How to get them crafted w/ full mat list.
· Exotics: Full mat list for regular crafting, mat list for mystic forge crafting, you can also get them from dungeons and wvw
Runes/Sigils
· A list of most exotic runes/sigils in the game with methods on obtaining them (mat list for those that are crafted)
Food
· Peach tarts for 26% magic find and +60 power (<20 copper each)
· Onomnomberry stuff if you want 30% magic find
· Lotus Fries are a cheaper alternative if you just want 30% magic find (1/3 price of Onomnom stuff)