Guild Wars 2: How To GEAR UP FAST At Level 80 (2023 Guide)

Hey people - here’s a step-by-step guide for fresh Level 80s on how to get yourself a full set of Exotic gear in ANY* stat combination (excluding Dragon’s/Ritualist’s). I’ve had bits and pieces of how to do this across a couple previous videos, but I thought I’d make a definitive one that’s easy to follow, to get you ready for instanced PvE content (and the Ascended journey!).

I hope this helps give new players or returning players a clearer path to gearing when they’ve hit Level 80 for the first time. If it helped you, or you have any other questions - let me know in the comments 🙂

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00:00 - Intro
01:49 - Core Stats
02:32 - Ez Stat-Select from TP
02:54 - ARMOR
04:22 - WEAPONS
06:19 - TRINKETS
07:13 - RUNES
08:27 - SIGILS
09:26 - GEMSTONES
09:57 - Read your STATS
11:32 - Outro

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[BloomHD]

ATTENTION: Between now and August 23rd (08/02 — 08/23) the Festival of the Four Winds is running! This is one of the ONLY ways to get FREE stat-selectable exotic weapons!

To do this simply complete the 'Four Winds Zephyr' daily achievement 5 times. This can be found in your Achievements under 'Daily' > 'Daily Festival of the Four Winds'. You need to complete any of the 3 dailies listed in that tab each day, to complete the daily 'Four Winds Zephyr'. They're super quick and easy, but obviously the whole achievement is timegated (once per day).

If you start TODAY you could earn up to 4 FREE STAT-SELECTABLE EXOTIC WEAPONS, so GET CRACKING!

Peace :D

[tristanjonas]

Also a note to new players: once you get one character geared fully exotic and are able to farm events etc properly you can easily farm ascended gear from there on out. It goes incredibly quick with very easy one time collections as well as wvw or pvp content to get ascended acessories and armor/weapons

[Funkmster]

Despite knowing the info I still loved every second of it! I love all GW2 content creators, keep up the amazing videos!

[zeejngh]

Easier way for the named ones is to filter by stats you want, exotic, level 80 of 80 and then sort by price. Fastest/easiest way to find the best priced exotic gear for any slot on the TP. (Great content btw. Love what you're putting out)

[ValidatedPerson]

I would suggest new players to go WvW and buy yourself the armor or buy named gear mostly berseker for power or carrion for condi and then buy Invader set its cheap it costs few badges of honor and 5 g which is easiest cheapest option and you can buy every piece at one place

[suziequzie]

Get a 7th rune for your aquabreather if you can - that way you keep the set bonus underwater.

[Gamingcs]

Bought the game about a year or two ago and played for about a month off and on and I just started getting back into it so this is very helpful information.

[StephenW]

Perfect. Been playing this game for 10 years and never really understood gearing and how to get just some standard gear to function in the game. Never really thought about ascended either but I'll check your next video as well. I am just not a hardcore raider or anything.

[KikiTheHobo]

Of ALL the GW2 content creators that I've watched so far, you are FAR the best at explaining stuff simply to new players! TYVM for this newb friendly content! Regards, a GW2 newb!

[cypherdk]

One small correction.
The bladed chest piece box does have a slight chance of dropping on tier 1, it is pretty rare though, highest tier just guarantees it.

[BrixelGaming]

This is probably the best new player gearing guide on Youtube. GG dude!

[kaslmers]

Thanks for the guide I really found it to be helpful. I found gearing in gw2 to be confusing after playing ff14 where gearing was simpler.

[Trickfully.]

Please keep making gw2 videos. Your content is such incredibly high quality and enjoyable to watch. i knew all this already and still watched trough to the end. That's how good this video is.

[Agumon]

For a lot of players exotics is where they stop. I have a friend who has been playing for more than 3 years on and off and he's never bothered to get anything beyond exotic gear simply because there's no need. If you're a casual player that only does open world content and the occasional low-level fractal, you're fine with exotics. I'm going to be honest though, nobody should do that much work to get exotic weapons as you have mentioned in the video. Here's how you get exotic weapons fast. Farm RIBA for 2-3 hours, buy em.

[kylel]

Was looking for a guide like this a while back and surprised nothing modern existed that went into as much detail as this video. I’m excited for the ascended gearing video.

[defregga]

Great video, thanks. It took my way too long to figure half of these out on my own and the other half I didn't even know about or connect the dots (e.g. the Machined weapons). Small note though: to be able to buy the Nightmare and Monk runes, one only needs to complete the story mode of the respective dungeon once. I have a fairly new account and only did TA story once, but have full Nightmare runes in my condi gear.

Oh, and "Bandit Death Mark" is a second stat-selectable exotic accessory, but requires killing a Bandit Executioner while having the rare trophy of the same name in your inventory. On the other hand it can be obtained prior to level 80. So players should keep the trophy in their inventory and keep an eye on chat for Bandit leaders being killed by a larger number of people while leveling through core Tyria.

[camma]

Absolute fuckin mad lad! This is just what I was after im a new player currently trying to gear my warrior. Keep up the Lord's work!

[bankait_rex]

Holy sht TY YOUTUBE for putting this video of this amazing dude out of the blue, I was trying to understand gladiator gear and boom literally this video start playing and explained everything that I had no idea about gear, my man you deserve this sub and a hug ty ty TY!!!

[Alex-rzfg]

Even though I'm geared to at least exotics on my characters I still like watching these kinds of videos. I'd also like to add even tho it's not in the scope of this video, for new players since they'd probably be going through the story. Do the return to achievements as you go. You'll get basically a good amount of map currencies and a practically free legendary amulet which you'd be able to use across your account.

[lordgrey]

Note for helmet only: "Ice Golem's Maw Box" on trading post is a bit over a gold and has most stats (aside from the couple eod stat combos that arent generally in stat selectables)
Saves you one piece from whatever you are farming