Gearing advice

[cramerb535]

I really wish there were more build guides or updated guides in general but I am specifically struggling worth gear drops atm. I am leveling a knight and at lvl. 24 I am not seeing much in the way of gear and only a few blue quality. Weapon drops are few and far between as well. I hit a bit of a wall in the prison and feel the gear needs to improve but not seeing an obvious way outside grinding the first difficulty of expeditions. Am I missing something? Crafting is now opening to me but I would assume that is more endgame. Appreciate any tips!

[Vesperas]

The blacksmith allows you to take any piece of gear and upgrade it from a normal item up to a legendary item, as well as match it to your level. It becomes very expensive when you start adding epic or legendary stats however, both in terms of gold and fragments.

Much later on, gold becomes less of a problem, as all three classes have the ability to easily farm gold. The real problem is fragments.

I would probably start with attempting to boost (or reroll) a few pieces of gear this way. Keep in mind, rerolling stats in each category is generally cheaper than adding a stat, so the more stats a piece has, the less it should cost you to upgrade it.

You can also add attributes, Reaper bonuses and skill mastery on gear as well, which can all be huge. The Reaper bonuses are especially powerful but are specific to the weaponsmith.

It will make more sense once you start playing with it.

[boombaclock]

max your lvl before you try to move past wrath 3..
lvls are what unlock the baseline for all builds....aka the skills that builds are made of.
till lvl 50...just stack all stats towards damage on your primary abilitys...and movement speed to kill faster.

at lvl 50....you can choose a class spec to lvl and unlock all the abilitys by using it just non stop. it also unlocks major parts of all builds..

till then you wont have a strong enough base line for your gear to really even matter. and you will be stuck under W3.

[boombaclock]

untill you max your character lvl....your class spec and your skill on the 3 ancestral stones you unlock.... gear doesnt matter.... ( all that much )

[boombaclock]

...just a tip as well....the first stats id work towards...after maxing your characters lvls.....is goldus find..... you need millions of goldus to craft with...and starting early is huge....

i didnt do goldus first and realllllllllllllllllllly wish i did.... gear can have alot of stats...and having goldus find as 1 doesnt hurt much at all.

[Torinux]

In games like this one, you really need to focus on upgrading the piece of gear that has the legendary effect that helps your primary skill the most first and then, sunk money on stats.

As an example, for my Absolutely AFK Huntress build (Passive Wandering Arrow) I focused first on upgrading my shoulders to increase the number of wandering arrows that will spawn. Then my Gloves with CD reduction and then focused on minion damage. My build is a total glass cannon build but it relies on timing my Smoke Screens when needed and letting my wandering Arrows to kill stuff while I move around.

Spending resources on stats than won't benefit both your damage output and damage mitigation is going to make your leveling process a living hell.