Gearing through PvP

I did it! I geared exclusively through PvP! It took 6 weeks.

Well, that's sort of a lie, I'm not like "fully min-max, full set bonus, 306" type geared, but I officially ding'd "306 i-level" today. I noticed that doesn't actually require all 306 gear, just mostly 306. (I still have two 304's and a 305.) I made level 75 on March 30th, so it took almost exactly 6 weeks. I play enough games per day, on average, to get the dailies done. Sometimes a few more, sometimes a few less. I get the win boxes quite often, but I'm sure that's because I geared a super overpowered jugger tank, and not because of any regstar skill or anything.

I have picked up 5 set pieces, all of them from being forced to buy because I was about to cap tech frags. I only have 4 of them equipped, because I'm missing the armoring for the 5th. In fact, 306 armorings seem few and far between. That's what I'm missing for most of my pieces that are not 306.

I was also able to get 3 useful tacticals. I got throwing arm and Life Warden from crates (in fact, I've gotten 2 LWs from crates, so I was able to just give one to another toon). I bought Grit Teeth through the GTN (I think that's the only way to get it except for crafting it yourself).

I haven't min-maxed anything, and don't really have a collection of mods/enhancements to do that. I've just taken whatever 306 components I've gotten. I've also notice that once I got to 304 (about a week and a half ago) getting anything higher is even more like pulling teeth than the regular gearing... jeesh. And also bioware LOVES to mark things as improvements that are actually lower iLevel than the thing I already have... ***? (Actually, I wonder if that is part of the reason we get so much under-level gear - if their algorithm is incorrectly calculating what's better - maybe it thinks it IS giving us better stuff?)

I haven't bought any augments (or even kits), and haven't rolled the dice with amplifiers at all. Since I don't do anything separate for credits, I'm way to poor to play those games. (I was able to afford the Grit Teeth tactical by emptying out the bank account on an old main.)

So anyway, there you go. If anyone was wondering what sort of time frame it actually takes to get "useful gear" through PvP alone, there's a data point.

just curious, whats your renown rank?

75

(random extra chars to make it long enough)

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Ok, next step is to get in BiS via PVP only. Tacticals too.

What am I, a masochist? Oh wait...

Continuing to gear only through PvP! Now 12 days later, I finally have my full (descent of the fearless) set bonus!

So for those keeping count... on the 12th I had 4 pieces of the set bonus equipped, and the 5th in inventory but not equipped because I didn't have a 306 armoring for it. I bought the 6th piece in the mean time. And it took 12 days to manage to get 2 more 306 armorings. Cripes that's ridiculous. (During that time I probably got a dozen 306 hilts... way to go bioware!)

I still don't have that final 7th piece of "Amplified Champion", which is what I'm going for following Valek's guide on vulkk. And I don't have the mods/augs min/maxed at all. I just took whichever 306's came my way, except favoring crit whenever possible. I have some accuracy I need to get rid of (773). And of course, no amplifier or augment min/maxing, since I'm poor.

Since I'm sure Bob will want to know my renown rank is now 87.

That's funny I tend to get decent amount of armorings, it's usually the enhancements I struggle getting the BiS ones. I also get lots of hilts too.

Good job, you almost done now it's time to get BiS amps, and all mods all gained via PVP plus augs. Sadly I don't craft anymore or I would make you augs. Sorry.