If you are starting from fresh, The best advice I can give is just jump straight into RVR and SCs, getting as much war crests as you can early on helps you alot, At points you will be wasting war crests for gear that you most likely won't end up using just to get the ward, so having as much as you can helps you in the long run. I will say however, purchasing the SC weapons is not worth (can be subject to change), At times it will be tough without a "good weapon" but they cost so much crests then its worth. To start into tier 1, The Carnage set from PQs is very solid, You can run that While stacking strength and wounds (and green vendor 2h spec gear), or you can run the braggart set to get your ward (you are gonna have to buy it anyways for your ward), Your best bet for a very good 2h weapon is the nightflame axe at the end of Elf t1 influence, or using the Green vendor weapon. When you unlock your mastery section, you should be going into the path of dread, and working up to your AP aura, thats the first thing you want to buy. Renown, it depends how you are feeling, If you want to priortize getting your Defense stats done first, then going full parry, 2 in Deft defender and 2 in Futile strikes would be very good, or Getting up to 4 in might, 3 weapon skill and 2 in tough and wounds would be good as well.
Getting into tier 2, your best gear will be the keeper set, which you get with Sacellum, (I can personally run you through the dungeon at any time, just send a tell over to Majorzero), The green offensive specced vendor gear will last you well up into your fresh 40 phase, you can keep buying those to replace pieces from a set you don't have, (IE belt, jewerly n such). Theres not going to be a standout weapon except for the green vendor 2 handed weapons, since all tiers are merged, and getting a solid influence weapon will take way too long. at this point into tier 2 you'll actually get some solid tactics and morale, when going into the path of Dread you want to buy Oppressing blows, Relentless, Daemonclaw, and Rending blade. Oppressing blows and daemonclaw are your 2 tactics from dread that are your best in slot tactics, with those, i personally recommend running Rugged, and eventually as you level, depending on the situations you can run Warped flesh (Good for solo), Hastened Dissmissal (super punt tactic which is good for small-scale/large scale content), Or flawless armor (also good for solo). You still are going to have to buy your t2 set for the ward however, so you can either buy challenger or obliterator.
With tier 3, your best bet is going for the Duelist set, or if you want to chuck a bit of war crests, you can run a solid 2 Piece devastator 3 piece duelist set. (Still keep stacking strength and wounds, even up to your endgame), again keep in mind you still are going have to equip a full set to get your ward.
Tier 4, this is where it gets interesting. I would run 3 piece ruin (don't get the shoulders) and 2 piece mercenary, it is a very solid build. As you get 40, I would buy a gunbad ruby, this is pretty much one of your Best in slot jewerly pieces, If you want to go solo, you also should get your hands on a painlink of the fleshrender, otherwise you'll run your beastlord seal. Speaking of beastlord, its something you want to get as soon as possible, You'll want to be running the pocket item, the K8P regen mushroom, Beastlord cape, and the seal. As you hit 40, you'll need to get into gunbad, as the 5 piece Redeye is actually very good, and you can stack it with 3 piece beastlord. ( i can tank gunbad for you as well, again just send a tell to majorzero), Then you'll need to Get into BB/BE, and get your sentinel set. It can differ what you want to do here, you can still run 3 piece redeye if you want for the armor bonus, or you could run 6 piece sentinel for the parry bonus (Keep running BB/BE till you get the ring, which is 4 runs now, its best in slot, with the talisman i personally put wounds in mine, but you can do whatever you want with it, and i will also tank bb/be for you if you want, again send me a tell in game.) I personally didn't ever run bloodlord, You can do some good stuff with it, but i just never ran it. Dont forget though, you have to buy Anni/merc and conq/dom for your ward, even though you wont be using the sets fully, (you wont be using conq whatsoever as 2h chosen, but you still have to buy and equip it). With BB/BE, you want to go ahead and trade in an influence weapon for Hand of malal, its the best 2 handed weapon, and since fort weapon costs 2000 war crests its not really worth a buy anymore.
After sentinel, this is where it can differ for you depending what you want to do. I personally ran Vanq helm, Beastlord shoulderguards, Beastlord cape, Beastlord chest, Vanq belt, Vanq Boots, And vanq gloves (as well as beastlord pocket item and jewerly), or you could mix Vanq and sentinel, or you can get full bloodlord from bastion stairs as its a very good set fully, but you do lose the beastlord bonus, its all depending what you want to do, After vanq or so you can mix vanq and invader, or keep running full bloodlord, OR you could run full victorious. When you get into endgame gear (Sov) it depends what you want to do, I personally run a 5 piece off-sovereign 3 piece warlord build, which is specced to solo. if solo isn't your thing, then you can run 5 piece off-sovereign and 3 piece victorious, or whatever you really are feeling, i'll have my best in slot gear to get an idea of what you could do, but its up to you still.
RoR.builders - Chosen This is what i recommend for SOLO 2h chosen, you'll get more damage out of this, As i personally run STR, Resists and Heal over time aura (if you want to squeeze a little more damage, run AP aura over the Heal over time aura)
RoR.builders - Chosen What i recommend for small scale/large scale 2 handed chosen, You would run your STR, Tough, and AP aura here.
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I hope this guide was of help, Thank you for taking the time to read
