Return of Reckoning

Hey guys came back after a long hiatus and want to catch up on some gear for my Zealot.

Renown Rank 82

Full Vanq
Beastlord Cloak w/ Change Ring.
Genesis Frag, Aspect & Remnant jewelry.
Knife of Subjugator & Apostle's Focus of Tyranny.

My question is, what comes next? And the best way to farm them.

Thank you!

After talking to some old in-game friends, after earning full Vanq (now that I have it), I can finally earn Invader from gold bags+ in general RvR bags? Before, I had to retire my character and not play it in any sorts of RvR unless it was cities/fortress.

Does this mean I can finally play my toon and get useful stuff from gold bags in RvR T2+?

emegale wrote: ↑Sun May 10, 2020 9:23 pm After talking to some old in-game friends, after earning full Vanq (now that I have it), I can finally earn Invader from gold bags+ in general RvR bags? Before, I had to retire my character and not play it in any sorts of RvR unless it was cities/fortress.

Does this mean I can finally play my toon and get useful stuff from gold bags in RvR T2+?

As of a patch within the past couple of weeks you get 1 Inveder token in gold and purple bags from RVR keeps if you have the full Vanquisher set. The only way to get Invader pieces from gold bags is to win a gold bag in a fort (very difficult). Otherwise you need to farm your Invader tokens from:

1) Gold and purple keep bags
2) Successfully defending the zone that is next to a Fortress (i.e. preventing the attackers from triggering a fortress)
3) Fortresses
4) Cities


Vanquisher is still an excellent set due to the AP proc and the cast time reduction proc. The biggest upgrade you should look at going for is starting the long grind for the Sentinel Ring to give yourself an extra 4% heal crit, but this requires a LOT of BB/BE runs to get. Personally I skipped over Invader in terms of actually using it as I liked Vanquisher better (procs and higher heal crit), so my actual progression in terms of equipment used was 6pc Vanquisher -> 6pc Sov / 3pc Sentinel.

Omegus wrote: ↑Sun May 10, 2020 9:30 pm

emegale wrote: ↑Sun May 10, 2020 9:23 pm After talking to some old in-game friends, after earning full Vanq (now that I have it), I can finally earn Invader from gold bags+ in general RvR bags? Before, I had to retire my character and not play it in any sorts of RvR unless it was cities/fortress.

Does this mean I can finally play my toon and get useful stuff from gold bags in RvR T2+?

As of a patch within the past couple of weeks you get 1 Inveder token in gold and purple bags from RVR keeps if you have the full Vanquisher set. The only way to get Invader pieces from gold bags is to win a gold bag in a fort (very difficult). Otherwise you need to farm your Invader tokens from:

1) Gold and purple keep bags
2) Successfully defending the zone that is next to a Fortress (i.e. preventing the attackers from triggering a fortress)
3) Fortresses
4) Cities


Vanquisher is still an excellent set due to the AP proc and the cast time reduction proc. The biggest upgrade you should look at going for is starting the long grind for the Sentinel Ring to give yourself an extra 4% heal crit, but this requires a LOT of BB/BE runs to get. Personally I skipped over Invader in terms of actually using it as I liked Vanquisher better (procs and higher heal crit), so my actual progression in terms of equipment used was 6pc Vanquisher -> 6pc Sov / 3pc Sentinel.

So after full Vanq I should go 6 Sov / 3 Sentinel? What are the ways to farm both those sets.

Note that I picked those 2 sets to get a high combination of heal crit (10% on the 6pc Sov, 6% on 3pc Sentinel). Be aware that this is a long term goal to grind out so you might want to find something else in the mean time.

3pc Sent: the head and feet come from the quests and/or boss drops from the BB/BE dungeon. 4 runs of the dungeon is enough to guarantee those 2 pieces. The ring comes from maxing out the influence bar of these dungeons which takes about 13 runs. You then need to put a 4% heal crit talisman in it which you get from weekly quests to run BB/BE and Bastion Stairs. The talisman decays after 7 days of use so you need to keep farming more of them.

6pc Sentinel comes from city sieges. You'll need the shoulders, back, chest, gloves, belt, and ring. This is approx 300 royal crests. 5 piece will give you the max heal crit, 6pc gives you +2 mastery points to make your spec more powerful or flexible.

Weapons: the rr4x ones from scenarios are fine as they have -1% chance to be crit on both,but you might want to upgrade the dagger to the rr6x one for ap regen instead.