Warband Gearing

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Deep in the dungeons, delves, and zones of Khaz Algar, flexible new “Warbound until Equipped” (WuE) gear awaits. This is a powerful tool you can use to prepare the other characters in your warband to get back into the fight: gear more powerful than most bind-on-equip drops that you can send to your other characters to get them ready to take on more challenging content quicker. It’s the same gear you get as bind-on-pickup, but with a different bind rule (and in most cases, one upgrade track lower).

Today we’d like to take the time to talk about where you can get more to give your alts that powerful step up.

The short version is that they come from all over.

The longer version is that there are a bunch of specific sources of WuE gear:

  • Many rare creatures (identified with a silver star on your mini-map) can drop WuE gear when defeated.
  • Your first Lamplighter’s Supply Satchel each week (earned from the Spreading the Light event in Hallowfall) always contains a piece of Adventurer 1 WuE gear.
  • But the most important source is… every raid, dungeon, and delve. In addition to the regular gear rolls, The War Within adds a bonus roll to every raid boss, every final dungeon boss, and every bountiful chest in a delve to give you a piece of WuE gear in addition to any other. This bonus roll is independent of the normal roll, which means you could get neither, one, or even both. Getting that WuE gear isn’t instead of anything; it’s just a bonus you can get!
    • If you get a WuE piece of gear from a raid boss, it will always be gear from that boss’s loot table. In Raid Finder, this WuE gear will drop as Veteran 1. In Normal, this WuE gear will drop on the Veteran track with the same starting value as the bind-on-pickup Champion pieces (so if a bind-on-pickup piece drops as Champion 3, the WuE version would be Veteran 3). In Heroic, the rules are the same as normal, except the WuE gear is Champion-track to match the bind-on-pickup gear’s Hero track. And in Mythic raid, dropped WuE gear is always Champion 4!
    • If you get a WuE piece of gear from the final boss of a dungeon, it will be gear from any boss in that dungeon. Missed your chance to get the piece you wanted from the first boss? Stick around and try to get a WuE version from the end boss!
    • If you get a WuE piece of gear from a Heavy Trunk in a delve, it will be any gear you could otherwise have gotten from that delve.

Good luck! Happy alt gearing!
Chimes

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WuE gear sounds like you’d say woo gear and just sounds wrong in my head.

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This is a very good thing.

But, “WuE” sounds silly. There has to be a better name we can use.

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Earned each week per character or per account?

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Right? Woo gear sounds like something made up in a office meeting by a group of business degree people who like to use corporate buzzwords as part of their everyday language.

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Says the character that named their forum toon after a phrase that sounds silly . . .

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Or a Rick Flair fan?

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This is pretty frickin’ sickerino

I like it! Heck you can be my friend Chimes!

WUUUUUEEEEE!

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The problem is raids aren’t open, dungeons don’t even drop MY gear, and delves never drop anything useful. So I pretty much farmed rares until I could do heroics. And after all that I have one single item for 4 different alts.

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Thank you for that, I found many Warbound until Equipped gear along my adventures and I was able to gear my alts that I’m leveling, and I’ve some also stored in my bank.

Feels a lot better than having those BoP that dropped and I could just vendor because it was a cloth or mail.

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Hello. Please consider buffing valor stone drops.

Cheers.

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Maybe all gear should be like that.

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I mean it’s a logical acronym as we use BoE for Bind on Equip so using WuE for Warbound until Equipped is basically the same thought.

The only distinction is that BoE gear can be sold whereas WuE gear is locked to your Warband until a toon uses it.

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Make Valordrop a warbound currency so we can transfer between alts :slight_smile:

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Hey… Why not just make everything WuE gear?

(also thank you.)

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ion before said they dont want your character to be funneled gear from alts or vice versa

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Well you could gear your 2nd plate character by just raiding with your main plate character.

That would be too much. I feel having those world drops and some dungeons OK, but not all gear.

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There can only be wuen?

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Then… What is the point of doing it at all?

Isn’t that just what this is but limited in the items allowed?

I don’t get the reasoning behind keeping it limited, I earned the gear and we just got this way to give stuff to alts, and maybe I’m just used to GW2 but it seems really odd to limit it at all.

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a cartoon character is running towards a salad bar

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