Gundabad gear upgrades

Last updated: U41

Overview

Armour

Jewelery

Offhands etc

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Overview

Doesn’t include Angmar instance cluster.

The gundabad gear finder and upgrade is designed to be as compact and complete as possible. Find whatever slot or gearpiece that would be the most convenient or the most impactfull to upgrade for your character.

At the top you will find the overall source of different gear such as questing, crafting, delving or instances. To the left you’ll see the quality of gear by colour and item level. And as you go down the list you’ll see what difficulty of an instance or delving you would need to run to have a chance to get them.

In the Free are guaranteed sources such as quest, allegiances etc. In other are other sources or more expensive barter options.

Armour

Armour is easier to get then jewelry at the moment with the introduction of delving in the Before the Shadow expansion. It’s quicker and easier to do these then to find runs for Good gear.

Skipping over anything and landscape can be done by passing gear over from other characters or crafting. This will allow you to run delving 4+ to get any missing pieces. Then either by jumping into some easier Delving 7 missions or finding a partner you can quickly gather up some fancy teal 470 armours.

For the Final part however, if you want to do the raid. You’ll need the raid set. For pvmp you’ll need the Tier 4 pvmp armour. This is where the long nights begin.

	Free	Delving	Instance
Anything 140	Landscape
Landscape Yellow 455-460	Gundabad		Aod 131+
Upgraded Yellow 460, Purple 460	Craft Allegiance	Delving 1-3	Aod t1 Hor t1
Good Purple 460-470 Teal 460-470			Aod T4+ Hor T3
Upgraded Purple 470+ Teal 470+		Delving 4-6		Ember
Final		Delving 7+	HH T3 -3rd

	Free	Delving	Instance
Anything 140	Landscape
Landscape Yellow 455-460	Gundabad		Puglak 131+
Upgraded Yellow 460, Purple 460	Craft	Delving 1-3	Pug t1 Hor t1
Good Purple 460-470 Teal 460-470			Pug T4+ Hor T3
Upgraded Purple 470+ Teal 470+		Delving 4-6		Ember
Final		Delving 7+	HH T3 -2nd

	Free	Delving	Instance
Anything 140	Landscape
Landscape Yellow 455-460	Gundabad		Puglak 131+
Upgraded Yellow 460, Purple 460	Craft		Pug t1 Hor t1	Allegiance
Good Purple 460-470 Teal 460-470	Gundabad Epic		Pug T4+ Hor T3
Upgraded Purple 470+ Teal 470+			SV	Ember
Final		SV upgrade	HH T3 – 3rd

	Free	Delving	Instance
Anything 140	Landscape
Landscape Yellow 455-460	Gundabad		AoD 131+
Upgraded Yellow 460, Purple 460	Craft	Delving 1-3	AoD t1 Hor t1
Good Purple 460-470 Teal 460-470			Aod T4+ Hor T3
Upgraded Purple 470+ Teal 470+		Delving 4-6		Ember
Final		Delving 7+	HH T2 – 3rd

	Free	Delving	Instance
Anything 140	Landscape
Landscape Yellow 455-460	Gundabad		HoR 131+
Upgraded Yellow 460, Purple 460	Craft	Delving 1-3	Hor t1
Good Purple 460-470 Teal 460-470			Hor T3
Upgraded Purple 470+ Teal 470+		Delving 4-6		Ember
Final		Delving 7+	HH T3 – 3rd

	Free	Delving	Instance
Anything 140	Landscape
Landscape Yellow 455-460	Gundabad		Puglak 131+
Upgraded Yellow 460, Purple 460	Craft	Delving 1-3	Pug t1 Hor t1
Good Purple 460-470 Teal 460-470			Pug T4+ Hor T3
Upgraded Purple 470+ Teal 470+		Delving 4-6		Ember
Final		Delving 7+	HH T2 – 3rd

	Free	Delving	Instance
Anything 140	Landscape		Puglak 131+
Landscape Yellow 455-460	Gundabad		Pug t1 Hor t1
Upgraded Yellow 460, Purple 460	Craft	Delving 1-3	Pug T3 Hor T2
Good Purple 460-470 Teal 460-470			Pug T4+ Hor T3
Upgraded Purple 470+ Teal 470+		Delving 4-6		Ember BtS mission
Final		Delving 7+	HH T1 – 3rd

Jewelery

Jewelry is divided into two groups at the moment if not from free sources. They come from a specific 3 or 6-man in yellow or purple. With teals from Ember or T4+. These are all outclassed by Hiddenhoard T2 (unlockable to barter) for embers.

It’s very much possible to get (select) capped stats without the raid, but you’ll find yourself at a lot lower morale once you reach the Final portion without. It can be hard to find groups for higher tier 3 and 6 mans at the moment.

	Free	Delving	Instance
Anything 140	Landscape
Landscape Yellow 455-460	Gundabad		Puglak 131+ Hor 131+
Upgraded Purple 460 (yellow 460)	Craft		Pug T3 Hor T2
Good Purple 460-470 Teal 460-470			Pug T4+ Hor T3
Upgraded Purple 470+ Teal 470+			SV	Ember
Final			HH T2+

	Free	Delving	Instance
Anything 140	Landscape
Landscape Yellow 455-460	Gundabad		Hor 131+
Upgraded Yellow 460, Purple 460	Craft		Hor T1
Good Purple 460-470 Teal 460-470			HH T1 Hor T3
Upgraded Purple 470+ Teal 470+			SV	Ember
Final		Upgraded SV	HH T2+

	Free	Delving	Instance
Anything 140	Landscape		SV 131+
Landscape Yellow 455-460	Gundabad
Upgraded Yellow 460, Purple 460	Craft		SV (yellow)
Good Purple 460-470 Teal 460-470	Gundabad Friend barter		SV (purple)	Bts mission
Upgraded Purple 470+ Teal 470+			SV (teal)	Ember
Final			HH T2+

	Free	Delving	Instance
Anything 140	Landscape
Landscape Yellow 455-460	Gundabad		AoD 131+ HoR 131+
Upgraded Yellow 460, Purple 460	Craft		Aod T1 HoR t1
Good Purple 460-470 Teal 460-470			Aod T3 Hor T2
Upgraded Purple 470+ Teal 470+			AoD T4+ Hor T3+	Ember
Final		Upgraded	HH T2+

	Free	Delving	Instance
Anything 140	Landscape
Landscape Yellow 455-460	Gundabad		Puglak 131+
Upgraded Yellow 460, Purple 460	Craft		Pug t1 Hor t1
Good Purple 460-470 Teal 460-470			Pug T4+ Hor T3
Upgraded Purple 470+ Teal 470+				Ember
Final			HH T2+

Offhand and other

Shield, offhands, bows and class items can be found in a variety of places. But these are mostly from instances.

If you need 1 on an empty character. Crafting is an option, but one of 2 options is far superior.

1 – Sarn Vorn or Doom in the Before the Shadow drop so many of them. Even on solo these are the best options out there.
2 – Hiddenhoard drops equivalent items, but with less variations. Select class roles wont find them here.

Same goes for ember boxes. Teal instead of purple, but only offensive or defensive shields.

If you need 1 on an empty character. Crafting is an option, but one of 2 options is far superior.

1 – Sarn Vorn or Doom in the Before the Shadow drop so many of them. Even on solo these are the best options out there.
2 – Hiddenhoard drops equivalent items, but with less variations. Select class roles wont find them here.

Same goes for ember boxes. Teal instead of purple, but only offensive or defensive weapons.

If you need 1 on an empty character. Crafting is an option, but one of 2 options is far superior.

1 – Sarn Vorn or Doom in the Before the Shadow drop so many of them. Even on solo these are the best options out there.
2 – Hiddenhoard drops equivalent items, but with less variations. Select class roles wont find them here.

Same goes for ember boxes. Teal instead of purple, but only offensive or defensive bows.

All class items currently are only available from crafting. Can be traded through players or the AH.

From the instance of Sarn Vorn a purple necklace can drop. With a purple cloak from the Skirmish Doom. These can be upgraded through the delving system barterers. The required components can come delvings, skirmishes or bartered.

These two items are the only ones that have a special slot for the new class essences (only from Skirmish). These are all related to 6-man and raid versions of the skirmish on Tier 2 or 3.

Droprates

For each droprates see the below pages

Fate of Gundabad
Return to Carn Dum
Before the shadow

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