I have three V13 toons who are wearing and using V12 armor and weapons. If I were you I would just wait until you hit V14, you're almost there.

Start collecting V14 pieces of whatever dropped sets you want to use and just wait until you hit VR14, I think I spent all of VR13 in broken gear, grinding XP doesn't require much.

You didn't say much about your build but I run ravager jewelry, legs and chest on my NB with hundings and night's silence until I can get morag tong and serpent.

ThePonzzz wrote: »

I've been playing since launch. One character. It took me this long to hit VR13. So VR14 won't be for at least another month.

I too am about the same point as you.. 30% through VR13 though, played this same toon since launch (and a couple of others which aren't VR).

If you were to use a bow.. You cant go wrong with strapping 3 pieces of the Eagle Eye set into ur jewellery/weapon (Two rings and a Bow) - Gives you 600'ish Weapon crit with two items and increases Bow Range with the third. Even if you only run two pieces with dual wield that's still 600 weapon crit right there.. and that's on VR10 jewellery. Its one of the easiest PvP sets to get as well (Can find them at Guild Traders if you look hard enough)

I would run 7 pieces of medium if you don't have the Undaunted Mettle passive - there's no point running 5 med, 1 light, 1 heavy without it. The passives in the med armor tree stack based on amount of pieces you're wearing.

Personally as a stamina DK I use a 5 piece Whitestrakes Retribution that I crafted for VR13. Don't waste your Nirncrux stones on crafting nirn for a VR13, wait till you hit VR14 - they're just too expensive to be wasting. Run other traits like Infused/Impenetrable in the interim. Whitestrakes gives you a 8000'ish point damage shield when your health drops below a certain value (can't remember the exact figures) with a cooldown on it.

I have done all the solo content and I'm spending much more time in PvP now and this combo seems to work OK, but its not perfect yet. I have been grinding Cyro delves in order to push my XP up. Just to give you an indication, in an hour and a half in Cracked Wood last night I went from 19% to 30%.. which is slow going but realistically that's maybe another 7 hours before VR14 of solid grinding.

V13 is a great time to try out new gear builds to see what you like. Then you have a better idea of what you'll want at V14 for your final set. Don't improve anything past purple for V13. Save your gold improvement items for the build your going to keep at V14.