all classes are the same in term of base stat (except HP), even armors and weapons are all equal regardless of which class.

So, warrior is "tanky" because it is a warrior is a wrong perception. GW2 isn't like the normal MMORPG.

Anyway, in PvE, the meta is zerker and zerker gears are purely focused in DPS, it do not have any defensive or hp attribute. So, zerker are very paper, have to survive by avoiding most painful attacks.

Exotics Gears are relatively easy to farm.

You get them from dungeons via tokens.
You can craft them.
You can buy them from tp.

The hard one to get will be ascended, it will take a month or two if you getting them through crafting route.
If you are hardworking, you can do FOTM on daily basis but only fotm 49 and 50 have significant chance of getting ascended armor/weapon chest. You need AR for FOTM as well, you will know what is AR once u start doing FOTM.

So, basically.

Exotic first through dungeons (token for dungeon gears or/and use golds earn to purchase from TP), then get your ascended trinkets through laurel (earn by dailies), guild commendations (guild missions) and low level fotm (recommended to have full exotic and start from lvl 9 at most if pugging without guidance).

Ascended armor and weapon can be obtain through crafting, means need to farm to get mats either through gold or pure farming. It also can be obtained through high level FOTM, rare drops from world boss chests and sometimes WvW rank up chests.

It is also important to research and decide on the build to use for your warrior so you won't purchase the wrong gears and end up wasting more time to gear up your character. Do note that PvE and WvW builds are different.

This post has been edited by Lu5ck: Feb 2 2015, 01:48 AM