Guild Wars 2

I propose the ability to purchase karma with gold.

Simply put, characters level too quickly for the karma they receive. This makes it impossible to upgrade your gear via karma vendors as you level.

If you could buy liquid karma with gold, then characters can make up for the karma deficiency using the in-game currency they accumulated doing the same heart/events/etc. that got them the karma and the levels they gained.

Karma can not be traded and is only used to purchase from vendors. The items gained by said vendors are bound and can’t even be sold to vendors nor salvaged. The price will need to be sufficient enough that the methods of converting karma to gold are not as effective as buying karma with gold. As not to make it possible to generate gold via a gold->karma->gold cycle.

Now typically when there is a change that will cause a shift to the supply or demand of an item, depending on the change, this often results in small changes in price (if any) and more of a change in moving quantity. Basically what happens is if an item became harder to obtain, the supply would drop causing prices to rise and moving quantity to drop. An increase in price means that less people will want to buy it provided that their are sufficient alternatives. This decrease in demand would cause the price to drop back down and moving quantity to drop further. The net result is a price that changes only slightly while the moving quantity is what really changes.

How does this pertain to buying liquid karma with gold? Being able to buy liquid karma and buy replacement gear from karma vendors will decrease the demand for gear on the TH. This will result in a drop in both price and moving quantity. Unlike the above example, crafters who sell their wares on the TH and players who put dropped loot on TH will continue to do so. Meaning any shift to supply as a result of the change in price would be minimal. The net effect is an over all drop in the price of gear.

I have come back after bit of a break and I can attest that the market is inflated. This change, if implemented, would act as a gold sink and would serve to help deflate the market.

There are a LOT of ways to get fast , easy karma via PLAYING, just maybe not with the events you are doing. If you need Karma that bad, I sugest mabye taking a look at what events you’re doing and add some variety to get that Karma.

EOTM with a Karma Booster is one way… Heck…. Do Teq once and you get enough to buy a piece of Karma Armor from one Boss Fight alone.

Teq, you mean the Group Event lvl 65…key point being lvl 65. This is for leveling. Oh and I’m leveling via map completion, personal story, and events that are nearby while doing the previous two (often doing an event completes a heart). You know, that thing called ‘play the game’ as opposed to gaming the latest FotM meta. Let’s not forget that grinding this karma also results in creating more gold. Which, not only doesn’t help the inflation issue but actually hurts it.

Karma like many of the alternate currencies is designed to reward certain activities with their own pool of items you can use Karma to purchase. Buying Karma with gold would circumvent this. What’s next Dungeon and WvW badges/tokens for gold? Laurels for gold? Buying ascended mats with gold so you can avoid chest grinding?

Behellagh.1468:

Karma like many of the alternate currencies is designed to reward certain activities with their own pool of items you can use Karma to purchase. Buying Karma with gold would circumvent this. What’s next Dungeon and WvW badges/tokens for gold? Laurels for gold? Buying ascended mats with gold so you can avoid chest grinding?

Ascended materials may not be the best example, as many of them can already be bought and sold on the TP. Or were you referring to Bloodstone Dust/Empyral fragments/Dragonite Ore?

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Behellagh.1468:

Karma like many of the alternate currencies is designed to reward certain activities with their own pool of items you can use Karma to purchase. Buying Karma with gold would circumvent this. What’s next Dungeon and WvW badges/tokens for gold? Laurels for gold? Buying ascended mats with gold so you can avoid chest grinding?

Ascended materials may not be the best example, as many of them can already be bought and sold on the TP. Or were you referring to Bloodstone Dust/Empyral fragments/Dragonite Ore?

Of course I’m talking Bloodstone, Empyreal and Dragonite. You can’t buy those on the TP and you can’t make Vision Crystals without them. True they are a possible gift from Mawdrey II but I wouldn’t depend your ascended armor/weapon crafting on what Mawdrey II gifts you.

I actually would not bother replacing my character’s gear with karma items as I level. Not only will you outlevel them quickly, as you discovered, but those karma gear are soulbound and non-salvageable, making them extremely poor investments. (Outside of a few armor items that are forged to produce salvageable items for cloth.)

Instead, I’d simply just upgrade your character’s gear with cheap greens/blues every 10 levels until you hit level 80, then go for level 80 Rares. (Or even Masterworks, if you’re tight on money.) Save your karma for other things, or buy the karma gear purely for their skins.

Behellagh.1468:

What’s next Dungeon and WvW badges/tokens for gold?

Of course, you can already get (some) dungeon rewards without ever setting foot in a dungeon (WvW reward tracks). So, really, the lines are already blurred. Using gold gained from doing anything in the game isn’t all that different from doing some completely unrelated other thing and getting the “uniquely related” rewards normally associated with something else (i.e. doing WvW to get dungeon armor).

Is it really so different to murder a million open world mobs to get your dungeon armor (via gold gained), than to murder a million WvW invaders to get your dungeon armor (via WvW reward tracks)?

if only i can sell my 3.3mil karma to you… hmmmmmm….