Guild Wars 2

**Note: This is for Hoelbrak area

So basically, i was running around the province of Hoelbrak, when i encountered numerous karma merchants, that only sell basil leaf, bell pepper, ginger root . Whats the point of these guys? i understand its for cooking, but to have dozens of them, for NO POINT AT ALL. How about just one of them, and change the others for other crafting groups?

Also, another weird karma merchant is the weapon tier merchants, located near the bear and wolf lodge. The weapon stats are all messed up. I would love to spend my karma points there if, for eg, a dagger for my thief toon, would have stats that reflect my class, like precision, power or condition, compared with bulk healing and vitality stats. Why are these stats on the dagger and most likely other weapons NOT relating directly to their respective classes? This is only making a great feature less used, because of undesired stats.

Im very new to the game, but it just became a huge annoyance, seen i have lots of karma to spend, but on what??

Philly.2361:

So basically, i was running around the province of Hoelbrak, when i encountered numerous karma merchants, that only sell basil leaf, bell pepper, ginger root . Whats the point of these guys?

I think at one point during the beta they had other goods on them, but were simplified before final release. They can safely be ignored

Philly.2361:

Also, another weird karma merchant is the weapon tier merchants, located near the bear and wolf lodge. The weapon stats are all messed up. I would love to spend my karma points there if, for eg, a dagger for my thief toon, would have stats that reflect my class, like precision, power or condition, compared with bulk healing and vitality stats.

1. Thieves aren’t the only profession that uses daggers.
2. Healing and vitality stats are important to some builds and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with getting them on your weapon.
3. The only reasons to buy karma gear is either because you can’t get the stats from regular gear, or because you like the skin and you’re going to use a transmutation stone to transfer it to an item that has the stats you want for your build or you’re broke… look for a different karma vendor that has something with the stats you want.

Those karma weapons are likely the cultural weapons, which people buy just for the skins. I’ve bought a total of 7 (maybe more, those are the ones I can think of atm) seraph style weapons for my two human characters just for the skins.

I agree that the food merchants should be merged. In LA too since right outside the TP there’s a good 10 or so merchants that all just sell 1-3 different food items each.

It used to be that you could level up cooking completely, having used very few ingredients that come from gathering, thanks to all the karma ingredient vendors in cities. Many people hit 80 far ahead of the crowd shortly after launch thanks to these. They were changed so that some ingredients now come from loot bags, and others come from karma vendors out in the middle of nowhere.