Guild Wars 2

There is already the ability to use karma for cultural weapons which is very nice, so is it all that hard to have the ability to use karma AND gold for armor?

Tier 3 is incredibly expensive and somewhat unfeasible for casual players without saving for months; however adding the ability to use both karma and gold for the pieces of armor could potentially half the amount of time.

I find that cultural armor is way too expensive for the stats it gives; for instance, I got a snapdragon and transmuted it to a level 80 armor right away because it was easier and less expensive than buying the Tier3 armor (and it didn’t have the stats I wanted anyway).

Some very good exotic armors are available for Karma in Orr and with a variety of stats. I support the OP’s suggestion of putting up the Cultural armors for karma but I also propose to have appearance kits available. However, I think appearance kits might be too good if sold for karma so I propose this :

- Have the cultural armor sold as they are for Karma
- Sell appearance kits to transmute existing armor for gold (at the current price of the armor)

Tier 3 cultural armors are there for looks, not stats per se. They are priced so high to maintain rarity similar to legendary weapons. If they were to price them in karma I would be willing to bet they would be in the hudreds of thousands per piece for this reason.

As an Roleplayer, I find its an unreal and unobtainable price without sacrificing time out of life and out my enjoyment. Lower the prices so they’re scaled or give it Karma prices. I have alts buy for and there’s just -certain- pieces I want. Like the T3 Light Asuran Gauntlet for a set., and the prices for that are even ridiculous to the point of refusal.

I would not mind the high price in karma since I use Karma for a lot less things than i use my gold for.

Also, I get that they are there for looks; that is precisely why I suggest they sell appearance kits along with the armor. As it is now, cultural armor is pretty much a way to force people into using Fine transmutation stones.

I agree, lower price so that it gives people more of an opportunity to use Fine Transmutation Stones. This gives both parties benefit; players can obtain the armor appearance they want and the developers can also make more money with more Fine Transmutation Stones being bought. As it is now; the prior tiers of cultural armor and tier 3’s price has such a price gap; more like canyon, that it truly is unfortunate.

Yes, while I agree that appearance/rarity of Tier 3 cultural armor should remain like top-tier, exclusive armor that should require a lot of effort and be tough to get, the current prices and cost divide is way too high from Tier 2 to Tier 3. At least cut costs by 40-50% or make it possible to purchase through Karma, e.g. 250K, or such.

A Karma price would be a fantastic option for this. The cultural skins are awesome and I dont think they should be so difficult to obtain. they’re cultural arour sets – so should be more common being a racial standard.

Such great armour skins that have been made so unobtainable.

The current prices are ok, see it as a mid-time goal (legendary longtime) and stop complaining that you cant afford it in one day. :/
If there would be the possibility to buy it with karma, there would also be a thread named “T3 requires too much karma, lower it!” next to “Motivation is gone, nothing to do”.
Srsly, you behave like little children at the supermarket checkout crying cause you dont get the candys you want right now.

Looking at the current prices for nearly everything in the TP seems more like ppl have too much gold. There are already not much gold sinks, T3 is one of them and they are needed – again, look at those ridiculous skyrocketing TP-prices.

On the other hand inflation is beneficial for those who want T3, since the needed amount of gold to buy T3 is fixed → means its only a matter of time till you get it.

I agree that we should be able to purchase cultural armor with karma since we can get weapons that way. As to the cost of the cultural armor, I agree that the tier 3 is way too high for the stats.

As a T3 Owner , i Reject that .. I farmed a lot for it and i like being special.
i think they should make it more expensive or add new tiers .

T3 is a rich mans armor that you get for the skins .Its ment to be High in cost . Where as T1 and T2 would be standard elite armors and Orders armors are Vabbian your T3 is FoW . Its going to be crazy expensive and you have to expect to work for it .

It’s a tough one. yes it’s quite tough to get. But it’s also nice to not see everyone wearing it too. There’s nothing worse in MMOs than when everyone looks the same.

MMOs are long-term games for the most part. Things take a good while to get like that. If it takes you a couple of months to save up to get the armour whilst you’re doing other things, than that’s really not that bad at all.

And as others have said, there are T1 and T2 cultural armours that are very cheap, and in themselves look nice as well.

I think keep it as it is.

Be careful everyone : endeavor never said anything about lowering the price in his original post. It was suggested to allow players to buy the armors for Karma as well as gold.

As I have stated before, I think it is an option worth adding and it doesn’t need to be “cheaper”. I wouldn’t mind a super high Karma price; it would just be nice to have the option. Some of my characters require more gold for their crafting and gear but have loads of karma; I’d like more appealing options to use my Karma on.

Yes, fair enough, Nitross. I’m guessing the karma price would be in the 100, 000 s per piece if comparable.

Infact, someone could do the conversion right now – as there is already a precedent in-game where some items can be purchased for either gold or karma.

Im gonna go out on limb here and guess that the reason cultural armors cost gold is to remove it from the economy so there’s not an excess of it .

Nitross.6987:

Be careful everyone : endeavor never said anything about lowering the price in his original post. It was suggested to allow players to buy the armors for Karma as well as gold.

As I have stated before, I think it is an option worth adding and it doesn’t need to be “cheaper”. I wouldn’t mind a super high Karma price; it would just be nice to have the option. Some of my characters require more gold for their crafting and gear but have loads of karma; I’d like more appealing options to use my Karma on.

Yes, I never said anything about lowering the price, infact I suggested an alternative that could be added as Karma is also obtainable through events and hearts. It narrows down grinding without sacrificing too much gold; seeing how one can spend karma for “that one last piece.”

Difficult to obtain armour should stay that way.

For it’s stats, no. I can understand if they vamp all Tier 3 to Ascended (even those who already bought it). If anything, Tier 1 = Rare, Tier 2 = Exotic, Tier 3 = Ascended.

i have 2 sets of T3, and farmed for them, so while i am against cheapening it, don’t make it a karma-based item set. if anything, please make MORE options or ways of acquiring. like, if you HAD 120gold, that’s cool. Otherwise, you get some options, like 65k karma + 50 gold, or 150 potatoes and carrots for the NPC, because some of them need to eat! they seem so hungry.

if they fixed T3 to be better stat’d, think about all the players like myself that may already have obtained it and transmuted it to other items. though i probably should have saved the base stats, in case. worst case scenario, they will probably just make it so i have to obtain it again.

No changes needed, I already see too many people with this prestigious armor.

And 120g for an ascended set would be extremly cheap.

Maybe T4 exotic, T5 ascended and T6 legendary. But T3? No.

Malediktus.9250:

Maybe T4 exotic, T5 ascended and T6 legendary. But T3? No.

This is actually a good suggestion as it would allow those with exteme amounts of gold to have something to aim for .

I disagree on Cultural armor being purchased by karma. It is supposed to be a long term goal. Simply slowly work on buying each piece over time. That is what I am doing. I find it as a long term goal that I do not need to focus on day to day.

I simply put away little bits of money here and there and work for it. Karma is given out like candy now and it would be pointless to put Cultural Armor as an achievement.

I think it’s just most people right now want to own the full set without having to work toward it.

You can earn currently 400-500k karma in a month without too much effort. That will completely devaluate any price in karma you assess to cultural armor.

Honestly , i think they should not change it at all. Just leave it for 119g and rare stats.

It is an armor for the crazy rich people, it is always nice to have something like that.

The dungeons armors do look cooler and do not cost even near the time one of those do.

Going off the some of the in-game items which you can purchase for either coin or karma.

120 gold correlates to ~ 800 000 Karma.

My character has a complete T3 set already, but I would not mind if it there were options to purchases it either way. Looking at those numbers, to me, it seems easier to get the coin rather than the karma.

I’m not against making Cultural armor purchasable through karma either, although my main wish is that T3 armor be made Exotic instead of just Rare. I’m fine with keeping it at its current price in its dual capacity as a gold sink/prestige armor.

Yes, having the option to purchase with karma and coin would be nice; even if it means that really one can purchase a piece with the karma they accumulated. Either way; it adds to a more diverse option in obtaining cultural armor.

cultural armor is bought for the looks not the stats and dont change the system have alredy put down 90g from farming to get the parts i want