Guild Wars 2

Karma, what is it good for?

So here is my suggestion, allow us to buy cultural armour with Karma. Please!

Simply put when you get to level 80, karma has very little use.
At level 80 you can use it to get food, though I personally have not done that yet. You can use it to get God armour, if you want it, and you have to use karma for ledgendery weapons right?
That is about it on karma for level 80 I think, let me know if I am wrong.

Anyway with this in mind, once you realise how easy karma is to get the food can be bought without much of a dent in your karma.
God armour is really only their for the looks, as the stats are really odd and you can get them in dungeons. So not everyone wants it.
So all that means you have a level 80 with probably 200k karma and nothing to do with it right?

Here is why I want this in GW2.

One karma is useless as I said above.

Second. Cultural armour, espesially t3 is really expensive and only a few people can really get them. I mean unless you farm every day I do not see how you can get more then one, assuming you can even afford one.

Third. The T1 to T2 is kind of a jump, however still reasonable. Yet when it comes to T3, it is over 10x expensive as T2. Now this jump is very harsh, especially given that all the good cultural armour is in T3. So at the very least please make this more reasonable. I was thinking 8x T2 armour, and to me that is still expensive.

As for prices of karma for cultural armour, I think they should be high. Probably about the same prices as the God armour.

What do you guys think? Karma, a price cut or leave it as it is?
My personal

2M karma per piece?

since t3 is really really ridiculously expensive >.<

I don’t mind the high price of t3 so much but I wish it was exotic so you don’t have to buy armor to transmute it too on top of the already high price. Just seems like a lame hidden expense.

I do think there could be more high end karma armor though. In time I’m sure there will be more implemented too.

Oldgrimm.8521:

2M karma per piece?

since t3 is really really ridiculously expensive >.<

If I had to pick a price for karma, I would go for 100k karma per peace? Maybe 150?
I do not mind it being expensive in karma for two reasons.
There is nothing to spend it on, and just with daily and monthly you could get it with in two months of playing. That to me sounds reasonable.

I really think the t3 armour should be around the 60g mark though, it still takes a lot of time to get that much.

I would also like to see more uses for Karma. Unfortunately, all of the “god” armor sets seem to have the same skin, so that shot my first thought all to kitten and gone.

I think Cultural armors should have a Karma currency on them, and they should also be in the Exotic catagory, and not in the rare one. The armor pieces are are very expensive gold wise, and this just fuels the fire for third party gold sellers. Drop the gold cost, make them a Karma Purchase, and place them in the exotic catagory.

I also believe this should be exotic, with that price only to use it as a transmut skin, this is sad. And why not a bit of both? I’m not sure if anything in the game requires more then 1 kind of money, but a piece could be like 10g + 40k karma.

cosmetic armors in the game should all be sold with Karma. I think there was an original intent on people using the store for gems more and then converting those into gold but they didn’t take into account how terrible the exchange rate would be. I for one would never do that at this point because there’s hardly any gold to be made this way. The exchange rate is almost always at 45-50% what it should be.

The same goes for bags. The runes of holding should not cost gold to purchase they should cost Karma.