Guild Wars 2

ATM lodestones and some t6 mats are very overpriced.
I suggest selling them from a vendor for karma, at a high price ofc.
EG, a lodestone of any type = 40-50K karma
A T6 material of any type for 2k karma.
This would help normalize the economy, help people work towards items that they want and still make the items fairly rare (most items need 100 lodestones, thats 4-5 million karma).
It would also make events more populated.

Opinions on this?

They would probably make these items account bound as they don’t want people converting karma to gold. However that sounds like a good idea. The drop rates on these items are awful and there aren’t enough uses for karma right now.

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They would probably make these items account bound as they don’t want people converting karma to gold. However that sounds like a good idea. The drop rates on these items are awful and there aren’t enough uses for karma right now.

^ this, also; I clicked on this expecting to see a horrible cost suggestion but that seems like a reasonable price (if they’re account bound)
though theyd probably have to take into account things crafted by the account bound lodestones… which would also probably be best being account bound too

You wouldnt really need it to be account bound as the price of lodestones would drop. it takes around 2 hours or more to get 40k karma. lodestones would be around 1g maybe. 40k karma takes longer to get than a gold.
Its just an alternative.

I was just thinking about this myself. I’m glad to see this suggestion has already been raised. As I thought about it, I was thinking that of all things, karma probably scales the best across the whole game in terms of acquisition, so to provide materials purchasable via karma I think it would free people up from feeling like they have to farm orr/frostgorge to gather the mats or dungeons to farm the gold to buy the mats. Instead, you’d have a playerbase that was free to “play the way they want,” where they want in the world of Tyria, being at peace about the fact that they’re earning karma which they’ll be able to use later to work towards long term goals. (Skins are the first thing that come to my mind). Personally, I would feel much better working with a system like this instead of feeling trapped farming the same zones or dungeons for mats/money. For such a robust system, the karma system needs more utility, and I think this would be a great place to start. (oh, and please no RNG like those little chests you can now buy from orr karma merchants. that just feels like an abuse of the time I invested in earning the karma in the first place)

This is definitely a must !!! It’s just so hard to actually farm any of those lodestones it’s ridiculous