Guild Wars 2

I’m a lvl 80 Warrior. I have about 45k Karma saved up.

What’s the wisest thing to do/buy with all of my Karma?

For you the wisest thing to do is to do nothing atm.
You’ve probably seen shrines devoted to human gods scattered across the Orrian shore. After gaining the victory at each shrine a vendor will appear with karma exotic armor. You can buy each piece for 52k. There are also cultural weapons for 82k.

Currently these armor and weapons are not worth the huge amounts of karma required, as the skins and stats can be obtained through other means. Crafted gear, random drops, or items from the mystic forge. Anet needs to re-evaluate all these skins and bring the karma prices in line or introduce more rare / exotic skins which can only be purchased from these karma vendors.

Have Orrian armour prices gone up then? When I bought my two pieces, they were 42,000 a piece.
Anyway, I’d say spend some on a decent rebreather and some jewellery. You’re better off crafting armour than buying the predetermined stats stuff from Orr.

So what and where do you get initial level 80 gear (non-exotic) that doesn’t break the bank? The Masterwork gear you could buy off the heart vendors while leveling up was pretty cheap. Is there an equivalent L80 set?

Jaydan.4952:

So what and where do you get initial level 80 gear (non-exotic) that doesn’t break the bank? The Masterwork gear you could buy off the heart vendors while leveling up was pretty cheap. Is there an equivalent L80 set?

Honestly, there used to be the Vigil/Priory/Whispers gear but then the price was raised.

Level 79 gear is only a few stats shy of level 80 so you could buy some cheap on the trade post. This thread on reddit did the math better: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/zoik7/just_got_to_level_80_buy_level_79_armor_and/

You don’t have to go for level 80 crafted exotics. There’s also level 80 crafted yellows/greens/blues of all armor sets.

I don’t think I saw a “level 80” karma set outside of the exotic orrian sets at each of the temples. Frost Gorge Sound heart vendors may have had some level 75-80 blue/green gear on them, but I don’t recall.

I crafted my own yellows until I mustered the mats together for my exotics. Now I’m working on my other sets.