Guild Wars 2

A few questions. Here I go. I had 22 gold when I hit 80, I bought all new rare armor, weapons, and trinkets including runes and signets. Cost was around 8 gold. Was that a mistake? Should I of saved the gold and bought cheaper blue or green armor? And I want power/vit/tough gear. Im playing a 0/10/0/30/30 d/d ele. Any advice on what direction to go with gear from here would be great! Also, thinking of getting karm gear I found on wiki. But I only have about 160k karma. What is a decent way of getting karma at 80+ . Thanks for the help!

For karma, get your dailies every day but save them up for a week at a time and open them when you have a karma booster. At 80 you might want to star thinking about the better exotic gear for armor, weapons and trinkets. These can all be bought in various ways, so you don’t necessarily need tons of gold.

Go to the Queens Jubilee tent… then follow the crowds around killing the boss events gaining great Karma and loot.

Sell loot to buy Exotic Armour/weapons -or- use the Karma to buy Exotic armour from the Orr temples :-)

That’s what I am doing on Gandara :-)

This is something i just posted on a near identical thread

Something to keep in mind for your second character once they hit 80 is to just buy greens. Not even 1 gold for a whole set (including trinkets) Greens work fine until you can get exotics.

You can get lvl 80 exotic armor from karma vendors in Orr. Even if your server doesn’t have the temples unlocked, you can guest to a server that does. This website i use shows every server with a specific temple open. Then you can just guest to the server with it open and buy your gear. The whole set costs 252k karma. Also, the different temples have different stats. Say you want full PTV gear. Well, one piece can come from melandru, another from grenth, and another from balthazar( hypothetical, idk where each piece of stat comes from). The best way to look up which temples have the stats you want is to search the wiki for “temple armor” then you can use the website that lets you see which server has the open temple you need. That website is gw2bear.com in the bottom left corner of the website is the open temple thing. Hope this helps!

Also if your looking for something to do at 80, head into WvW. It won’t all make sense at first, but you’ll learn. Also, if you need help finding a group for dungeons, gw2lfg.com

Save up your jugs,drips,drops of karma from events, chests, dailys and monthlys. Then when you have enough horded use that karma booster you’ve been saving, or splurge on one. It will increase the karma gain by 50%. If you don’t hav a booster, find one of the Karma boosting banners that your mates have been good enough to leave in a common area, its not 50%, but its still free karma.

Thankyou all for the help! I have saved a lot of the karma consumables. So I wilk use them when I get a boost of some kind. And I had a feeling I shouldnt of bought yellow equiptment.

One last thing. The karma boosters these guys talked about are +50% karma. If you get a banner, passive 15% from guild, and theres +5% food you can buy from the TP. You can stack all these to get 85% extra karma. Do this before you open all your jugs