Guild Wars 2

As a fairly new player, I am level 52…almost level 53 and haven’t spent a single solitary Karma token yet. I currently have 49,981 of them.

My question is, I know that there are vendors in various locations that I can buy things from with Karma. However I don’t see a need to?

What exactly should I be saving these for?

What should I spend them on?

I use what I find in dungeons and from killing things so far.

So what do you suggest?

Save the Karma for level 80 Exotic Armor. You find these Karma Vendors in the 75-80 zone or Ruins of Orr. You have to do a chain of events that lead to one main group event, after you complete these World Group Events in the Ruins of Orr, you will unlock the special Karma Vendors that sell Exotic Level 80 armors. You use the Karma as currency to buy each armor piece.

Armor Pieces are 42,000 per Piece. If you did not waste Karma leveling then you should have enough Karma by 80 level to buy two Armor pieces, and halfway to a third Piece.

You need 6 pieces just for level 80 Exotic armor, that totals up to 250,000 Karma total, so save that karma.

Drifter is right, but if you plan on gearing up through dungeons and crafting, there are other uses.

• Legendary weapons take a ton of karma.
• A lot of unique weapon skins are purchased with karma, including the cultural ones
• Cooking requires ingredients purchased with karma, and all professions use karma recipes.
• Selling those ingredients is a way to make a small amount of gold if you don’t have anything better to use it on.
• If nothing else, you can always save the karma for new content. Just don’t hit the cap

Aye, Legendaries take over 1,000,000 karma pretty much.

A tip to aquire more karma? Do the daily quest and monthly quest as well. Doing the daily will give you 1 Jug of Karma, and the monthly will give you 10 Jugs of Karma. Each Jug I believe gives 4,500 karma when used, however, the guild banners you see around that players place and increase karma gain by 5% work on these jugs, as do the Karma Boosters from the Black Lion Trading Company. I suggest saving up these jugs until you can buy some gems and purchase a karma booster. Once you use a karma booster and a karma banner, you’ll get 55% bonus karma for using the Jugs of Karma.

Lets do some math: Do the daily every day for a month and the monthly, lets say 30 days in a month, that’s 30 jugs for the daily, and 10 for the monthly, so you made 40 jugs. That’s 40 Jugs of Karma x 4500 and comes out to 180,000 karma. Now if you use the Karma banner buff along with the karma booster, those 40 Jugs of Karma come out to 279,000 karma.

Goodluck!

Here’s a useful youtube video showing the Gods Karma armors of Orr in-game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42ATDcD1V6w

Also, you can get some other unique armor from karma vendors with an entirely different look than elsewhere. In Harathi Hinterlands for example there’s a heart npc that’s nearly invisible and sells “Modniir” weapons. The staff has a red glow, and I used it for quit a while on my Elementalist as a skin on my staff using a Transmutation Stone i got from doing the Daily Quest.