Guild Wars 2

I have just hit level 40 on my first toon, and went to go check out the t1 gear. While iam disappointed that there is no armor for karma, i go to the weapons and find that they are almost 10k karma to buy! For a level 40 toon i have just at 6k karma and by the time i will have enough i will have mostly likely out leveled the weapon. Is there a reason that these weapons are so ridiculously high?

Because Karma is easy to get. Do more events. At 40 I already had 33k karma. :S After doing events whenever I find one.