Guild Wars 2

So I have 40k karma saved up after reaching lvl80 and not much to spend it on. I have had a look at the karma vendors and notice that it’s over 60k karma for a lvl80 weapon or one piece of armour. However the stats are inferior to exotic armour which costs a few gold, and inferior to my exotic hammer which only cost 3g. What’s the point? In the time it takes to save up that much karma you’ll easily be able to afford better gear anyway. Am I missing something here?

Getting 3 gold and getting 40k karma in lvl 80 takes pretty much the same time…

Twosai.2374:

Getting 3 gold and getting 40k karma in lvl 80 takes pretty much the same time…

Not for me. As I levelled up I used Karma to buy items in each zone I completed, so I had over 20g and was able to buy a full set of exotic armour and weapons at level 80.

For a full set of armour from a tier 3 vendor it would cost hundreds of thousands of karma, and you’d have inferior armour to exotic.

Looks! <3 :>

Karma venders are very broken right now in terms of Prices. Another thing people don’t realize is you can use karma items for the mystic forge. So instead of paying ridiculous amounts, buy like 8 or 12 of the cheap ones and combine them at the mystic forge. I did that with my rifle and got 4 yellows, then combined to make an amazing upgrade for my level. I am not level 80, but yeah. It also my be cosmetics.

I’d even go a step further and say that the karma gear is even more useless due to the fact that you can’t pick the exact stat prefixes that you want.

I’m not 100% on Arena Nets design intention but I think maybe the more expensive karma gear, cultural gear and exotics bought for dungeon currency are supposed to be for aesthetics or vanity purposes and could be used as such by taking advantage of fine transmutation stones.

Deified.7520:

Karma venders are very broken right now in terms of Prices. Another thing people don’t realize is you can use karma items for the mystic forge. So instead of paying ridiculous amounts, buy like 8 or 12 of the cheap ones and combine them at the mystic forge. I did that with my rifle and got 4 yellows, then combined to make an amazing upgrade for my level. I am not level 80, but yeah. It also my be cosmetics.

I’ll have to look in to this. I don’t really understand the Mystic forge if I’m honest, my only experience is shoving some rubbish weapons in there and getting back an equally rubbish weapon. But I’ll try out what you suggested.

a lot of ppl get karma gears just for the looks.

just like the dungeons armors. they’re insanely hard to get, but only have average status.

these gears are mostly just for the look.

looks and nothing more, welcome to guild wars