Guild Wars 2

Keeping it short:

Been gone 1.5 years, happy to be back – have been re-learning with all the changes but wanted to know what to do with Karma. I’m not going to do a legendary unless I get a pre-drop so I was wondering what is the main current use mainly with a focus on getting gold for it.

Thanks!

I heard some people buy low level gloves with karma, throw them into the Mystic Forge and salvage the results for linen. I have no idea where they get the gloves though.

You could also buy Orrian jewelry boxes from pretty much any karma merchant in Orr. They will drop junk junk and occasionally lodestones.

Valin.4527:

Keeping it short:

Been gone 1.5 years, happy to be back – have been re-learning with all the changes but wanted to know what to do with Karma. I’m not going to do a legendary unless I get a pre-drop so I was wondering what is the main current use mainly with a focus on getting gold for it.

Thanks!

HoT will enable creating precursors through the collection system. On the other hand you don’t really need karma for creating legendaries anymore. Just get the shards you need from Silverwastes or get Mystic Clovers directly through PvP.

Also keep in mind that the game doesn’t give out as much karma anymore.

Skins. Like, lots and lots of skins. Dulfy (I think) has a list of all the skins you can get for karma (some instead of another kind of currency) to fill your wardrobe.
Other than that, yeah, the Orrian chest thing, and some collections need karma items (the koutalophile, for example).

@Red Queen, Thank you for the skins idea. Never have enough to choose from.

I still buy Obsidian shards from Balthazar whenever I run low. Stockpiling t6 mats and making weapons.

EotM is the best place I know to raise karma. 500k in a few days is plenty enough for me.

Karma skins were the first thing I got after the wardrobe system was introduced. Fashion, fashion everywhere^^

Davey.7029:

I heard some people buy low level gloves with karma, throw them into the Mystic Forge and salvage the results for linen. I have no idea where they get the gloves though.

I didn’t see that bit before; it’s a karma merchant just southwest of Lion’s Arch. A charr who’s helping quaggan herd crabs.

You can buy the rare cultural weapons for karma and throw them into the forge for a chance at a precursor. They are 63k karma each though for the level 80 versions so they go through karma pretty fast. (And you can collect all the skins doing this).

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Cultural_weapon

Oh, the Cultural weapon to forge is a very nice idea, thank you…all of these are very helpful so thank you all who took the time.

While probably not as useful as these other entries, I use mine on salvage kits.

Valin.4527:

Keeping it short:

Been gone 1.5 years, happy to be back – have been re-learning with all the changes but wanted to know what to do with Karma. I’m not going to do a legendary unless I get a pre-drop so I was wondering what is the main current use mainly with a focus on getting gold for it.

Thanks!

There are karma merchants that sell full sets of level 80 exotic armor. Check the wiki for specifics. So that’s an option if you don’t want to spend gold on the trading post for gearing up your level 80 characters, and if you don’t craft your own exotic/ascended/legendary stuff.

And before you say “I don’t plan on crafting a legendary,” just remember that you may change your mind later. And then you may wish that you hadn’t spent all your karma when you need go to purchase a bunch of obsidian shards Speaking from experience. Not that karma is that hard to accumulate, but it does take some work if you blow it all on skins and whatnot.