So I’m 3 levels away from 80, and I’ve been saving up all my karma so that I could buy a bunch of gear as soon as I ding 80. I play mostly WvW and I’m running a slight variant of the Shater Cat Mist 2.0 build.
You can imagine my dismay when I look on Dulfy and realize that you can’t buy Berserker, Knight, OR Val gear with karma
So since I only have 5g to my name (WvW isn’t very good for money) what do you recommend I do for gear at first? Should I spend all my karma on other, less fitting gear and then slowly replace it as I get the gold? Or is that a waste of karma and should I spend it elsewhere?
- Get a full karma suit and accept what you get in terms of stats. I advice you check which runes goes at which temples and get a full 6 piece there. For WvW you got Melandru for example, or Dwayna for PvE. This cost ~250K karma and an additional ~150K if you want trinkets. You could combine, but you loose the full rune bonus.
- Buy yellow berserker/knight/whatever gear you want and slap some cheap runes on them. Should cost 2-3g or something. For rings I advice green gear, its cheap and not that much difference in stats. This is the “budget” gear.
- Buy WvW gear for badges. Pretty self explanatory.
- Do dungeons runs to buy out exotic armour for marks. Note that this assume at least the yellow gear to begin with. More time consuming, but the “cheapest” way to get armour – you get gold while gearing.
Personally I’d take the yellow gear in the design that I wanted and upgrade as I go. Karma gear is a rather hefty cost, unless you got like 500K laying about. But the only other thing you can spend karma on is a legendary (somethign like 500 for a pickaxe is hardly spending) so its not really worth much either.
Thanks for the reply! I have about 250k karma right now, so I think I’ll probably buy what I can with badges and fill the rest in with yellows. Then I can just use my karma to fill in the runes from there (I’m torn between Melandru and Air, but we’ll see how it goes). I just learned that you can buy Berserker/Knight gear with badges, so that will be a good start for me too.
