Guild Wars 2

I have a few questions about leveling and I do have a main so I have tons of karma and some gold..

1) Are there any Karma items I could buy to speed up the leveling process?

2) Are there any leveling builds that just came out (the patch changed stuff obviously)?

3) What stats should I aim for when selecting gear?

4) Is there anything from AH that I should buy to help my toon out?

as far as thief leveling it is still the same two main builds, condition damage dagger dagger with caltrops, death blossom spam and signet of malice, and sword pistol power with blind and evade spam. honestly no point is karma items, just buy new gear every 10 levels since it is fairly cheap.

s/p is more straightforward…but also kinda boring.