Guild Wars 2

Hi All,

I posted a Q before, but unfortunately, it never got answered (probably none got past the first sentence): https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/Newbie-Thief-needs-help/first#post290953

Anyway, I am now focusing on Gear. I have 200k Karma and roaming around Cursed Shore for Karma Vendor. There happens to be Karma Vendor near Ara entrance and found out that each piece costs 42k Karma which is a lot. I never encountered such price before, the most expensive I found before was around 1.4k Karma.

I am looking for Toughness/Vit to support my “guildmates” (composed of two kids and me, so 3 members all) and not focusing on Power or Crit, just purely defensive and HP to tank.

I am not sure if there’s any Karma Vendor that sells gear for cheaper and where they are. Or whether I should start learning how to craft my own….

I really would like to just buy with Karma first. If this fail, use Gold (but I only have 12G) , and of course, if Karma and Gold option is not possible, I can farm but that posed another problem: I don’t know where to get it, or which mob drops em…

Tnx all…

42k karma is the cost of all exotic pieces from orr karma vendors, it wont be cheaper.

You can however get a set like this (Pow/tough/vit) from dungeons or from WvW badge vendors. Which dungeon I’m not 100% sure off the top of my head, go to lion’s arch and browse through the dungeon token vendors near the WvW portals (bunch of merchants all in a line) and find what you want.

well it may be in the future when they realise 42k Karma is a joke and the only people with full sets are the ones who exploited the dolyak reward

Heya Paranoid, thanks for the nice tip. I haven’t really roamed around Lion’s Arch, as it’s use to me is “just another map” so I can go to Bloodtide Coast from Gendaran Fields. I haven’t really stayed there since I came late to the game and spent my time leveling in Sparkfly Fen (from Lv45 to Lv70), then to Straits of Devastation (to 80)….

Edit: btw, is Cursed Shore part of “Orr”? I have been working on finding that map as I read it on the forum. I asked players in Map (from Straits of Devastation and in Cursed Shore) and none bother to reply (either players are busy, think my q is dumb, or there’s no one online)

Dronin, not sure why 42k is a joke but if you meant that 42k is too steep then I’m with you. I spent a lot of time trying to find Arah when I first got there but I can’t find it. Only after the patch did it I find it and found the two Karma Vendors with nice sets. But 42k for each piece made me stop getting any since a full set will leave me Karma dry.

Can you also share the Dolyak Reward? What event and where? I would like to do that to farm Karma too…

DeathMetal.8264:

Can you also share the Dolyak Reward? What event and where? I would like to do that to farm Karma too…

The dolyak reward was dolyak escort events in WvW. You’d get 250ish karma per dolyak escorted at 80. if your team held the whole map, you could escort 2 dolyaks at a time and get 500 karma every 6-7~minutes for walking.

They however removed all rewards because they were giving waaaay too much for the effort involved (there was often 30-40 people escorting 2 dolyaks in complete safety). They plan to put the rewards back on when they decide on a reasonable reward.

Paranoid.9542:

DeathMetal.8264:

Can you also share the Dolyak Reward? What event and where? I would like to do that to farm Karma too…

The dolyak reward was dolyak escort events in WvW. You’d get 250ish karma per dolyak escorted at 80. if your team held the whole map, you could escort 2 dolyaks at a time and get 500 karma every 6-7~minutes for walking.

They however removed all rewards because they were giving waaaay too much for the effort involved (there was often 30-40 people escorting 2 dolyaks in complete safety). They plan to put the rewards back on when they decide on a reasonable reward.

Thanks man. If I can give you and dronin + points for reply, I would (some forum calls it Favor points, some calls it Reputation, etc).

Btw, last Q, with my 200k Karma to spend, is it worth it to spend on the Karma Vendors near Ara or should I shoot for other vendors in other map or just hunt in the Dungeon/buy in TP/craft?

DeathMetal.8264:

Thanks man. If I can give you and dronin + points for reply, I would (some forum calls it Favor points, some calls it Reputation, etc).

Btw, last Q, with my 200k Karma to spend, is it worth it to spend on the Karma Vendors near Ara or should I shoot for other vendors in other map or just hunt in the Dungeon/buy in TP/craft?

Since you’ve decided on what stats you want, all exotics are exactly the same except for the skin. So really it’s down to what you want to look like or what currency you want to spend.

TP/crafting will be the most expensive gold wise, karma vendors will drain your karma and dungeons tokens require a lot of runs to get (1380 per set if I remember correctly).

Pick your poison essentially.

Thanks man. Never knew/noticed that Exotics have the same stats O.o….dunno if that’s smart or lazy on the part of Anet.

Seems like all options are indeed costly, one way or another.

Thanks again!

It’s smart on their part. You’re choosing what stats you want to focus on, and the itemization budget is the same for everything. No more “Item X is better than Item Y and that’s why I lost” debate.

Items are costly because it’s meant to be the time sink that keeps you playing and perhaps investing in the Gem Store if you’re impatient.

Heya Psionic, I am new to the GW world so I can’t make an “informed opinion” i.e. can not compare it to previous GW or whether in Beta, players clamored for it. Thanks for info mate, it always helps to get the reasoning behind certain design aspects of the game.

No problem, friend. I’m glad you’re enjoying Thievery. Basically the better class of gear, the more budget it has. This avoids (so far) the problems of gear in Warcraft, where I have an epic, and you have an epic, but my epic is still of a higher item level/budget, so it’s better than yours.

Ideally the way GW2 works is that yes, Exotics trump Masterworks trump Rares, but no Exotic can ever outvalue another Exotic. It’s more about customizing for your traits and playstyle. I didn’t stick with the original GW for very long, on account of friends refusing to leave WoW, but if I recall they handled gear the same – it was about min/maxing yourself, not min/maxing a system.