Definately save mine til the end. Between my husband, son, mom, friends, and guildies all helping each other giving away drops, there wasn't much I needed in betas.
Since there is no real engame, but just more game at the end, i am not saving anything and buying all the shineys i want. This game is to have fun, fun all the way.
I still dont get this everything for endgame mentallity some players have.
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Since there is no real engame, but just more game at the end, i am not saving anything and buying all the shineys i want. This game is to have fun, fun all the way.
I still dont get this everything for endgame mentallity some players have.
I'm with you on that.
It's also much more fun to have a fun game all around rather then having to (horribly) grind your way to the top and be stuck doing the same thing over and over.
I think the way they made the game is how any mmo should be, just jump into some adventure whenever you feel like it and wherever you feel like going.
Since there is no real engame, but just more game at the end, i am not saving anything and buying all the shineys i want. This game is to have fun, fun all the way.
I still dont get this everything for endgame mentallity some players have.
Good point, and I'm guilty because I'm conditioned by other MMORPGs, but I also recall some karma vendors in capital cities that sell (yellow?) gear for thousands or tens of thousands of karma points. I just don't wanna not have enough karma points when I want to buy these.
Also, some or most things (salvage tools, etc.) can be bought by gold, so why not save the karma points?
On that note, I do spend karma points on recipes (as I go).
spend spend spend.... 1st of all . most "good" gear comes froms the karma vendors after you do the heart for them.
2nd and more important, karma is cheap. yes it does not may look like it if your only doing pve. but after 8 hours of decent wvw (I.E capturing some forts etc) i ended with over 8k karma, and thats for one day of wvw....
so yeah, spend it in the go
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spend spend spend.... 1st of all . most "good" gear comes froms the karma vendors after you do the heart for them.
2nd and more important, karma is cheap. yes it does not may look like it if your only doing pve. but after 8 hours of decent wvw (I.E capturing some forts etc) i ended with over 8k karma, and thats for one day of wvw....
so yeah, spend it in the go
Thanks, I didn't realize you can earn karma points through PvP. I only did PvEs during the beta weekends.
Since there is no real engame, but just more game at the end, i am not saving anything and buying all the shineys i want. This game is to have fun, fun all the way.
I still dont get this everything for endgame mentallity some players have.
Good point, and I'm guilty because I'm conditioned by other MMORPGs, but I also recall some karma vendors in capital cities that sell (yellow?) gear for thousands or tens of thousands of karma points. I just don't wanna not have enough karma points when I want to buy these.
Also, some or most things (salvage tools, etc.) can be bought by gold, so why not save the karma points?
On that note, I do spend karma points on recipes (as I go).
And how much do you think the 30 Karma points you get at level1 contribute to that?
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There are some welfare Rare Power/Pre/Con weapons in the both the Black Citadel and Divinities Reach for 63,000 karma. So I suppose you could save up karma for those, but honestly you would be better off crafting for gear, as karma gear is probably going to be sub par.
Spend them as you go is what seems to work best. Same with all the upgrade gems you get from resource gathering. There is plenty where it comes from and the further you go the more you get.
If you have a chance to upgrade, especially underwater weapons, do so. Only if the upgrade is minimal, like 1 or 2 stat points you might want to hold on it till you find a slightly better vendor.
Hoarding it for all end levels will only make the journey more troublesome.
Save them till you are lvl 40. Then purchase the yellow weapons from the city karma vendors, and use those till you can get mastercrafted lvl 50 weapons.
Save up and purchase lvl 65 yellows etc. Dont spend them on heartquest vendors unless its for a recipe you want there. The other items except some of the weapon skins are not really a great investment as you out level them fairly quickly.
Spend them as you go is what seems to work best. Same with all the upgrade gems you get from resource gathering. There is plenty where it comes from and the further you go the more you get.
If you have a chance to upgrade, especially underwater weapons, do so. Only if the upgrade is minimal, like 1 or 2 stat points you might want to hold on it till you find a slightly better vendor.
Hoarding it for all end levels will only make the journey more troublesome.
Those gems, are incredibly important to save if you plan on doing any jewelcrafting. Even if you dont, someone in your guild might be, and they are far better used for weapons or jewelcrafting in that case. The socketable signets and runes are better than the gems from nodes anyway, if your only aim is to put more stats on your gear. The reason these gems drop from resource nodes in the first place is because they are a craft consummable, not because you are lucky and got treassure in a node LOL
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Since there is no real engame, but just more game at the end, i am not saving anything and buying all the shineys i want. This game is to have fun, fun all the way.
I still dont get this everything for endgame mentallity some players have.
Good point, and I'm guilty because I'm conditioned by other MMORPGs, but I also recall some karma vendors in capital cities that sell (yellow?) gear for thousands or tens of thousands of karma points. I just don't wanna not have enough karma points when I want to buy these.
Also, some or most things (salvage tools, etc.) can be bought by gold, so why not save the karma points?
On that note, I do spend karma points on recipes (as I go).
And how much do you think the 30 Karma points you get at level1 contribute to that?
Not much at level 1 of course, but if you save up until level 30 or 40 (as someone suggested), you'll probably end up with a few thousand karma points.
If in 1982 we played with the current mentality, we would have burned down all the pac man games since the red ghost was clearly OP. Instead we just got better at the game.
There are other ways to make money besides Karma? What are you even speaking of? You can't make money with Karma Points from what I have seen. All the stuff you buy from Karma vendors is BoP, I believe.
I will most definitely spend them as I go. I do plan on crafting a lot though, so I doubt I will be spending much of my points, as I did in the betas. If I see an upgrade or something in which I can't make, sure, I might pick it up. But I am not going to go crazy blowing all my points on things I don't need.
btw. i did spend them as i go, but wisely, if your level 30 and getting items for level 25. thats a waste. also keep im mind that wvw you can get items per 10 level i think, you can buy rare items for karma at lvl 15 and again at 25, dont know in the rest of the way but il guess it more or less the same.
so yeah spend them but choose with a bit of wit.
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I spent them as I went a long.
doesn't matter as stats are normalized you are just getting skins. no reason to save them.
Definately save mine til the end. Between my husband, son, mom, friends, and guildies all helping each other giving away drops, there wasn't much I needed in betas.
What happens when you log off your characters????.....
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Since there is no real engame, but just more game at the end, i am not saving anything and buying all the shineys i want. This game is to have fun, fun all the way.
I still dont get this everything for endgame mentallity some players have.
Best MMO experiences : EQ(PvE), DAoC(PvP), WoW(total package) LOTRO (worldfeel) GW2 (Artstyle and animations and worlddesign) SWTOR (Story immersion) TSW (story) ESO (character advancement)
I was thinking this would be covered in "Spend as you go".
I'm with you on that.
It's also much more fun to have a fun game all around rather then having to (horribly) grind your way to the top and be stuck doing the same thing over and over.
I think the way they made the game is how any mmo should be, just jump into some adventure whenever you feel like it and wherever you feel like going.
Good point, and I'm guilty because I'm conditioned by other MMORPGs, but I also recall some karma vendors in capital cities that sell (yellow?) gear for thousands or tens of thousands of karma points. I just don't wanna not have enough karma points when I want to buy these.
Also, some or most things (salvage tools, etc.) can be bought by gold, so why not save the karma points?
On that note, I do spend karma points on recipes (as I go).
spend spend spend.... 1st of all . most "good" gear comes froms the karma vendors after you do the heart for them.
2nd and more important, karma is cheap. yes it does not may look like it if your only doing pve. but after 8 hours of decent wvw (I.E capturing some forts etc) i ended with over 8k karma, and thats for one day of wvw....
so yeah, spend it in the go
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Thanks, I didn't realize you can earn karma points through PvP. I only did PvEs during the beta weekends.
And how much do you think the 30 Karma points you get at level1 contribute to that?
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I spent as I needed upgrades and still got way more karma than I needed. I don't imagine karma gear will be hard to get at all, even at endgame.
There are some welfare Rare Power/Pre/Con weapons in the both the Black Citadel and Divinities Reach for 63,000 karma. So I suppose you could save up karma for those, but honestly you would be better off crafting for gear, as karma gear is probably going to be sub par.
Spend them as you go is what seems to work best. Same with all the upgrade gems you get from resource gathering. There is plenty where it comes from and the further you go the more you get.
If you have a chance to upgrade, especially underwater weapons, do so. Only if the upgrade is minimal, like 1 or 2 stat points you might want to hold on it till you find a slightly better vendor.
Hoarding it for all end levels will only make the journey more troublesome.
Save them till you are lvl 40. Then purchase the yellow weapons from the city karma vendors, and use those till you can get mastercrafted lvl 50 weapons.
Save up and purchase lvl 65 yellows etc. Dont spend them on heartquest vendors unless its for a recipe you want there. The other items except some of the weapon skins are not really a great investment as you out level them fairly quickly.
Those gems, are incredibly important to save if you plan on doing any jewelcrafting. Even if you dont, someone in your guild might be, and they are far better used for weapons or jewelcrafting in that case. The socketable signets and runes are better than the gems from nodes anyway, if your only aim is to put more stats on your gear. The reason these gems drop from resource nodes in the first place is because they are a craft consummable, not because you are lucky and got treassure in a node LOL
Great question, glad to know that spending as you go seems to be best.
Bad poll however, you forgot the "let me see the results" option for those of us with no opinion on the topic yet.
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Not much at level 1 of course, but if you save up until level 30 or 40 (as someone suggested), you'll probably end up with a few thousand karma points.
Spend them as you go. You can always get more.
If in 1982 we played with the current mentality, we would have burned down all the pac man games since the red ghost was clearly OP. Instead we just got better at the game.
Sorry, I'll keep that in mind next time. As of now, 64% say "Spend".
There are other ways to make money besides Karma? What are you even speaking of? You can't make money with Karma Points from what I have seen. All the stuff you buy from Karma vendors is BoP, I believe.
I will most definitely spend them as I go. I do plan on crafting a lot though, so I doubt I will be spending much of my points, as I did in the betas. If I see an upgrade or something in which I can't make, sure, I might pick it up. But I am not going to go crazy blowing all my points on things I don't need.
btw. i did spend them as i go, but wisely, if your level 30 and getting items for level 25. thats a waste. also keep im mind that wvw you can get items per 10 level i think, you can buy rare items for karma at lvl 15 and again at 25, dont know in the rest of the way but il guess it more or less the same.
so yeah spend them but choose with a bit of wit.
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Actually, I said there are more ways to make money *than* karma, but thanks for the thoughts.
I didn't do any effort to save, but at the end of the last weekend I had like 5000 karma @lvl 22.
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