Guild Wars 2

While I’m starting to spread out my karma jugs onto my various alts, I currently have far more karma on my main character than I’d ever use. With this in mind, I’m trying to figure out ways that I can turn some karma into a bit of extra coin. To me knowledge, the options listed below are my only choices. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

1) You can buy the Orrian Jewelry Boxes. This will get you a bit of coin and possibly some other items.

2) You can buy x4 pieces of a specific armor slot / armor type. Then you can throw these Exotic gear pieces into the Mystic Forge for a new Exotic armor piece that you can actually sell or tear apart.

Is there anything else that I’m not thinking of?

Some of the dye ingredients for chef recipes are purchased with karma. I’m not sure how profitable they are though. Certain colors have a good array of expensive dyes that could drop from them, but when I priced out selling them unidentified, it didn’t really make enough over the cost of the non-karma materials to be worth it which means that making them and identifying them probably doesn’t have much of a return either. I haven’t priced them in a while though so the market may have changed.

The karma/gold rate conversion right now is just not worth it. Yes you get some gold but keep in mind that they could keep on adding new items with karma, let alone when they come out with an expansion.

And while the karma acquisition rate now is pretty good – it still takes time to get a good amount of karma.

I strongly suggest you just let it accumulate. It’s not worth the conversion.

Orrian jewelry boxes are actually a fairly good deal. Certainly not the best, but if you happen to get a charged lodestone, then it’s pretty nice. Cooking too, doesn’t have a bad return rate, if you gather the materials for it. I wouldn’t say dyes are worth it though.

Considering you can boost your karma per jug up to %95, you can easily nab 100K in about a week, just doing dailies.

Vol.5241:

The karma/gold rate conversion right now is just not worth it. Yes you get some gold but keep in mind that they could keep on adding new items with karma, let alone when they come out with an expansion.

And while the karma acquisition rate now is pretty good – it still takes time to get a good amount of karma.

I strongly suggest you just let it accumulate. It’s not worth the conversion.

I disagree.

I would wager that Karma is a dead currency. My reasoning is based on the notion that they cannot control how much of it is produced per person. Guild Commendations and Laurels are very tightly controlled. They know how much one person can earn per month. Can’t do that with Karma.

Calae.1738:

Vol.5241:

The karma/gold rate conversion right now is just not worth it. Yes you get some gold but keep in mind that they could keep on adding new items with karma, let alone when they come out with an expansion.

And while the karma acquisition rate now is pretty good – it still takes time to get a good amount of karma.

I strongly suggest you just let it accumulate. It’s not worth the conversion.

I disagree.

I would wager that Karma is a dead currency. My reasoning is based on the notion that they cannot control how much of it is produced per person. Guild Commendations and Laurels are very tightly controlled. They know how much one person can earn per month. Can’t do that with Karma.

What you probably mean is that it’s oversaturated.

What a better way to lower people’s inventory of karma than introduce more items that use it? More gear combinations for .e.g. from temples?

buy green high level weapons, combine in MF to get rares, then sell the rares :p

penatbater.4710:

buy green high level weapons, combine in MF to get rares, then sell the rares :p

I do this, it’s hit or miss on any substantial profit over doing other things, but it is a good conversion rate overall.

Vol.5241:

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What you probably mean is that it’s oversaturated.

What a better way to lower people’s inventory of karma than introduce more items that use it? More gear combinations for .e.g. from temples?

Orrian Jewel Box?

penatbater.4710:

buy green high level weapons, combine in MF to get rares, then sell the rares :p

Interesting idea. Out of curiousity, does anyone know what the average karma cost is for an 80th green weapon or armor piece?

Rouven.7409:

Vol.5241:

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What you probably mean is that it’s oversaturated.

What a better way to lower people’s inventory of karma than introduce more items that use it? More gear combinations for .e.g. from temples?

Orrian Jewel Box?

Yes, like the box. They might introduce something like that, but useful or more rewarding

Masterwork 80’s are between 924 and about 1380

Vol.5241:

Yes, like the box. They might introduce something like that, but useful or more rewarding

More rewarding in what way? Regardless of what our personal preference is, it offers:

4 unique tonics – pretty rare chance
1 unique mini – almost too high drop chance
rare materials – lower drop chance
karma – well, potentially useful if you want to give it to another char
certain amount of “guaranteed” coin (average 1G per 100k? I forget)

I’m just thinking it’s a pretty well rounded offer and it fit’s the bill being a “karma-sink” as well.

if it averages out to 1G per 100k, it’s not rewarding.

You can farm more than 1g in the time it takes to come up with 100k karma.

That’s only the “guaranteed” part and not the total.

I made about 60g dumping 2 million karma. I had 75% karma boost at the time. I heard that if you have 95% boost the returns are much higher.