Guild Wars 2

I’m leveling a new alt that will probably be my new main and since I don’t do high level fractals (just the 10 daily for rings for this char) I probably won’t need a ton of AR. So I was thinking about getting a utility amulet and infusing it with either a gold or karma infusion. I was thinking gold at first since I run explorable dungeons a lot, however Anet is removing the gold drop from bosses to change that system. What do you guys think would be more helpful and worth it in the long run? Karmic or Gilded?

Gilded, for CoF runs.

Karmic.

CoF is getting nerfed soon, so do not bother with gilded.

I don’t know why you would need either really. Overall maybe Gilded is better. I am currently sitting on 5 million karma and tons of jugs and vials of karma in my storage I have no idea what to do with at the moment. I may turn them into things I can sell for gold but I don’t need it at the moment.

Gilded. +20% is nice regardless of whether you do CoF. It adds up in the long run.

Yeah Gilded does sound great, but I’m just afraid that with the ANET removing gold from bosses and changing that system to something else to get money, that the gilded infusion would then become useless.

Also with with karmic I could get 15% more Orrian Jewlry Boxes, and it’ll be slightly quicker to get obsidian shards (need 241 more but thats easy)

Karma seems to add up very quickly if you play the game on a regular basis, and ANet hasn’t really given any bulk uses for it other than legendaries.

IMO, the gilded infusion is far more valuable. Even with the upcoming change to boss rewards, a permanent % increase on all money drops is going to add up.

Karma is useless right now.

nearlight.3064:

Yeah Gilded does sound great, but I’m just afraid that with the ANET removing gold from bosses and changing that system to something else to get money, that the gilded infusion would then become useless.

Also with with karmic I could get 15% more Orrian Jewlry Boxes, and it’ll be slightly quicker to get obsidian shards (need 241 more but thats easy)

You’re partly right in that several full silvers are being removed if and only if you routinely do dungeons for the money.
For players in the open world, coppers drop every second mob and with gilden this is pushed in the silver range. Merely playing the game will give significantly bigger rewards in the long run. It’s not something you’ll notice overnight but if you can’t value the copper you’re not worthy the gold.

I use kharmic to multiply my liquid kharma to process big buys of Orrian jewelry boxes.

May be less important if the rewards update makes lodestones less of a nightmare.

The gilded infusion really is only beneficial for the extra coin from dungeons. And with a change to that looming, the gilded infusion is not looking that attractive. It really all depends on if they change how it works or not.

Similarly, the karmic infusion is not that useful as karma is readily available and you can get 80% bonus karma through other means. Though the 95% bonus karma with the karma infusion is nice if you want to recycle karma through the lost orrior jewelry boxes. And at least the karma infusion is cheaper than the gilded.

SafeFatNoob.3156:

Karma is useless right now.

Far from useless. I turned 500k karma into 30 gold the other night.

I’m doing dungeons only for achievements so it’s obvious what I’ll choose, If you are doing more Orr quests etc. then you should choose Karmic too. I think karma will be more valuable in the near future, we just have to wait for updates.

you dont need more karma

I chose karma.

It’s always nice to have a little extra. Also, there is a WvW merchant who trades gold weapons for 30-38k (?) karma. If I ever have extra, I usually just buy 1 sword for ~35k karma and buy 3 other swords from the TP and hope use the Mystic Forge. But I never have extra.

Currently, I’m stockpiling Karma for any future updates. It’s easy to spend karma in one sitting, but once you’ve spent it all, it takes some time to regain it.

I chose karmic infusion. however when I bought my amulet, i didn’t know about the fact that there were 3 types of infusions, just not blatantly obvious to me, all I saw was 3 amulets with the same stats and different names. I am not a fractals runner so really had no clue about infusions. my intention was to put a mighty infusion in that slot, only to find out that I couldn’t do that, so I spent a while trying to decide which utility one to get, none of them seem that great to me. Eventually I decided karma was best because maybe someday they will give us something good to do with all of our extra karma, like most people I am sitting on over 500,000 karma at the moment. I didn’t need extra xp, wasn’t sure if the extra gold from monsters included wvw player kills, and didn’t want the extra magic find as they are eliminating that stat from items now.