Guild Wars 2

So now that you can’t just simply log out then log in to clear DE’s how do you guys plan on getting the most out of your time? I tried going to another zone but that didn’t work. I’d really like to not go afk as soon as I see DR’s.

Log off and go play something else I guess. That’s clearly what Arenanet wants their players to do. The funny thing is the karma boosters are now worthless, as you cant get the full duration out of them, so Arenanet basically shafted themselves out of gem store purchases :S

Its back to Skyrim for me I guess.

@Morgoth “The funny thing is the karma boosters are now worthless, as you cant get the full duration out of them, so Arenanet basically shafted themselves out of gem store purchases :S”

I thought about that very point this morning. I have seen some nasty posts on here suggesting that Arenanet is doing this to drive people to gem stores. It is the exact opposite. DR makes karma and magic find boosters worthless right now. So if Arenanet was doing this for cash shop, they are doing it wrong.

Sadly, the DR is starting to frustrate even me. I keep posting on this because I think it is one of the few mistakes Arenanet has made post-launch.

I still remember the first week where I was following the zerg from DE to DE. It was all so much fun for me. New missions. Seeing all the different animations.

But now I have to worry that if I go from each event too quickly, I will get cheated out of the full Karma rewards. And yes, it matters. It matters because I am getting cheated out of a benefit because I am playing the game. No one said we were doing anything wrong the first week when we moved throughout the zones and sought out new DEs. So why is it wrong now?

I already am a slow player unlike others. I like to look around, find new things and do more than just kill stuff. Heck, I often lagged behind the zerg and had to catch up to finish out the boss fights. So how much slower do I need to play in order to ensure that DR does not kick in?

I was really hoping to get the last chunk of karma needed to finish up twilight but it seems that my grind time just got doubled with all the down time needed. And yea buy and hours long karma boost and get maybe 30 minutes use out of it…makes sense to me. Well if anyone has any ideas how to maximize the uptime on karma farming I’m all ears. I’m stuck at work now so I can only speculate and get others opinions.

I posted a guide, but for some reason a moderator moved it to an area nobody will look at. Anyway, here it is:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/fangen/Guide-To-Efficiently-Gaining-Karma-Images-and-Video/first#post325155

Your method Celestea isnt viable anymore. Its the same thing I have been doing but now you cap out after 30 minutes and hit heavy DR. There is no way that ive found to avoid the DR outside of afking for 30 minutes in game. Even then though the DR comes back quickly. Id guess you have to not do an event for a certain amount of time for your DR to completely go away.

Karma boosters used to be well worth it, now you’ll be lucky if you can get half of their worth out of them. Also cycling between maps doesn’t seem to reduce the appearance of DRs as well as relogging, so were stuck with farm as much as possible then afk for x amount of minutes then back to farming. Thanks for the post though Celestea. Either one of 3 things will happen: we find a way around this (till it gets patched next Monday), Anet finally sees how kitten off everyone is and changes it, or nothing happens and we enjoy getting told when enough is enough farming. My money is on #3 :/

Number 3 is what will happen, and then when people find out they will either happily keep playing or not bother and go play something else. Either way Arenanet wins as you bought the game in the first place. They’ve had your money already.

I was all for this game, as it was really good. Since they added DR into the game, however, I’ve started to lose interest. Very sad state of affairs.

unless they changed it,boosters still stay on even after you log out so its not entirely useless

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unless they changed it,boosters still stay on even after you log out so its not entirely useless

Right, just as a game is supposed to be played. Buy a booster for a time duration, use 50% of it, require it so that person can no longer benefit from it so they are forced to log out for X duration just to use the other 50% of the booster. Makes perfect sense, I’m going to start buying a ton of karma boosters now.

i hadn’t thought about the diminishing returns, as i thought i played slow enough to gain what i can. i was looking into buying gems to counter the negative returns, but then i looked at my karma, and thought “i could just go for karma armor, instead!”

well i cannot now, and it pains me to think that this may be an excuse for players to need to go to the Gem store. Chest keys used to be easy to come by, but overnight it seems like more chests drop than keys, and the keys can only be acquired (seems like) on the Gem store.

right now 50$ gets between 9-10 gold (4,000 gems). and i think you can only buy a certain amount every 24 hours, as to not spam-buy gems. would be nice to trade gold for karma, but they would probably limit that, too eventually, because then karma sets would be easy to get

in my travels, i have a few karma/xp/crafting boosters which i thought of using. i don’t think they are as good then to use if others state that the DR renders them useless. i think they should eliminate the animal potions, and drop Karma potions, which give karma, not turn me into an owl for 5 minutes. the transformation potions worked in GW1 because there was( i think) a party title or something attached. there isnt one in this game, so it is worthless as a drop. plus, being an owl doesnt make my character any stronger, because it disables my combat skills, and replaces them with not so good animal ones.