Guild Wars 2

Is it just me, or is the Super Adventure Box now the best way to obtain obsidian shards?

Area 1 takes 3-4 minutes per run (including cutscene).
Area 2 takes 2-3 minutes per run.

Each run gets you 2 bauble baubles which you can trade for obsidian shards. You can run each area once per character per day. So even with the base 5 slots, that is 20 obsidian shards a day at the expense of 35 minutes of your time. Plus you get 30-40 baubles in a run, and can trade every 250 in for another bauble bauble/shard.

This seems way more efficient than using fractal relics, laurels, or even karma.

Doing this for the entire month would net you approximately 618 obsidian shards.

You also have the potential to drop a skin which will sell for 5-20 gold on the trading post.

Am I crazy? Am I wasting my time getting my shards this way for my legendary?

Judging by your post, I can’t see why it would be a waste of time. You clearly want the shards to speed up legendary gain, you are clearly having fun. Sounds like a win/win situation to me

For the record, I’d probably do the same

Randulf.7614:

Judging by your post, I can’t see why it would be a waste of time. You clearly want the shards, you are clearly having fun. Sounds like a win/win situation to me

I guess I’m hoping someone will post something like…

Use “insert cool idea” method to obtain 10,000 karma every 2 minutes instead.

After which I’ll use my stacks of bauble baubles to buy cool skins for all my characters instead. :P

Seriously though, the idea of obtaining essentially 1 shard per minute seems nuts compared to the alternative methods available. The skins are cool too though. I’ll probably buy them off the trading post though. I’ll have to drop the 25 for the backpack though.

Karma gain is dependat on how much you are willing to farm events and use karma boosters to augment it. Ive seen millions racked up by players, but they invest a lot of farming time into it. It’s not as quick and easy, but events are always here. SAB is (currently) on here til April 30th, so I guess it balances out

By creating new characters to farm the SAB, you can get roughly 6 bauble bubbles every 17 minutes and enough baubles to get 1 more after every 5 runs. Using existing characters, you can cut that down to 10 minutes.

Running zone 1 to 3 is slightly more efficient than just doing 1 and 2 as long as you don’t make many errors.

You would roughly have to complete 1 level 80 event every minute with a maximum karma boost (95%) to earn them at the same rate. If you just want to get them over time, using the max karma boost, you can earn 4 a day (250 in 60 days) by only using the karma jug from the daily.

Healix.5819:

By creating new characters to farm the SAB, you can get roughly 6 bauble bubbles every 17 minutes and enough baubles to get 1 more after every 5 runs. Using existing characters, you can cut that down to 10 minutes.

I don’t like the idea of creating new characters for this. Seems like it takes away the idea of making these things “once per character” if you delete and recreate new characters.

Not sure if ANET likes that sort of thing either.

I don’t mind running on my alts though.

Thanks for the karma info as well! Very helpful.

I’m curious now if the Philosopher’s Stone (x6) or the Crystal are worth buying either.

I have no shortage of skill points, but you can convert skill points to money, so maybe some math on those is in order too!

To the mathmobile!