Guild Wars 2

At least 4 young karka spawns, maybe more have been removed from the north side of Southsun. And the rest spawn at a much slower rate, I would say nearly twice as slow as they used to.

I also suspect the rate of powerful blood drops has been decreased as well. Typically I’ll get 5-6 bloods in my first 30 minutes before DR sets in. Today I received 1 in an hour.

All these undocumented changes are extremely annoying.

And don’t say it’s RNG. I’ve been farming there nearly every day since the 200% MF was added, I had it down to a science.

Just goes to show Anet does NOT want us farming.

Let me know when you get those same low results for a week or two. Then I might consider not telling you that it’s RNG.

Because it is. One bad day means absolutely nothing.

Darx.9842:

Just goes to show Anet does NOT want us farming.

Have you been to Ember Passage lately?

That’s where all the karka hang out now…

They probably effed up the north part when they removed the spawns “harassing” the waiting players in front of the NULL dungeon.

Biohazard.4196:

Let me know when you get those same low results for a week or two. Then I might consider not telling you that it’s RNG.

Because it is. One bad day means absolutely nothing.

Okay, even not counting the suspected drop rate. Several spawns completely removed, the rest spawning at a much slower rate, it’s definitely a nerf.

My farms havent been nerfed at all. In fact last night was the best farming night I’ve had so far.

But then I dont farm Young Karka… that’s not even close to efficient when there’s skelk, sharks, and barracudas.

EverythingXen.1835:

My farms havent been nerfed at all. In fact last night was the best farming night I’ve had so far.

But then I dont farm Young Karka… that’s not even close to efficient when there’s skelk, sharks, and barracudas.

With mesmer I’m killing karka in less than 3 seconds, It’s very very efficient.

Reflection is awesome aint it?

HawkMeister.4758:

They probably effed up the north part when they removed the spawns “harassing” the waiting players in front of the NULL dungeon.

lol, screw the ones ‘harassing’ people, how about the fact that a random unrelated event spawns mobs like ~50m away to immediately alpha-strike anyone running to or from the place with tail-acid.

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Darx.9842:

Just goes to show Anet does NOT want us farming.

Have you been to Ember Passage lately?

That’s where all the karka hang out now…

Yeah I got my face sucked off by young karka waiting for a party to join…. Not happy!

You are doing it wrong.

Get 200% MF buff, get 50% booster, 30% food, 10% g-banner (or 15%), 15% sigil, and 10% passive guild buff and go farm Skelk with Berserker Gear sitting on 315% magic find.

Every time I go farm for roughly 1 hour segments I usually get.

40-60 Potent Blood
10-15 Powerful Blood
40-60 Sharp Fangs
10-20 Vicious Fangs
2 Crates+
2-4+ yellow/exotics

It seems to be great overall, and they spawn like crazy. (just north of the south-eastern WP).

Osi.3504:

You are doing it wrong.

Get 200% MF buff, get 50% booster, 30% food, 10% g-banner (or 15%), 15% sigil, and 10% passive guild buff and go farm Skelk with Berserker Gear sitting on 315% magic find.

Every time I go farm for roughly 1 hour segments I usually get.

40-60 Potent Blood
10-15 Powerful Blood
40-60 Sharp Fangs
10-20 Vicious Fangs
2 Crates+
2-4+ yellow/exotics

It seems to be great overall, and they spawn like crazy. (just north of the south-eastern WP).

Same here

The drops appear to be the same, but in the open area of southsun shoals, karka spawn seems to have been greatly diminished, and they no longer spawn in some areas.

This general area of southsun shoals.

(in the pic below)

I wonder if this was intended, or just a side effect of them reducing the karka spawn in the area before you enter Canach’s lair.

Whether it was intentional or not, hopefully it’s gets turned back to normal once Lost Shores is over.

Yes you can go to skelk, but I don’t think that was the point of this thread.

Who farms karka anymore anyway ?

Skelks are the way to go

Lisa.6102:

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Darx.9842:

Just goes to show Anet does NOT want us farming.

Have you been to Ember Passage lately?

That’s where all the karka hang out now…

Yeah I got my face sucked off by young karka waiting for a party to join…. Not happy!

Did the karka get a party?

(Sorry, I couldn’t resist…)

Karka loot drops have diminished. I run with 400+% MF and half an hr of farming results in 0 power blood. Usually get at least 1.

draxynnic.3719:

Lisa.6102:

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Darx.9842:

Just goes to show Anet does NOT want us farming.

Have you been to Ember Passage lately?

That’s where all the karka hang out now…

Yeah I got my face sucked off by young karka waiting for a party to join…. Not happy!

Did the karka get a party?

(Sorry, I couldn’t resist…)

young karka 1: hey bro’s, where’s it at??
young karka 2: lookit over there, stupid human standing around!
young karka 3: mmm tasty! i likes human face!
young karka 4: lets go get some!
young karka (all together): party time!!

Noticed the some of the skelk are missing from the north shore line where there used to be a lone karka swimming in the water too. /sigh

Minos.3450:

Who farms karka anymore anyway ?

Skelks are the way to go

When you don’t want to deal with the crowd of peoples at skelks, or want to avoid DR, or just want to get your hands on some extra karka shells, or someone might be the type of person that doesn’t like farming in one area, and like variety.

Aside from that, when anet sees a large part of a map population all concentrated in one area of the map, they tend to bring down the 10 ton nerf hammer, and I would like to avoid that.

I still think the karka changes in this are might have been unintended, and I hope it gets revered.

I noticed that…last night running between driftglass and Kiel’s the karka were noticeably absent. The first couple times I thought the people who’d been through before me cleared them out, but after a few times I realized that they just hadn’t spawned.

Should this thread be re titled? This seems more like a casualty of a fix than a nerf, might get more attention that way.

bri.2359:

draxynnic.3719:

Lisa.6102:

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Darx.9842:

Just goes to show Anet does NOT want us farming.

Have you been to Ember Passage lately?

That’s where all the karka hang out now…

Yeah I got my face sucked off by young karka waiting for a party to join…. Not happy!

Did the karka get a party?

(Sorry, I couldn’t resist…)

young karka 1: hey bro’s, where’s it at??
young karka 2: lookit over there, stupid human standing around!
young karka 3: mmm tasty! i likes human face!
young karka 4: lets go get some!
young karka (all together): party time!!

You guys are so mean , ;-P

Lisa.6102:

Osi.3504:

You are doing it wrong.

Get 200% MF buff, get 50% booster, 30% food, 10% g-banner (or 15%), 15% sigil, and 10% passive guild buff and go farm Skelk with Berserker Gear sitting on 315% magic find.

Every time I go farm for roughly 1 hour segments I usually get.

40-60 Potent Blood
10-15 Powerful Blood
40-60 Sharp Fangs
10-20 Vicious Fangs
2 Crates+
2-4+ yellow/exotics

It seems to be great overall, and they spawn like crazy. (just north of the south-eastern WP).

Same here

Used to see numbers like this farming skelk on my 385% ish MF Engineer.

My last two tries on my 300% MF Guardian have resulted in: (one hour sessions)

4 Powerful blood
35 Potent
3 Vicious Fangs
26 Sharp Fangs
2 crates
4 rares
1 unid

6 powerful blood
42 potent
4 vicious fangs
31 sharp fangs
2 rares
4 unids

Either RNG is being simply unkind to me (or that 60%ish MF makes that much a difference), or there was a skelk drop nerf.

I miss 30 powerfuls an hour…

Yep I’ve noticed decrease in t6. Especially scales.

Halcyon.7352:

Lisa.6102:

Osi.3504:

You are doing it wrong.

Get 200% MF buff, get 50% booster, 30% food, 10% g-banner (or 15%), 15% sigil, and 10% passive guild buff and go farm Skelk with Berserker Gear sitting on 315% magic find.

Every time I go farm for roughly 1 hour segments I usually get.

40-60 Potent Blood
10-15 Powerful Blood
40-60 Sharp Fangs
10-20 Vicious Fangs
2 Crates+
2-4+ yellow/exotics

It seems to be great overall, and they spawn like crazy. (just north of the south-eastern WP).

Same here

Used to see numbers like this farming skelk on my 385% ish MF Engineer.

My last two tries on my 300% MF Guardian have resulted in: (one hour sessions)

4 Powerful blood
35 Potent
3 Vicious Fangs
26 Sharp Fangs
2 crates
4 rares
1 unid

6 powerful blood
42 potent
4 vicious fangs
31 sharp fangs
2 rares
4 unids

Either RNG is being simply unkind to me (or that 60%ish MF makes that much a difference), or there was a skelk drop nerf.

I miss 30 powerfuls an hour…

My kill ratio per hour may be higher, I can usally two shot them or AoE them down really well with dancing dagger or sword and I use a 25% movement buff, plus I sometimes kill the skelk/rays in the water and move to the far eastern shore in hopes it reduces farm codes etc.

Lambent.6375:

I wonder if this was intended, or just a side effect of them reducing the karka spawn in the area before you enter Canach’s lair.

They reduced it? (looks closer at the karka mob there)… yeah, right.

Well… I’m pretty sure that they nerfed drop rate in Southsun too

I used to farm barracudas in last two weeks getting 10 armored scales/1SouthsunCrate/2+rares in each half hour.
(Setting MF To 325% or more)

The minimun ammount of Armored scales I used to get its 8.

Now, since last patchs, I’m gettin a maximum of 3 armored scales each half hour.

Why ? This sucks.

They have nerfed everything but item loot in my experience of farming SC with close to 400% MF since two weeks. That includes Ectoplasm salvage and upgrades in the Mystic toilet from greens to yellows, so rare now. And no, I don’t believe it’s RNG, it differs way too much, 50% at least.

Astralporing.1957:

Lambent.6375:

I wonder if this was intended, or just a side effect of them reducing the karka spawn in the area before you enter Canach’s lair.

They reduced it? (looks closer at the karka mob there)… yeah, right.

Yeah, I heard from some people that the number of karka at canach’s entrance was still the same, I actually thought about farming there instead of

here:

In this area there has been a clear reduction of karka and karka spawn. I haven’t been there in a couple days, so I don’t know if it’s still like that.

Before:

After:

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Osi.3504:

Halcyon.7352:

Lisa.6102:

Osi.3504:

You are doing it wrong.

Get 200% MF buff, get 50% booster, 30% food, 10% g-banner (or 15%), 15% sigil, and 10% passive guild buff and go farm Skelk with Berserker Gear sitting on 315% magic find.

Every time I go farm for roughly 1 hour segments I usually get.

40-60 Potent Blood
10-15 Powerful Blood
40-60 Sharp Fangs
10-20 Vicious Fangs
2 Crates+
2-4+ yellow/exotics

It seems to be great overall, and they spawn like crazy. (just north of the south-eastern WP).

Same here

Used to see numbers like this farming skelk on my 385% ish MF Engineer.

My last two tries on my 300% MF Guardian have resulted in: (one hour sessions)

4 Powerful blood
35 Potent
3 Vicious Fangs
26 Sharp Fangs
2 crates
4 rares
1 unid

6 powerful blood
42 potent
4 vicious fangs
31 sharp fangs
2 rares
4 unids

Either RNG is being simply unkind to me (or that 60%ish MF makes that much a difference), or there was a skelk drop nerf.

I miss 30 powerfuls an hour…

My kill ratio per hour may be higher, I can usally two shot them or AoE them down really well with dancing dagger or sword and I use a 25% movement buff, plus I sometimes kill the skelk/rays in the water and move to the far eastern shore in hopes it reduces farm codes etc.

You may or may not be killing them faster, but the thing is, I followed the same paths and recorded what was dropped for one hour periods. Pretty clear deviation on the recent results.

Only other factor that could have played a part was other people in the area farming, clearing mobs. But I prefer to farm during oceanic hours, or in dying overflows for that very reason.