Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone! My purpose for making this thread is helping those in the level 70-80 zones who want to gain karma, but find themselves not gaining a whole lot, or hitting the diminishing returns quickly.

Before I post the guides, I would like to address something. The main reason arenanet has placed the diminishing returns in the game is for one simple reason. Botting.

It’s the same reason gold doesn’t drop from monsters at a steady rate. You can say this isn’t good game design, but I wanted to make sure everyone understands this. Arenanet isn’t trying to tell you how to play the game you purchased, although it may “seem” that way.

That being said, there was a change made today, that I simply think needs to change if it is not a bug.
Pre-patch, you could go to different zones after hitting the DR point, however it seems that post-patch, if you go to a new zone you still receive lower rewards for event completion. I seriously hope this is a bug, otherwise this could become a very serious problem for some players.

With all that out of the way, here is the guide I created.

You can start at either of these maps, the choice is yours, once events stop appearing teleport to the next map at the closest waypoint. I personally start at cursed, and by the time i’m done both maps I’ve earned 10k karma with the karma boost active. So with 4 hours of doing this you can get 40k karma. By doing this I managed to get 578k karma within 6 days.

Tips:
1.Purchase Karma boosts, if you can afford them. I generally use gold conversion and purchase the 5 pack for 275 gems(1g 17s).
Contested Waypoints or temples on these maps mean there is an event happening, constantly keep your map open to look out for these.

2. You don’t have to sit through an entire event if there is another one nearby.
Kill a few mobs in the event you are currently doing, and head over to the next event. You will almost always get a gold medal if you do so.
If you don’t understand, watch the video.

3. Keep an eye on map chat. Generally people will link events in map chat, this is extremely helpful and will make your karma farming much more simpler.

4. If there is an event going on and nobody near, link it in map chat.
More than likely a zerg group will form and you can do the events much quicker and easier.

5. If you in the straits, ask where the zerg group is, in map chat. There is almost always a zerg group doing all the events in this area and you can just roll with them.

6. Don’t burn yourself out, take a break every now and then, this farming method can get very tedious and boring.

7. Have fun!

Images
Here I have linked all the events and their locations for the North Western part of cursed shore. I tend to grab all orichalcum/wood from the very south and work my ways up north to begin these events.

Cursed Shore
Straits of Devestation

Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6n_z85TSmE

I hope you find this guide helpful!

@2

This kittening exploit needs to get taken care of ASAP. Only people who are actually attending the event and present at the conclusion should get gold.

All these kitten event farmers running around and tagging (& probably boosting difficulty) everything on the map are a plague.

If you kill two waves of enemies, I don’t see why you shouldn’t be rewarded with a gold medal. These areas a plagued with botters, do you think the botter’s deserve gold? I would stay for these events if there weren’t 20 different particle effects going off everywhere.

Ignore the witchhunter crybabies who pronounce everything an exploit. They don’t even know what that word means. Bots are the only problem, but a big group of people traveling and moving from event to event like… a group? or a guild? in a game called: guild wars? I don’t see the problem. This game takes the grind out of the grind by making it easy to meet people and do things together. Grinding for hours and hours would bore me to death. But follow a zerg, crack some jokes in map chat, and the hours just disappear.

oops, wrong topic. edited.

578k karma in 6 days? At the rate you explained thats 57.8 hours….nearly 10 hours a day.

A great method. But surely you need to take a break or something?..

Mario Lemieux.9107:

578k karma in 6 days? At the rate you explained thats 57.8 hours….nearly 10 hours a day.

A great method. But surely you need to take a break or something?..

I study a lot, so I spend some time looking at my screen while doing homework/reading. =P

HawkMeister.4758:

@2

This kittening exploit needs to get taken care of ASAP. Only people who are actually attending the event and present at the conclusion should get gold.

All these kitten event farmers running around and tagging (& probably boosting difficulty) everything on the map are a plague.

I’m pretty sure that isn’t an exploit. If it was, don’t you think it would be fixed by now? ArenaNet is always fixing things wrong with events. If it is an exploit, which I’m sure it’s not, there would be an easy fix for this. Simply don’t give rewards to players out of event range.