Guild Wars 2

So now I can’t even farm karma across all my alts.

Just hit DR on 2nd character, “ok np, let’s switch”
3rd alt didn’t get any karma the whole day, first DE done – 18 karma.

GJ Anet, I’m glad I only need 260k karma for shards now, but what if I needed a 1m from scratch?
What was wrong with the old karma system? please insight me, I beg you.

There’s DR on Karma?

There’s no DR on karma that I’ve ever hit. I’d bug report it.

There is DR on DE’s and in essence on DE’s associated karma, exp, and loot from said events as well.

A post from a dev (Jason King) asked if the players had hit DR on events prior.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Dragon-chest-bugged/first

Ok this is ridiculous!!!!!

It’s been 2 HOURS since I did any DE’s and I still got DR!!!
What the heck??? How the hell am I suppose to get any karma like this?

I wish I could give you some sort of credible answer to help. I only know that from experience I have hit DR after an hour of playing and it took a 24hr period to reset. It could be that it is reset at the same time daily is reset (I believe that is 7:00PM EST) but I am not totally sure if it actually does reset at that time or it takes a full 24hrs.
People have reported all different findings when it comes to DR.
I sent you to that thread because it had to do with Dragon chests failing to spawn and the developer clearly asked if those players had hit ‘event DR’ prior to fighting the dragon.
Those people then proceded to test how long the event DR lasted for them.
I wish I could help more. GL

I appreciate your answer Infernia.
This is the last barrier for my next legendary, which totally irritates me right now.
I even wasted my 30 laurels for the extra bit of shards I could get (Not into fractals that much)

But it looks like I’ll have to get more fotm tokens, or no shards for me.
Completely absurd.

Definitely my last legendary for now.

Karma dr has always existed, you’re suppose to take a break for like 15 mins or so for it to wear off. I haven’t hit karma DR for a long time and you can only hit it if you are farming karma for a long time. I’d say you should tone back a bit and enjoy the scenery lol

Lafiel.9372:

Karma dr has always existed, you’re suppose to take a break for like 15 mins or so for it to wear off. I haven’t hit karma DR for a long time and you can only hit it if you are farming karma for a long time. I’d say you should tone back a bit and enjoy the scenery lol

It used to, and believe me there is no one that understand karma DR better than me.
I’m working on my 4th legendary, so please, if I say the current system is kittened up, then it is.
When I can’t even farm anything after hitting DR for 2 hours, that is wrong.
Farming obsidian shards now is a nightmare, and I’m so happy that I got all the legendary skins I wanted, this last one aside, screw this system, next one might be in 2 months when I get enough jugs.

kittening hell.

Thank you.

Hmm let us count.

OP posts good thing about all that is GW2 and redirects complainers to quit game or deal with it.

Gets 1 problem and posts a thread.

Complains about not being able to craft his FOURTH legendary.

Stealth brag thread? Stealth brag thread.

1/ such harsh karma only exists for accounts that play for more than a single human could. Hitting that level of DR on 3 (THREE!) characters is impossible within a 24-hour time frame

2/ Either you’re botting or sharing your account

Conclusion: you’re going to get banned for good reason. Be prepared, this lesson must be shared.

Apart from that, this threads only purpose is to brag about having no life. I do not envy you at all. You can have your DR.

Whats a DR? Whats a DE? Whats an OP? :F

Sorry, for those of you who don’t understand what the Original Poster (OP) is actually talking about, it is the unnatural Diminishing Returns(DR) of Dynamic Events(DE).

Yes, DR has always existed for DE’s, but it has been reasonable and only dropping by a very low percentage each time you get another infraction(you’re being punished for playing the same thing too much).
What is happening now is a bug.
I farm Frozen Maw in Wayfarer’s Foothill, prior to the bug the DR would hit for about 2% each infraction, now what happens is that it goes from 10002 exp (level 80 in level 11 area) to 500 exp. Karma goes from about 200 to about 10 or less and monetary reward goes from 1s and a couple copper to just a couple copper.

Sooo, you basically do the same DE over and over and over and over again?

So you think that farming Orr for 6 months is fun, more power to you, who am I to judge your playstyle! But I’d like you to stop and think for a second : don’t you think that pretending to be able to farm 800k karma per month is being unrealistic?

Some people hit DR doing differenet events, killing different mobs, going to different zones, changing to an alt character, and all of this before the 2hours mark of playing the game.
Not all DR is created equal or at least it is biased at times. It is why there are huge threads asking the very question; is it working or is it bugged for some?

Please, if I want to brag I do it openly.

I mentioned my legendaries progress since one of the comments that was posted later claimed that I need to take a break etc.. while this is not a new process for me at all.

Someone rambled something about sharing account or wtv – my answer to you is that if you don’t know how to earn a MINIMUM of 10k karma in less than 30 mins then your knowledge of the game is either flawed or lacking, or both.

I did find a semi-solution to this problem, while not perfect, it’s better than nothing.
Definitely not posting it here or anywhere else, as the last thing I need is a dev lurking on more “solutions” to make this game as casual as possible. (First loot, then tokens, now karma. The masterplan to make us all play casually is well understood Anet, though it won’t happen sorry)

If you think that grinding the heck out of something is how “non-casuals” play I’m sorry to delude you, but I’m pretty dedicated and I couldn’t care less about making karma or gold. In fact, I think my “knowledge” of the game is far greater than yours in every aspect but farming, because you’ve probably been busy to do the most profitable routine day after day after day while I experienced PvE content, fought the good fight in WvW ( a place where you haven’t stepped foot in ever, seeing how non-profitable it is ) and worked on my skills in SPvP (again, zero profit). That being said, I’m in no way debating playstyles. You obviously are great at moneymaking, and if you find that fun, more power to you pal! But don’t come at me spewing out overused terms such as “casual”, because the only reason DR is put in place is to limit “uber-grinders” potential to acquire enormous amounts of goods and that has nothing to do with how “casual” a game is.

Troll? How exactly am I being a troll? My post was off-topic, I’ll give you that, but I’d avoid accusations like that. And this thread should’ve been closed & deleted at start because it has no purpose other than venting and complaining, which is not allowed.

Wolfheart.1938:

Troll? How exactly am I being a troll? Hyperdefensive much? And this thread should’ve been closed & deleted at start because it has no purpose other than venting and complaining, which is not allowed.

Mods, must I spam this thread for you to lock it? Wolfgang here is contributing but clearly not enough.

Hi everyone,

Please refrain from engaging in flame wars and any kind of disrespectful behaviour.
As this post was derailed, it is closed.
Thanks