Guild Wars 2

Hey everyone, I know we are all aware of the 95% karma boost that is possible from foods, boosters, banners, % increases from achievements, etc. But my question is, does the 100% karma boost from the birthday booster stack with the previously mentioned, accumulative 95% karma boost? Because 200% karma increase on all these karma items would be delicious

It was possible, untill a resent patch. Items are no longer affected by boosters and have been increased by 50%.

Wait… karma items… can’t be boosted?

Karma items haven’t been affected by boosts since the start of September, when they got an increase to their base amount instead.

50% increase does not compensate… bent over yet again -__-

Hardly.

Yeah… it’s just unfortunate that I started playing again after September 3. Woohoo bank loads of karma items worth half as much.

The karma from events was increased, you get account bound karma bonus from achivements which can be combined with a karmic infusion. Then you have all the usual boosts (karma boosters, guild banners, ice cream/kralkachocolate). It may not seem like much, but pulling in 600+ karma from every event, really adds up during meta chains like Arah.

While I was initially outright appalled at the reduction of karma income by 70-90%, depending on how you obtianed it, honestly its not hard to make 100k per week (or more), still. You just can’t do it from consumeable items, dailies or monthlies anymore, and have to go out and actively use your boosters and infusion.

Plus what the developers did, with the account-bound wallet, and allowing you an extra week to use your consumeables on boosters was really amazing. Most developers of MMOs would not have even bothered and would have just said “tough luck”, which even Anet does sometimes, but in this case they handled it fairly empathatically.

In theory that is a great idea. I’m on Gate of Madness and I don’t know about your server, but I can count the people in Orr, including myself, on one hand. Getting things done in Orr is a painstaking chore on this server. I hope it isn’t that way on all server’s because I’m considering a transfer already because of our abysmal WvW performance, or lack there of.

With the current state of the game there is no way to make it without guesting. Even if its not for karma, you’ll still need to do it often for things like dragonite ore.

http://www.gw2state.com/temples.html

In the US, right now, we have 10 open temples across all available servers. Look at how many EU has. It’s pretty obvious US is either not as populated or cares significantly less about doing things in Orr.

Well first of all, Lyssa and Dwayna are currently bugged across many US servers. Additionally, its easier to let the temples fall and then redo them than to defend them, and is much more lucrative for the players involved (Plus, it allows newer players to get their first piece of the end-game cake).

I really don’t understand the problem here, I open up temples all the time, and participate in about 20+ world boss battles daily. The only one that is regularly closed is Balthazar as it is -easiser- to accomplish on non-zergy servers due to the tendancy for event scaling to destroy the NPCs with Veteran Risen Subjugators.

If there’s no commanders on the map, of course you are going to have a hard time, because GW2 is mostly a solo game and unless people have a pin to follow, they generally won’t group.

Probably doesn’t help that it’s anywhere from 11AM to 2 PM in the continental US, and, what, 7-8PM in Western Europe?

I have no idea how these trends play out generally; I just wanted to put in a reminder for the time difference right at this moment.

Well I play at varying times. From early morning to afternoon to evening and even late night. I do follow the world boss train and on occasion they go do Lyssa but that is not often. On the occasion when we are winning in WvW, I find it more lucrative to run with the WvW zerg for good karma gains.