Guild Wars 2

So, I have decided to embark on my journey to a legendary, I have found an efficient gold farming method. I just need to know about some varius methods of farming karma, efficiently. Can anoyne give any tips or a little nudge in the right direction?

Everyone says EOTM is good, though I’ve never tried it. Tequatl will get you about 15k karma per win, but you have to get to the map early enough to get an organized one.

Astral Projections.7320:

Everyone says EOTM is good, though I’ve never tried it. Tequatl will get you about 15k karma per win, but you have to get to the map early enough to get an organized one.

Thanks for the tip, I was also thinking EoTM, I’m just not a big fan of it. I also do Teq daily just fine, currently at 356k karma.

You can do the SW chest farm where you can get the obsidian shards negating needing to farm karma.

Fractals are also supposed to be a good karma source.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fractal_Karma_Reward_Table

Farming for obsidian shards directly through SW is a lot more efficient than farming karma, imo.

I keep getting ~30k karma per day for doing my daily fractals. Can’t get rid of my ~8 million fast enough.

Teq can be done on different characters on the same account, only lose exotic box, big chest and gold/karma are not account locked.
just in case you are not doing it more than once.

Thanks for all the help! I’ll be giving SW chest farming a shot to see how many Obby shards I can get. I’ll get onto doing Teq more than once a day if I can!

Mrschmuders.1273:

Thanks for all the help! I’ll be giving SW chest farming a shot to see how many Obby shards I can get. I’ll get onto doing Teq more than once a day if I can!

You also get materials you would use towards a legendary while selling everything else. It’s a very profitable farm. You’ll just have to make sure you farm VW enough to get plenty of crests to exchange for keys.

On a good K-Train in EotM, at level 80, with boosters such as the 50% Communal Boost Bonfire, 30% Karma Booster from the Gem Store, 15% Guild Bonus, 15% Guild Banner Karma Booster and 5% Karma Food, you can earn up to around 25k Karma per hour.

Capturing a keep, for instance, is worth around 3,000 karma. Towers are 1,500, Generators are around 750, and Bridge Trolls are around 350. Toss in the odd event such as turning in an oil at the Airport or wiping a zerg somewhere (getting credit for a defense event), and it all adds up pretty quickly.

SW is good for general loot (Rares, Ectos, Gold, etc.) but there’s not a lot of karma in the events themselves. The occasional direct drop of Obsidian Shards in some of the chests (and buying them directly from the Bandit Crest vendor) can make up for that, though. It doesn’t take too long to get a stack of bandit crests, which is worth 5 shards (which is worth 10.5k karma).

Combine that with the direct drops and the additional karma (from the events) that you can buy more shards with, and it’s probably on par or maybe even more efficient than EotM.

It’s much much better than EotM. The optimal karma/hr you stated was 25K which is 12 obsidian shards rounded up. You will easily get this many within an hour of chest farming as I personally average around 20-30 when doing consecutive runs without breaks. Getting 11 within an hour is very common. Crests are then used to buy more keys to keep the chest farm going.

The other benefit that I didn’t mention in my posts is that this is a great source for skill points which you need ~339 for a legendary.

Thanks all so much for the tips, I think I’ll stick with SW chest farming since it seems to be faster than farming karma in EoTM (plus Im not a fan of EoTM :P)