Guild Wars 2

They could use an update. Karma and Writs of XP are basically useless for anyone who’s been playing awhile considering how many tomes of knowledge are thrown at you by this game and you get level 20+ booster scrolls every character’s birthday faster than you can realistically use them (and you’ll never really use them all, I guess on key farm alts but that’s about it.) and then you get free level 80 boosts with every expansion it seems…

The fact that the writs of xp cannot be used to gain xp towards masteries further makes them junk. That should be the first change, otherwise their purpose is basically limited to new accounts that are leveling up new characters and so haven’t gotten bombarded with tomes of knowledge and birthday scrolls yet. 1 spirit shard every 5 days or so from collecting 20 of them is similarly pointless, you get spirit shards en masse everywhere from champ bags and from completing daily achievements and from leveling up past cap once you’re at mastery cap for the region.

Karma is okay I guess at least you can spend that on some things.

But anyway, if you compare them to the PVP and WvW rewards, it’s pretty obvious that the PVP and WvW rewards are favored. The reward track progress potions are good, the shards of glory/memories of battle are required if you want to make legendary weapons, hell WvW chests give you tomes of knowledge, on top of the ones you can get from reward track progress.

I think it’d be comparable to drop the writs of experience and instead replace them with consumables that grant map participation boosts towards map bonuses, since that’s the closest thing to reward tracks that PVE has.

People are always screaming for MORE ways to get karma. It’s used for quite a few things.
As for the writs and tomes of XP people use them to key farm once a week for free keys.

So I doubt very seriously that they will get rid of them or change how they are distributed.

How can anyone possibly think karma is useless? I mean if nothing else you can buy pact network supplies with them. I have just under 4 million karma right now and I’ll be spending a million of it pretty soon. It’s the fastest way to get obby shards if you’re making legendaries. All the minis in the new LS zones require a boatload of karma. If they removed karma from dailies that would suck for me.

Writs of XP don’t really do anything for me, though.

I, too, recently spend near 5 million Karma, and am trying to get back up to a reasonable amount. I always use Candy Canes and Karma Boosters when I can get my hands on them. I feel so ‘near empty’ at only one million. I could easily spend that in a few minutes. I can’t afford all the Minis, and Weapons I would love to purchase.

I’d love if they replaced Writs with Karma consumables.

Vayne.8563:

How can anyone possibly think karma is useless? I mean if nothing else you can buy pact network supplies with them. I have just under 4 million karma right now and I’ll be spending a million of it pretty soon. It’s the fastest way to get obby shards if you’re making legendaries. All the minis in the new LS zones require a boatload of karma. If they removed karma from dailies that would suck for me.

Writs of XP don’t really do anything for me, though.

I’m not asking for the Karma to be removed. I conceded there are a few uses for Karma even if you’ve been playing for years, but the xp writs just.. I dunno it feels like they’re useless when the game throws tomes at you like candy.