Guild Wars 2

I feel bad for those who fall in the category of casual gamer. Not that you have to grind/farm for karma.

gumoor.5674:

So, what you are saying is that if you don’t have the friends or are older and less reflexive or have some other reason for not wanting to do dungeons/fractals, you are kitten-out-of-luck.

Or just do events.

Seriously, what are people so incredibly desparate to spend it on?

I dumped the entirety of my account’s half million karma into orrian boxes on the last day the liquid karma could benefit from buffs. Zero’d my balance. I’m back up to 200,000 from events and the trickle from dailies. Its not that hard if you just play the game instead of trying to time/efficiency optimize EVERYTHING to the point were any progress less than the fastest possible progress is ignored and people start throwing around the word “impossible” to describe something that’s actually inevitable.

I think the amount of Karma is okay. I’ll admit I still have 2,5m as I’ve never spent much and I do WvW and Temples quite often, so I get a nice amount.

Legendary Weapons were meant to be a long-term goal, and as such bottlenecks were/are needed. And Karma was able to be gather much too fast in the past to be a bottleneck.

Apart from that Karma now is account bound, which makes up for alot IMO.

Mike.5091:

I think the amount of Karma is okay. I’ll admit I still have 2,5m as I’ve never spent much and I do WvW and Temples quite often, so I get a nice amount.

Legendary Weapons were meant to be a long-term goal, and as such bottlenecks were/are needed. And Karma was able to be gather much too fast in the past to be a bottleneck.

Apart from that Karma now is account bound, which makes up for alot IMO.

Account bound karma does little to nothing in legendary making. When you buy obsidian shards they are already account bound.

I am a new player. I have a level 80 Engineer and a level 50 thief. When I hit 80 I was only able to obtain 3 epic armor pieces of a 6 piece set.

I do not plan on doing Karma mission on more than one character because it’s no fun. So I’m not sure how I’m going to come up with another 120,000 Karma to finish off my set.

This is not balanced… especially because other players were able to hord 2+ million while NEW players will never seen more than one epic Karma set. That is if they can stomach the grind.

I’m not a game Dev. but I can tell you right now that Karma does not feel balanced. Completing a heart quest rewards me 300-400 Karma.

This mean I have to do 300 more heart quests… I’m pretty sure there aren’t that many left on my level 80’s map. Unless Anet wants to force players to grind WvW / PvP to get this set… but what does that mean for the players who are not interested in WvW / PvP.

They should just give players the ability to buy skill point of tombs of knowledge for a high Karma cost… or something that players can actually use.

ChrisDS.2615:

I am a new player. I have a level 80 Engineer and a level 50 thief. When I hit 80 I was only able to obtain 3 epic armor pieces of a 6 piece set.

I do not plan on doing Karma mission on more than one character because it’s no fun. So I’m not sure how I’m going to come up with another 120,000 Karma to finish off my set.

This is not balanced… especially because other players were able to hord 2+ million while NEW players will never seen more than one epic Karma set. That is if they can stomach the grind.

I’m not a game Dev. but I can tell you right now that Karma does not feel balanced. Completing a heart quest rewards me 300-400 Karma.

This mean I have to do 300 more heart quests… I’m pretty sure there aren’t that many left on my level 80’s map. Unless Anet wants to force players to grind WvW / PvP to get this set… but what does that mean for the players who are not interested in WvW / PvP.

They should just give players the ability to buy skill point of tombs of knowledge for a high Karma cost… or something that players can actually use.

You don’t do heart quests to get karma, you do events. Are you doing the big Meta events daily? http://howar31.github.io/GW2Timer/ A round or 2 of the champ train in Frostgorge to get a quick 5 or 6 events? Events that you run into? How about heading to Orr, there is often now people doing events. Look for a tag to find a quick group then party up with others to find more when the zerg splits up.

I got my karma down to less than 60k and back up to over a million in a short time just from playing PvE. If you do events you gain karma fast.

just kill tequatl 6 times.

If you are after ascended gear. you’ll need to grind dragonite ore and make some karma anyway.

There are several good ways to accumulate karma. Follow the karma train in EoTM, do fractals below your level, or for right now, if you can get in a gold boss blitz you can also get a lot of karma from farming that.

NECRO TREAD…… Anyways do wvw for karma. Most of the wvw I know have million of karma with nothing to spend it on. Highest karma I have heard of was 20million.

Ulion.5476:

NECRO TREAD…… Anyways do wvw for karma. Most of the wvw I know have million of karma with nothing to spend it on. Highest karma I have heard of was 20million.

Yeah, I was going to say, if I ever actually need karma, I’ve been meaning to level my WvW rank through Edge of the Mists anyway.

…………… karma is wha’ts stopping you making a legendary?

……….. send me your mounds of excess gold plz?

eisberg.2379:

azizul.8469:

congratulation ANET. with the recent karma nerf you’ve succesfully scared away new players from the game.

IMO, the effects of the nerf are over exaggerated. If 3 characters are making an average of 20,000 Karma each in Queen’s Dale, then how much can 1 character make by the time they complete their storyline at level 80? How much can they easily make by going to the other zones their storyline doesn’t take them to? /shrug

Agree it was nerfed, but doesn’t seem like it was overly nerfed to the point of “scaring away new players”

How are people doing that ?

I just did 3 toons thru Queensdale, Gendarran Fields / LA and most of the Asura areas and no where near that much karma !

I think a lot of people simply do not have the endless hours to grind karma. However, if you aim for ~20 shards a day (which is 42000 karma), it makes it a lot more manageable and less frustrating. Do a daily Teq run, a cursed shore run, then a eotm/wvw run, you should be able to get 20 shards quite quickly (2-3 hours).

Always use alternative currencies to buy shards (excluding laurels), Crown Pavilion is a good way, so are fractals if you are really into it.

During low pop hours, just go to lower level zones and solo events/bosses. Also you will get a lot of t6 mats from crafting clovers, depending on your luck.

Kohlteth.3715:

eisberg.2379:

azizul.8469:

congratulation ANET. with the recent karma nerf you’ve succesfully scared away new players from the game.

IMO, the effects of the nerf are over exaggerated. If 3 characters are making an average of 20,000 Karma each in Queen’s Dale, then how much can 1 character make by the time they complete their storyline at level 80? How much can they easily make by going to the other zones their storyline doesn’t take them to? /shrug

Agree it was nerfed, but doesn’t seem like it was overly nerfed to the point of “scaring away new players”

How are people doing that ?

I just did 3 toons thru Queensdale, Gendarran Fields / LA and most of the Asura areas and no where near that much karma !

Low level area farming is just not as efficient, unless it’s during low pop hours. Have to run Cursed Shore, EoTM and World Bosses (mainly Teq)