Guild Wars 2

it seems to me that the main way of accumulating obsidian shards is through gaining karma which i have no problem with…. the thing is now as the community is becoming smaller less and less people are running the temple of Balthazar allowing for single merchant in the game to spawn…. this is a problem as ive been on at least 3-5 times a day for the past 4 weeks waiting for this to be uncontested…. ive tryed guesting on other servers as well every day but nothing seems to change sadly
any ideas?

Try parking an alt just below the temple safe zone. You could login as often as you can on the weekends just to check(specially on NA prime time).

You must also remember to not represent a guild and not be in a party while guesting for an open megaserver.

Well, you could buy orrian jewel boxes.
They have around a 15% drop chance off shards and also drop Karma at a rate of around 50% used, making the drop chance 30% per 4500 Karma…14.000 Karma for one + the other Items which can be some gold.

But actually, due to Megaserver the community is bigger and those events should be done more often I would guess. Maybe look for some people and clear the event when it get’s up?

Fractals and PvP award shards as well

sternenstaub.8763:

Well, you could buy orrian jewel boxes.
They have around a 15% drop chance off shards and also drop Karma at a rate of around 50% used, making the drop chance 30% per 4500 Karma…14.000 Karma for one + the other Items which can be some gold.

But actually, due to Megaserver the community is bigger and those events should be done more often I would guess. Maybe look for some people and clear the event when it get’s up?

Biggest problem with megaserver and temple runs is there is not set schedule anymore, so unless you spend an entire day in the zone your odds of being in a temple run is slim.