Guild Wars 2

I’m trying to craft my master armorsmithing gear, for which some I need karka shells. I did a lot of research and the “best” place that a lot of people said was Southsun Shoals, but between the three of us that were farming, we managed 4 karka shells in an hour; only one of which was picked up by me. We were hitting the young karka’s right in the beginning.

Am I doing something wrong? I’d love to be able to buy the on the BLTP, but it’s way too expensive for the amount of shells I need. Thanks for the help!

Karka shells do not drop often for me. It is good if I get two in an hour. I can only say that your experience coincides with mine. And I have been there with a character in full magic find gear too, same results.

If anyone could share their tips on successful shell hunting, I would also appreciate it.

They appear to have a pretty low drop rate. Killed tons of young karka and only have around 30 shells to show for it.

The only place to get a lot of them easily was the special black lion boxes on sale during the event. I got a good stock that Friday, not realizing they’d almost never drop in actual combat … I don’t know how many I have but I don’t seem to be using them so send me a game mail and I’ll see what I can spare.