Guild Wars 2

With the state of things as they are, what’s the current recommendation?

I was sold on getting “magic find” until I crafted my first ascended weapon and it cost me 80k karma. Now I’m thinking karma might be the best.

If it matters, I mainly do pve open world, dungeons and spvp. I plan on getting involved in fractals soon, but I’m on no rush there.

Well, if you are intending on getting into fractals, you must understand that getting that infusion out for your agony infusions will take an upgrade extractor.

This being said, I prefer karma over MF, because MF is easy to get with the consumables and food… karma is difficult.

Keep in mind with your infusions that the slots are dependent on different things. You need to read about the infusion type in the item before you buy and try to infuse. For example a Ring or weapon with an Offensive infusion slot won’t allow you to place a defensive or utility infusion. In the example where your talking about Magic Find or Karma those are Utility infusions which currently can only be placed on amulets. Weapons have offensive infusion slots. You could of course make the Versatile ones at the forge that would say, let you put an offensive in a defense slot, but those are more expensive.

Karma all the way. Gold is useless as 99+% of drop value comes from items – monsters haven’t dropped gold since the dungeons were updated. Magic find might be useful but 20% is not much relative to the 350% mf you can already get without using AP bonuses, this is a second choice. XP is useless as all chars that can wear this are level 80 and you will without fail get SP faster than you can use them on dropped cores, bloodstone shards and the asc equip requirement combined. Karma gain had been nerfed into the ground in comparison, making this important for any chance at legendaries or ascendeds.

Lastly note you can already get 80 AR from full asc with +5s on infused ascendeds. You can’t use more than 70 AR even at lvl 50 fractals, the current max.