Guild Wars 2

So I never really grinded for this but now I have to as its all I need to finish my legendary. What’s the fastest way besides EOTM? (I do EOTM regularly but sometimes I’m forced to play at time where there is no good (or any for that matter) commander around like early noon. So I need a good alternative. I know QD train got nerfed but are there any others? Or is there another way to get some karma fast? I’m at 100k atm so I need about 800k more to go. I figure getting 50-100k/day is very doable (I got multiple bday boosters and also karma boosters if I run out of em).

I’m not sure this would be any better at the times you want, but you could try Event farming in the upper level Orr zones (Malchor’s and Cursed Shore). Side effect of this option is getting tons of Heavy bags and possibly some decent gathering at the same time. Not sure how often they fall, but full Temple runs usually generate a good bit of Karma.

Keep in mind that you need to move around zones when farming Events for karma as DR effects this rather quickly.

Do low level fractals while at a high level yourself

Carpboy.7145:

Do low level fractals while at a high level yourself

specifically; do fractals that are 10 levels below your personal level. and the higher level you do, the more karma. so the highest is getting your personal level to 50, then running level 40.
but, when you incorporate how quickly it takes, the best is to just get your personal level to 30 and run level 20. this gives 8,000 karma per run, and each run takes about an hour.

the next-highest karma income would be following a good commander with a large zerg in EotM (which also gives more loot that’s used in legendary crafting). I estimate this gives about 4,000 karma/hour

Mystic.5934:

Carpboy.7145:

Do low level fractals while at a high level yourself

specifically; do fractals that are 10 levels below your personal level. and the higher level you do, the more karma. so the highest is getting your personal level to 50, then running level 40.
but, when you incorporate how quickly it takes, the best is to just get your personal level to 30 and run level 20. this gives 8,000 karma per run, and each run takes about an hour.

the next-highest karma income would be following a good commander with a large zerg in EotM (which also gives more loot that’s used in legendary crafting)

Exactly. Also don’t forget to use any karma boosters near the end of the final boss for maximum karma. At fractal level 7, and personal reward level of 17, you can easily get +10k karma per run.

I’ve been known to drop heroes banners or karma bonfires half-way through the last fractal boss people love me. the most karma I’ve received was ~16,000. (karmic infusion, heroes banner, karma booster, guild karma, karma food) If only birthday booster affected it… oh the magnificence we could have.
then after beating it, I’ll do eotm for the remaining hour (as it’s not guaranteed you can do another fractal run in less than an hour)

This will not work for me as my fractal level is very low. I don’t do a whole lot of em. Is there no other good karma train besides eotm?

Dry Top events would probably be pretty good. not quite as good as eotm as there are no keeps, but it does have a quick succession of events. do you get karma for these? or just sand? I haven’t noticed. plus, I hear it gives really good drops.

You do yes but its not much.. usually a couple 100.. or double with bday bonus.. I think somewhere around 10k/hour is possible with boosts.. but thats not very fast considering a whole 4 hour eotm run has gotten me close to 200k with karma booster alone (so prolly more if I used bday instead)..I already have a third of my clovers so I’d say I need about 700k still. I’m looking for a way to do that in a week’s time as I go on holiday next week friday and I would have hoped to have the leg before leaving.

Farming DT is really good for karma if you do as many events as possible, and opening the locked chests is also a greatw ay to get obsidian shards

200k karma / 4 hours / 1.5 karma booster = 33,333 base karma per hour
I don’t have the exact numbers in front of me, but going off memory:
keep = 1500 karma
tower = 800 karma
special location (statuary, forge, airport, etc.) = 400 karma
reactor = 200 karma
3 keeps + 3 towers + 9 special locations + 6 reactors = 11,700 karma to capture the entire map.
I’m curious how you captured the entire map 12 times in 4 hours. Maybe my sense of how long that takes is just off, or amount of karma is way off. I’ll have to try it myself next time I go in there, FOR SCIENCE!

I did a full 4 hour run today with karma booster active and guild karma banner..
In that time I made ~130k karma..
I did however:
- Fall to my death 5 times and spent at least 5 minutes each time getting back to zerg missing anywhere from 2-12k karma.
- Encounter a very large enemy zerg about 3 times all three fights lasted at least 10 mins
- Forgot to switch to a new karma booster for about 8ish minutes
- Missed a few 2.1k karma events (the 3 large castles in eotm) due to dying/getting knocked out of capture point denying me the karma/being too slow with zerg following and missing a bunch of smaller 277 karma events like the guards on bridges.

I think under perfect conditions 200k is not outside realm of possibilities.
I’d say 180k pretty reasonable if you dont screw up so many times as I did.