Guild Wars 2

During certain hours, I have witnessed Stonemist Castle being taken over and over in a very quick manner with little resistance. For example, blue team takes it, then green, then blue, repeat. This results in a large amount of Karma in a very short amount of time. Obviously this looked weird that it was happening so fast and sure enough, people admitted that there was an agreement, (between large guilds), to not defend SM in order to facilitate Karma farming. While there was few people in the know, there were large enough numbers to allow this to happen over and over and over in a very short amount of time.

There needs to be more randomness to WvW, to help prevent this sort of Karma farming. Perhaps a limit as to how many times SM can be captured in an hour or two?

I’d like to see Karka farming Stonemist Castle, just one. ANet spawns in a handful of Champions, just to shake things up. Especially if the karka win and the castle is unclaimed for that time period.

Frankly, I don’t see the issue.

sfr/elona/jade we have hold sm for like 9-10 hours+ so yh don’t understand your question:)

maybe its your matchup?

Why would you karma farm… to begin with?

Because he used the wrong term and he actually means WXP?

Because it is not happening on your server or you fail to notice it, does not mean that it is not happening on other servers.

I actually meant Karma, farmed for the purpose of better gear, etc. There is obviously other incentives as well.

An example is, Blue team sends in 30 people to take SM, most of Green team steps aside while Blue caps SM. Once SM is capped, Green team goes in while most of Blue team steps aside. I think I saw it go back and forth at least 5 times in one hour before I logged out. It was organized and people in chat admitted it.

The game has been out for long now. Most of ppl don’t need Karma anymore. It might

make sense in the first month though.

Caping camp, tower or even pve are enough.

I do believe it can happen in lower tier but it’s not a big deal anymore.

So, when they take away the rewards, you going to start to complain about the farm for the achievemtn then?

Great idea removing rewards. Kick all the servers, including the ones that don’t karma farm. Nice.

If you have screen shots you should present them to anet because behavior like this goes against user agreement as it is manipulating the game in which it was not intended. Some games refer to this as “stat padding” in the FPS world

Visiroth.5914:

Because he used the wrong term and he actually means WXP?

Why would you farm SM for WXP? 750 WXP every ten minutes?

Three procs of defending SM, nine minutes, will net you more WXP assuming you kill the attackers. You get more WXP from defense, since you don’t have to wait for Righteous Indignation, than you do for flip-flopping Stonemist.

Unless you’re sinking gold into upgrades because you didn’t get the memo, why even care? At least there isn’t some massive, intense three way fight happening because people are actually trying and skill response time gets shot to kitten on the whole map.

Vena.8436:

Why would you karma farm… to begin with?

My thoughts exactly. I have way more that I know what to do with. There are whole guilds out there, on multiple servers, that care enough to bother with this? Sounds fishy.

nothing.7941:

Vena.8436:

Why would you karma farm… to begin with?

My thoughts exactly. I have way more that I know what to do with. There are whole guilds out there, on multiple servers, that care enough to bother with this? Sounds fishy.

Yeah I dunno. It’s not even worth it for WXP in my view. 4 SM captures in a hour (conceivable number if coordinated keep trading is going on) is 3,000 WXP, which is 50 kills at full player WXP. Even if you average 30 WXP per kill, that’s 100 kills which is not much in an hour.

VOLKON.1290:

I’d like to see Karka farming Stonemist Castle, just one. ANet spawns in a handful of Champions, just to shake things up. Especially if the karka win and the castle is unclaimed for that time period.

no it should work like the karka queen boss event, once this happens over and over in a short time it spawns a karka queen and a bunch of upleveled young karka all over the castle with a few up leveled champ and vet karka mixed in spamming rolls.
and people only have 10 mins to kill the queen spamming that gunk move before she takes over the castle and is replaced by a legendary giant overgrown grub, or spirit.
that you have to kill
and once she leaves she moves over to a random garrison and repeats this process until all garrisons and castle is taken.

Vena.8436:

Visiroth.5914:

Because he used the wrong term and he actually means WXP?

Why would you farm SM for WXP? 750 WXP every ten minutes?

Three procs of defending SM, nine minutes, will net you more WXP assuming you kill the attackers. You get more WXP from defense, since you don’t have to wait for Righteous Indignation, than you do for flip-flopping Stonemist.

Why would you farm SM for Karma? That makes even less sense. And if they are actually coordinating SM trading, they can just leave some mesmers inside.

Secondly, your argument is predicated on people being smart enough to be efficient. Like we all haven’t seen the capping/backcapping tower trains.

• First off, there are Commanders that don’t like to hold SM very much.
  While it’s great for trebbing open towers, in a balanced match-up it will drain a lot of resources from whoever is holding it as it puts a large target on their backs. Therefore, some people just want to ‘take it out of play’ by tiering it down – which means flipping it – but don’t care about actually keeping it. This leads to zergs continually flipping SM with little resistance and is perfectly valid and legal. In the meanwhile the commander pushes for more attractive objectives like upgraded towers or bunkers down on his side of the map.

• People troll. Honestly, if I read in map chat ‘Oh my God, why does SM keep flipping? Surely we need to defend the castle regardless of loss’ during primetime while we’re trying to hold our upgraded outer Towers or pushing for a well-upgraded enemy structure, I might tell you it’s about Karma just to troll you.

• People don’t like defending: PUG zergs tend to vanish into PvE when you defend too much. Dunno why.

• People like stuff: Sometimes it’s not really worth holding on to something when you can get it back 10 minutes later. Wasting siege to hold onto SM during primetime might be less appealing to some commanders than just letting it flip and retake it and get some free coin/WXP/Karma. That doesn’t mean that there’s an agreement between servers.

• Why the heck would anybody need to farm karma?? I don’t like PvDoor much but even I have tons of the stuff on all of my chars…. Srsly you get so much of the stuff from playing WvW, it’d be pretty pointless to farm it from SM unless there was no RI-buff on the lord and you had two groups inside inner constantly flipping it.

That said, it doesn’t mean what you said to be untrue.