I’m needing to farm karma (182000) and I’d like to do it relatively fast. Karma farming Cursed Shore is a pain…so I’m turning to WvW.
What’s the fastest way to farm karma in WvW?
Don’t tell me capping castles, etc as that’s unreliable unless your server is winning.
I’m looking for DEs with low reset times (I’ve heard tales of centaur camps with 2 DE in them that have 4 minute reset times) or stuff reminiscent of the old karma train.
Gate of Madness so yeah, it’s relatively even. Guess tomorrow after surgery I’ll be trying out some WvW…I heard you get a ton of gold there too which will help with buying my exotic weapons (since I went broke buying my exotic accessories…so worth it though),
A lot of servers have a supply capping team in order to disrupt the supply getting into keeps and make them easier for them to be taken. If you get a chance I’d try and get on that team. Often you will get karma, not only from the camps you are flipping but also from whatever dolyacks happen to be there at the time.
The faster way to farming karma in PvE is in Sparkfly Fen (near dragon spawn). At least it keeps you busy until dragon spawn. (the risk of death also smaller).
Fastest way to get karma in WvW: killing yak, steal supply camp (it can be done in losing server, the karma you get will greatly increase if you have outmanned buff), capturing sentry point. Other method is by defending a point (like if your server have tower and keep) as it count every 4 minute.
Tips? Well the first would be if you are returning to a camp too soon after it has been taken then the overseer will have a buff making him immune to all damage but condition damage. Generally you want to avoid this as it will take so long for him to die that their defenders will be upon you before you kill him. If you are running in a group it is a good idea to try and have shared speed buffs, if you see an enemy zerg, run away. Way point travel is free, if you look like you are about to be overrun, map back. If you are playing during the hours without a queue, map hop. Eventually your enemy will get annoyed and try and set up defenses, it can be handy to work with the person coordinating the main force on the map, so when they try that strategy you might be able to call down your zerg and dissuade them from ruining your fun, to that end if you see a large group of enemy players heading towards one of your towers, announce it in team chat (they will want to know which team and the number of players).
Head towards either of the enemy spawns and farm ‘Legendary Defenders’. They are quite tough, so you will need to recruit at least 2 additional people from mapchat (one preferably being a guardian). Do not go to the front entrance but rather pick one of the supply camp entrances as it has less chance of enemy players coming out to kill you while you are farming. 8k karma per kill (12k with a karmabooster).
Tip 1: Never go to Anvil Rock borderlands to farm karma. You may not be able to leave spawn just from our sheer awesomeness. We don’t have anyone defending our borderlands, because the map itself is afraid to change color from blue.
Tip 2: Borlis Pass borderlands are best for farmers. Not that BP is weak by any means. They are in fact GREAT fighters. It’s just that killing them on the way to karma will give you such satisfaction, you’ll forget you even need karma anymore!
Just because you said that I’m going to Anvil Rock and I’m gonna use Shadow Refuge to cause the rendering bug on my entire zerg. Invisible Warriors spaming Adrenaline abilities be ware.
In all seriousnes, night zerging aka nightcapping or PvDoor with karmaboosters is probably the fastest possible way, but you explicitly wrote that you were not interested in that. 80-100k karma in 5-6hours (with boosters) are perfectly doable.
Other than that, supply camps, dolyak sniping, taking out quaggan camps/weathernodes are all good karma. Do not switch maps but help your team out instead! The regular wvw players on your server will greatly appreciate it, and you are doing good to your team too.
Stay away from the centaur camp, farming there will just get you alot of hate from people that are wvw’ing to win.
Don’t be that guy. Come into WvW and play WvW. I don’t know why Anet even put the isolated npc DE’s into the WvW maps. If you are going to do it, at least do it at a time when your server has low WvW populations and you aren’t detering from the effort by taking up a spot.
;Radiodread.8469:]Don’t be that guy. Come into WvW and play WvW. I don’t know why Anet even put the isolated npc DE’s into the WvW maps. If you are going to do it, at least do it at a time when your server has low WvW populations and you aren’t detering from the effort by taking up a spot.
From what I’ve been reading I can make 2k karma in 10 minutes anyhow by zerging.
I think I’ll just stick to that, it helps my server and gets me insane karma. (72k karma in 6 hours without boosters)
