Guild Wars 2

Noy, I been farming karma with the birthday buff, this buff in its description says it buff 100% the Karma gain and when you use it it doesnt buff karma gain, and I have been loosing a lot of karma gain, and 2 buffs used, please can you help?

edit: I’ll post some screen shots showing the event delivery karma, + (karma I get), and also the karma I had before and after this event. I also want to add, the karma I’m constantly using to buy obsidians.

Event karma: 205
account karma boost: 3%

205 + (205*0.03) = 211,15

Do you have any screen shots showing how much karma you got? The game shows the amount of karma gained in several places in the UI, some are the pre-buff amounts and some the amounts with the buff.

For example, there’s an event I do in Mt. Maelstrom that rewards 333 karma (if I recall correctly). It always shows that amount regardless of which toon I’m on, but the pop-up in the lower-right will show a different amount depending on the character (e.g. the one with the karma infusion shows +15% karma compared to the ones without that buff).

It’s also possible that something is bugged, in which case showing the event reward and the amount of karma you earned in the same screenshot would be helpful for troubleshooting.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Do you have any screen shots showing how much karma you got? The game shows the amount of karma gained in several places in the UI, some are the pre-buff amounts and some the amounts with the buff.

For example, there’s an event I do in Mt. Maelstrom that rewards 333 karma (if I recall correctly). It always shows that amount regardless of which toon I’m on, but the pop-up in the lower-right will show a different amount depending on the character (e.g. the one with the karma infusion shows +15% karma compared to the ones without that buff).

It’s also possible that something is bugged, in which case showing the event reward and the amount of karma you earned in the same screenshot would be helpful for troubleshooting.

thx for reply, already update post and add this info.

Ah, I think I see the issue. The birthday booster doesn’t affect karma. According to the wiki’s birthday bonus article:

wiki:

100% boost to magic find, WvW rank gain, PvP glory gain, experience from kills, and gold from kills.

As your first screen shot shows, karma isn’t mentioned as one of the bonuses. :-/

Your last screen shot shows you are getting your account-wide bonus. The event, mata al trol de cueva campeon enfurecido is worth 205 karma normally, but you received 211 karma, i.e. 3% more, which is the amount of your account-wide karma bonus.

I hope you at least got some good or valuable loot with your magic find bonus.

yep birthday bonus dont but birthday boost says otherwise

Ah. How very confusing.

So at least one of the descriptions is completely wrong and possibly the buff itself isn’t working as intended. We’ll have to wait for ANet to respond.

Good detective work by the OP.

For those following along at home, the unopened booster says:

Booster:

Double-click to gain a buff that grants a 100% boost to magic find, karma gain, WvW rank gain, PvP glory gain, experience from kills, and gold from kills.

(emphasis is mine)

Whereas the buff from the bonus says:

Buff:

100% boost to magic find, WvW rank gain, PvP glory gain, experience from kills, and gold from kills.

For the OP: if ANet isn’t able to respond to this post, I hope you will take the time to file a ticket with support (and perhaps ask them to replace your birthday boosters, since they didn’t work as you expected them to).

At worst, I’m sure they’ll update the descriptions of one or both. With some luck, ANet might decide to offer some more boosters to folks as a way to compensate for the confusion.

Plus no noticeable effect on glory gain in pvp.

Shadey Dancer.2907:

Plus no noticeable effect on glory gain in pvp.

o.0 ?