Guild Wars 2

Still looking for additional NA and early morning GMT Russian and oceanic guilds!

Queues on Desolation during EU daytime are generally non-existant or very short. Prime time queues (7-10pm) on 2 borderlands having short queues (around 5-10min) with EB and the third borderland being fairly full.

Can’t say that i have noticed much of this happening in any of the higher tiers of EU wvw, but it also sounds like you are looking for ‘group duels’ which aren’t very beneficial to wvw play. Fighting in open field is a terrible waste of time, and the players you are describing seem to be smart by reporting your presence and killing your group with superior numbers, or moving to tasks that help their teams score.

There is a fine line between cowardice and cleverness.

Trick or treat! xD

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.

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).

Happy hunting!