Guild Wars 2

Hey there!

I find it a bit ridiculous that the collection for the ascended backpiece of the “Relic of Abaddon” takes 1.5 million karma (315k karma per backpiece, times five).

I am not one of those players that has been playing loyally for 4 years and has racked up millions and millions of karma. In fact, most of the time I end up spending almost all my karma on wintersday bags.

I went and got myself 2 of the relics, but now I have to find a way to still get 900k karma… And the game doesn’t really have any good means of getting lots of karma, since it’s not really a currency that’s used often (though it does see a rise in popularity nowadays) nor does it give a really good gold conversion option.

Sure, Siren’s Landing has the Karmic Retribution like Ember Bay does, but it hardly has any good mob density. You’d still rather farm in Ember Bay because of this. Yeah, you can do Tequatl once a day for 15k.. But that won’t get me anywhere near 900k soon.

Is farming Ember Bay non-stop really the only thing for me to do? Should the developers look into karma again and consider it’s usefulness, popularity and also ways of gaining it in large quantities (the risks of it versus the rewards and evaluating karma costs of existing items in merchants)? It feels a bit wonky as it is right now.