Did I waste my gold earning potential?Most likely.
Did it save my sanity?Yep! I'd do it all over again.
For whoever has a crap ton of karma sitting there, but doesn't want to spend hours flushing gloves into the toilet, this is one way to burn your karma lolz. The whole process took me like 10 minutes, and I'm pretty happy with it, even though the return value might be just garbage.
Posted Sep 10, 2022, 1:24 AM UTC · edited
You need a crap ton of Karma for the legendary variants. I burned through so much converting eternal ice shards and I regret it now.
I havent done any legendary variants. What are the shards converted into?
Volatile magic, basically. ie. Gold
Convert your eternal ice first though! That ain't cheap.
How so? Can't seem to find it on the fast site
tons of karma required
Oof. I spend all mine on obsidian shards.
Fun fact : Orrian box's loot table contain obsidian. I did something like 10mill karma = 150g and 2~ stacks of obsidian shard.
Yeah did know it was in the table. I think you can get 2 stacks for a lot less karma haha
Same
And pray tell, what do you do with the Obsidian Shards?
Legendaries in nearly all cases
Got stacks of Obsidian Shards, and was hoping there was something useful to burn them with, can build a few legendary and have to spare.
Combine obsidian shards with airship oil, auric dust and ley sparks to make fulgurite. Use the fulgurite to craft Jeweled Damask Patches. Sell for 10+ gold each.
It's 25 obsidian shards per patch. An amazing way to turn extras into profit.
You can trade 1/Day for provisioner tokens in the black citadel, if you still need those for legendary armor/runes/sigils
Should be way cheaper than crafting/buying equipment for them
Will keep that in mind, thank you
At that point I'd just save the karma, did you really need that 120g?
Nope.
But I wanted to make use of the karma. I mean, I somehow racked up to 11M and it's just sitting there. This is the only efficient way I know.
Same for Spirit Shards and a lot of other currencies, just trying to clean up and make uses of them. Just spent like 10K magnetite shards on trophies, but at least that's useful, since I'm building my final set of legendary armor.
So yea, do I need it? I guess not.... Been playing really casually since EoD actually, so I just want to liquidate some stuff. Not a big fan of logging in daily to buy something from the vendors, and especially not those damn provisioner tokens ever again lol.
I hope you don’t burn yourself in the long run, especially with those spirit shards. I know a few people who used most of their stock to promote materials and now those are their main component thsg gates them from making the next legendary. Just something to keep in mind.
Why not just spend your magnetite on clovers?
I have enough of them sitting for 3 Mystic Tributes, just missing the gold.
The biggest gate for me right now to get full legendary armor and trinkets are the PvP shards and WvW tickets, and yea some gold sink.
How did you convert spirit shards into gold?
Gambling Glacial Core and Crystalline Dust into Glacial Lodestone. Should be profitable as long as you don't instabuy the mats and instasell the stones.
But still, too time consuming, so I stopped and sold for about 50ish gold profit.
Can someone explain what they meant by putting gloves in the mystic toilet?
Of course. You go to 1 heart vendor who sells gloves for karma, you buy 4. The 4 go in portable mystic forge and give u a glove you can recycle. Recycle and sell the mat. Rinse and repeat.
Very good for gold but not for mind health ^°
Wow this sounds like the worst (least fun) way to burn karma.
Why not just park some alts in Bjora and convert Iceshards to LWS4 currency to consume for volitile magic and then buy a bunch of trophy shipments and sell those on the TP? Takes like 30 seconds a day for alt parking, and then like 10 minutes every two months or so to do the whole conversion and sale thing? Tons of gold (or T5/T6 mats for leggies).
Fully agree
If OP is like me, he generates karma faster than he can use that way. Fractals with the account upgrades gives a lot of it.
Buy 4 gloves (250 karma each) and forge them, then salvage it for mats.
So it's basically just stuffing your bags with gloves, turn them into salvageable gear, salvage, repeat. But we're talking thousands of gloves lol.
When the game first came out there was an icey incline in frostgorge sound and a heart vendor that I used to buy daggers from and mystic forge them. I got sick of it so fast. 😫
It's nice but not now, if they did this before the recent festival they could sell those leathers for up to 4g 50s a stack. Now they are low price low demand but still an income if someone wants to spend hours upon hours maybe days burning like 15-20m karma at that.
I value my 10M karma way more now since I need a TON of it for the legendary variants. Glad I didnt convert it
:(
No legendary variants for you then
I hope the ones who care about legendary won't make this mistake haha.
I get legendary for the stat change purposes, mostly for group content and WvW. My next goals are actually Conflux tickets, and the gold for 3 Mystic Tributes for Vision and Aurora.
I'm in the group that doesn't really care about the weapons, and this will trigger people, but there are a few times I wanted to delete the EoD precursor because it was competing for bank space. XD
It's not the most efficient conversion, but it's definitely the laziest, and therefore the best.
Ouch
Would have bought Obsidian Shards instead tbh.
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How do you all have so much Karma to burn through?
I'm just doing Aurora and buying the Karma-Items for Lace Dodric/Siren's Landing is literally the only thing left for me (besides the gift of battle) after getting everything else.
I'm at nearly 300k so I need more than 400k more
Probably from fractals. There was a time I religiously do daily fractals every day for 2-3 months to farm gold. I also have the karma boost buff in fractals.
Lost Orrian Jewellery Boxes are genuinely fuckin depressing. To think they were once the end-game of GW2: blowing Karma on junk boxes, cos there's nothing else to spend it on and nothing else to do...
...and people defended that version of the game, and still get nostalgic about it.
Absolute chad
You could also have waited until Wintersday and burn it in 2min + getting more than x10 times the value you got with those.
Could you elaborate on this pls?
you buy gifts
Isn't it capped how many gifts of wintersday you can get? Or what are you talking about?
You can buy up to 100 gifts per day for 275k karma total. You can burn like 5-6mil during wintersday.
Following, bc I aint make shit last yr
Oh yes