User:Endaris

Hello! I started GW2 in late 2014 and you can find me ingame as Endaris.1452 on EU. My past activities in the community included running raid trainings at the Raid Training Initiative, maybe around a 100, focused on wings 1 to 5. Although not as active anymore, you may find me occasionally in more casual PvE and rarely zerg WvW.

My voice can be heard as part of the Dragon Bash Singalong, heard in Hoelbrak's The Great Lodge during the Dragon Bash festival at every second full hour. While mostly a user, I sometimes partake in wiki editing if I spot inaccuracies during usage or missing information that I'm able to gather myself.

Besides that I sometimes create pages in essay or guide format for myself to track things or help guild mates.

Other pages:

• User:Endaris/Trebuchet Reference
• User:Endaris/Easy Gift of Battle
• User:Endaris/WvW Check List
• User:Endaris/Chore Check List
• User:Endaris/Maximizing defiance bar damage in Open World Events
• User:Endaris/WvW Claim Guild Upgrade Path

Uses for Karma

I'm a bit known among my fellow players for always being Karma starved while they stack up a billion of them. This is as much a record for myself where my Karma is draining as "advice" for people where it is stacking up.

So I'll write up some uses for Karma that may not be that obvious:

Wardrobe unlocks

~10 million for cultural weapons

180000 for Pirate weapons

~30000 for enough Sun Beads to craft all Beaded weapons (can also be sold on the TP)

~1 million for Runic armor

935000 for the VoE armor sets: Restless Captain's armor, Extremis armor, Forge Guard's armor (more if not fully unlocked via tokens)

~1.2 million for exotic account bound Spear skins from Alliance Field Quartermasters and VoE heart vendors

Loads of unlocks requiring bigger chunks of Karma in EoD at (heart) vendors, e.g. Kuunavang Festival Mask, Martial Artist's Footwraps, Angler Vest Skin etc.

Truckload of minis at heart vendors in living world maps that need ~100000 Karma each.

Buying gizmos / permanent unlocks

175000 for Prototype Position Rewinder

175000 for Icebrood Saga Portal Tome

1.5 million for buying IBS and Janthir Wilds Home Instance nodes (750000 each)

Crafting

Recipe: Ascended Inscription and Recipe: Ascended Insignia and a ton of other inscription/insignia Karma recipes

30000 per Gen 2 precursor weapon

93324 per Gen 2 legendary weapon made with Gift of the Desert

250000 for heart vendor items in required collections for Aurora

0.6 million for your first VoE legendary from the first two maps

1.2 million (or more) for successive VoE legendaries from the first two maps

7 million for Stella Radians

Achievements

350000 for Map Fragment (fine), required to unlock Jormag Rising: Significant Otter — Obtain and use Memories of Otter from powerful enemies in the Drizzlewood Coast or by salvaging Charged Stormcaller weapons. (10)

Some minis for Basic Collections: Mini Collection—Secrets of the Obscure — Collect minis. (30) (some of these can be bought repeatedly and sold on the TP)

Some minis for Basic Collections: Mini Collection—Janthir Wilds — Collect minis. (30)

20000 per EoD specialization collection

Up to 700000 can be dumped on Community: Thirst Slayer — Consume 100,000 drinks. (36)

160000 for Starlit Weald: Emergent Metamorphosis — Scour Castora to find the parts needed to power up the deactivated chrysalis. (3)

Repeatable expenditures (time-gated)

7000 for weekly Antique Summoning Stone from Leivas

Up to 35000 for weekly 10 Ornate Rusted Keys for Swim-Speed Infusion +10 farm; the farm itself is not time gated so you can just stock up

Up to 66150 for weekly heart vendor shard purchases in Janthir Wilds: Discounted Shard of Lowland Shore, Discounted Shard of Janthir Syntri, Discounted Shard of Mistburned Barrens

Daily heart vendor purchases in LS3: Bundle of Petrified Wood, Bundle of Jade Shards, Bundle of Fire Orchid Blossoms, Bundle of Orrian Pearls, only worth if you need the item itself; farm Winterberries if you need instead

Daily heart vendor purchases in LS4: Bundle of Kralkatite, Bundle of Difluorite Crystals, Bundle of Inscribed Shards, Lump of Mistonium, Branded Mass; always worth, except for the Mistborn Mote exchange

Daily heart vendor purchases in Janthir Wilds, e.g. Curious Lowland Honeycomb, Kodan Cache Key, Lowland Kodan Expertise

Up to 4998 for daily Karmic Converter purchases: Medium Crafting Bag, Light Crafting Bag, Heavy Crafting Bag, Trophy Bag, Rune Bag, Box of WvW Supplies and Large Bag of Obsidian are worthwhile exchanges

Up to 31500 daily for Pact Scout's Mapping Materials from Pact Supply Network Agents to cash in on map bonus rewards

Repeatable expenditures and conversions (unlimited)

Buying Volatile Magic or Frostbitten gathering tools for general purpose gathering

Buying Harvesting Sickle of Bounty for gathering cultivated herbs for ascended cooking

Buying Crystalline Ore for Karma and a variety of "trash", e.g. Bottle of Airship Oil or Shimmering Crystal through Gharr Leadclaw or the Portable Wizard's Tower Exchange

Buying Tyrian Defense Seals for Karma and Eternal Ice Shards through Gharr Leadclaw or the Portable Wizard's Tower Exchange

Buying LS4 materials for Karma and Eternal Ice Shards in the Eye of the North (to eat for Volatile Magic, crafting LS4 weapons, Skyscale unlock etc.)

2100 for 1 Obsidian Shard from Orr vendors; cheaper through the Karmic Converter; it's generally preferable to use Unbound Magic to acquire Obsidian Shards instead

Other conversions that typically perform much worse, e.g. buying Lost Orrian Jewelry Boxes and/or involve a lot of tedium e.g. flushing Karma gear in the Mystic Forge for salvageable gear

There are probably some more but the result of the semantic search for items sold for Karma is somehow returning the first 500 items for any query that goes beyond an offset of 5000.

Do not splurge on repeatable expenditures that don't unlock anything lightly. Some conversions convert to other currencies or exclusive items, e.g. Box of WvW Supplies converting to WXP, and these are reasonable to take up regardless most of the time. Most conversions however primarily convert to gold and gold is ultimately relatively easy to farm.

Karma is a seemingly abundant currency that keeps going up from almost everything you do but it is more difficult to farm than gold. Always keep a sizeable reserve.