I remember back on Gw2 Launch, players used karma to make gold and 4000 people got permanent ban. After much backlash, they unbanned most, reverted the gold, and patched the game, but still kept banned a streamer that showed the NPC with karma items. They never intend for people to make gold using karma. It's always been that Trashy currency that only looks helpful and or rewarding. Only recently they are needed for legendaries. Which is OK. I don't mind spending 5mil karma on a cool skin.
Anet seems to be very ban happy. Got banned for the first time in over a decade of playing for being near some afk farmers when the GM was nearby even though I was actively playing the game. They refused to check their logs to confirm anything.
@phandrel They did state in in map chat to move aside if we're not afk, which I did. Maybe not far enough? At least it was only 72 hour ban. And I have Throne and Liberty and New World that I'm also playing. Does make me think twice about purchasing the next expansion though...
Yep, as @procerator said, they permabanned Krip back in the day for this. There was another banwave during the first Wintersday, and there's other cases of what they deemed "abuse of the in-game economy". Totally unfair, but it's their game after all...
Please do a video on salvaging exotics. I have a bunch of account bound exotics piled up from unlocking skins for exotic hunter collection and other random sources that I have no idea what the best way to profit is :( I'm a relatively new player and pretty much any/all guides only explain the benefits of salving upto rares, barely even mentioning exotics except "sell them on tp" which isn't an option for a/c bound.
1 - For weapons, recycle them on the mystic forge for a chance of precursor (usually used by players who are rich and they have nothing else to look for) 2 - If you need ectos, salvage all YOUR exotics, including your left over weapons (with Silver-fed) 3 - You always salvage your exotic armor, there's no other way (unless specific recipe done with the Mystic Forge) 4 - If you're after pure profit, repeat step 2, then salvage the ectos with copper-fed and sell the dust. 5 - well, there ya go, profit for ya.
There's a lot of good tips here already, I'll see what I can do/if I can add something. There's also a spreadsheet on the Phamily Discord if you have Black Lion Salvage Kits and want to buy stuff on the TP to salvage
I have done exactly this with green sigils, to get the charms that sky rocketed to 6 gold during the "craft a legendary rune for a free legendary relic" saga. I have printed over 2k gold with it then got bored. 😂
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So theyblet you buy items with karma then ban you for being smart enough to use them to make gold...wtf
Yeah holly shit with the amount of usless karma we all have
Yeah, there's tons of posts still on Reddit, even from ANet themselves on these things. They're old, but I'd still not risk it myself.
@phandrel I don't blame yoy. Especially straight to a permanent ban just for using in-game mechanics
@@blackmagick77Companies never take responsibility for their screw ups. They make the users responsible for doing something Devs did not intend.
I remember back on Gw2 Launch, players used karma to make gold and 4000 people got permanent ban. After much backlash, they unbanned most, reverted the gold, and patched the game, but still kept banned a streamer that showed the NPC with karma items.
They never intend for people to make gold using karma. It's always been that Trashy currency that only looks helpful and or rewarding. Only recently they are needed for legendaries. Which is OK. I don't mind spending 5mil karma on a cool skin.
Anet seems to be very ban happy. Got banned for the first time in over a decade of playing for being near some afk farmers when the GM was nearby even though I was actively playing the game. They refused to check their logs to confirm anything.
That's rough. You'd guess they'd try some things first like whispering or teleporting your character, and see if you react.
@phandrel They did state in in map chat to move aside if we're not afk, which I did. Maybe not far enough? At least it was only 72 hour ban. And I have Throne and Liberty and New World that I'm also playing. Does make me think twice about purchasing the next expansion though...
3:08 they WHAT?
yeah no shot, its literally just playing the game?
Yes. They banned Kripparian for something similar.
Yep, as @procerator said, they permabanned Krip back in the day for this. There was another banwave during the first Wintersday, and there's other cases of what they deemed "abuse of the in-game economy". Totally unfair, but it's their game after all...
@@phandrel serves him right. the audacity of him to find gaps in the market and profit from it.
@@phandrel Its too bad we can't do that in real life with billionaires who use the infinite money glitch. haha
Please do a video on salvaging exotics. I have a bunch of account bound exotics piled up from unlocking skins for exotic hunter collection and other random sources that I have no idea what the best way to profit is :(
I'm a relatively new player and pretty much any/all guides only explain the benefits of salving upto rares, barely even mentioning exotics except "sell them on tp" which isn't an option for a/c bound.
Use rare salvage kit on account bound exoctic (prefereable the mystic salvage kit) and sell ectoplasm on Trading post
1 - For weapons, recycle them on the mystic forge for a chance of precursor (usually used by players who are rich and they have nothing else to look for)
2 - If you need ectos, salvage all YOUR exotics, including your left over weapons (with Silver-fed)
3 - You always salvage your exotic armor, there's no other way (unless specific recipe done with the Mystic Forge)
4 - If you're after pure profit, repeat step 2, then salvage the ectos with copper-fed and sell the dust.
5 - well, there ya go, profit for ya.
There's a lot of good tips here already, I'll see what I can do/if I can add something.
There's also a spreadsheet on the Phamily Discord if you have Black Lion Salvage Kits and want to buy stuff on the TP to salvage
@@igor5789 thanks!
@@nexeus7302 Pretty comprehensive, thanks :)
I'm guessing salvaging armour is with mystic salvage kit as @igor5789 suggested?
I have done exactly this with green sigils, to get the charms that sky rocketed to 6 gold during the "craft a legendary rune for a free legendary relic" saga.
I have printed over 2k gold with it then got bored. 😂
That's the downside of these methods, right? Kinda numbing compared to actual gameplay. But they work.
Why tf would they ban you for converting karma into salvageable items. Wtf. I still spent time playing to farm that karma.
I don't know how much this has happened lately, but I'm not willing to risk it to find out :P
If only there was a list of these karma merchants to stay away from…….
Nooooooo my money
Nice video like always
Appreciate that, thank you!