Many thanks for this! Just came back to the game after 6 year break and was wrecking my brain about getting enough karma for Shards for my legendaries but this has put me to ease. Thanks for the content :D
Yeah of course! I’m glad you could get some use of it, obsidian shards were one of the more annoying things to get up until this release, and ever since this is pretty much how I went about farming them
Thank you for this video!!! I've been out of karma for the last few months and Obsi shards where the only thing keeping me from making more legendaries! Thank you for this!
holy shit man thank you! I was calculating how much karma I would need to get the shards I need for incense and even thought I have jahai bluffs with maxed karmic retribution and other recommended maps for karma farming with full maxed karmic retribution but this method is by far so much better and easier. thanks again this is helpful for many players new and old
Terrific guide and also very well stated and shown. Thank you so much for the time these quality videos take to shoot edit script and upload, and your passion for Gw2 and Gw2 community.
great guide. i have also found that farming jade shards is quite efficient : -you can farm 12 to 25 shards per map -you can farm on more than one map instance if you manage to find ones from the leather farm groups on lfg. and ofc you can farm on multiple characters on several map instances ofc which makes it a decent farm imo.
+Lawliet RyùuZaki nice I'll definitely need to check that map out more. Honestly I haven't ventured into lake Doric or Draconis Mons all too much, seems like I need to though especially with the next episode coming soon
I was dubious about this but I got guild gather buff, the unbound magic sickles and did it. lol it was WAY better than the stupid 1+ hour I blew doing a full silverwaste run. By far the most efficient obsidian method I've seen. Thx.
+coventgardenmartin of course! I used to do silverwastes for shards as well. I find that to be more of an all-in-one place to farm, since it's decent in giving shards, karma/map currency for more shards, and also a decent chunk of money if you need to get mats for gift of fortune
Rheyo I think I saw you in game the other day! All my characters have "Wyld" in them so gimme a hoi if you see me and be prepared for an Aussie gooday back!
I enjoyed this very much, and now with mounts this will be even better! No need for fast clases anymore.. although I main thief so daredevil 4tw! Love your voice btw Insta like and sub
nice, I also like to do this using map currencies to obsidian shards (SW bandit crests and LW maps) Stopped recently since I now have 2 stacks spare, the silverwastes chest farm adds up the drops of obsidian shards if you include buying with bandit crests too (chests can drop 2-3 or a small chance of 10) So if you need even more than what you get daily from bitterfrost you can add SW and other maps
+Arron EdgeWireGaming that is a really good point! That is another method I used to do as well, but I haven't done it so much lately. I still like the silverwastes method a lot though, the events land you a lot of karma, the chests and merchant in SW, as you mentioned, drop shards themselves, and it's good for loot bags; if you're down on money along with obsidian shards, SW seems to be the one-stop-shop for it all
+TheEthiopianDude oh nice, welcome back to the game! With Heart of Thorns, a lot more people seem to be gearing up for endgame things like Fractals and Raids. More people also seem to be getting into pvp ever since they brought the ranked season back.
yeah i have heart of thorns, i have an ele that has like 3 ascended things and is 3 days off another ascended item but they have no agony resist so i have been doing t1 fractals. just finding it hard to get ascended clothing and currently im just farming gold in SW
That's a perfect way to get started. That's pretty much all I was doing at this time last year, just farming different Meta Maps (primarily Silverwastes) and iron/platinum (whenever i figured out about that method) all while running whatever fractals I could to get as much +1 AR's as possible. Ascended armor and weapons are the most difficult to obtain out of the ascended gears. Keep on doing what you're doing and you'll be fully geared in no time!
+Gaurav Reddy the hearts I left out, I'll do these very seldom because it can add quite a lot of time to the run, not that they take super long to complete, but with only two waypoints it makes everything take so much time. Although I'll sometimes do the Grawl and forest hearts because those you can sort of complete as you're doing the farm
The problem with this method is that it's only viable if you have 1 zillion alts. That's because you can only get winterberries once a day per toon (around 50) + 20 from hearts. Since ea berry yields around 20 unbound magic, we're talking about 14 obsi per day + a few from the unbound you get directly from node. That is 10 per day from farmed berries + 4 from hearts berries + around 2 from node's unbound (totaling around 16 obsi per day per toon). So very important to keep in mind: in order to get those 70+ obsi per hour you need to keep changing toon! If you don't have many alts (like I don't) this method won't be good for you =/
+Simon Max hey I'm sorry I totally neglected to mention it in this version of the video. You can go to any of the Unbound merchants in the Living World season 3 maps and they sell obsidian shards. The one on Bittrfrost Frontier is at the Sorrow's Eclipse Waypoint in the middle of the map, and climb all the way up to the top where the killer whale looking quaggan is at
Pardon my language, but I fuckin love you!!! I didn't event think of this! So low on Karma... Just finished crafting the shining blade. Working on The Binding of Ipos now. Tyvm! Very helpful thumbs up!
This was a huge huge help for me. HUGE THANK YOU :). Again please break down the stats in the game (stupid as it sounds I know) so we know what you think fo each set from GW2 and GW2 Hot and what is vital for what kind of gaming. All the best. Again huge huge thank you.
Looking forward to it :). But if you do builds, or how to's... like the winter berry for shards thing, I just want to help grow the channel and see how much Path of Fire motivates you and what you come to like, love, and dislike on the new expansion :). Thanks for the time, passion, and quality
Toaster Game this still works, the winter berries did receive a bit of a nerf a while ago to the unbound magic you get from consumption, but there’s no cap to them each day gathering-wise. However many characters you have, you’ll be able to gather with all of them
Thank you for mentioning this Jun! I totally neglected to include this part into the video You can teleport to Sorrow's Eclipse Waypoint ( copy and paste this code into your chat box [&BH0JAAA=] ) Then just run up the wooden walkway and you'll find a quaggan merchant with an unbound magic symbol above its' head. Alternatively, you can buy these shards from any of the unbound merchants in any of the new maps
It seems he only sells "Unbound Magic Gatherer" Is it fixed? Or am I just not able to do this yet? Could this be because I ONLY have episode 3 of season 3? FIXED - Wanted to update you. I bought the "Unbound Magic Gatherer" and now the shop is open for business. I can buy everything now. Thanks alot for the video man, surely helpfull! Good work!
+BrownieMiner oooooohhh I'm so sorry I misunderstood, I know exactly what you're talking about now. I had to buy that item on my alt because I didn't buy HoT until Lake Doric on that account, and the unbound magic gatherer ability is unlocked during the first episode of the season, bloodstone den. I'm glad it all worked out, happy farming!
Hey guys, noobie here. So two questions, Season 3 Episode 3, can I still do that? Gather all Winterberries and what are the two nodes? I did not understand that part!
You can! If you don't have the episode, you will need to buy it for 200 gems (costs about 50-60g in game, otherwise you'd need to spend $10 on 800 gems and use 200 on the episode) You can buy it by going to your hero panel -> story missions -> living world season 3 -> A Crack in the Ice (Ep.3) As for the 2 nodes part, I was referring to the Winterberry bushes. At each gathering location on the map, you will find 2 bushes to gather from, giving you a minimum of 2 fresh winterberries per location.
You don’t get interrupted unless you get CC’d by something while gathering (being frozen is the only cc that happens I think) but that can happen with the black lion tools as well. Even with normal tools though, the timing isn’t much different
Make sure you kill the mobs, early may 2018 I got a precursor drop(leaf of kudzu) from mobs around the berries. Sure not everyone has this luck, but you never have the chance if you dont kill them
I cannot believe I've made 2 legendaries since these maps dropped and I NEVER CONSIDERED this was a way for obsidian. Thanks so much for the video!
Many thanks for this!
Just came back to the game after 6 year break and was wrecking my brain about getting enough karma for Shards for my legendaries but this has put me to ease. Thanks for the content :D
Yeah of course! I’m glad you could get some use of it, obsidian shards were one of the more annoying things to get up until this release, and ever since this is pretty much how I went about farming them
Thank you for this video!!! I've been out of karma for the last few months and Obsi shards where the only thing keeping me from making more legendaries! Thank you for this!
Anytime! I’m happy it helped!
@@Rheyo does this method still work?
@@Гитаррон yes it does!
holy shit man thank you! I was calculating how much karma I would need to get the shards I need for incense and even thought I have jahai bluffs with maxed karmic retribution and other recommended maps for karma farming with full maxed karmic retribution but this method is by far so much better and easier. thanks again this is helpful for many players new and old
Terrific guide and also very well stated and shown. Thank you so much for the time these quality videos take to shoot edit script and upload, and your passion for Gw2 and Gw2 community.
This channel is under rated. Good video man
Hey I appreciate that man thank you!
great guide.
i have also found that farming jade shards is quite efficient :
-you can farm 12 to 25 shards per map
-you can farm on more than one map instance if you manage to find ones from the leather farm groups on lfg.
and ofc you can farm on multiple characters on several map instances ofc which makes it a decent farm imo.
+Lawliet RyùuZaki nice I'll definitely need to check that map out more. Honestly I haven't ventured into lake Doric or Draconis Mons all too much, seems like I need to though especially with the next episode coming soon
"That's not really much of an option for me" lol I love winter berries too! XD
Alexis Anh Nguyen And since I've made this video... my karma is still low hahaha
I was dubious about this but I got guild gather buff, the unbound magic sickles and did it. lol it was WAY better than the stupid 1+ hour I blew doing a full silverwaste run. By far the most efficient obsidian method I've seen. Thx.
+coventgardenmartin of course! I used to do silverwastes for shards as well. I find that to be more of an all-in-one place to farm, since it's decent in giving shards, karma/map currency for more shards, and also a decent chunk of money if you need to get mats for gift of fortune
thanks Rheyo Always SO helpful. I hadnt made the connection with winterberrys -> unbound magic -> Obsidian shards !
+Wyld Fyre thanks for the support! This is my go to method for only shards!
Rheyo I think I saw you in game the other day! All my characters have "Wyld" in them so gimme a hoi if you see me and be prepared for an Aussie gooday back!
I enjoyed this very much, and now with mounts this will be even better! No need for fast clases anymore.. although I main thief so daredevil 4tw! Love your voice btw
Insta like and sub
Hey I appreciate it!
you deserve more subs bro!
good videos
+Gaurav Reddy thank you man, I appreciate that!
nice, I also like to do this using map currencies to obsidian shards (SW bandit crests and LW maps) Stopped recently since I now have 2 stacks spare,
the silverwastes chest farm adds up the drops of obsidian shards if you include buying with bandit crests too (chests can drop 2-3 or a small chance of 10)
So if you need even more than what you get daily from bitterfrost you can add SW and other maps
+Arron EdgeWireGaming that is a really good point! That is another method I used to do as well, but I haven't done it so much lately.
I still like the silverwastes method a lot though, the events land you a lot of karma, the chests and merchant in SW, as you mentioned, drop shards themselves, and it's good for loot bags; if you're down on money along with obsidian shards, SW seems to be the one-stop-shop for it all
another great guide, the daily list im doing is getting quite long keep em coming :)
TheEthiopianDude thank you so much! I have quite a few topics in the works at the moment.
Is there anything in particular you'd like me to cover?
i have only started playing again a week ago so im not really up to date with what people do so i wouldnt know anything that you can cover
+TheEthiopianDude oh nice, welcome back to the game! With Heart of Thorns, a lot more people seem to be gearing up for endgame things like Fractals and Raids.
More people also seem to be getting into pvp ever since they brought the ranked season back.
yeah i have heart of thorns, i have an ele that has like 3 ascended things and is 3 days off another ascended item but they have no agony resist so i have been doing t1 fractals. just finding it hard to get ascended clothing and currently im just farming gold in SW
That's a perfect way to get started. That's pretty much all I was doing at this time last year, just farming different Meta Maps (primarily Silverwastes) and iron/platinum (whenever i figured out about that method) all while running whatever fractals I could to get as much +1 AR's as possible. Ascended armor and weapons are the most difficult to obtain out of the ascended gears. Keep on doing what you're doing and you'll be fully geared in no time!
There you are!! awesome tip... wish you good harversting :D
+Faisal The Fenrir thank you! You as well Faisal!
This vid saved my crafting life
I’m glad it could help!
also if you have more time
you can do the hearts x4 which gives 20 more berries so thats more unbound magic
+Gaurav Reddy the hearts I left out, I'll do these very seldom because it can add quite a lot of time to the run, not that they take super long to complete, but with only two waypoints it makes everything take so much time. Although I'll sometimes do the Grawl and forest hearts because those you can sort of complete as you're doing the farm
Rheyo yea fair enough but if you have burst classes just kill the mobs at berries and you will be done
You sir, are a god
I'm just a fellow player who needs those obsidian shards!
i still don't get it. what do you with the unbound magic?
The problem with this method is that it's only viable if you have 1 zillion alts. That's because you can only get winterberries once a day per toon (around 50) + 20 from hearts.
Since ea berry yields around 20 unbound magic, we're talking about 14 obsi per day + a few from the unbound you get directly from node. That is 10 per day from farmed berries + 4 from hearts berries + around 2 from node's unbound (totaling around 16 obsi per day per toon).
So very important to keep in mind: in order to get those 70+ obsi per hour you need to keep changing toon!
If you don't have many alts (like I don't) this method won't be good for you =/
But where do you spend the Unbound to buy the shards? :D
+Simon Max hey I'm sorry I totally neglected to mention it in this version of the video.
You can go to any of the Unbound merchants in the Living World season 3 maps and they sell obsidian shards. The one on Bittrfrost Frontier is at the Sorrow's Eclipse Waypoint in the middle of the map, and climb all the way up to the top where the killer whale looking quaggan is at
Pardon my language, but I fuckin love you!!! I didn't event think of this! So low on Karma... Just finished crafting the shining blade. Working on The Binding of Ipos now. Tyvm! Very helpful thumbs up!
This was a huge huge help for me. HUGE THANK YOU :). Again please break down the stats in the game (stupid as it sounds I know) so we know what you think fo each set from GW2 and GW2 Hot and what is vital for what kind of gaming. All the best. Again huge huge thank you.
+Michael Coffey yeah man for sure, I have some ideas on how to go about it, I'll make a video on it soon
Looking forward to it :). But if you do builds, or how to's... like the winter berry for shards thing, I just want to help grow the channel and see how much Path of Fire motivates you and what you come to like, love, and dislike on the new expansion :). Thanks for the time, passion, and quality
Does this still work? I heard there was a "nerf" in another post about winterberries.
Toaster Game this still works, the winter berries did receive a bit of a nerf a while ago to the unbound magic you get from consumption, but there’s no cap to them each day gathering-wise. However many characters you have, you’ll be able to gather with all of them
Still works, I just farmed 11k unbound magic with some characters (used unbound gathering tools) in a bit less than an hour.
amazing video, thanks!
Thanks for watching, glad it could help!
Great idea! Thanks :D
Much appreciated!
Where's the npc that trade our unbound with obsidian shard?
Thank you for mentioning this Jun! I totally neglected to include this part into the video
You can teleport to Sorrow's Eclipse Waypoint ( copy and paste this code into your chat box [&BH0JAAA=] )
Then just run up the wooden walkway and you'll find a quaggan merchant with an unbound magic symbol above its' head.
Alternatively, you can buy these shards from any of the unbound merchants in any of the new maps
It seems he only sells "Unbound Magic Gatherer" Is it fixed? Or am I just not able to do this yet? Could this be because I ONLY have episode 3 of season 3?
FIXED - Wanted to update you. I bought the "Unbound Magic Gatherer" and now the shop is open for business. I can buy everything now.
Thanks alot for the video man, surely helpfull! Good work!
+BrownieMiner oooooohhh I'm so sorry I misunderstood, I know exactly what you're talking about now. I had to buy that item on my alt because I didn't buy HoT until Lake Doric on that account, and the unbound magic gatherer ability is unlocked during the first episode of the season, bloodstone den.
I'm glad it all worked out, happy farming!
Do Lodestone farming guide
+Kris Jay interesting request. I've never actually farmed lodestones so I'll have to give this topic some research, thanks for the suggestion!
Hey guys, noobie here. So two questions, Season 3 Episode 3, can I still do that? Gather all Winterberries and what are the two nodes? I did not understand that part!
You can! If you don't have the episode, you will need to buy it for 200 gems (costs about 50-60g in game, otherwise you'd need to spend $10 on 800 gems and use 200 on the episode) You can buy it by going to your hero panel -> story missions -> living world season 3 -> A Crack in the Ice (Ep.3)
As for the 2 nodes part, I was referring to the Winterberry bushes. At each gathering location on the map, you will find 2 bushes to gather from, giving you a minimum of 2 fresh winterberries per location.
Rheyo Thanks for your reply! Your videos are great. :)
Of course man, and thank you I appreciate that!
Rheyo Oh one more thing, what WP do you start at??
Sorrow's Eclipse Waypoint (Center of the map): [&BH0JAAA=]
Just copy/paste that wp code into your chat box and it will appear as a clickable waypoint
which map is it? didnt say
Nelson Ho bitterfrost frontier, I mentioned this at ~1:30
Yeah, but you need a verry fast gathering tool - with normal you get interupted, so .. its time consuming and flustraiting.
You don’t get interrupted unless you get CC’d by something while gathering (being frozen is the only cc that happens I think) but that can happen with the black lion tools as well.
Even with normal tools though, the timing isn’t much different
Make sure you kill the mobs, early may 2018 I got a precursor drop(leaf of kudzu) from mobs around the berries. Sure not everyone has this luck, but you never have the chance if you dont kill them
Why do you have to have done the storyline "Living world season 2" Cost me 20Euro do unlock :(
Get a good microphone.
+RedGhost 2 I appreciate the input, if you check my latest content though I've done this, thanks!
Can you speak even more quiet pls :)