Your Biggest Karma Moment

The title says it.

Have you given something and got something good in return?

Have some one been bad to you and they got punished for it?

Tell your stories! Does Karma like you or ignore you?

I got 2 stories,

A while back I was helping some random person with a mission. I realized he didn't have max armor, max damage daggers or an elite skill. So I helped him get all three, became great friends. That month I got 130 tourney points on my one account.

Today I was looking for a group for Golem HM. So I got into this group that had 5 people and pinged my build. Leader kicks me right after. Said noob and adds me to ignore list, apparently an Ele Healer isn't good. So I found 2 other people doing mission, added heroes and did it in about 15 minutes. Back at Rata Sum, I saw the same person that kicked me and ignored me because of my build saying, "LFG Golem HM." I /rank him and logged off for the night.

no, because i keep seeing the same leecher on separate occasion, they are not getting punished for it.

Off the top of my head, I can think of a couple of times when I've gone to the early mission outposts in Tyria and helped random newbies with the missions, to be rewarded with gold drops and black dye drops from the monsters.

my real life Karma is non-existant no matter how much I try...but IG:

helped a guy through SoO for free (HM) - because well I was bored and wanted to test a farm build for my ranger...completed it and from end-chest BDS req9 fire magic....WAHAY - karma ftw

I gave a req 10 strength Darkwing Defender to a friend (for free, of course). Less than an hour later I got another req 10 one from a chest. Not something extraordinary, but it does fit the "what you give is what you get in return".

I think karma doesn't pay in random stuff dropping on the floor

Just being me I got into a very nice guild (invited because I was having fun with some of the members of that guild a couple of evenings) in early 2007 and a couple of months later was promoted to guild leader.
Being in the guild I've met some very nice people and had fun with them.
Several times a week I have a little chat with people who left the guild ages ago but still play the game.
Or with people from guilds which I've been in alliance with a while back.
I think this is far more rewarding than some item dropping on the floor.

Item wise things were never bad, guildies complained a lot about my 'luck'.
But that's just random, if you play a lot it's easier to encounter something rare.
One of the better drops I got was a purp crystalline in UW which I gave away 2 mins after that to the person who was collecting quest rewards with me.
Might not seem like a lot but remember many players have never seen one, even less have owned one and far less were given one (even if it's a purple).
Guess that was that player's good karma!

Unless I and my last religion teacher are mistaken, Karma is one's duty, job, purpose, etc. in their current life. While Dharma (not sure if that is spelt right) is the reward and/or punishment given for how one fulfills one's Karma. In other words, Dharma is based on how you act in relation to your Karma - if you do what you are suppose to do and nothing more, you get no reward of punishment, if you do less, you get a punishment, if you do more, you get a reward.

What I am getting at is, you're asking for Dharma, not Karma.

As for "my stories" I cannot think of any at this time.

I was pushed onto asphalt and shattered my leg.
I spent that night and the next day I had off farming ectos to get Assassin FoW.

Karma? No, just manpower.

After hoping a BDS dropped for one of my team mates it dropped for me.

Karma? No Im just Blessed with fate

Once gave a guy 50k. He quit GW shortly after - Not sure if thats a good thing.

Always Love to toss random golds to peeps
"I dont like this skin, here"
Sometimes they return the favor...
Sometimes they dont..
No skin off my back its a game^^

Helping a friend out with Gates of Kryta quest. One of the undead enemy dropped me a gold Req 9 Sephis Axe 15% stance, Zealous +30 health.

I was quiet shocked that on NM a regular enemy can drop something like that!

I'm sorry but you are actually mistaken. Dharma litterally means: Teachings. And refer to the teachings in how to achieve Nirvana.
There are 4 noble truths in Buddhism and Dharma is realising those truths:
1: Suffering is the material worlds eternal changing, and nothing lasts forever in that world.
2: Suffering starts in the basic ignorance. Ignorance referring to not knowing about the truths outside the eye, such as what you were in past lives and such.
3: Realising that there IS a way to stop suffering, (Nirvana).
4: Realising The 8 middleways (not sure what they're called in English), which refers to the 8 basic ways of how to achieve Nirvana.
That is basically Dharma

As for Karma: Mostly translated into "Source and effect". Karma is therefore a way to describe how ones actions (source) leads to the consequences (effect), good actions having good consequenses and such and bad to bad. Basically :P

Woops almost forgot my own Karma moment XD:
Guy was selling ectos for 1 k a piece in Zin Ku Corridor. I was like WTF and thought about buying some. Instead I told him that they were worth more than that and that he should check the rare material traders prices. He thanked me and I got nothing. Or did I?
had 1 z-key the next day.
Opens z-chest: r10 silverwing recurve bow. Not bad at all 0.0.

ty karma ^^

I gave a friend of mine 25k gold to get the last 25 elite skills needed for her to reach Legendary Skill Hunter.

A few days later, I got a Black Dye to drop, someone gave me three Zaishen Keys because he was quiting and I got a gold drop from the first foe I killed vanquishing Arborstone. Guess what the gold item had... a Superior Vigor Rune.

Either I'm lucky or ANet wants me to keep having lots of gold.

I usually don't have karma happen to me, even though I'm nice and go out of my way to help people.

Never had a rare drop ;P


The only thing I can think of is one time I gave a green to a guildie, a long long time ago, because he was collecting a bunch of green bows. About a week later he gave me a Req9, gold Sephis Axe, 15^50, +30hp. Me being dumb back then, customized it for my warrior. It's sitting on Jora to this day lol.

I am helping this noob beat the game, buying him max armor, perfect storm bow, buying him skills. I got broke, however, my account got hit (I don't know how) and because of my money dump the only thing stolen was 5-zkeys.

TY karma.

I have 2 "perma-pre" characters, a monk(13) and a warrior(16). The monk is/was a dye trader. Not as much call for dyes lately, so the monk helps with Boss runs now and then too.
Any who, 2 things come to mind involving the monk;

Advertising dyes in Ascalon City, I had the ad in the "Search" channel and would place it in all chat about every 10 minutes. Was getting more hits from All Chat. Then XXXYYZZZ whispered me saying "Quit spamming trade in all chat!" I asked him if he knew what spam was, in between the "Recruiting" spam, and the "X-rated" chat, part of which he was involved with. 10 minutes later I posted it again in All Chat. The same guy whispered again, "Reported." (I had added him to friends list, but had not yet ignored him.) Less than 15 minutes later he was offline. It was a 4 or 5 days later when I saw him back online. I was in Ascalon City unloading drops from my warrior, just half@$$ed paying attention to all chat. I saw his name in the All Chat. He was telling one of his friends, "I was banned 72 hours for abuse of /report." I got a small snicker out of that.

Another time, just wasting time in Ascalon, opening the gate, helping with res sig kind of day. Someone was wanting to buy dye for 200 gold. I whispered him asking what color, how many, type of thing. After several minutes of conversation, I finally realized, he wanted 1 of all colors and 3 of 4 of a couple colors. I reached a point that I finally gave in, gave him "samples" of all but red, black, & white. I also let him have a couple green and 4 brown. All for 200 gold. I logged off and later logged back on with my warrior, to make a couple of Boss runs. Got 2 black dyes in first run, a white and 2 reds on second run. Decided to make one run more for good measure. That run netted a Charr Bag, a Charr kit, plus a Vigor rune.

IRL, I sincerely believe in "What goes around, comes around." Looks like it does in the game, too.

Screw someone over and get screwed over yourself.

If you can call it karma then yes im victim to this alot.

I agree with this dude completely.

Who is right O.O
Edit:
Lol, that's awesome! My favorite story so far.

traded 45 ectos for keys to a friend cos he urgently needed it, then i got an obby edge r9 from the chest, which i sold for 200e. will include ss if needed ^^

Almost every time I have ever helped out a new player, I receive either a Gold item (low level area) or a Black Dye. Not much, but it's always nice

Helped a friend out a lot towards the end of his Guild Wars career, instead of leaving his account dormant, he said I could have anything on it that I'd like, use it for whatever I like, and the only clause was that if he started playing again, he could rejoin the Guild . Money isn't an issue for him, so he decided (and won't listen to me) that he wanted me to keep the account and plans to return sometime in the future by simply buying the games again xD. So now I have 9 mules, and get double Xunlai rewards every month

My friend spent many hours helping me at the beginning. Later I spent many hours helping some newbie guys. For me it seems if goes in reverse to what was described so far. First I get something and then I give.

You may agree with him, although this is more of a discussion of facts and not opinions.

Here's 2 sources to support me correcting him:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma

While I don't 100% believe in what wiki says this is pretty much true. ^^

However seeing as this isn't a discussion topic but a karma topic i'd better put another karma moment in. Not my own but a friends :P

Friend gave guy Zaishen key, guy gets everlasting cerebral tonic (not long ago as you see), guy sells cerebral tonic for 100 ectos, guy gives friend half of those ectos.
This isn't really karma but man that guy disserves some praise for that action ;D

Sold a Coffer of Whispers to a person for 100k

It had an armbrace in it...go figure.