How do people get their money? - Guild Wars Forums

terminus123 · Oct 31, 2007, 02:03 AM // 02:03

Well, I play a good amount on GW both, pve, pvp, and sometimes farming. I never seem to get as much money as other people (you know the people with like 300 ectos or FOW armour, even 15k armour). I really want to get for the first time full or atleast mostly 15k armour for one of my characters, assassin. I would just like to know what are some good ways to get money fast?like say around 80k.

Malice Black · Oct 31, 2007, 02:16 AM // 02:16

Farm
Trade
Get lucky with a drop
Ebay
Scamming
Duping
Bots
Runs
Charging lazy people to do missions/quests/runs etc for them

^^^ most common

Biostem · Oct 31, 2007, 03:53 AM // 03:53

Here are a few key things:

1. You need to trim down your party size. If you can solo, great, if you can make do w/ only 2-3 people in your party, that's good too. A smaller party means fewer mouths to feed, so everyone gets a bigger share of the loot.

2. Know where to hunt - this is more a matter of knowing what enemies can be defeated quickly and easily, yet still yield good rewards.

3. Salvage & use freebies - in Factions and later campaigns, you can earn little trinkets for completing missions, that can be traded for more useful things like ID & salvage kits. Use these instead of buying the kits, and salvage relatively worthless items to crafting materials. Since you can store 250 units of crafting material in only 1 square of storage, it means you can hold more wealth in a smaller space. You also may get a rare crafting material, which can be used towards that more expensive armor or sold for more gold. Selling large bundles of extra crafting material can get you pretty good gold as well.

4. Price things & check online - you may be able to trade some stuff enemies drop for more valuable items, or an item that sells for very little at a vendor may be worth a lot to other players - look online for these things and you'll do well.

Hope that helps.

Smile Like Umean It · Oct 31, 2007, 04:01 AM // 04:01

Go check out the farming section if you don't mind farming and make sure to check out the price check section too. It comes in hand a lot.

Onarik Amrak · Oct 31, 2007, 04:10 AM // 04:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by Malice Black

Farm
Trade
Get lucky with a drop
Ebay
Scamming
Duping
Bots
Runs
Charging lazy people to do missions/quests/runs etc for them

^^^ most common

Endorsed by Malice! It must be good!

...Don't do it unless you want to be banned.

**cosyfiep** · Oct 31, 2007, 04:28 AM // 04:28

'free' treasures in nightfall.....with multiple characters times 13 of them.....

Coloneh · Oct 31, 2007, 04:48 AM // 04:48

power trading is about the only decent way that you can actually make money in GW today. farming is kinda dead.

gremlin · Oct 31, 2007, 05:09 AM // 05:09

80k is pretty easy to make making 80k quickly is harder.

I still make my money by farming I find it more interesting that trying to sell to players.

Kill everything
Bring Back everything "or as much as you can"
Id it
sell it
repeat

If it has usefull runes or inscriptions extract them and use to mod gold weapons"
When perfect they are worth selling.
The Gold weapons come from the free treasure chests in NF

Fast Shootin · Oct 31, 2007, 07:56 AM // 07:56

Hey terminus123 ill pay you money for helpin me with missions on GW;F

strcpy · Oct 31, 2007, 09:36 AM // 09:36

If you solo farm you should be making 10k/hour or so, much more than that do not talk about it as it will be nerfed, any less and you need a better spot (assuming your main goal is gold - I have places that make 6k/hour but give me a much higher xp/hour for skill hunters that still need skill points). 10-15k has seemed to always be where Anet wants to the farmers to stay.

Almost any decent hard mode place will give you that and every class in the game has a few spots that can do it. Peruse either PvXWiki's farming builds or (IMO better, though less organized) farming forums on this site.

Next, farm. It doesn't take much - lets say you just farm 15 minutes a day. Even very casual players can do so, when I'm looking to increase my funds I do one farming run when I start a gaming session and one when I end. If I choose them well that is a 10-20 minute commitment. With 15 minutes a day that means you will make 25k in 10 days, 50k if you can go the full 30 minutes (remember, you just need to *average* this amount of time - an hour every other day is the same as 30 minutes a day). As such it doesn't take but a few months to get into the multi-hundred platinum range.

Add in treasure chest in Nightfall (the ones you do not need keys - a full clearing of them is 30+k your first go, though it degrades each with each chest opened so try and stay in the higher end ones), trading in quest rewards for their maximum value, and just playing the game and it isn't that hard. If you really want gold for the higher end items then you move into power trading but you will have to talk to someone else about that.

Of course, the real secret is not spending it. It is easier to spend 20k/hour than it is to make 10k/hour. Set yourself goals and follow them. *Only* purchase necessities if you are below a certain level of funding (and do not rationalize it, you know if it is a necessity or not). Once you go over that level *then* decide if you really want said items or not - more often than not you not only find you could live without them quite well but you want something else. This is where the vast majority of people fail.

Personally I like about 200k in the bank along with putting whatever crafting materials I happen to find and can fit into the crafting storage (excess goes to the trader) - once I decided on that number I reached it in about a month to 1.5 months of just normal playing (farm some, play some, trade some, etc). I have not gone above 250k in the year since then and am currently sitting at 197k

the_jos · Oct 31, 2007, 12:07 PM // 12:07

Just play the game and don't spend gold on things you don't need.
That's all you need to do to get 15K armor (except Vabbi) in a reasonable time (no, reasonable is not a day, not even a week...)
As strcpy stated above, setting goals and sticking to them is key.

pkodyssey · Oct 31, 2007, 12:21 PM // 12:21

I usually only break out the 55 Monk when I need to collect drops for holiday events. However, you can easily make fist fulls of coin farming undead in HM. It took me 3 or 4 runs to figure out how to do it effectively, but now its second nature. In 3 or 4 runs you have 8-10K, mods, runes, insignia's, collectable drops and usually a few golds.

55 builds are all over the wiki's (New/Old/PvX).

Go forth young man/woman. LOL

Olim Chill · Oct 31, 2007, 02:15 PM // 14:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by gremlin

Kill everything
Bring Back everything "or as much as you can"
Id it
sell it
repeat

That's generally the ticket. Also, use expert salvage kits to extract materials from "highly salvageable" items, as well as mods and runes from others (when sensible).

fujin · Oct 31, 2007, 02:29 PM // 14:29

When using the Expert Salvage Kit for rare materials, you may want to keep in mind of what you can get from it. e.g. Ruby Mauls and Daggers have a small chance of giving you a Ruby, which is a lot more expensive than the other Rare Materials.

RG450 · Oct 31, 2007, 03:15 PM // 15:15

Pick up every item dropped that you don't need and sell it. If you pick up stuff with runes, price check the runes at the rune trader; some runes are worth more than the whole item if you salvage them (some aren't, however, and you've just gotta sell the item as it is).
Dump every gold you get into your Xunlai chest and forget about it, too. It's the quickest way to save.
Instead of buying ID kits and salvage kits, trade your monastery credits for them.
Collector items, like jade bracelets, etc. stack up pretty quickly and are usually worth decent amounts of gold by themselves. The best part is, multiples of those only take up one inventory slot, so you don't have to drop or ignore other items.

Charge other players for your in-game seminar on how to make lots of gold fast by selling perfect 15^50 Rainbow Vacuum Cleaners of Fortitude door-to-door.

Quaker · Oct 31, 2007, 04:05 PM // 16:05

I mostly made money simply by playing the game. Also, vanquishing areas in hard mode can net you a lot of good stuff which you can sell.

There's two main approaches:

1. While playing, pick up all your drops. Sell most of the stuff to the merchant, but identify stuff and sell any good weapons and mods to other players. Identify any 'colored' armor, especially 'blue' armor as it's runes are often worth the most . Check the price of any runes before you salvage them, as any rune that sells for 100g or so, you will only get 25g from trader - so, often the armor is worth more than the rune.
Many people don't bother to pick up the crap white stuff, but it does all add up.

2. This requires that you spend some time selling stuff - buy keys/lockpicks and open chests (primarily in the later stages of a chapter/expansion). Most of the stuff you get is crap, but overall, between the good mods and the occasional good drop, you can make lots of money. (mostly do this in Nightfall and EoN to get newer, inscribable stuff). If you combine this with #1 above, the drops will basically pay for the lockpicks.
Btw, many people get all twisted up about whether or not their lockpick breaks when they use it - don't worry about it. You basically have a roughly 50% chance of breaking a lockpick - that simply equates to paying 750g for a key.

While I was vanquishing Elona (and parts of Cantha & prophecies) I got lots of good drops and items out of chests. I would sell lots of stuff on Guru Auction - mostly just in the 1-5k range, but it all added up real fast. At one point I had to start buying ecto because I couldn't keep any more gold in storage. Lately, I've been spending more gold than I've been making, but I see no reason to keep it beyond the release of GW2. So, just yesterday I got the rest of the FoW armor for my Mesmer (I had the chest piece). (I've had FoW armor for my Ranger for a long time and got my Warrior's during Nightfall.) Now I'm down to about 180p and 18 ectos

Of course, it helps if you have a lot of time to play. If you are short on time, you may need to resort to farming, etc.

teenchi · Oct 31, 2007, 04:08 PM // 16:08

Free chests in nightfall pay out about 13k in cash. Run them with all characters. You also get gems from some chests. That's how I make money bc I hate farming. I just hit the chests once a month. Once you've done them a few times you start getting purple weapons instead of gold and less money but it's a good way for fast cash if you have played through nightfall.

Nian · Oct 31, 2007, 04:09 PM // 16:09

Even just playing PvE with multiple characters is a good way of accumulating gold.

Dante the Warlord · Oct 31, 2007, 11:33 PM // 23:33

This topic has been around a lot, but ill still help out...

Nightfall chest runs are by far the easiest way to get money. It takes about a day or so, but you can get nice fortunes, especially since a few of the chests are SO easy to get to.

Then when you finish hunting, sell those golds and make more profit. You could possibly make around 100k if lucky! But think around 70k profit, selling golds, and hopefully not getting any armors, worthless usually unless you get a superior vigor rune.

dies like fish · Oct 31, 2007, 11:37 PM // 23:37

halls drops are good for making cash if you want to go through that boring sensation

Oct 31, 2007, 02:16 AM // 02:16	#2
Malice Black Site Legend Join Date: Oct 2005	Farm Trade Get lucky with a drop Ebay Scamming Duping Bots Runs Charging lazy people to do missions/quests/runs etc for them ^^^ most common __________________ Old Skool '05

Oct 31, 2007, 04:01 AM // 04:01	#4
Smile Like Umean It Desert Nomad Join Date: Jul 2006 Profession: E/Rt	Go check out the farming section if you don't mind farming and make sure to check out the price check section too. It comes in hand a lot. Last edited by Commander Ryker; Nov 02, 2007 at 04:58 PM // 16:58..

Oct 31, 2007, 12:21 PM // 12:21	#12
pkodyssey Wilds Pathfinder Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: In a cardboard box with Internet Guild: The Order of the Frozen Tundra (TofT) Profession: N/	I usually only break out the 55 Monk when I need to collect drops for holiday events. However, you can easily make fist fulls of coin farming undead in HM. It took me 3 or 4 runs to figure out how to do it effectively, but now its second nature. In 3 or 4 runs you have 8-10K, mods, runes, insignia's, collectable drops and usually a few golds. 55 builds are all over the wiki's (New/Old/PvX). Go forth young man/woman. LOL Last edited by pkodyssey; Oct 31, 2007 at 12:25 PM // 12:25..

Oct 31, 2007, 04:05 PM // 16:05	#16
Quaker Hell's Protector Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Canada Guild: Brothers Disgruntled	I mostly made money simply by playing the game. Also, vanquishing areas in hard mode can net you a lot of good stuff which you can sell. There's two main approaches: 1. While playing, pick up all your drops. Sell most of the stuff to the merchant, but identify stuff and sell any good weapons and mods to other players. Identify any 'colored' armor, especially 'blue' armor as it's runes are often worth the most . Check the price of any runes before you salvage them, as any rune that sells for 100g or so, you will only get 25g from trader - so, often the armor is worth more than the rune. Many people don't bother to pick up the crap white stuff, but it does all add up. 2. This requires that you spend some time selling stuff - buy keys/lockpicks and open chests (primarily in the later stages of a chapter/expansion). Most of the stuff you get is crap, but overall, between the good mods and the occasional good drop, you can make lots of money. (mostly do this in Nightfall and EoN to get newer, inscribable stuff). If you combine this with #1 above, the drops will basically pay for the lockpicks. Btw, many people get all twisted up about whether or not their lockpick breaks when they use it - don't worry about it. You basically have a roughly 50% chance of breaking a lockpick - that simply equates to paying 750g for a key. While I was vanquishing Elona (and parts of Cantha & prophecies) I got lots of good drops and items out of chests. I would sell lots of stuff on Guru Auction - mostly just in the 1-5k range, but it all added up real fast. At one point I had to start buying ecto because I couldn't keep any more gold in storage. Lately, I've been spending more gold than I've been making, but I see no reason to keep it beyond the release of GW2. So, just yesterday I got the rest of the FoW armor for my Mesmer (I had the chest piece). (I've had FoW armor for my Ranger for a long time and got my Warrior's during Nightfall.) Now I'm down to about 180p and 18 ectos Of course, it helps if you have a lot of time to play. If you are short on time, you may need to resort to farming, etc. Last edited by Quaker; Oct 31, 2007 at 04:09 PM // 16:09..

Oct 31, 2007, 02:03 AM // 02:03	#1
terminus123 Lion's Arch Merchant Join Date: Aug 2007 Profession: N/Me	How do people get their money? Well, I play a good amount on GW both, pve, pvp, and sometimes farming. I never seem to get as much money as other people (you know the people with like 300 ectos or FOW armour, even 15k armour). I really want to get for the first time full or atleast mostly 15k armour for one of my characters, assassin. I would just like to know what are some good ways to get money fast?like say around 80k.

Oct 31, 2007, 03:53 AM // 03:53	#3
Biostem Jungle Guide Join Date: Oct 2007	Here are a few key things: 1. You need to trim down your party size. If you can solo, great, if you can make do w/ only 2-3 people in your party, that's good too. A smaller party means fewer mouths to feed, so everyone gets a bigger share of the loot. 2. Know where to hunt - this is more a matter of knowing what enemies can be defeated quickly and easily, yet still yield good rewards. 3. Salvage & use freebies - in Factions and later campaigns, you can earn little trinkets for completing missions, that can be traded for more useful things like ID & salvage kits. Use these instead of buying the kits, and salvage relatively worthless items to crafting materials. Since you can store 250 units of crafting material in only 1 square of storage, it means you can hold more wealth in a smaller space. You also may get a rare crafting material, which can be used towards that more expensive armor or sold for more gold. Selling large bundles of extra crafting material can get you pretty good gold as well. 4. Price things & check online - you may be able to trade some stuff enemies drop for more valuable items, or an item that sells for very little at a vendor may be worth a lot to other players - look online for these things and you'll do well. Hope that helps.

Oct 31, 2007, 04:28 AM // 04:28	#6
cosyfiep are we there yet? Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: in a land far far away Guild: guild? I am supposed to have a guild? Profession: Rt/	'free' treasures in nightfall.....with multiple characters times 13 of them.....

Oct 31, 2007, 04:48 AM // 04:48	#7
Coloneh Furnace Stoker Join Date: Nov 2006 Profession: D/W	power trading is about the only decent way that you can actually make money in GW today. farming is kinda dead.

Oct 31, 2007, 05:09 AM // 05:09	#8
gremlin Furnace Stoker Join Date: Oct 2006 Guild: GWAR Profession: Me/Mo	80k is pretty easy to make making 80k quickly is harder. I still make my money by farming I find it more interesting that trying to sell to players. Kill everything Bring Back everything "or as much as you can" Id it sell it repeat If it has usefull runes or inscriptions extract them and use to mod gold weapons" When perfect they are worth selling. The Gold weapons come from the free treasure chests in NF

Oct 31, 2007, 07:56 AM // 07:56	#9
Fast Shootin Pre-Searing Cadet Join Date: Oct 2007 Profession: R/E	Hey terminus123 ill pay you money for helpin me with missions on GW;F

Oct 31, 2007, 09:36 AM // 09:36	#10
strcpy Desert Nomad Join Date: Jul 2005 Guild: One of Many [ONE]	If you solo farm you should be making 10k/hour or so, much more than that do not talk about it as it will be nerfed, any less and you need a better spot (assuming your main goal is gold - I have places that make 6k/hour but give me a much higher xp/hour for skill hunters that still need skill points). 10-15k has seemed to always be where Anet wants to the farmers to stay. Almost any decent hard mode place will give you that and every class in the game has a few spots that can do it. Peruse either PvXWiki's farming builds or (IMO better, though less organized) farming forums on this site. Next, farm. It doesn't take much - lets say you just farm 15 minutes a day. Even very casual players can do so, when I'm looking to increase my funds I do one farming run when I start a gaming session and one when I end. If I choose them well that is a 10-20 minute commitment. With 15 minutes a day that means you will make 25k in 10 days, 50k if you can go the full 30 minutes (remember, you just need to average this amount of time - an hour every other day is the same as 30 minutes a day). As such it doesn't take but a few months to get into the multi-hundred platinum range. Add in treasure chest in Nightfall (the ones you do not need keys - a full clearing of them is 30+k your first go, though it degrades each with each chest opened so try and stay in the higher end ones), trading in quest rewards for their maximum value, and just playing the game and it isn't that hard. If you really want gold for the higher end items then you move into power trading but you will have to talk to someone else about that. Of course, the real secret is not spending it. It is easier to spend 20k/hour than it is to make 10k/hour. Set yourself goals and follow them. Only purchase necessities if you are below a certain level of funding (and do not rationalize it, you know if it is a necessity or not). Once you go over that level then decide if you really want said items or not - more often than not you not only find you could live without them quite well but you want something else. This is where the vast majority of people fail. Personally I like about 200k in the bank along with putting whatever crafting materials I happen to find and can fit into the crafting storage (excess goes to the trader) - once I decided on that number I reached it in about a month to 1.5 months of just normal playing (farm some, play some, trade some, etc). I have not gone above 250k in the year since then and am currently sitting at 197k

Oct 31, 2007, 12:07 PM // 12:07	#11
the_jos Forge Runner Join Date: Jun 2006 Guild: Hard Mode Legion [HML] Profession: N/	Just play the game and don't spend gold on things you don't need. That's all you need to do to get 15K armor (except Vabbi) in a reasonable time (no, reasonable is not a day, not even a week...) As strcpy stated above, setting goals and sticking to them is key.

Oct 31, 2007, 02:29 PM // 14:29	#14
fujin Krytan Explorer Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Hong Kong, all the way in Asia :O Guild: Officer of United Jedi [UJ] Profession: E/	When using the Expert Salvage Kit for rare materials, you may want to keep in mind of what you can get from it. e.g. Ruby Mauls and Daggers have a small chance of giving you a Ruby, which is a lot more expensive than the other Rare Materials.

Oct 31, 2007, 03:15 PM // 15:15	#15
RG450 Pre-Searing Cadet Join Date: Oct 2007	Pick up every item dropped that you don't need and sell it. If you pick up stuff with runes, price check the runes at the rune trader; some runes are worth more than the whole item if you salvage them (some aren't, however, and you've just gotta sell the item as it is). Dump every gold you get into your Xunlai chest and forget about it, too. It's the quickest way to save. Instead of buying ID kits and salvage kits, trade your monastery credits for them. Collector items, like jade bracelets, etc. stack up pretty quickly and are usually worth decent amounts of gold by themselves. The best part is, multiples of those only take up one inventory slot, so you don't have to drop or ignore other items. Charge other players for your in-game seminar on how to make lots of gold fast by selling perfect 15^50 Rainbow Vacuum Cleaners of Fortitude door-to-door.

Oct 31, 2007, 04:08 PM // 16:08	#17
teenchi Lion's Arch Merchant Join Date: May 2005 Location: PST Guild: Heros of Titans Realm [HotR] Profession: W/Mo	Free chests in nightfall pay out about 13k in cash. Run them with all characters. You also get gems from some chests. That's how I make money bc I hate farming. I just hit the chests once a month. Once you've done them a few times you start getting purple weapons instead of gold and less money but it's a good way for fast cash if you have played through nightfall.

Oct 31, 2007, 04:09 PM // 16:09	#18
Nian Wilds Pathfinder Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Finland Profession: R/	Even just playing PvE with multiple characters is a good way of accumulating gold.

Oct 31, 2007, 11:33 PM // 23:33	#19
Dante the Warlord Desert Nomad Join Date: Jul 2006 Profession: W/R	This topic has been around a lot, but ill still help out... Nightfall chest runs are by far the easiest way to get money. It takes about a day or so, but you can get nice fortunes, especially since a few of the chests are SO easy to get to. Then when you finish hunting, sell those golds and make more profit. You could possibly make around 100k if lucky! But think around 70k profit, selling golds, and hopefully not getting any armors, worthless usually unless you get a superior vigor rune.

Oct 31, 2007, 11:37 PM // 23:37	#20
dies like fish Jungle Guide Join Date: Jun 2006 Guild: Winter Wonderland [brrr] Profession: W/E	halls drops are good for making cash if you want to go through that boring sensation