Curse

Loki Seiguro · Jun 04, 2006, 07:16 PM // 19:16

well here is what i sometimes say to my brother. GW items are much like relastate. You buy things cheapo and then re sell for big amounts of mullah. now yes this does not get you back enough more then to be satified.

most people to get that much money farm for items that are oerfectly modded (eg. 15^50, max dmg, req 8, 20/20, +30 hp) and sell it for 100k+ ecto.

and its not that hard to get more then 200k. all you have to do is farm and sell your money willl build up over time.

now remember prices are always fluctuating so.. sometimes the market is slow. also poeple that use this sites auction pay extramly insane amounts for weapons that well...arent very good. whihc also brings up an age old question - why are gold so expensive but greens with exactly the same mods are 10 times cheaper? - i mean are you going to mod the weapoin anyway? - but sometings are answered with the release of factions - (eg. the upgrade of the sundering lvl form 10/10 to 20/20)

The Herbalizer · Jun 04, 2006, 09:44 PM // 21:44

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Originally Posted by Death Lord

well i belonge to the extreme high end players i make 200 k per hour ... and so does my friends farming etc... pls dont ask me for mony.. i dont give away... cant give away to everyone

but i got this friend who is quting the game pm him...

he got like 50 million +...

read this i am spreading the word he is quting the game

dont know were to post this deal but my friend is quting the game he is giving away 50 k to eveyrone he got like 2000 ectos and max storage of 1 million

he is giving away 50 k to everyone that pms him this week

Woaini Nana << the richest player in the game is quiting he is gaving away 50 k to everyone !!! PM HIM when he is online... told me to spread the word !!!

His in game name is >>>>>> Woaini Nana

more like he scammed you or you dont like him. Noone with that kind of gold is unknown. I pretty much know all of the incredibly wealthy in guild wars and i have never heard of him. 2000 ectos is not 50 million either. 200k farming consitently per hour is rubbish too.

Da Cebuano · Jun 04, 2006, 10:10 PM // 22:10

I for one can't make more than 100k per hour, nor even close to that ^^ I farm to get rare items and to explore, or even for the hell of it, the fact that I'm alone and trying to clear is fun to me. I make money out of trades and selling items I find. 200k per hour or even 100k to me is somewhat rubbish and probly over exaggerated, but who knows, if they really can do that, more power to them, but consider this:

Lets say they play 2-3hrs a day(w/ 1 hr dedicated to farming), in 10 days thats 1mill

if all they do is farm then 4days @ 3hrs day = 1mill 200k

lets say they have been doing this for a month, potential: 9mill per month

Well, if its true then I say congratz, note that I am skeptical but I am not one to deny them of their claims. I myself only have made 5 mill total the entire year I've been playing @ 1350+ hrs(I am not a beta player, I've been playing 2 weeks after release

I missed the unconditional days).

@ that rate of production, we'd have saveral ankhelus type individual walking around

The most I've ever made was about 200k+ in the first hour of logging in, which was people pming me to buy stuff, so technically, I guess I too can claim to make 200k per hour

Megamanfan · Jun 04, 2006, 10:14 PM // 22:14

All I know is that the people who run this game said we can make more by playing the game than by farming. I call bullshit, but then again I'm not that lucky for drops.

Fist_of_God · Jun 05, 2006, 02:22 AM // 02:22

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Originally Posted by Megamanfan

All I know is that the people who run this game said we can make more by playing the game than by farming. I call bullshit, but then again I'm not that lucky for drops.

I agree. Playing the game without any farming whatsoever, I was able to make around 30k in a 1 month period of time. Soon afterwards, I started talking to my friends whom have been playing the game for 2 months before I bought it, they were able to enlighten me about uw and fow farming.

Well, within a month I had a full stack of ecto and well on my way. At the time I started farming ecto prices were around 10k each I believe, sometime in June of last year. To me, other than buying low and selling high, this farming process is needed to generate a steady income, and even more so since there has been multiple nerfs since then. I imagine some people are lucky enough to win HoH and thus wouldn't have to farm at all, especially if they get a perfect uber weapon to sell(ie..Crystalline or Dwarven).

capitalist · Jun 05, 2006, 04:16 AM // 04:16

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Originally Posted by Da Cebuano

I simply love reading the responses of these tunnel visioned @$$hats who think that if they can't do it then no one can ^^ hey, if the world was made so all of us are equal, then we'd all have business empires and sleeping w/ super models, while driving our 1mill cars while getting a BJ in traffic. ...

This is how trader nubs go nowadays, lets not even delve into the deeper bowels of GW morons. Then they complain to Anet about nerfing the successful people -_- seriously, I would love to meet some of these limited individuals in real life just to see how they interact in everyday life. I bet they see someone driving a BMW and think *Man, he ebayed his dollars, bet he stole from a bank*

I agree with you 100%. All I can say is that I was noob once. I posted in PC threads with the standard noob "why does this cost so much when collector's items are better." Then I decided I wanted gold items. Then I worked for them. Then I sold some shit. Then I pwnd everyone's Mom. Now I am rich... and there is some noob somewhere who isn't... to all the noobcomplainerhaters... haikthxbai.

Oh Shit! I do actually drive a BMW... CPTLIST ftw.

masterbeef · Jun 05, 2006, 04:25 AM // 04:25

nak gets BJs in traffic jams too from his hot gf...guess he ebayed life

Arwen Granger · Jun 05, 2006, 04:48 AM // 04:48

I remember that in the not too distant past the prices for ectos and shards were reset and I know a number of guildies bought stacks of them at 300g each. I also remember that when Tombs first came out how we all got in to get Victo's Axe/Bulwarks and sell for ridiculous amount of gold.
Also remember when SF first came out how we went in to do 5 man FA farming for all the SF greens where at one stage I got all 71 greens in storage (still plenty left atm). I also remember that we finished Factions within first 36 hours and sold the Exalted Aegis for 200k each. I also remember that we used to do a FoW run at least daily and each trip nets like 30k on average (more if you got good drops). I also remember that after 12 Urgoz kills I finally got his longbow when my friend sold his 10 days ago for 100k+85 ectos and I'm kicking myself why didn't it drop earlier?

The point here is that if you want to make money in GW, you gotta be in a good team/guild. I'm thankful that I'm.

Angelica · Jun 05, 2006, 05:13 AM // 05:13

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Originally Posted by pork soldier

I've sold a lot of things to a lot of stupid people though ^^

Thx very much! I'll keep this in mind before buying thing from now on! I don't find your last phrase funny at all!

Blacktemplar · Jun 05, 2006, 07:13 AM // 07:13

I think alot of people make money by trading than by farming at all. It's a fact that there are unknowledgable and smart players in gw. People abuse eager or unknowledable buyers all the time to rip them off and make tons of money. People buy low and sell high, more like ripoff artists. e.g. wtb all your mini pets 20k. Sell them for 50 -60k. People sell cd keys, and accounts and they get scammed making 100k - 200k an hour. I think alot of pvpers don't even give a crap about pve. Having fow armor won't make you uber strong in the arenas just uber nice to surge, degen, spike, condition, edenial. I rather respect the hohers that give us favor, and pvers that are actually good at pvping too. Dunno what to do with my money besides give it away, buy armor, and extremely over priced weapons that have the same stats as collectors. Already gave away 200k to my guild for merchants. What else? pvp or quit the game and give away all your hard earned money.

graveofgods · Jul 14, 2006, 02:53 AM // 02:53

really if u farm all day long for 1000+ hrs: u dont have anything better to do
if u buy ebay gold: ur wasting money
if u scam people: ur going to lose ur account within the the next 3-5 business days

Sir Green Aluminum · Jul 14, 2006, 03:19 AM // 03:19

I'm suprized this topic did'nt get deleted. I made a thread like this one a while before factions came out and it got closed for some reason. Anywaysy, back then I ran missions and was pretty rich, I had alittle less than a mil and I had all the 15k sets on all my 3 characters. And then I noticed a trend of more and more people getting 15k sets. I was like hurm, how did peoples get so rich?

At the time I was bringing a 4th character through and I noticed all this movement on the radar towards the exit of a mission town. I think the mission was the one which you had to steal the scepter and escape (being vague so no spoilers). Anyways from my past MMORPG experience I noticed the players running towards the door were Chinese players. There was a steady flow of them all running out side. I pmed them in Chinese and they responded, no they are not bots, they just don't speak english.

You know you can tell by the name, like Red Apple, Bad Young girl and other stuff like that. And I also noticed that in the main town of the desert, in the international districts that there were Chinese people selling things, this was of course before GW had a Chinese version. Anywayys yeah so yes there was an steady ebay system going on like in my original post with all these chinese farmers. Just because you do'nt see it does'nt mean they're not in the international districts or are mistaken for bots, or are farming in their own instances.

I mean look, 15k armour is the new 1.5k and FOW is kind of becoming the new 15k.

sky the unstopable · Jul 16, 2006, 05:30 AM // 05:30

that is totaly true. once I have a set of 15k armor its prolly not cool anymore.

The milk shake · Jul 16, 2006, 05:55 AM // 05:55

spoiled kids, ebay, simple reason

TadaceAce · Jul 16, 2006, 06:17 AM // 06:17

I farmed 730k in a week from flesh golems before it was nerfed. Now I look back and wonder where is all went... Amazing how money disappears, 8 months later I have nothing to show for it.

elavro · Jul 16, 2006, 08:21 AM // 08:21

right now I have hmmm 22k or so, I only had more than 100k once, when I sold a victo's axe. I tried farming, but its sooo boring, sometimes I solo the uw forest, but that doesn't happen alot. I don't need money, I'm having fun, wich is more important than having 500k gold, imo

Domino · Jul 16, 2006, 08:24 AM // 08:24

People horde dies and rare materials, and when a situation arises (Like the Dragon Festival) they unload everything they've got and make a killing.

When the dye trader was patched, people became millionaires overnight. Whether you can fault someone for being in the right place at the right time is fair or not, that's not for me to say.

Silent Kitty · Jul 16, 2006, 09:21 AM // 09:21

Getting 100K on your account is easy:

1: Start a new character.
2: Do all profession quests for Monastery credits on Shing Jea Island.
3: Exchange credits for Scroll of adventurrers insight, at the monastery quartermaster.
4: Sell the scrolls for 100G each at the merchant.
5: At that point you have about 5K and bring money to your stash.
6: Delete character and start new one. (Warriors or assassins are best for this)

Every noob like me, can make money like that. In one week I had more than 200K in my storage, untill I begun to buy stuff

Priest Of Sin · Jul 16, 2006, 10:07 AM // 10:07

In my opinion, I believe i've mastered the art of farming, but I have NEVER had an item (save for greens) that had absolutely positively perfect uber godlike stats. Take my friend for instance. He got a Gothic Axe. Very nice I say. I look closer, it's 15^50, 20/20, +30. I say "Gee, how much did it cost you to mod this?" he says "It dropped like that". BS! 100% perfect from a drop my ass...

Avarre · Jul 16, 2006, 10:13 AM // 10:13

I've gotten only one 'perfect drop' (15^50 +30 20/20 katana). I'd have to say the majority are likely modded, but its the skin and inherent damage mod that really count.