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Maxiemonster · Sep 25, 2006, 08:46 PM // 20:46

How to become a millionaire:
- Don't be lazy. Pick everything up you can, make use of salvaging, sell crappy golds to people in Ascalon. Also, test your valuable golds before identifying, and consider selling them unidentified.
- Find an exploit, and exploit it like noone has ever exploited and exploit. Tthis will require alot of luck though...

It worked for me, and it might work for you.
- Farm. The Underworld, Fissure of Woe, green farming (especially Sunreach

), the simple stuff (Trolls, Minotaurs etc.).
- Run people. As far as I know, Monk runs are most profitable. Short runs in the Southern Shiverpeaks fetch you alot of gold, and the demand is very decent. Ranger, Assassins and Warriors are also great at running though

- Buy high, sell low. Will require alot of knowledge of the current pricing, and you will have to have patients to stand in town for hundreds of hours.
- Be creative. Lately I've been seeing nice ideas to make money popping up everywhere. If you're the first, you're going to make alot of profit (untill people copy your idea, of course).

KitoNazuro · Sep 25, 2006, 11:27 PM // 23:27

The best way i have found to make money that has gotten me over 3m+ in the total time i have played GW (Witch is 2000+ hours) is to just help people...and pick up your drops. You will sometimes get that rare gold you been looking for or a random gold that sells for alot and make sure to take keys with you as well, since most of the time i have always ran across chests.

lennymon · Sep 26, 2006, 12:23 AM // 00:23

100 ectos should take a 'dedicated' ecto farmer doing say 10-15 runs a week(easy), would take mebbe 4-6 weeks to farm this many. thats the better part of a million gold right there, even not counting all the other stuff/loot you'd get. I know from firsthand experience also back from doing deep runs that after 2 runs, say roughly 4 hours, I'd get roughly 20k-250k depending on drops, 20k being VERY unlucky. 250k was back when kanaxai's edge/axe was worth a little more but still...

byteme! · Sep 26, 2006, 12:53 AM // 00:53

I made over 1mil during the 11 months I've played GW.
Buy Low - Sell High
Solo Farming
UW
FOW
Casual gaming with others
(I can sit here and make a huge list of ways to make money but I'll assume everyone has a brain.)

Never once used ebay which kinda contradicts the OP's belief that rich, experienced GW players all use ebay.

Chris Blackstar · Sep 26, 2006, 01:10 AM // 01:10

I have yet to make a millon gold, but these players are right, if there is a will then it will pay. I farm once or twice a week, for less then an hour each time, I don't farm the high yield places, and I am a free spender, in my life time with GW, I am sure I have earned well over 1 million plus in gold, my current standing is around 600K, I have many perfect golds, but I tend to only sell them for 5K to 15K dependant on skins and mods.

It's the stupid players who drive up prices, the ones who buy gold off ebay, or got lucky and found a bug, or created one that gave them high gold yields, that ruin it for the rest, by feeding the fire and just spending gold like it's nothing. Yes players are always going to take advantage of anothers stupidty, I don't blame them, but it is here to stay, so farm your gold and spend it as you see fit.

Evilsod · Sep 26, 2006, 01:18 AM // 01:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maxiemonster

- Find an exploit, and exploit it like noone has ever exploited and exploit. Tthis will require alot of luck though...

It worked for me, and it might work for you.

I wouldn't say exploit. Exploit is like saying your doing something using bugged skills or bugged AI (like the old Koosun/Kai).

Farming bosses that have high priced items and can be regularly farmed is the best method if you'd rather farm than stand in towns power selling. In the space of 3 days i made around 300k from Kaolin Staves purely because i was 1 of the first to realise the builds potential when it was posted (although when i came to post of the findings it was already out). Since the prices are still high... i could easily make a million from this 1 area given a couple of weeks (and a decent lag free connection...

).

Its not like i farm all the time im online, i help out guildies too etc, progress other chars. But at least its more enjoyable than the really boring ones who chest run the same area 24/7 just to get a Sephis Axe... then never actually do anything with the 100s of ectos they got.

Jackylicious · Sep 26, 2006, 01:55 AM // 01:55

Step one in making money, stop spending your time complaining about those who have more than you do and more time doing something about it.

Vahn Roi · Sep 26, 2006, 02:19 AM // 02:19

My method of money making is slow, but steady. I farm minos every night for about 30 minutes. I started a totally new character about 3 weeks ago who now has 15k Canthan armor and 50k straight gold atm. Not rich, but well off.

Finding the occasional green helps too...

Crystal Alice · Sep 26, 2006, 03:34 AM // 03:34

it's true that many people do buy money off of ebay because it is quick and you get a lot of gold for a low dollar price. so you can be broke one second and have 1,000k the next second to buy whatever you want, like FoW armor or mini bone dragons.

with me, every farm i do is with my monk. my monk is everything for my factions and prophecies farms. not to mention, like everyone else has been commenting on, soloing the UW can get you very nice profits...
another thing you might want to do is constantly try new builds to farm different bosses. Many of the hard to farm bosses' greens are high in price.

i always thought that your account would be deleted if you bought gold off of ebay. isn't this true?

Malice Black · Sep 27, 2006, 02:41 AM // 02:41

Apparently someone got caught Ebaying many millions and only got a temp ban.

oneiros · Sep 27, 2006, 04:23 AM // 04:23

It really doesn't matter how much money other people have. The things people buy are mostly for status symbols.

Money is so easy to come by in this game now thanks to the constant influx of it without it being sunk back into the system. How much money did people manage to earn over the preview weekend without any access to their storage? That was all new money that would have been added to the system if storage was around.

What you need to do is take advantage of the market and sell the good drops you get to others for major cash. sure, you may want to use it but if you're worried about your cash flow then selling it will do you far better because you can get a comparable piece with only a little effort. Once you start selling the good stuff you find you will suddenly be drowning in money especially if you aren't turning around to buy stuff for your character(s).

One of the best times to capatalize on making money is whenever A.net introduces new content. Remember when Tombs became a PvE area and how much the greens from there were selling for when it first came out? everyone had an equal chance to get the items but people will pay big cash to be one of the "first" to have it. look for chances like that and cash in, you'll be rich before you know it.

some guy · Sep 27, 2006, 04:53 AM // 04:53

The problem is Anet can't really inforce this, because of the private policy from ebay.

technician · Sep 27, 2006, 09:46 AM // 09:46

It's not hard , think about it . You can make a million in 3 weeks if you wanted at the rate of farming 7-8 ecto a night . You just need to be dedicated , other than that theres chances of a lucky drop , you can run the shiverpeaks tour (60k average for a 35-40 min run) . Farming greens for example the Scar Eater , takes what? A minute and 30 seconds to farm him and it sells for about 20k-25k not as much as it used to but yeah , stuff to do if you do not have favor.

Uzul · Sep 27, 2006, 04:13 PM // 16:13

Although I never held the million(s) in my own hands... I am sure i accumulated them over the many months that I have played. Most of it went straight towards the characters: skills, items, armor. I never held more than 200-300k at once mostly for the reasons that there was always been something I could spend it on. O_o
Most of the time I have between 5 and 40k at hand; easy come - easy go: and if I need a larger sum for something I just save up while dedicating part of my time towards that goal. Like many others mentioned, if you are not stupid and are not afraid to put some effort into things, then you can get rich pretty fast. Just play efficently and it will work out...

Having money and nothing to spend it on is (imo) pointless.
I feel rich because I have a great guild, great friends and a pretty decent understanding of the whole game. That's nothing money can buy you.

Shakti · Sep 27, 2006, 04:57 PM // 16:57

It is mainly a combo of when you started and if/how you farm. I started 16 months ago...when I started say Ettin farming for example, a sup absorbtion rune was selling for 100k at the trader...for the newer ppl, Sup Absorbtion went at trader 100k solid for MONTHS. Hence just one ettin run I cleared 117k as my best ettin run. So yeah, as a person who has played for a long time with many chars over 2200+ hrs, I have well over a mil, and fow etc....but so what? I have guildies who have trouble affording droks/kaineng armor who are VERY good players. They either don't have time to farm or haven't been playing as long or are more into storyline PVE (one guy has 3 chars with BOTH protector titles and has under 10k in his acct) In my guild we give each other money/items freely, all the time, and HELP. I have NEVER bought ebay gold, I HATE all the asian gold farmers (you buy you buy?) and would never support that industry. Its just knowing how/where/when/what to farm, stuff to "invest" in etc.

Thing to remember ppl...IT IS GAME GOLD YOU CAN ~ONLY~ USE IT TO BUY GAME STUFF! Why not be generous to guildies and have FUN?

Swinging Fists · Sep 27, 2006, 06:36 PM // 18:36

I've been playing about 6 months. I have about a million. I was about 1.2 million, but I just bought a bunch of skills. I made most of it from selling amulets when they were 50k, and farming jade / amber from repeatable quests. I only had about 100k when Factions came out. I don't farm the UW / FoW, but I think I will start. I've been working on titles recently and haven't been too concerned with farming.