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jaibas17 · Jun 19, 2006, 10:23 PM // 22:23

making money is easy, it just depends on the amount of thinking you need to put it in.

everytime theres new greens, they sell like hot potatoes to ppl that are too lazy enough to farm them

4 weeks ago, I made 395k just by farming green weapons, while the prices were high

sold razajan's for 70k, jacqui's aegis for 60, etc

some days ago totem axes came, and sold 3 in 2 hours and made another 120k

play the merchant, read the forums, and always sell the new items, they will surely go down in price in some time

makosi · Jun 19, 2006, 10:34 PM // 22:34

55hp monk Underworld farming. Get yourself the armour + runes (cheap now) and capture Spell Breaker in Mineral Springs. Well it got me 6 Fissure armours but it did take a lot of grinding (which i enjoy). You'll need an SS/SV necro too which are plentiful in Temple of the Ages. PM me in-game for more info in required.

Age · Jun 19, 2006, 10:51 PM // 22:51

I need to get up to 400k and I have about 150 or 200k in total on all char.I am not one who like to sell things in town although I do solo farm when I am in mood.What is the best way to sell things like weapons ect.You cap spell breaker in snake dance not mineral springs that is shield of judgment.I still have skills do think about as well.

makosi · Jun 19, 2006, 10:53 PM // 22:53

Thanks Age. Always get those two mixed up. Both a pain in the arse for capping skills.

Ineffiable · Jun 20, 2006, 12:28 AM // 00:28

You know what, do raisu palace mission atm, do chest and you could get 100k+ecto items.

Mustache Mayhem · Jun 20, 2006, 01:00 AM // 01:00

I made over 600k this weekend.. that's all I'm gonna say =] you can make money but you need to be crafty.. alot of selling involved and solo farming expensive greens (after every new patch with new greens = big money).. did 9 chests in raisu and got some good forgotten stuff- the new greens are on the way down though the drop rate was cut on my farming spot already.. used to get a green 1 in 2-3 runs friday.. now around 1 in 8-10

Ozric · Jun 20, 2006, 03:15 PM // 15:15

Gold had always been a problem for me early in the game. I remember first getting to Ventari's, seeing what I had to do to get the armor there, and having to backtrack and farm to get it. In those areas, gold drops were low, I had to salvage specific drops to get the building materials I needed,...well basically I guess I must've been eating Ramen and beans every night.

Things got better when I got to the Shiverpeaks, and I was always around 50-80k gold and playing happily.

After setting the game down for 6 months, I came back and found the much awaited Sorrow's Furnace had been implemented. Farmed that and did better. Then found Tombs, and steadily my in game net worth kept going up and up.

I was probably worth half a million gold, and I'd never solo farmed anything (never could get into playin' an online game in single-player), then Factions and faction farming quickly made me a GW millionaire by last week, when Amber began it's quick slide.

Now I'm just gonna spend it on keys to get some titles, and maybe I'll get lucky and find a few perfect golds doing it.

fb2000 · Jun 20, 2006, 04:39 PM // 16:39

buy low sell high is a good way to go it seems..
personally ive never done it, all my cash is from soloing stuff. dont say you cant make cash this way

and why do you actually need gold that bad for?

kmburton · Jun 27, 2006, 04:27 PM // 16:27

I have only been playing Factions for 2 weeks and making money never really occurred to me until reading all of your posts. So I have ben going out trying some of the excellent ideas you have posted here.
In the process, I have discovered something odd...
I will make a kill and see a drop of 100 gold. When I go pick it up I only get 12-16 gold added to my total. Is the game set up this way, or is this a bug? I only noticed it happening since I went to Ponmei Valley quest. I thought the problem was that I had been through there before. But the same thing is happening in the missions and quests I am doing also???
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

Teutonic Paladin · Jun 27, 2006, 04:31 PM // 16:31

Do you have other people in your group? If so, read the chat box.

wsmcasey · Jun 27, 2006, 04:31 PM // 16:31

If you were with the Henchies or in a party with other people, then that 100g is divided between you and the others in your party.

kmburton · Jun 27, 2006, 04:39 PM // 16:39

Thanks for the quick reply...
I have only played with henchies. I've been too impatient to wait to for a group. Guess I'll have to learn that skill also....

inscribed · Jun 27, 2006, 05:06 PM // 17:06

Also remember that skills cost 1000 gold each, and with there being 100+ skills for the primary profession alone, that comes out to a substantial amount of gold. Wasn't much of a deal in Prophecies since there were quests that gave you skills for a reward, but in Factions it gets to be pretty damn expensive trying to unlock all your skills for a character.

Markaedw · Jun 27, 2006, 05:43 PM // 17:43

well, in Factions even with out farming, you can make money just questing, as anoyinh as those quests are, they pay money and tokens. Those tokens can be redeemed for items, which can then be sold. I trade my tokens for expert salvage kits, 5 for 1 plat. Doing some faction farming quest or missions, jade quarry or fort aspenwood then the faction reward can be traded for jade/amber.

Doing this and just playing all my characters have 1.5 armor with sup vigor. Yes I could get the 15k, but I'm going swap out my armor every chapter so there is no point.

DragoXHellfire · Jun 27, 2006, 05:56 PM // 17:56

The way i make my money is i chest run until i get a gold drop with always 15% or 15^50 even with crappy mods this can be turned into the serious cash if u put the right mods on it and if it has a nice skin. example-Zodiac blade drops with 15^50 but has zealous and +27 health wat i would do is get a 20/20 sundering and a +30 health and sell it. enormous amounts of money have been made that way for me.

Markaedw · Jun 27, 2006, 05:56 PM // 17:56

well, in Factions even with out farming, you can make money just questing, as anoying as those quests are, they pay money and tokens. Those tokens can be redeemed for items, which can then be sold. I trade my tokens for expert salvage kits, 5 for 1 plat. Doing some faction farming quest or missions, jade quarry or fort aspenwood then the faction reward can be traded for jade/amber.

Doing this and just playing all my characters have 1.5 armor with sup vigor. Yes I could get the 15k, but I'm going swap out my armor every chapter so there is no point.

Veripare · Jun 27, 2006, 06:55 PM // 18:55

I played through the game and found a bunch of superior runes; vigors, absorbtions, fire magics, marksmenship runes... Just loads of them. I sold them all and made a 55 monk to solo the UW. When that got nerfed I started to farm trolls outside of Droknar's Forge - 1.2K-2K per run, and it got boring fast. So I did a bit of powerleveling, a bit more money and someone to talk to, soloing can really make you depressed because you don't have any friends to chat with D:

So you have a few options if you want to really make alot of money.

1. Make a 55 monk.
2. Make a SS/SV Necro for dual UW runs.
3. Make a Wammo and start doing Droknar runs.

Ventius Hozza · Jun 27, 2006, 07:12 PM // 19:12

Wow, didn't know that this thread would still be alive after all these months..., anyways, it's quite weird now how ANet have made simply playing through the game more profitable now. If you finish the game and only ever buy the kaineng 1.5 armor, you actually end up with around 30k (more or less) if i counted right. Also, the equality policy with all the armor and weapon sets available at the PvP creation screen and all that, it's nice to see.

As many people have stated in this thread, farming greens is a very good way to get money. All it takes is a little bit on ingenuity and the hordes of people who can't be bothered to get them themselves with flock to buy them. If you're relatively new to this whole "Guild Wars" thing that we are talking about and are interested in making money for yourself, I'd suggest saving up your money until around 30k-40platinum and then starting on the money ladder, kit out your character first, of course. After you get used to how the game works, etc. you could try to look in the farming section for a bit of advice on solo/dual/3-5man farming and try it out, you can make around 100-300k per day farming and selling. After a while the prices will drop on that particular weapon and you can start on a new one, maybe have a rota for farming, try a few different bosses every day.

Go, and live in peace... or something like that...

The milk shake · Jun 28, 2006, 01:17 AM // 01:17

do what some dumbass runners do and appeal to noobs w/ ebay, sell stuff like ASCALON MISSION runs for 10k, or run from ascalon to desert for 600k

b r o k e n s o u l · Aug 31, 2006, 12:35 AM // 00:35

i think the best way to make money is not to buy silly rubbish that u dont actually need for instants many people get sick to death of trying to sell things at a reasonable price and have no luck so they lower and lower until u cant resist to buy it.. its a bad move because imagine if they cant sell it really cheep how the hell are u ? the best thing to do is do quests get money and save and save until u get the thing u want and dont get draged into silly buys