Curse

plop · Jul 15, 2005, 01:35 AM // 01:35

here is someone that has 1mil gold

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=30260

twicky_kid · Jul 15, 2005, 01:50 AM // 01:50

i've been farming this area with my lvl 20 monk/mes and make about 7k per hour (just gold drops) but i've been selling the salvage items they drop from now on i won't i think i can get some leather squares from what they drop and seeing how high they are right now i'll stop selling them and start salvaging.

Xue Yi Liang · Jul 15, 2005, 01:52 AM // 01:52

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Originally Posted by Thalious Morbid

WOOOOOOOOOT Trader was buying 10 Tanned hides for 209g

sold all 250 of em

Yeah - I caught that too. I can't recall ever seeing them that high. I unloaded about 300 hides myself.

Beowulf545 · Jul 15, 2005, 03:11 AM // 03:11

Well, today I found a great spot to get gold and some weapons, mostly regular white weapons, but I did get a blue 15-20 dmg. Firey Dragon Sword, requires level 7 swordmastery, also got a Sword Hilt thingy that makes psn duration last longer on foe.

But each run takes roughly 1-2 minutes, and I get at least 100g per run, not counting any item drops. You need a very good runner though. My guy's a W/R and I have sprint, storm chaser, dodge, lightning reflexes, ballanced stance, troll unguent, healing spring, and charm animal. My pet is a bear and it really helps to draw the enemy's who would otherwise kill you. But its really cool. I got 5k gold in roughly 7-10 minutes. I don't want them to nerf it, so I'm not gonna say where it is, its really good and short though

Also, what the HELL did they do to the buying and selling screens for the materal, rune, and dye traders. They made everything worse. Like now you can sell a Obsidian Shard for like 100g, but buy it for 10k or something. WTF is up with that? They just made the buying and selling even worse than it was. Now everyone basically has to hope to FIND the item because they have to buy it for so much, and if they do find it and want to sell it, they would have to sell it to a different person. And not everyone has enough gold to pay for something like a Superior Rune of Absorption, espically when you get like NO GOLD from the traders. Now its even HARDER than it was before to get gold. Makes you not want to sell anything anymore unless its to people. It was a extremely dumb idea, whoever in the company thought up to do that should be killed......... or at least fired.
Stupid, stupid, person.... stupid...

God of Anarchy · Jul 15, 2005, 04:05 AM // 04:05

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Originally Posted by Beowulf545

Well, I suck at farming and bartering for items. I just bought the Plate set (cept for the boots, thos were Knights) from the Forge. The reason that i suck at farming is because I have the worst luck ever. In presearing, in the Catacombs, I was helping a friend to get to those very end gargoyles, the three way through. But on the way, 2 Black Dye's dropped from MY kills, yet it went to my friend. I think that that is totally unfair. Same for purp, and any other items. A Chaos Axe dropped (for my kill) yet I didn't get it, its was purp with max dmg too. I think that Arenanet should maybe try to figure out a way to even that up about who gets the items, I've never gotten a black dye for myself. I have gotten alot of silver dyes though, but not enough to make up for the 4.5k or so that black dye's are worth. No golds have dropped for me yet, I havn't gotten any good items at all. I never am able to get good items in games like GW. Diablo2 I never got anything good either. I wish that I could get a good weapon or shield for once. One of my friends today sold some sword for 100k after haveing 0g. He had just given me like all of his gold to add onto mine so that I could get the armor at the Forge. He also gave me a Chaos Axe, I think it was a 19-27 dmg one, nothing else on it, I had traded some staff that added +3 energy when health is above 30% health, 50% health, and 80% health which I think that I got from a collector in the eastern frontier or something. So the only reason that I have good armor and the axe is because of a friend. Although I did get a gold Heavy Hammer of Shelter or something like that (max dmg) for 1plat in ascalon from someone, I've been told that I could sell it for 10k+. I dont think that its worth that much, but I wish that I could sell for that much. All the gold I've had throughout the game put together would probably be 9-11k thats everything PUT TOGETHER, so its not much. My guy is a lvl 17 W/R, yet I can still beat the lvl 24 guys right before the Forge, although I did have the friend help me, but he's a lower level than me, and does more dmg because of a Chaos Axe that he has (not the one that dropped for me).
I defenently need help with farming and getting gold, but it's hard for me to since I have such rotten luck. Right now I have 440g in my storage and I have no idea how I actually have that much. Still with your help, I still hardly get anything. I've tried to salvage stuff that I've found, the highly salvagable items I've used the expert salvage kit, but the most I've gotten by using that is 5 iron ingots, no steel ones, or nothing. At the rate that I'm getting these salvaged items, it would take me probably a week to muster 1k gold. Any other advise for this? Why does the game just hate me so?

Oh, and not to go off subject, is there a warrior or ranger skill that makes my energy go up faster or gives me a certain amount per hit on an enemy? I run out to fast.

Well, thanks. I hope that I have better luck later on... tomorrows another day, maybe I'll get something worth 500g... if I''m lucky.

for some reason ive got a hunch that monks get some kind of special prvalidges with items,when i had a monk non-stop golds purps,runes all the time i though it was normal,but i made the mistake of deleting that character...im thinking of maing a new one soon

Edge Martinez · Jul 15, 2005, 07:06 AM // 07:06

Man, did they ever nerf parchment at the materials trader. 200 gold for 10? You pay that much to make it!

EDIT: You know... I mean really... it's not like I'm abusing new players by selling to the trader. My monk already saved the world, retired, and now plays the market. Only problem is they went communist overnight!

Thalious Morbid · Jul 17, 2005, 10:06 PM // 22:06

Wow... hehehe 2 days ago (wanted to post right away but for some reason I couldn't connect to this site anymore) I sold 1,500 bolts of cloth for 14g/ea and walked away with a happy amount of over 21K (the decayed orr emblems give an average of 2-3 bolts of cloth for each

so I saved up 250 of them)

vaschue kraven · Jul 17, 2005, 11:27 PM // 23:27

i do drake runs in gates of kryta.. gotten 4 gold weapons adn 3 puples in one run before.. thats where i go.

Thalious Morbid · Jul 18, 2005, 03:14 AM // 03:14

that's nice. I need to figure out a strat for my monk to tank them

more then 2 and he's not happy.

God of Anarchy · Jul 18, 2005, 06:08 AM // 06:08

this is freaking bullshit i never find farming areas gold drops,purples,i used to feel so special to find something of value but after readin this i feel sooooo pooor i only have like 4.5k apparently that is horrible,it sucks not being able to get what you want/need
trust me i know i struggle everyday...one reason i hate this game need money to do anything and making money is not exactly easy for most people...i may sound like im just bitching beacuse im jelious...well i am i wish i could i have 1mill. find items worth 20k in one hour,BE ABLE TO AFFORD STUFF...can someone leave me some advice beacuse as you can see i clearly need help,financialy,emotionally i gusse...thanks in advance

Xeno Demachilo · Jul 18, 2005, 06:20 AM // 06:20

Sounds like you may be begging to me..What level are you? What build are you? How long have u even been playing? How far are u in the game?

Master Oria · Jul 18, 2005, 07:04 AM // 07:04

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Originally Posted by Xue Yi Liang

Literally, all I got were demonic remains and dust! Meanwhile I saw everyone around me getting all the cool items.

According to the strategy guide, If you use the Expert salvage kit on Demonics remains, theres a small chance that you might get Globs of Ectoplasm. Its usualy best to salvave everything with expert kit.

Edit: for where I farm, I do sand drakes, then I'll go do some blessed
griffons with a side of Tundra giants, and for dessert I like a
frost wurm or two. Truly, Everything is good to farm, just go solo
and chop away.......
( blessed griffons often give bundles of 19 to 22 feathers each.
you know thats a lot of feathers after you've kill a dozen griffons).
Also, I've never been that rich but so far I've manage to get one
full set of dragon armor ( 15K armor ) and I'm slowly working on
the 15K gladiator armor.

Thalious Morbid · Jul 18, 2005, 01:32 PM // 13:32

you know. to this day the best drop I've had that sold for anything was a major vigor and I sold it for 12K. and that was like a month ago or so. I've found a few max damage Hammers, and haven't been able to sell them. Sometimes I wonder if it's where you hunt, because where I farm I haven't found anything max damage, that spot is mainly for farming crafting materials. The max hammers I found in Mineral Springs when I was taking the wife up there to get her Shield of Judgment... It's all luck really. I gave a guy a almost max bow I found with a string cause he didn't have a lot of money. He was kinda new. Then about a week later, we're talking about money n stuff and he already had over 100K just by playing the game and getting lucky money/item drops. What you can do is try bying tanned hides at 8-10g/ea. as many as you can. Save them untill the material handler buys them at a higher price and sell them back. Granted it could be hours, days or a week before you can sell them to him for 22g each but it's one way to make money.

Akimb0 · Jul 18, 2005, 01:48 PM // 13:48

Botting - raises prices, increases lag. A few "cheaters" who have all the items and can sell at whatever prices they want. Recently the prices people are charging for things are absurd. Not everyone has the time or patience to kill the same enemies for hours and hours at one sitting. The GW market is screwed, the npc traders are a waste of space, and the item "sharing" system is the worst ive ever seen in a game. I see people saying this item is "worth" X-gold because the trader sells for Z-Gold! items are only worth what the demand for them is, but this isnt the case on GW. Makes a man want to bot to just be able to get along in this game, otherwise due to me having a REAL job and not being Korean I will never get anywhere the way the game is.
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Just like to add when I first saw a review for this game it was saying how it doesnt matter if you cant play it for 24hours like other people, the experience would be the same, youd be able to get along through the game just as well. Just like to say total BS.

Bragg Madaxe · Jul 18, 2005, 03:33 PM // 15:33

So, um, where do you find "gold items" as opposed to just gold? Must be really far long on the map (just recently got to Frost Gate).

lynx · Jul 18, 2005, 04:04 PM // 16:04

Be a junk collector. Do not leave without picking up everything you can to sell. It ads up pretty fast. I try and have a full load of stuff to sell each time I go to a town. I have the top of the line armor for 3 characters(e/r lvl 20, e/mo lvl 20, mo/mes lvl 20) and still have over 32 platium. I see people begging for money and if they just went outside and killed something they would have some soon from the drops.

God of Anarchy · Jul 20, 2005, 04:19 AM // 04:19

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Originally Posted by Xeno Demachilo

Sounds like you may be begging to me..What level are you? What build are you? How long have u even been playing? How far are u in the game?

dude its not that its just i dont have as much luck as some people and i wanna know how they do it...
and for your questions
1.i have 3 lvl 20s working on the 4th one
2.builds=1.N/E lvl 20--ME/N lvl 20--and a Mo/Mes-lvl 20-R/E lvl 15 i think...
3.i have been playing for quite awhile
4.with the 3 lvl 20s i have all im doing now is just collecting elites
sooo i dont think im begging

but you can just keep think want ya wont beacuse i dont care

NovaTiger · Jul 20, 2005, 08:49 AM // 08:49

Dude, I read about your character and thought "He must be using my account--we're like the exact same: r/n that is basically just R and at about 11k"

creepy.

Kelly · Jul 20, 2005, 09:19 AM // 09:19

I have a very odd E/R... well people think oits odd how i use it. I put my pointts in Energy Storage, Marksmanship, and Wilderness Survival. The Method of my Madness: Emergy storage gives me extra energy for using those nifty Poison Arrows and Power shots! Those things are pretty costy for a lvl 13 e/r

Suuk · Jul 20, 2005, 10:58 AM // 10:58

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Originally Posted by Kelly

I have a very odd E/R... well people think oits odd how i use it. I put my pointts in Energy Storage, Marksmanship, and Wilderness Survival. The Method of my Madness: Emergy storage gives me extra energy for using those nifty Poison Arrows and Power shots! Those things are pretty costy for a lvl 13 e/r

Ever looked into the primary atrribute expertise? Reduces cost of skills.... So basically you have much better armor and low costs on skills if u went primary ranger...