Any fast ways to get money? - Guild Wars Forums

Legolas Ravenwood · Oct 18, 2005, 06:37 PM // 18:37

I am a level 19 Ranger/Elementalist. I am pretty new to this but atthe rate I am going I will be skint for ever . I see items being sold for like 100K (

) and the most I have ever had at any one time is 7K.

So, back on track are there any fast ways to earn cash.

I have started running from Piken to Yaks but that aint to good, since you can only take 3 people.

-Legolas Ravenwood

LotharOvsothian · Oct 18, 2005, 06:42 PM // 18:42

unfortunately, a lot of the "get rich quick" methods in gw are reserved for either mo/w's or w/mo's, as they can solo and/or run people for lots of money. however, try farming the gypsie ettins outside of gates of kryta and lions arch. they usually have good drops

wiz12268 · Oct 18, 2005, 07:10 PM // 19:10

Chest farming is a way but you have to spend to get and hope you get a perfect wepon or can salvage a perfect upgrade.

Can farm materials. A lot of low level places you can get materials to make othe rmaterials rom. Go in the low levels and take a pet so you can solo with your ranger.

Takes longer down there, but a couple hours of Charr runs should double your net worth if you only have 7k.

Lord Garofoli · Oct 18, 2005, 07:15 PM // 19:15

Farm...

Charr Killer · Oct 18, 2005, 09:11 PM // 21:11

ive heard that doing the nolani academy mission(in the beginning when u pull the lever and the gate opens is an OK place to farm if you cant fight higher lvl farming monsters) it is a whole bunch of charr at once!

Sir Skullcrasher · Oct 18, 2005, 09:29 PM // 21:29

I thought Elementlist/Mesmer is also a good farming character?

=HT=Ingram · Oct 18, 2005, 09:31 PM // 21:31

PvP Tombs. Win Celestial Sigil and sell to NPC trader. Bang. 45k a pop.

That's what most legitimate people do.

Notice I say legitimate. Meaning what was designed to be a get rich quick method.

Otherwise farm like the rest of the worthless Prattle...

(Prattle defined: Player Cattle ; Players that follow the same activity in a herd like manner)

sleazeh · Oct 18, 2005, 09:35 PM // 21:35

The upshot is that there are no "get rich quick" schemes in the game. You may get lucky on occassion with a drop that translates to a tidy sum when traded/sold, but for the most part - as alluded to above - money is gained through time and effort. Repetition, patience, luck, and the use of the salvage kit are the keys.

wiz12268 · Oct 18, 2005, 10:21 PM // 22:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by =HT=Ingram

PvP Tombs. Win Celestial Sigil and sell to NPC trader. Bang. 45k a pop.

That's what most legitimate people do.

Notice I say legitimate. Meaning what was designed to be a get rich quick method.

Otherwise farm like the rest of the worthless Prattle...

(Prattle defined: Player Cattle ; Players that follow the same activity in a herd like manner)

How many pug teams win HoH? Not to mention I doubt very highly he is even a lev 20, and just looking to get a start.

SO your condescending attitude is definately expected from an elitest PvPer, but not practical from a lot of people's stand point.

If you think it is such a good idea allow him to join your crack Tombs team next time out. I would lay 20-1 that that will never happen. So your suggestion is basically useless.

AncientPC · Oct 18, 2005, 11:08 PM // 23:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by =HT=Ingram

PvP Tombs. Win Celestial Sigil and sell to NPC trader. Bang. 45k a pop.

That's what most legitimate people do.

Notice I say legitimate. Meaning what was designed to be a get rich quick method.

Otherwise farm like the rest of the worthless Prattle...

(Prattle defined: Player Cattle ; Players that follow the same activity in a herd like manner)

Why don't you try winning HoH with a PUG team? Lay off the elitist attitude.

One and Two · Oct 18, 2005, 11:42 PM // 23:42

Actually you dork, Halls gave out one celestial sigil in the beginning. You know what that means? You get a guild hall with it.

Halls was designed to get guild halls for guilds. The trader was so that smaller guilds and weaker guilds could still buy a hall.

melbo · Oct 18, 2005, 11:59 PM // 23:59

lol, aside from becomming a l33t |> \/ |>er, just farm at the highest place you can without being killed. Just wandering around ascalon by yourself, you could make a good deal of money, since you're a high enough level to take them down quick. Otherwise you could redo missions or ask people to go farming with you at whatever point you are in the game. By far the best items will be found from the desert on, but it's also harder until you get a build working for you.

My suggestion for a farming build? meteor shower and/or firestorm when you've got a bunch of guys up on you. Basically, the whole reason farming is usually done by smite Mos or Wars is because they have AoE effects. The reason eles aren't popular farm builds is low armor. So you've got a decent build to farm with...I don't know much about ranger skills, so see if you have any AoEs to use (isn't there some AoE arrow that the charr use that makes that annoying screeching noise?). But yeah, you're not going to get any decent drops until you get to The Wilds at least, but once you get to there start ID'ing everything (even whites). It makes the price of your items go up about 99% of the time, and I've noticed a huge difference in my per-hour gold returns.

You really can't expect to have that much money on your first character before you beat the game. These people are either buying their gold off ebay (which is stupid, don't do it, it ruins things for everyone) or they're spending hours just farming. I've had about 120K so far (already spent on armor hehe) from the methods above, and I don't spend THAT much time farming (I'll do like an hour of farming each week..its just too boring for me lol).

Oh, and don't waste your money buying these weapons before you check out the desert collector's weapons. I'm not sure on rangers, but I got a GREAT staff for my ele (20/20 cast/recharge), and then I expert salvaged my mods off other drops I had and had a staff that prolly would of cost me a LOT of gold.

lyra_song · Oct 19, 2005, 12:13 AM // 00:13

Yes..best way to make money is to not spend it. Dont buy armor till droks, dont buy weapons. dont buy anything!

I think a great way to make money is to just explore. I was having fun exploring the area north of the fire corridor getting ribcages (how gruesome...) and killing weaker enemies for materials which i can sell in bulk at Droks/Grotto/Citadel.

Fyre Brand · Oct 19, 2005, 12:55 AM // 00:55

What lyra_song said. Use collectors armour, or buy the Sanctum Cay (if you are having trouble) crafters armour and then droknars later.

A max damage weapon with mediocre mods shouldn't cost more than 1 - 5k. That is more than good enough to get you through the entire game.

Don't buy skills unless you absolutely need them AND they don't come free in a quest.

Don't buy keys ever, until you get to South Shiverpeaks and later in the game. Then only buy them when you want to waste money and have a butt-ton accumulated. Unless you can afford to buy a lot at once, it's really not worth the gamble. The only keys that really pay off are for South Shiverpeaks, Sorrows Furnace, Fire Islands, and the Underwold area.

My ranger has around 75% of the mesmer and monk skills and I still have around 100k between my characters and storage. I've spent around 45k in skills for my secondaries and the good bows I have now I got as drops, selling or salvaging the earlier ones.

The amount of items you have to spend money on in this game is very minimal. Basically your armour really. If you have a truly terrible weapon then your best bet is collector weapons (max damage with good attributes, but unpopular skins on them). They are very cheap to craft and peole often sell them for 1k if you don't want to do it yourself.

AncientPC · Oct 19, 2005, 04:56 AM // 04:56

Like others have stated, the best way to have money is to not spend it. You don't need to pay to be run, you don't need to buy that better weapon for PvE.

The only thing you ever need to buy is new armor.

LordMahal · Oct 19, 2005, 05:06 AM // 05:06

Im curious... Is a "butt-ton" more than a butt load? This was on the net somewhere, but I cant remember. As for myself, I farmed alone, elem/necro using just nuke spells and elite well is power. I have a place that I go to about level 12 or so, and farm for days. One night, for 3 hours I farmed, sold every single thing that was dropped, and came out with 10k

... It was a good day. But this place, is my place and Im affraid if I told you, Id have to, well you know...

Omnidragon42 · Oct 19, 2005, 07:33 AM // 07:33

I've been playing for 4-5 days now, and I have 23,565 in the bank. Easiest way is just to kill monsters (I've been killing around kryta) and hope to get lucky ^_^

=HT=Ingram · Oct 19, 2005, 07:51 AM // 07:51

I only won the hall once in my life. and I'm not rich either. I just see people get rich that way all the time. with little worry. both in and out of my guild. I personal have no reason to carry lots of gold. I don't desire to have the uber whatever flavor of the month item is... I enjoy the game for playing not the goodies you carry. Sorry you feel you have to have that uber crystalline sword to feel like a man. To me, even that, is just another lame sword... who cares...

Most I ever had on me was like 80k. and I spend it all on 2nd set of armor and Superior Runes. now I keep around 10 k for myself for whatever. Otherwise I give it to my guild to get what they want...

However, many of our group (multi guilds) play tombs and I see them selling sigils right and left. and they are the most loaded in the game I have seen. in the upper 100s thousands normally. all from selling sigils. that's all they do. period... tombs tombs tombs tombs... Good for them. That was how it was suppose to be done. win the hall get rich quick. with the PvP system ANYONE can play the hall. no sweat. Its the winning that's the challenge. and the reward is just, for that task. That's in My opinion. sorry you feel I slighted your farming butts. do what you feel you must. I don't give a flying fig... Hell, go buy the gold if you want it so bad. Just don't come crying to me when your account gets banned for doing it.

By the way. I know I'm extremely hated in this forums now. And I'm of the opinion its cause its filled with people that don't care about the game itself, and more about what you can get away with. So be it. if I'm hated for doing the right thing and trying to preserve the original game-play to the best of my ability. I'm doing what I was meant too do. So I'll continue to report the gold retailers for as long as arenanet wants me too. if they want to bitch about it. I don't care. I'm doing the right thing for everyone. Not just the jerks that take advantage of an exploitable system.

huh · Oct 19, 2005, 08:35 AM // 08:35

The RPS Game

Game of pure luck.
You can make loads, and lose loads too.

I wouldn't really recommend this as a money-making technique though.
Just for fun and please honour your bets if you join...someone didn't.

=HT=Ingram · Oct 19, 2005, 08:51 AM // 08:51

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Originally Posted by =HT=Ingram

heck if you guys want rid of me so bad. I'm on all the other forums too. I'll just remove myself from guru as a posting / reading choice, and stop mirroring maps and stuff which I get 100s of hits a day on now... for the MOOMANiBE mapping project. Ever since his server went down many of us have been mirroring for him. It would be no problem to go back and manually delete every post I ever made on guru. I have the perfect vBulletin script for doing just that.

Heck you know what. forget it. I'm not deleting all my posts, I just did like 100 of em, and I figure if you don't like it. too bad. No sense not allowing others to see them for what they are, regardless of what you think of me.

I'm just tired of the same old thing over and over with some people. I give up. I'm sick of being the bad guy here. I'm almost sic of the game as a whole. If it wasn't for the beta at the moment I doubt I would be playing at all. If I were a new person coming in and seeing the game the way it is right now, I would play a grand total of a week before throwing it in the trash. especially with the attitude everyone gives a new person to the game.

Oct 18, 2005, 06:37 PM // 18:37	#1
Legolas Ravenwood Frost Gate Guardian Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: England Profession: N/R	Any fast ways to get money? I am a level 19 Ranger/Elementalist. I am pretty new to this but atthe rate I am going I will be skint for ever . I see items being sold for like 100K ( ) and the most I have ever had at any one time is 7K. So, back on track are there any fast ways to earn cash. I have started running from Piken to Yaks but that aint to good, since you can only take 3 people. -Legolas Ravenwood

Oct 18, 2005, 09:31 PM // 21:31	#7
=HT=Ingram Forge Runner Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Anchorage Alaska Guild: Haz Team [HT] Profession: R/W	PvP Tombs. Win Celestial Sigil and sell to NPC trader. Bang. 45k a pop. That's what most legitimate people do. Notice I say legitimate. Meaning what was designed to be a get rich quick method. Otherwise farm like the rest of the worthless Prattle... (Prattle defined: Player Cattle ; Players that follow the same activity in a herd like manner) Last edited by =HT=Ingram; Oct 18, 2005 at 09:37 PM // 21:37..

Oct 19, 2005, 07:51 AM // 07:51	#18
=HT=Ingram Forge Runner Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Anchorage Alaska Guild: Haz Team [HT] Profession: R/W	I only won the hall once in my life. and I'm not rich either. I just see people get rich that way all the time. with little worry. both in and out of my guild. I personal have no reason to carry lots of gold. I don't desire to have the uber whatever flavor of the month item is... I enjoy the game for playing not the goodies you carry. Sorry you feel you have to have that uber crystalline sword to feel like a man. To me, even that, is just another lame sword... who cares... Most I ever had on me was like 80k. and I spend it all on 2nd set of armor and Superior Runes. now I keep around 10 k for myself for whatever. Otherwise I give it to my guild to get what they want... However, many of our group (multi guilds) play tombs and I see them selling sigils right and left. and they are the most loaded in the game I have seen. in the upper 100s thousands normally. all from selling sigils. that's all they do. period... tombs tombs tombs tombs... Good for them. That was how it was suppose to be done. win the hall get rich quick. with the PvP system ANYONE can play the hall. no sweat. Its the winning that's the challenge. and the reward is just, for that task. That's in My opinion. sorry you feel I slighted your farming butts. do what you feel you must. I don't give a flying fig... Hell, go buy the gold if you want it so bad. Just don't come crying to me when your account gets banned for doing it. By the way. I know I'm extremely hated in this forums now. And I'm of the opinion its cause its filled with people that don't care about the game itself, and more about what you can get away with. So be it. if I'm hated for doing the right thing and trying to preserve the original game-play to the best of my ability. I'm doing what I was meant too do. So I'll continue to report the gold retailers for as long as arenanet wants me too. if they want to bitch about it. I don't care. I'm doing the right thing for everyone. Not just the jerks that take advantage of an exploitable system. Last edited by =HT=Ingram; Oct 19, 2005 at 09:03 AM // 09:03..

Oct 19, 2005, 08:35 AM // 08:35	#19
huh Wilds Pathfinder Join Date: Aug 2005 Guild: Hou Lan Geng [HLG]	The RPS Game Game of pure luck. You can make loads, and lose loads too. I wouldn't really recommend this as a money-making technique though. Just for fun and please honour your bets if you join...someone didn't. Last edited by huh; Oct 19, 2005 at 03:14 PM // 15:14..

Oct 18, 2005, 06:42 PM // 18:42	#2
LotharOvsothian Ascalonian Squire Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Houston, TX Guild: Warrior Nation Profession: Mo/Me	unfortunately, a lot of the "get rich quick" methods in gw are reserved for either mo/w's or w/mo's, as they can solo and/or run people for lots of money. however, try farming the gypsie ettins outside of gates of kryta and lions arch. they usually have good drops

Oct 18, 2005, 07:10 PM // 19:10	#3
wiz12268 Wilds Pathfinder Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: California Guild: Men In Black	Chest farming is a way but you have to spend to get and hope you get a perfect wepon or can salvage a perfect upgrade. Can farm materials. A lot of low level places you can get materials to make othe rmaterials rom. Go in the low levels and take a pet so you can solo with your ranger. Takes longer down there, but a couple hours of Charr runs should double your net worth if you only have 7k.

Oct 18, 2005, 07:15 PM // 19:15	#4
Lord Garofoli Frost Gate Guardian Join Date: Jul 2005 Guild: Souls of Heroes Profession: Mo/	Farm...

Oct 18, 2005, 09:11 PM // 21:11	#5
Charr Killer Frost Gate Guardian Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: In a box on a street corner Guild: Blazin Dragons [BD]	ive heard that doing the nolani academy mission(in the beginning when u pull the lever and the gate opens is an OK place to farm if you cant fight higher lvl farming monsters) it is a whole bunch of charr at once!

Oct 18, 2005, 09:29 PM // 21:29	#6
Sir Skullcrasher Furnace Stoker Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: California Guild: 15 over 50 [Rare] Profession: W/Mo	I thought Elementlist/Mesmer is also a good farming character?

Oct 18, 2005, 09:35 PM // 21:35	#8
sleazeh Frost Gate Guardian Join Date: May 2005 Location: good from far, far from good Guild: Gaming Continuum Profession: Mo/Me	The upshot is that there are no "get rich quick" schemes in the game. You may get lucky on occassion with a drop that translates to a tidy sum when traded/sold, but for the most part - as alluded to above - money is gained through time and effort. Repetition, patience, luck, and the use of the salvage kit are the keys.

Oct 18, 2005, 11:42 PM // 23:42	#11
One and Two Jungle Guide Join Date: Aug 2005	Actually you dork, Halls gave out one celestial sigil in the beginning. You know what that means? You get a guild hall with it. Halls was designed to get guild halls for guilds. The trader was so that smaller guilds and weaker guilds could still buy a hall.

Oct 18, 2005, 11:59 PM // 23:59	#12
melbo Frost Gate Guardian Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: New York Profession: E/Mo	lol, aside from becomming a l33t \|> \/ \|>er, just farm at the highest place you can without being killed. Just wandering around ascalon by yourself, you could make a good deal of money, since you're a high enough level to take them down quick. Otherwise you could redo missions or ask people to go farming with you at whatever point you are in the game. By far the best items will be found from the desert on, but it's also harder until you get a build working for you. My suggestion for a farming build? meteor shower and/or firestorm when you've got a bunch of guys up on you. Basically, the whole reason farming is usually done by smite Mos or Wars is because they have AoE effects. The reason eles aren't popular farm builds is low armor. So you've got a decent build to farm with...I don't know much about ranger skills, so see if you have any AoEs to use (isn't there some AoE arrow that the charr use that makes that annoying screeching noise?). But yeah, you're not going to get any decent drops until you get to The Wilds at least, but once you get to there start ID'ing everything (even whites). It makes the price of your items go up about 99% of the time, and I've noticed a huge difference in my per-hour gold returns. You really can't expect to have that much money on your first character before you beat the game. These people are either buying their gold off ebay (which is stupid, don't do it, it ruins things for everyone) or they're spending hours just farming. I've had about 120K so far (already spent on armor hehe) from the methods above, and I don't spend THAT much time farming (I'll do like an hour of farming each week..its just too boring for me lol). Oh, and don't waste your money buying these weapons before you check out the desert collector's weapons. I'm not sure on rangers, but I got a GREAT staff for my ele (20/20 cast/recharge), and then I expert salvaged my mods off other drops I had and had a staff that prolly would of cost me a LOT of gold.

Oct 19, 2005, 12:13 AM // 00:13	#13
lyra_song Hell's Protector Join Date: Oct 2005 Profession: R/Mo	Yes..best way to make money is to not spend it. Dont buy armor till droks, dont buy weapons. dont buy anything! I think a great way to make money is to just explore. I was having fun exploring the area north of the fire corridor getting ribcages (how gruesome...) and killing weaker enemies for materials which i can sell in bulk at Droks/Grotto/Citadel.

Oct 19, 2005, 12:55 AM // 00:55	#14
Fyre Brand Krytan Explorer Join Date: Sep 2005 Guild: Shadowlight Order [SoR]	What lyra_song said. Use collectors armour, or buy the Sanctum Cay (if you are having trouble) crafters armour and then droknars later. A max damage weapon with mediocre mods shouldn't cost more than 1 - 5k. That is more than good enough to get you through the entire game. Don't buy skills unless you absolutely need them AND they don't come free in a quest. Don't buy keys ever, until you get to South Shiverpeaks and later in the game. Then only buy them when you want to waste money and have a butt-ton accumulated. Unless you can afford to buy a lot at once, it's really not worth the gamble. The only keys that really pay off are for South Shiverpeaks, Sorrows Furnace, Fire Islands, and the Underwold area. My ranger has around 75% of the mesmer and monk skills and I still have around 100k between my characters and storage. I've spent around 45k in skills for my secondaries and the good bows I have now I got as drops, selling or salvaging the earlier ones. The amount of items you have to spend money on in this game is very minimal. Basically your armour really. If you have a truly terrible weapon then your best bet is collector weapons (max damage with good attributes, but unpopular skins on them). They are very cheap to craft and peole often sell them for 1k if you don't want to do it yourself.

Oct 19, 2005, 04:56 AM // 04:56	#15
AncientPC Forge Runner Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Ascalon 1 Profession: W/R	Like others have stated, the best way to have money is to not spend it. You don't need to pay to be run, you don't need to buy that better weapon for PvE. The only thing you ever need to buy is new armor.

Oct 19, 2005, 05:06 AM // 05:06	#16
LordMahal Krytan Explorer Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Germany Profession: R/Mo	Im curious... Is a "butt-ton" more than a butt load? This was on the net somewhere, but I cant remember. As for myself, I farmed alone, elem/necro using just nuke spells and elite well is power. I have a place that I go to about level 12 or so, and farm for days. One night, for 3 hours I farmed, sold every single thing that was dropped, and came out with 10k ... It was a good day. But this place, is my place and Im affraid if I told you, Id have to, well you know...

Oct 19, 2005, 07:33 AM // 07:33	#17
Omnidragon42 Krytan Explorer Join Date: Oct 2005 Guild: Pantheon of Shadows [dei] Profession: W/A	I've been playing for 4-5 days now, and I have 23,565 in the bank. Easiest way is just to kill monsters (I've been killing around kryta) and hope to get lucky ^_^