Curse

Sol Faithman · Jun 24, 2009, 05:08 PM // 17:08

I was in the same boat, had set myself a goal of getting to 1m gold, got to about 750k and thought "wtf am I doing??", so one set of armour (combo of 15k and FoW) later on my main, I'm now sitting around 500k and happily keeping my wife in mini's when I see a good deal.

And I have a Kunni sitting in Pre, so if I ever need money..........

DarkGanni · Jun 24, 2009, 05:11 PM // 17:11

Never been a big hoarder, always hanging on a few money to pay for consets, entrances and daily consumables and sometimes maybe a bit of money to craft new armors.

Most of the time I'm below 100k but happy like that.

Abedeus · Jun 24, 2009, 05:31 PM // 17:31

Hmm. I remember I had a hard time getting 4k for an armor for my Necromancer.

Now, after getting several 15k armors without farming much or doing XTH. Why? No idea, probably about 8 characters that can farm something, and I farm when I need something and I don't waste money.

So no, I don't spend more than I need. I might overpay, because I'm lazy, but I won't pay twice too much.

Martin Alvito · Jun 24, 2009, 05:32 PM // 17:32

There are two resources in this game: stuff and time.

The OP's post indicates that time has become more valuable than stuff. That's increasingly likely to happen as time passes. We get older, get more responsibilities, etc.

jiggles · Jun 24, 2009, 05:37 PM // 17:37

I overpay and I undersell. I really cannot be arsed trading properly, never have been arsed either tbh.

Tramp · Jun 24, 2009, 05:42 PM // 17:42

I am hoarding until I get the last 7 items I need to finish my collections: R8+5 energy shinobi, sunqua, and duskblade, and celestial staffs r9 20/20 divine/prot and divine/divine, and finally get my unded island guardian back. Once I have those 7 items my sword collection, my celestial staff collection, and my pet collection is done and I give everything else away and quit.

lewis91 · Jun 24, 2009, 05:43 PM // 17:43

lol, i once recall filling storage and 4 chars full of money, and then thinking "Whats the point" and then blowing it on armor, skins i wanted, and then still being left with 400kish so i blew the rest of it on 9rings and zchest. Now im lucky to get over 300k ¬_¬ But i don't care really. Whats the point in money if you have nothing to spend it on. Me i just blow any money i get on the zchest or keep it, if a 9rings fest is comming up.

Inde · Jun 24, 2009, 06:16 PM // 18:16

testing testing

Minami · Jun 24, 2009, 07:20 PM // 19:20

Why is it that everyone I know in-game has gotten awesome giveaways or deals from other people, be it friends or random players, but I never seem to meet the generous ones?

Anybody wants to be friends in-game, who's about to quit GW? :P

Helix Dreadlock · Jun 24, 2009, 07:53 PM // 19:53

Idk, the game gets boring if there's no Pay for this buy-for-that economy.

subarucar · Jun 24, 2009, 07:55 PM // 19:55

I dont really overspend, although i spend money on useless things, i bought 5 different sets of elite armour even though i decided i was only going to use one them.

I am a bit of a hoarder though, i have stacks of materials, dyes, weapons, runes, collectables, and probably more that i have forgotten. All of my characters except 2 have full inventories. All of the stuff is worth enough to be sellable, but im to lazy to actualy bother selling it.

*Darcy* · Jun 24, 2009, 08:09 PM // 20:09

I also have stopped hoarding things. I suddenly realized that I have no need for mods & inscriptions and r9 weapons. I have all the weapons I need on 10 characters. The same with most materials; I have pretty much all the armor I need or want.

So instead of buying more storage for real world money, I am clearing out the storage. Selling what I can for basement prices and giving away the rest. I've dedicated most of my minipets and am currently giving those away. Next will be the r9 weapons I will never use. I have rare skins that I don't even like enough to use.

Arduin · Jun 24, 2009, 08:20 PM // 20:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by Island Guardian

I unlike many do continue to hord. Im just saving up for a panda. soon it wont matter what title you have how rich you are or if your super good at pvp. everyone has the same level playing field in gw2

When did that matter?

Tirath Eldrahir · Jun 24, 2009, 08:52 PM // 20:52

I spend all my money in my HoM, at least till I get those remaining armour sets and that destroyer weapon.
Then I'll go back to buying the minipets of nicholas, and finally I'll go afk on that 9 rings so i can get those titles in my HOM too.
All for gw2 which I'll probably never play I guess.

Cale Roughstar · Jun 24, 2009, 09:05 PM // 21:05

I normally try to keep a minimum balance in storage, and then spend spend spend anything that goes over that. However, I am dangerously close to spending it all on shiny things for my warriors

Misa · Jun 24, 2009, 09:27 PM // 21:27

i spent more than 1 million in the past month...

VOTD · Jun 24, 2009, 10:00 PM // 22:00

i used all of my money to buy fireworks be4 the party title came out, then sold all of them the same day the partytitle was availabe, sold around 11.000 points of firework to, i think it was, 210g per point. after that i never bored to look what anything was worth, if i wanted it i just brught it, sometimes even if it was duble or trible the normal price.
example the fire djinn polymock 50k. just to get the summoning skill fast.

Haxor · Jun 24, 2009, 10:11 PM // 22:11

I only overpay for items I think would take too long to buy (runes, insignias, dyes), or which I want fast (new minis/skins). Otherwise, I usually have the time. Like others, though, I find myself spending more and more money on completely useless things. My warrior for example, has all the tormented weapons, dedicated at his hall. Some of them are on heroes, about 3 or 4 are just sitting in storage, doing nothing. He also has all the elite armors, whilst only using maybe two tops. The rest are just sitting on a mule account, gathering dust.

Nessar · Jun 24, 2009, 10:14 PM // 22:14

I used to hoard money for armor, skills, etc etc. Now, I just spend money on 15k armors since I don't need to spend it on anything else. I rarely overpay for things since I don't need weapon skins anymore.

wilebill · Jun 24, 2009, 10:30 PM // 22:30

I started playing day Prophecies went live. Believe it or not, the biggest attraction of GW at the time was that the explorable and mission loot was much much better than in World of WarCraft! Times do change, don't they?

So, I have wealth accrued from long ago. More wealth accrued from farming. Nothing much to spend it on that I don't already have.

I recently did a nostalgia return to WoW, started a hunter off from zilch, got up to level 67. The hunter currently has around 8,000 g that he earned himself, no big trick to it; gather herbs and ore, few lucky drops. Watch what's in demand in the Auction House, go get some of that. Yet, the guild chat was full of players up around his level or higher complaining that they were once more nearly broke.

It's possible to get wealthy at this stage of GW, obviously, but it takes a lot more farming to do it. I wish it could be like it was when GW first came out, just blast around the Crystal Desert and stuff plat on mules!