Curse

Malice Black · Mar 18, 2008, 12:34 AM // 00:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by garethporlest18

Yeah didn't you have like 30-50 million in weapons?

I had some nice pieces

All got sold off or deleted. Had to make a mules for ecto stacks

Being rich was boring though. I quite enjoy being poor. No one begging for cash/ecto/armbraces etc

pOmrAkkUn · Mar 18, 2008, 01:46 AM // 01:46

30 months

highest I have: Full money in storage+100k each chars+ 1 page of pink balls

now: Same money but only 3 stacks left

How I made money?
- buy-resell when Sorrow Fernace's Greens were 100k+ectos also when Victo's Axe was 100k+20e.
- 55 farm Ghail's Staff from the first week of Factions and got around 2-10/day up to luck (100k+ few ectos that time)
- 55 farm Exuro's will from the first week of Nightfall (50k-70k+ that time)

mrmango · Mar 18, 2008, 01:50 AM // 01:50

dang that's great, quick pay out and all.

I'm bad, I just have ~20k in storage, one set of 15k armor. Playing for 2.5 years, I buy too many perfect weapons (not really high end skins) and don't farm. Oh and 8 PVE characters.

ZenRgy · Mar 18, 2008, 01:55 AM // 01:55

Most at once 1 000k + 400 ecto (8k each at the time).

Now : 2100k (spread over account) + 55 ecto. I guess if we included armour, weapons etc. there'd be more.

How I get money, not very well - the most money I ever make is from the HoH chest (r9 inscr crystalline in the first week or so of the new chest). Sometimes in PvE I get some nice weapons though (eg. Astral Staves) but never gotten anything really good from PvE.

Master Sword Keeper · Mar 18, 2008, 01:56 AM // 01:56

<--Currently broke...

Chest and item run titles makes you that way. XD It's okay Im savin it all up again....well c'mon I've got 15k armour on every char... no complaints... =)

Bluefeather · Mar 18, 2008, 01:59 AM // 01:59

29 months and I have 0 gold in my vault and 1.4k in my character. I am a Franciscan Monk, so I gave away everything I can give.

(I am re-rolling and I don't want to make shortcuts, including runs)

Thorondor Port · Mar 18, 2008, 02:05 AM // 02:05

Im probably the worst. I hate pve and use heroes and hench when I do, and never buy keys.

afya · Mar 18, 2008, 02:07 AM // 02:07

Played:25 months - 12 months(out of game) = 13months
Loot: 5 full elite armor, 3 destroyer weapons, voltaic spear, 2 tormented weapons, 300K in storage
How made: killing monsters~XD (I farms but not always. It's boring~)

Kerwyn Nasilan · Mar 18, 2008, 02:23 AM // 02:23

Ive been playing 24 months and prbbally have 1000k worth of random stuff to my name. In this last week of hard farming I have made 200k.

Eldin · Mar 18, 2008, 02:25 AM // 02:25

26 months (though spent a year or a year and a half out of game).

Two full elite armor sets on hand, two scrapped. Probably most elitist weapons I have are just Chaos Axes and Storm Bows.

I suck, the farming God hates me. I used to have a reliable source of income from Ettin farming, and later on I made a wammo for Griffons, but with those gone, I'm doomed.

I also lack a SS necro and a 55 monk so I can't do much UWing, and Ursan has made it impossible to get into a balanced group anymore, and I can't JOIN the Ursanners as I'm R4 on my main (Deldrimor title FTW), not to mention my main is a Ranger and has very little trapping options anyway.

The money Gods hate me!

*sigh* I wish I got into UW/FoW back when ectos were worth 12k.

Fire Childe · Mar 18, 2008, 02:46 AM // 02:46

34 months (I can't remember how long I left for but it would have been about a year shortly before the release of Factions)

1x 15k armour set for all my pve characters (of which there are 4), Vabbian armour for my Elementalist and Fissure armour for my Warrior. I was sort of lucky on the Fissure armor because I happened to be in town when the Rare Material and Rune Traders went live. Alot of people got pretty rich pretty quickly during the first 15 or so minutes.

I also played a fair bit of underworld around release and during that time it used to drop alot more often in Underworld and often in stacks of 4. You could also buy them in ToA for 500g each (which was less than the price of Black Dye at the time if I remember correctly but still quite expensive).

Other than that I got a req 10 and a req 11 Elemental Sword back when they were sort of valuable. 2 Icy Dragon Swords on Wintersday 2006 (when they were selling for about 65kish). I got a 14>50 req 10 Sephis Axe before Factions came out and that was worth something decent but I customised it. I had 2x Henge swords but again customised both. I got a Superior Fire Magic rune from the Nebo Terrace Ettins way back before the Rune Trader and I sold that for 35k. That was cool.

I didn't get anything nice from the Dune Sea chests or the Dreadnaughts chests but I was late to the party on both.

I think those are the most valuable things that have dropped for me. I dont much like farming since it bores me to tears and though I've tried it a few times I get sick of it pretty quickly.

Currently have 190k in storage which is the most I've ever had in the vault at one time. This is nearly all from participating in the automated gvg tournaments and turning in all my reward points for Zaishen Keys which I sell for 3k a pop. The rest of the keys come from holding HoH but thats less regular. I would have more monies but when I got back into gvg I made the mistake of unlocking some armour sets to pimp out my pvp rit. Thinking that the unlocks were account wide I ended up deleting the rit and consequently wasted a whole bunch of points which I could have traded in for Zaishen keys instead. I also made the mistake of using some keys but thankfully stopped early when I noticed that all I ever got were Creme Brulees and Flasks of Firewater.

The money I get in game now is all from selling Zaishen keys and selling the random white and blue junk I get from playing hard mode pve stuff.

StormDragonZ · Mar 18, 2008, 03:15 AM // 03:15

Making money? Horrific.

Gaining money through random drops that people don't want: Perfect.

Aeyl · Mar 18, 2008, 04:04 AM // 04:04

32 Months, 20 Characters

10 sets FoW
73 elite/15k Armor

4 million++ gold across 3 accounts
Rare Materials/dyes assets around 1.2 million
not much fancy weapons, blue weapons ftw =P

Methods (in order by time)
-------------------
E/Mo Troll Farming
55 Mino/Griffon Farming
Ettin Rune Farming
55+echonuker
SF 3-5man Gear farming
55+SS
FF Amber Farming
SF 5man BP farming
E/A green farming
E/Mes Sandstormer UW
Urgoz Splinter Barrage
600+Smiter DoA Foundry
Ursanway DoA 0.o

I dont work on titles and my best individual trade record is never above 100k.eg. Razorstone: 90k. I've Been in numerous elite farming guilds, currently looking for one too =)

So How effective am i at making money? Not effective... mindless farming, doenst have high end trades.. cash accumulates itself bit by bit

Lord Sojar · Mar 18, 2008, 04:04 AM // 04:04

Let's see here.... I have 105k left to my name. I phail at making money these days...

Although I did at one point, have approx 100 million gold in ectos and shards (when ectos were 15k ea and shards were 7k ea)

tmakinen · Mar 18, 2008, 06:44 AM // 06:44

Frankly, I have no idea about how much actual worth there is on my account(s) and I couldn't care less - at this point of the game it's totally inconsequential.

What I do know is that I'm currently spending an amount of money somewhere between 800-1000k per week and since stuff only keeps piling up despite my best efforts to hand out freebies in Spamadan (in my opinion it's indecent to merch greens and good r9 rares), there must be an influx of equal or greater value somewhere.

Scary · Mar 18, 2008, 06:55 AM // 06:55

Uhhmmm making money

I must say.. Im the BEST in spending it

Velise_Snowtorm · Mar 18, 2008, 07:02 AM // 07:02

Played 32 months

I don't play the game to be rich, but I still managed to get everything I want with plenty of cash left over.

13 PvE toons, all with elite armor(s), at least a bag and a half on each of them of perfect weapon sets in skins that I like and use. They all have every last primary skill and elite from all games, and my hundreds of heroes are all runed and have max weapons.

I haven't farmed since a few months before EotN came out, after GW2 was announced. I don't see a point of accumulating cash anymore on GW1, since we know there is no future here. So, I just spend money now on replacing some weapon skins with newer models that I like, and buying gifts for others. I have all I need.

chenjam · Mar 18, 2008, 07:51 AM // 07:51

22 mouths
I have been own unded panda and sold it for 1750ecto.
It is my only repent thing in GW.

Picuso · Mar 18, 2008, 09:08 AM // 09:08

21 Months
2 sets of 15k armors (Assassin and Warrior)
No money in Bank
1 Ecto
No High end skins, nor r8-7 weapons, nor r9 perfect weapons (only BMP weapons)
I farm, and do CR... >_<
8 Pve Toons (6 mine), 1 PvP Toon

Yeah, I'm Rich (?)

WTB> Luck.

ShadowbaneX · Mar 18, 2008, 07:09 PM // 19:09

I'd say semi-effective. These days I've been spending more money then making it, although I am clawing my way back to 500k and I've got about 20 ectos in storage. At one time I had 1.3m in gold alone. Then I bought a set of Obsidian for my monk which brought it crashing down to about 700k. From there I slowly drained it buying some cool toys (fiery blade axe for my ele, runic blade for my warrior, nice shields for my paragon, golden pheonix blade for my monk, etc). All told I think I've made about 3-4m in gold over the past 22 months and spent, well, all but about 500k of it.

I've bought alot of elite armour (pardon me while I recall what I have):
-Ele has full Elite Sunspear, full Elite Canthan and full Elite Luxon, along with a combo set that has Ancient Robes.
-Paragon has Ancient Raiment and the rest Vabbian (need more Rubies and Sapphires to complete the Vabbian set).
-Monk has full Obsidian, a combo set that's dwarven robes/elite kurzick leggings/elite canthan boots and 2 pairs of glasses.
-Dervish has elite sunspear robes.
-Ranger has full elite kurzick and full elite druid.
-Warrior#1 has full elite plate, full elite templar and the elite ascalonian helm.
-Warrior#2 has full elite templar and the elite ascalonian helm.
-Assassin has full elite canthan, elite luxon leggings and a vabbian mask.
-Necro has full vabbian, full elite kurzick.
-Mesmer has full elite canthan, full elite kurzick, full elite nobles, and a combo set that's ancient robes, vabbian hose and boots, and another that's norn robes, dwarven hose and obsidian boots...man my mesmer is spoiled.

All told that's 1 full set of Obsidian and 1 pair of Obsidian boots, 13 sets of elite armour + 24 elite armour peices of various types (5k, 10k & 15k). That's 1035k worth of elite armour not counting rare materials, not counting non-elite sets and not counting runes and eventually, inscriptions.

When I bought my set of Obsidian ectos were worth 7.5 and shards 4.3 (still have that written down). I farmed about half to 2/3rds of the ectos, bought the rest and bought pretty much all of the shards (all told 600k, 1.3m down to 700k). My necro's vabbian was bought when those were at 8-10k each. Ele's elite luxon was bought when jadeite was still worth several k each.

Rare weapon skins...not so much as I do not like most of the rare stuff that's out there. I think the best weapon I've got is a req 8 gothic sword, which I bought off a guildy for 100k a long time ago, which is now not used as much since I got a Runic Blade.

I hate minipets, the only ones I have are the ones I get for b-day presents (I've gotten alot of hydras and only one purple, all the rest were white) or at the new year's festival. Oh, and speaking of festivals I managed to get Prosperous on the Nine Rings, which was about another 400-440k down the drain.

So between my set of Obsidian and my lucky title and all my other armours that's 2 million spent right there. Another million on nice items, runes, inscriptions and rare materials for armour.

As for making money, well 50/50 UW farming accounts for the ectos, although I usually use them or store them, rather then sell them. Alot of my money was A/E or E/A Green farming. Particularly Scar Eater and Koosun before those runs became really common. I can remember selling Scar Eater for 20-30k and Koosun's staff for 60k+ (Kai was still bugged).

I also got the occasional lucky drop. A really nice tactics celestial shield, although I forget the exact mods. Req 12 Elemental when those were still worth over 100k. I have gotten stiffed on runes though as I've never once, in 22 months of play, gotten a Sup Vigor rune.