Curse

sassoonssamson · Jul 17, 2006, 07:43 AM // 07:43

You can make easy money

Just hang around there will be people desperate for cash that they sell shiro/rurik for less tna 100K

I sell them back at 100K +5 ectos

You can make easy 35K in one hour ,You should know where to hang out

Also many people still have prophecies or Factions
Selling stuff that is unique to one chapeter can yield quick profit

makosi · Jul 17, 2006, 10:06 PM // 22:06

Another moneymaking tip: Don't overprice things that you sell. When E/R koosun farming was discovered i farmed a few of them and solf them for 35k each whereas others were trying to sell for upwars for 50k. I managed to farm another 3 that same day and returned to Kaineng where the same names were still spmming WTS and mine were selling like hotcakes. I don't care if people buy mine too sell at rip-off prices because its to their own detriment.

Buy low, sell high tactics work but I, personally, find it boring and ecto farming is much more exciting. In fact, I got a +15% (-10AL) fellblade req. 11 a couple of hours ago. I can sell that for around 40k and someone will try to sell it on for 50k. I'm up 40k + ectos, they're up 10k.

AJM · Jul 18, 2006, 03:14 AM // 03:14

I'll admit, I've been very tempted to buy money on ebay on numerous occasions. Haven't done it, but I've seriously considered it a few times (like when I say how much material traders cost for your guild hall!). The thing is, with all these ebay platinum buyers going around making everything cost a damn fortune, it sometimes seems the only way to beat them is to join them.

NCSoft needs to crack down on the ebay thing.

Saider maul · Jul 18, 2006, 03:17 AM // 03:17

< old as dirt 55.

shadowfell · Jul 18, 2006, 03:36 AM // 03:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by Guinevere Ac

- farmed items when they're hot. ex kaolin domination staff. when i saw the supply was nearly 0 and some mesmers were rdy to pay 100ectos for it, i was one of the first to mass farm it i believe... just dropped 2, but i sold them realy high.

Oh, you mean the one you bought from me, for 400k, and then begged me not to tell your GL how much you paid for it, so you could resell it to her =P

Guinevere Ac · Jul 18, 2006, 06:29 AM // 06:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by shadowfell

Oh, you mean the one you bought from me, for 400k, and then begged me not to tell your GL how much you paid for it, so you could resell it to her =P

your kaolin was the first one i traded, after that one i realized i could make big money with those staves. a guy in my group saw me with a platinum staff and asked me if it was kaolin dom, saying he wanted one of those kaolin badly and paying up to 100 ectos...
that's why i overpayed for your kaolin... 400k for u, u were happy, 100 ectos for me 1 hour later, guess i was happy myself...

then i did the same thing buying another kaolin and farming 2 of them...
my GL bought another one at decent prices, 100k+10 if i remember correctly, but not from me for sure. the reason i asked u not to tell who bought it was because me and GL agreed not to bid in the same auction to avoid the price going higher and higher... she already bidded, i wasn't supposed to. understand? oh and as u know u've been kind enough to tell her immediatly... ty

Saider maul · Jul 18, 2006, 09:47 PM // 21:47

animosity at its finest. lol

BeatWolf · Jul 19, 2006, 12:55 AM // 00:55

I literally have 260 gold in storage over 3 characters.. i dont bother with farming because i get bored easily.

Spura · Jul 19, 2006, 12:40 PM // 12:40

I have 800 hours on account I think.

I have no FoW, no 15k armor I've never bought stronger than violet item.
I have total budget of 4k.

My pve chars are necro, ranger and assassin.
I can't farm anything with those classes. I need to do alliance battles and then sell amber to pay 1 plat for skill buys. I hate how stupidly overpriced buying skills in factions is. I feel like anet is forcing me to make W or Mo to farm and I can't play casually, because even basics like basic armor and skills cost so much.

Shendaar · Jul 19, 2006, 12:59 PM // 12:59

You don't need a Warrior nor a Monk to farm. I farm exclusively on my Ranger and Necro and I have made over 500k in the last week or two just selling greens. Just look around, plenty of things to do as a Ranger and a Necro.

Spura · Jul 19, 2006, 01:04 PM // 13:04

I haven't thouched ranger and necro for a long time now. Played on my assassin a lot. Though it is starting to feel like trying too hard to make something work that will never work, in pve and pvp.

Raiin Maker · Jul 19, 2006, 04:05 PM // 16:05

Money is very easy to make on this game, due to large ammounts of cash being able to be made in a single run (50k+).

It would be very easy for almost all experinced level 20 'toons' (excpecially warriors) to get 1000k in under a month, if you played enough, which most people do.

When people farm on this game, they farm to the extreem, thats why price's are soo high.

unienaule · Jul 19, 2006, 04:16 PM // 16:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spura

I have 800 hours on account I think.

I have no FoW, no 15k armor I've never bought stronger than violet item.
I have total budget of 4k.

My pve chars are necro, ranger and assassin.
I can't farm anything with those classes. I need to do alliance battles and then sell amber to pay 1 plat for skill buys. I hate how stupidly overpriced buying skills in factions is. I feel like anet is forcing me to make W or Mo to farm and I can't play casually, because even basics like basic armor and skills cost so much.

Search for R/Me Icy Dragon Sword farming. Those sell for 20-25k now. Excellent way to make money, once you learn how it's done.

Winx.ZN · Jul 20, 2006, 01:37 AM // 01:37

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spura

I have 800 hours on account I think.

I have no FoW, no 15k armor I've never bought stronger than violet item.
I have total budget of 4k.

My pve chars are necro, ranger and assassin.
I can't farm anything with those classes. I need to do alliance battles and then sell amber to pay 1 plat for skill buys. I hate how stupidly overpriced buying skills in factions is. I feel like anet is forcing me to make W or Mo to farm and I can't play casually, because even basics like basic armor and skills cost so much.

Just off the top of my head :

Ranger : B/P tombs, Trapper (anywhere. UW, greens in cantha, Solo IDS (as mentioned previously). Chest runs.
Necro : ANY 5 man team that goes ANYWHERE (SS/MM ftw). Duo UW. Chest Runs. Solo Oni for kicks.
Assassin : Chest runs. Duo InvinSin almost anywhere they dun shatter enchants. Chest runs.
GG.
For any of those classes : 2-5Man builds for about 99.9% of the game.
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100 Ectos for a Dom Staff is a PRIME example of right place right time. There are still some of those places left in cantha. That explorer title actually has side benefits

Get 3 good drops and join the 1,000,000 gold club.
Now... if you want to be insanley rich... find a max damage 15^50 req 8-10 crystalline/dwarven axe... youll have about... 1,500+ ectos in one sale.
Last but not least, and the most common problem I get with new recruits, is FARMING TAKES PATIENCE.
I show them my little spots that earn me about 100k in 2 days of easy farming (doing various runs in 3-4 different spots that day, dont over farm one area!) and they complain after the first 5 tries they only have 5k more. Go on 5 more runs and you might get something, might not, move on to a new area after a bunch of dry runs (10-15).
Buying low / selling high in trading districts is the slowest and most painful way for me to make money. Also this serves the old saying "have money to make money" which does not help new players. Farming however, is free. eg : Veras hammer. Farmed it till I had 5 of them. Sold them for 100k each in no time (back when it was "new") then saw people reselling for 100k +5ecto. I sell them for 50k now and see those people sit and sell for 75-80k. In the time they sold that one Ive probably farmed 2 more greens and a perfect mod or two. GET FARMING!
-This message brought to you by the ASGW (Agricultural Society of Guild Wars) (trademark pending 2006)-

Franco · Sep 22, 2006, 07:36 PM // 19:36

I played for 3 months, Got god knows how many 15 k sets , got 5 level 20 characters, and my warrior has fow already.

Mmm, I never used ebay , im 16 so i dont even know how to to be honest lol.

As long as you know how to play and what to do it isnt hard, But yeah farming aint worth it. Its power trading.

Gigashadow · Sep 22, 2006, 08:07 PM // 20:07

In case it wasn't obvious, the people who do use ebay (do people actually use ebay? or do they use IGE etc?) aren't going to all come post "hey I use ebay!!" in this thread. You'll see lots of "I don't use ebay!" in this thread though, regardless of whether it is actually true.

TiNkLeR · Sep 22, 2006, 08:28 PM // 20:28

I made 150k just by farming vermins.. dont get ur point o.o

Franco · Sep 22, 2006, 09:03 PM // 21:03

Yeah exactly, most of these people just dont have the patience to farm or do whatever way to get gold and then moan that people that do have gold and had the patience to farm it , use ebay.

Timzor · Sep 22, 2006, 09:47 PM // 21:47

Money isnt hard to get you just have to persistent, take for instance ive farmed all materials for my warriors fow armor an monks fow armor in under 2 months, if I didnt get those armors an sold the ectos an shards thats quite alot of money, around 2.5mil roughly. During those 2 months, i farmed about 4 hours a day then got off, oh an i was in the europe servers. Also I used the smiter + sprit bonder build which is the fastest imo. Plz dont say its hard to acquire gold...

Str0b0 · Sep 22, 2006, 10:06 PM // 22:06

To the OP I've found it incredibly easy to accumulate gold now that most of my equipment is set to my ideal. I just don't have anything to spend it on aside from the occasional vanity item. If you start now I can make you a millionaire within two weeks after the Nightfall release. PM me to find out how. It's completely legal, no scamming just an understanding of how the in game economy works.

Honestly I think the majority of GW millionaires made their loot legitimately. It's not about being lucky in farming it's about timing. If you notice a spike in people wanting to buy X item then you hurry up and get said item. One prime example of this is black dye. Right now you can sell it for 9-10K wait till nightfall and everyone wants black armor. The price could double easily which means people like me who are sitting on at least two sets of armor worth of black dye will make a quick 200K. Of course this is a tried and true economic practice called speculating. I could easily lose money if my prediction turns out wrong. History tells me my chances to make a killing are excellent though. This is no different than the commodities market IRL. Some people have a knack for the market others don't. I've always been good with game economics since I played D2 and EQ.

Also addressing the people who whine about prices. Those of us with millions in our accounts are the minority. How can we possibly set prices? In an economy like this one the majority sets price. The few item types that fetch high sums are luxury items. They aren't supposed to be available to the average player. I'm sure you would like a 15^50 sundering zodiac axe of fortitude req 8 but do you know how difficult those are to come by? It's a two-3 hour mission with maybe 5-6 chests, the most likely source of such a weapon, so you get very slim chances to actually get it. Ok so factoring in that it is an elite mission that I'd say 95% of the whiners don't have access to nor the ability to do plus the rarity of the stats and skin of course it costs more. Yes it is a nice skin that you pay for but look at it like this. A diamond is just a lump of crystallized carbon. Because they are rare and pretty to look at we value them. Now you wouldn't walk into a jewelry store and try to buy a diamond for the price of a lump of coal would you? They are both lumps of carbon after all. By that same token you know you're not going to be able to purchase a diamond for just a couple of bucks either. Anet put those shibby high end skins in for those of us with the ability to find them or the money to buy them not for the average joe. Deal with it. This game is about skill not equipment anyway.