Making money (and title points) - Guild Wars Guru Archive

Ascalonian Squire

Joined Aug 2007

Sep 13, 2007 at 7:24 AM • #1

Having reached Hard mde in NF, I've tried farming a couple of times but the drops are no different than normal mode. I cannot see how people can make anywhere close to the kind of money they claim. You'd be lucky to make 1plat/hour with what the mobs drop.

Also, even though the rewards for lightbringer/sunspear are increased, the same issue applies. I cannot see how on earth you can get those titles in anywhere close a to reasonable amount of time.

Either people are spending ludicrous amounts of time (ie their entire lives sat infront of the pc) to do these things, or I'm missing something.

Marty Silverblade

Administrator

Joined Jun 2006

Sep 13, 2007 at 8:58 AM • #2

1k/hour lucky? Dude, Plains of Jarin HM is at about 2k/15mins, meaning about 8k/hour, excluding any good golds like icy blade axes and stuff. There are heaps of farming spots out there that get you craploads of money.

Now that I think about it, sunspear grinding from Gate of Desolation takes ~15 mins and gets you about 600 gold in addition to 500 sunspear points. If you can't make 1k/hour in HM, you're doing something seriously wrong with farming.

Darkstar The Legend

Academy Page

The Boat Crew [boat]

Joined Jul 2006

Sep 13, 2007 at 9:00 AM • #3

look at one of the wikis for info on the fastest ss/lb farms. The best one (if you still have the quests to do it) gets you about 3600 lb points and about 3000 sunspear points in an hour. it also includes 4 bosses so lots of chances for elite tomes). I also found this run was giving me pretty good money, maybe around 7-8k per hour.

And most of the money from hard mode is made from farming elite tomes or rare skins, ie collosal scimitar.

wishface

Ascalonian Squire

Joined Aug 2007

Sep 13, 2007 at 9:35 AM • #4

Sorry but this just isn't true.

I've been to the Temple of the Monolith and it's empty.

THere is no way you get 2k/15 mins at all. Just not true. I've tried. I didn't get anything close to that, not anywhere.

philo

Lion's Arch Merchant

Joined Sep 2005

Sep 13, 2007 at 9:54 AM • #5

Quote: Originally Posted by wishface

I've been to the Temple of the Monolith and it's empty. For the Temple, you need the two quests "A Show of Force" and "Requiem for a Brain" to be active. You also need to have the infamous 'Rune of DOOOM' in your inventory.

Check this out for details.

assassin rob

Academy Page

DSRR

A/Mo

Joined Aug 2006

Sep 13, 2007 at 10:59 AM • #6

Lol ,i made 11k just by playing all quests in Kryta !

wishface

Ascalonian Squire

Joined Aug 2007

Sep 13, 2007 at 11:10 AM • #7

Quote: Originally Posted by philo

For the Temple, you need the two quests "A Show of Force" and "Requiem for a Brain" to be active. You also need to have the infamous 'Rune of DOOOM' in your inventory.

Check this out for details. i've done all those quests.

I've also been to the plains of jarin, solo, in HM, and didn't get anywhere even close to half of 2k/15 mins.

I don't know what game you are playing if you are going that, but it's not the same as the one I'm playing.

darrengordon

Frost Gate Guardian

Guild of Gordons

R/E

Joined May 2006

Sep 13, 2007 at 11:12 AM • #8

Yeah def true take both quests and if you dont make about 2-3k per run well then your just got bad luck, i used to do it group of 4 or 5 max in the worms and each of us typically got 3-5 golds per run + 2k in cash and 3-4k in sunspear points i think anyway managed to max out me title in no time at all or yeah and 500 lb points or is it the other way round??? Been a while now

philo

Lion's Arch Merchant

Joined Sep 2005

Sep 13, 2007 at 1:01 PM • #9

Quote: Originally Posted by wishface

i've done all those quests. If by "done" you mean that you already completed them, then of course there is no more farming there for you. You will meet hardly any mobs and no bosses, hence will get practically no loot, no SS points, no LB points. The trick is to keep doing those quests without ever handing them in to the questgiver.

Also, don't judge a farm spot from visiting it once or twice only. There are good runs and bad runs, there are even bad days.
Last but not least, when people say they make x amount of gold in y amount of time, they take average values. Especially the amount of time invested usually is that of experienced farmers who know their builds and the mobs by heart, and who follow a fixed routine path. Someone who just starts farming that spot may well take more than twice the time to complete the same run.

AscalonWarrior

Wilds Pathfinder

Mo/

Joined Apr 2006

Sep 13, 2007 at 2:27 PM • #10

Quote: Originally Posted by philo

If by "done" you mean that you already completed them, then of course there is no more farming there for you. You will meet hardly any mobs and no bosses, hence will get practically no loot, no SS points, no LB points. The trick is to keep doing those quests without ever handing them in to the questgiver. He can still do them with PuG, if some other player has them.