Can you really be THAT rich?

^ I don't think that was necessary


You can make stacks of money easily in this game...if you're willing to do nothing but farm and trade. Thing is though, farming is mind numbingly boring for most, and power trading? Never understood why anybody would waste their time unless they're going to make a humongous profit from reselling something they probably scammed off some newbie. If it's a matter of a few k...then it just baffles me.

Meh, I know for a fact people probably buy my stuff off the guru auctions and sell it on for higher prices in game. I sell low...so I DON'T have to waste all my play-time standing around in a town spamming WTS. I don't find that much fun...lol

If you're feeling low on cash though, try doing one or two farming runs a day (no need to go crazy with it). It's better than just standing around wishing your bank was a bit fuller anyways

i don't mind so much that other players are supder duper rich.

my story is this:
I was starting to feel very good because after some time practicing with various different build that I can finally vanquish areas without difficulty, meaning not get wipe out as much as I use to.

then a friend told me that they wanted to vanquish an area, and one of their guildies is going to help out, but my friends is in another mission, so while waiting for my friends to do other stuffs, within 3+ hours the super duper players had the whole of cantha vanquished.

lol sooooooo that just made my feel very good about myself drop back to 0....

so the answer to your question is yes players can get that rich if they can vanquished cantha in 3+hours.

I saw that post as well, I was shocked to see a bid of 4100 ectos. I mean I know there are people with several stacks of ectos, but that is over 16 stacks. Makes me impressed and or saddened depending on how it was obtained.

Yes, it sounds very much. It's also very much but not impossible I guess.

1. Some people dedicated all their time to farming.
For example: Farming the Domain of Anguish just after release and making a fullrun earned most 1000K+ each day by selling all their drops. Titan Gemstones were far above 100K each.

2. Some people got lucky with some mini-pets and sold them.

3. Nowadays you can win the monthly tournament. With the reward of 4500 Reward Points you can get quite some Zaishen Keys and trade them for Ecto's/Gold.
Don't forget Balthasar Faction as well. Performing well in PvP (GvG and HA).
Also winning the Hall of Heroes a few times a day gives you Celestial Sigils. Still worth 10K each. However, they used to be 80K+ back in the days.

4. Some people used bugs and maybe their weren't caught by Anet. The duping incident for example that allowed people to duplicate valuable items.

LOL. "Farming" IRL > farming in-game.


I never farm, I'll never own some minipets and I'll never finish my Resilience Monument because
1. I think farming is boring and I'd rather have fun with the time I have on GW.
2. Minipets do nothing for me.
3. Some armor is just plain fugly.

I think the ϋber rich guys are overcompensating for something.

Lol yes u answered your own question they are super dupers... you cant really have 4000e+ unless u bought it or duped it. If you can, probably only a very very select few ppl who farm 24/7 or use bots would be that rich.. either that or guild wars is their life.

Its possible, probably need a little bit more luck than usual. Like holding on to something which unexpectedly increased in price by few 100 times. Compare mini pets prices pre and post armbrace duping. If you held on to a panda which you bought pre duping and sold it post duping, imagine the profit you made.

And if you own 5 pandas, 3 kanaxais, 3 Shirokens, 5 Vizu, 2 Ghostly, 7 Island Guardians ... ... ... (Numbers are made up)

Its not that hard to get 4k ectos if you are a no-life-trader (there are several of these ingame) OR you get somehow REALLY lucky. Of course, there are the dupers/ebayers too. But who cares? Deal with it, be happy that you have a life and you dont spend $$ on ingame stuff.

You dont really have to do a lot to get rich in guildwars, as someone mentioned above you get 4.5mil worth of reward points if you win the monthly GvG tournament, you still get 2.5mil~ if you finish top8 which seems to be the fastest way of getting gold currently but the only real use of that gold is to sell online for some real cash since theres nothing ingame to buy.

I dont see why you would want cash at all, ive not played WoW to the extent where i can really comment on the high-end gear but from what people have told me you cant ever run out of things to buy even if your one of those 12hr a day players.
In guildwars theres no epic items to be had and all armour comes from traders with unlimited stock, people might consider rare minipets as being desirable items since they are limited but they dont improve anything about your character and are likely to become readily available before GW2 to allow people to finalise their HoM so your not missing out on anything by having no gold.

Even the bragging rights that people did enjoy by owning multiple ecto stacks was thrown well out the window when the duping bug came along.

It's same as with everything else in life.

Working 9-5 will get you some money per hour. To get something, you need to work this and that many hours.

And then, some people earn billions in just a few years. And they don't get paid $523,000 an hour, nor does their day have 5976 hours.

But same as in game, this type of wealth is virtual. Billionaires do not have 500 suitcases full of money. Their value fluctuates with market, and their worth is defined by their portfolio.

For this type of business, there is no upper limit, especially in game economy, where supply and resources are infinite.

And after all these years, people dedicated to earning money could have that much. Who and how earned it however will always be a matter of specualtion. Despite that - there's nothing that would prevent anyone from earning this much.

Just ingore all these rich people around you, they either have duped items or they just play loads of gw and trade all the time. The thing is though that once you have a bit of money and you start trading your winnings grow bigger and bigger, because you can buy the more expensive stuff and sell it for even more money. But I could never play GW all day and just stand around and trade items, I tried it once, and I made some money, but it's just so boring.

Hack their accounts and take it all, is one of the other options.

I duped potatoes the other day. I went to this uber duping hot spot called a "supermarket" apparently. Instead of 1 I got 5! I totally dun want to have my account banned so I deleted them all of course.

Do you want to be rich in real life or to be rich in game? Your choice.

The later is a lot easier if you can pull the former off.

OP, that was such a cute post!

You have a choice in RL?
I've always been under the impression that you need some luck with that as well in RL. It's not like everyone earns 9.000.000 euro's a year by playing Football like Kaka. Or maybe winning the lotery was easier than I thought.

this is why i quit gw

i literally quit gw...i might give my friend my account...and yes i still post on these forums cuz its fun

Not that hard to get rich...if for playing for 4-5 hours a day for 3-4 days i can make 1 mil..easily

IMOP, some players need to play the game "Real Life" a bit more.

Wow, sounds like these guys either have no lifes, ebay, or dupe.
I seriously cannot imagine myself farming for 24/7 <<