Farming - what's the incentive?

I myself have been farming for a while and then started to realize something... why am I doing this? I already have the items I want, selling them for gold is great but at the same time, I have no need for gold either. I've pretty much bought the armor I want and barely buy stuff anymore. My gold pretty much just sits there with no purpose. So I was wondering, to all the farmers who have what they want and to the ones farming for a completely different reason, why do you do it? For the excitement of getting a gold item, selling it, building for other characters, just adding to your inventory, etc

I agree about not haveing much to spend money on. It does just sit there. I had to figure out a way to waste 100k the other day (more 15k armor bah). Not enough things to spend money on in gw.

I agree 100%. I had over 1.5 million in items, but I decided, why? I gave tons of perfect upgrades and gold to new who actually needed it. Now I'm sitting at about 100k. I'm having more fun not fussing over my gold.

To unlock whatever else I have to unlock and to earn money to blow on more 15k armors for my characters.

because it still amuses me every time i see ten hydras die around me at once

amusement.

Your doing it because you can't think of anything better to do in the game.

The true meaning behind farming is to come here later and complain about "nerfs"...

Yup, that's just about the size of it, while waiting for updates/expansions that will give some much needed life to the-life-after-level 20 experience.

i am makin a farmin character simply becos i love seeing death :P lol

Combination of things.

I may not be able to get high levels or health, but numbers flowing along the screen never gets old.

And as the infinite wisdom of the pie put it, I have nothing better to do.

I need more 15k/1.5k armors... Need to look good!

Not much to spend your money on. if you want to play pvp just get the unlocks u want no real use in trying to find a pvp shield and good looking axe/sword/hammer in pve. I wish i could use the gold to get a decent shield but all of them are bad compared to pvp

I just "farm" so I can get lots of 15k armor, but I've given up with normal farming, I sucked at in anyway, so I just do missions in the southern shiverpeaks over and over to farm. I got about 7k from doing thunderhead twice yesterday, although both times the king died at the end. Plus it doesnt take long.

I still have runes/upgrades to unlock. I also want enough skill points to get all the skills.
Other than that, it's the only thing left for PvE at the moment. Roll on the update.

I give my guild mates runes and money when they need it, and good weapons when I come across them. I give away or salvage more stuff than I sell. Every so often I'll find something handy for myself, too. And I still seek that elusive shield I so desperately want...

I just recently started farming. Maybe my third day now. I'm not great at it, but it works for me.

After earning about 120k in gold and countless items, runes, and now close to 15 ecto. I started thinking... there really isn't much purpose in this. I'm not really interested in the FoW armor, and I'm certainly not interested in it for all three of my characters (soon to be four).

I guess it's the idea that you want a nice stash there in case, but once you get it, you tend to either say enough is enough, or you follow the age old pattern that there is never enough.

Sort of like people who download Mp3s or illegal software. Countless times they'll never use it, but they still want it. I guess it's about having something others don't. Even if it's just a number in a game.

It's the nature of all human beings to hoard, collect and save up. You're right, it's only money at the end of the day, but a healthy bank balance does not mean anything other than the fact that you could buy what you want if you wanted to.

As for farming as a means to an end, I rarely "Actively" farm. I enjoy clearing map areas, going round and killing monsters, and any drops are a bonus. (In other words, not focusing on the farming aspect, while still kind of doing it anyway) - Odd thing is that I seem to have more success and make more money/get better drops when I'm just wondering around like this then when I make any concious decision to actively farm an area.

I farm for a fissure armor. Once I have it, Im not sure if I will continue farming.

I'm trying to get monk runes. Not really by farming, though. I'm trying to get Monk runes so I can solo farm UW. I'm trying to solo farm UW becuase... Uh...