I was wondering how people made so much money in game. This isn't for farming locations/builds just more of a general question. Is it getting gold or selling items?
I ask now because how bad I am at this just dawned on me today. I"m at thunderhead keep with my 1st character and have only 600 gold. Also the highest amount of money I've ever had is around 2K.
This is disheartening when there's people who just got to Lion's Arch who have 10+K just on them. I'm not sure if it's me just sucking at farming or really bad luck.
Lately I've been thinking the latter as I've gotten horrible drops. An example is on one try for a mission today there were 4 or 5 gold drops and around 10 purple. With a 4 person(people quit) party I only got 1 blue and barely anything else(3 or 4 white armors/weapons and a few creature parts).
Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated.
How do people make so much money?
Darkwyrm
DJJD2006
well it sounds to me like you arent actually farming when you think you are. Farming isnt just going into a mission and getting random drops its specifically going to a place and killing certain things the less people the more money you get. try looking at some W/mo or Mo/w builds posted here if you want money
leeky baby
Well it is your first charchter therefore im guessing you havnt played much or farmed much in FOW/UW which is where alot of farming goes on, also if you compare the hours you have played to people who have FOW armour and perfect weapons it will be alot different.
Time + luck = GOLD
gl leeky
Time + luck = GOLD
gl leeky
RotteN
soloing certain areas is a good way of making quick cash, there are enough solobuilds in the forums here, just go and pick one you can run and try it out.
doing high level areas with a good group can also make you quite some money. For the elite weekend our alliance (which in normally pvp centered) did some runs in "The Deep", in 6 hours i made around 200k worth of items. Same goes for Dual UW runs : if you haved a necro or a monk you can esely drag lots of money out of the underworld.
The advantages of doing solo/dual runs in certain areas is obvious : you get a bigger share of the pure gold drops, and you have more chance of getting a good drop yourself.
also, HA can get you quite some cash, in sigils and rare items, but you have to hold halls for that
doing high level areas with a good group can also make you quite some money. For the elite weekend our alliance (which in normally pvp centered) did some runs in "The Deep", in 6 hours i made around 200k worth of items. Same goes for Dual UW runs : if you haved a necro or a monk you can esely drag lots of money out of the underworld.
The advantages of doing solo/dual runs in certain areas is obvious : you get a bigger share of the pure gold drops, and you have more chance of getting a good drop yourself.
also, HA can get you quite some cash, in sigils and rare items, but you have to hold halls for that
Count Feanor
There are many guides on how to make money on GW. This is a supply and demand economy, so you'll have to find what's in demand and supply it. So what's in demand? Well, materials are always in demand because people are constantly crafting weapons and armor. Parchment is a popular item. Learning to craft rare materials from you regular materials can yield quite a profit. Sometimes you have to spend money to make money. It costs me 4k to craft 200 parchment from 1000 wood planks at the material crafter. I sell it for 65 to 75g a piece. Thats 13 to 15k (about 11k profit). Instead of selling Gold weapons look to see if it has max perfect mods on it and salvage it. If you can get the mod, it's usually worth more than the weapon itself. Salvaging is your friend especially with an expert kit as it will many times get you rare materials. You can create a farming warrior with many builds listing on this site or a smiting 55 monk. I have both for farming purposes. Many green items are in demand. Find out where they drop and farm for them. Then sell them. You'll be rich in no time. 
Khaly
My suggestion would be to complete the game with your current character and look through the various farming guides for your character and start farming. When you have enough money, you can start doing buying/selling, which is probably the fastest way to gain money in this game. Running people from place to place is also a way to make some good money.
Today, actually, I sold a Perfect Chaos Axe for 100k+30 ectos, which is like 280,000 gold, ish. When you have a lot of money, buying and selling smartly is the best way to make money.
The other option is to farm a lot, like in underworld with a ranger trap team or 55/SSing it, and hoping for ectoplasms and things, which sell for about 7k each.
The last option [which I do not reccomend until you get experience] is to create a PvP character and go fight in Heroes Ascent. When you win, you could get one item from the victory chest worth millions.
For now, concentrate on completing the game before farming of any sort, that would be my suggestion.
Today, actually, I sold a Perfect Chaos Axe for 100k+30 ectos, which is like 280,000 gold, ish. When you have a lot of money, buying and selling smartly is the best way to make money.
The other option is to farm a lot, like in underworld with a ranger trap team or 55/SSing it, and hoping for ectoplasms and things, which sell for about 7k each.
The last option [which I do not reccomend until you get experience] is to create a PvP character and go fight in Heroes Ascent. When you win, you could get one item from the victory chest worth millions.
For now, concentrate on completing the game before farming of any sort, that would be my suggestion.
Jetdoc
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Originally Posted by Khaly
1. Watch Your Spending. Money is extremely easy to spend in Guild Wars, whether it be on armor, runes, dyes or weapons. Honestly, you don't need to spend money on most of that stuff until you get very late in the game, where it really makes a difference. Remember - COLLECTORS ARE YOUR FRIEND. Use their armor and their weapons that they give as collectors gifts until you get to Droknar's Forge or Kaineng City.
2. Don't Join Max Size Parties. You don't have to be able to solo, but you also don't need to have the maximum number of henchmen in your party as well. Take one, maybe two - it's highly likely you'll be able to complete your task and get 3-4 times the loot.
3. Don't Expert Salvage Everything. An expert salvage kit (and especially a superior salvage hit) is a lot of money to spend early in the game. They average out to at least 16 gold per salvage, versus 4 gold per salvage with a normal kit. Yes, you get some very rare materials every once in a while with an expert kit, but I found in the long run that selling the common materials (especially on the open market) is much more lucrative in the long run.
4. Look For Bargains. If you have spare time (i.e. when you're setting up skills in a town, changing attributes, or even looking for party members), check out the trade channel. Visit the main trading hubs every once in a while. More times than not, I find a great bargain that I can part with for a very nice profit later on (e.g. I bought a perfect +5 sword pommel of defense for 500g the other day and sold it a week later for 4K).
You follow those four guidelines, and you'd be surprised how quickly your wealth accumulates.
Angel Netherborn
If you don't buy everything you like, it's perfectly normal to have 10 plats by Lion's Arch. If you only have so little money, it means you've squandered it at earlier parts of the game.
Did you craft armor? These eat up money. Get collector armor. Did you craft weapons? They aren't necessary. Get collector weapons. Did you buy too many salvage and id kits? Choose your salvage targets. Did you buy too many skills? Buy only those you plan on trying out and only if you have extra money. Did you pick up all the stuffs dropped for you and sell them? Don't leave things lying around. Did you sell special things to the correct traders? Don't just sell to merchants.
Did you craft armor? These eat up money. Get collector armor. Did you craft weapons? They aren't necessary. Get collector weapons. Did you buy too many salvage and id kits? Choose your salvage targets. Did you buy too many skills? Buy only those you plan on trying out and only if you have extra money. Did you pick up all the stuffs dropped for you and sell them? Don't leave things lying around. Did you sell special things to the correct traders? Don't just sell to merchants.
eternal pho
Well by the time I got to THK, my monk had already gotten 20k+ just from mission drops.
Anyways, I've played this game since the beggining, and it took me 6 months to find the best ways to make money..lmao, well until I started using gwguru.
Just go the farming sub-forum and search up some farming techniques. My first way of making money was troll/minotaur farming and it was fairly easy.
Anyways, I've played this game since the beggining, and it took me 6 months to find the best ways to make money..lmao, well until I started using gwguru.
Just go the farming sub-forum and search up some farming techniques. My first way of making money was troll/minotaur farming and it was fairly easy.
gamecube187
Also, something that can get you a lot of money in the long run, is to ID all items (yes, including white items)with an ID kit. I use a normal ID kit for blue and white items, and a superior ID kit for gold and purple items, and I almost always get at least a small gold profit from it. Enspecially the items you get latter in game. The whites alone can more than double their value just by a normal ID kit.
bigwig
one thing i do is i don't buy anything. i don't buy materials for my armour, i go solo a zone and get the materials that way. i don't buy keys because they're a gold sink and not worth it. i don't buy greens i go out and get them myself, no matter how long it takes. i use collectors for armours and weapons, especially before max armour.
there are a lot of good tips in previous posts, but i didn't notice one thing i do a lot to make money (recently nerfed) which is scavenge. just pick up whatever other people leave behind. leave lots of room in your inventory because this can add up. although i haven't seen how much stuff you can scavenge since the loot timer was upped to ten minutes, if you go on your average sorrows run, there is usually plenty of free white stuff you can run around and collect after everyone goes back do dwc. i used to make 1-2k from other peoples stuff alone.
other than that i farm. back when runes were more profittable i must have made 300k from ettin farming. when new greens are introduced you can make money selling at inflated prices, if you get one early.
so yeah. pick up everything.
there are a lot of good tips in previous posts, but i didn't notice one thing i do a lot to make money (recently nerfed) which is scavenge. just pick up whatever other people leave behind. leave lots of room in your inventory because this can add up. although i haven't seen how much stuff you can scavenge since the loot timer was upped to ten minutes, if you go on your average sorrows run, there is usually plenty of free white stuff you can run around and collect after everyone goes back do dwc. i used to make 1-2k from other peoples stuff alone.
other than that i farm. back when runes were more profittable i must have made 300k from ettin farming. when new greens are introduced you can make money selling at inflated prices, if you get one early.
so yeah. pick up everything.
Angel Netherborn
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Originally Posted by gamecube187
Also, something that can get you a lot of money in the long run, is to ID all items (yes, including white items)with an ID kit. I use a normal ID kit for blue and white items, and a superior ID kit for gold and purple items, and I almost always get at least a small gold profit from it. Enspecially the items you get latter in game. The whites alone can more than double their value just by a normal ID kit.
Please ignore parts of this post. ANY identification kit will do. Just be sure to identify. Whether you use superior or not doesn't matter.
Please ignore parts of this post. ANY identification kit will do. Just be sure to identify. Whether you use superior or not doesn't matter.
dare49devil
My storage self-replenishes.
Arturo02
If that char isn't making money for you, you should probably reroll the toon.
I'm just kidding hehe.
But seriously, how did you get all the way to THK but yet have no money? I'm not trying to bust your stones, I am curious because like eternal said, you should have some money saved just from drops alone. Guessing it was the 1.5k armor.
If that's the reason, you shouldn't be upset you are broke. You need the max armor. If you are broke cause you blew your money on every set of armor that was an ar increase then you should be angry. Using your money to buy things you need is not something to be mad about.
I'm just kidding hehe.
But seriously, how did you get all the way to THK but yet have no money? I'm not trying to bust your stones, I am curious because like eternal said, you should have some money saved just from drops alone. Guessing it was the 1.5k armor.
If that's the reason, you shouldn't be upset you are broke. You need the max armor. If you are broke cause you blew your money on every set of armor that was an ar increase then you should be angry. Using your money to buy things you need is not something to be mad about.
Faowri
On my first run through Prophecies, I didn't end up with a lot of money much of the time because I was still getting used to the game mechanics, which meant getting used to what to buy and what not to buy. I didn't know what to expect as I went along, so I bought armour and weapons and such at times when I could have waited until a more opportune outpost etc. I wasted money on dye mixing because I didn't realise entirely how it worked until I'd experimented a bit. You get the idea ^^
If it's your first character, I wouldn't worry too much about making money until you've at least got through the full game. It would be inhuman of you to know on your first run through the wisest ways to keep and spend cash. On my first character, amounts like 10k and above seemed crazy but third character in and it's a lot easier than you think. You learn through experience ^^
If it's your first character, I wouldn't worry too much about making money until you've at least got through the full game. It would be inhuman of you to know on your first run through the wisest ways to keep and spend cash. On my first character, amounts like 10k and above seemed crazy but third character in and it's a lot easier than you think. You learn through experience ^^
fashion07
chest run !! lucky and spend time to sell items. let me make over 800K (of course u need to find a right place to chest run)
about 3 weeks as I guess
about 3 weeks as I guess
Darkwyrm
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Originally Posted by Arturo02
But seriously, how did you get all the way to THK but yet have no money?
Ehh, it wasn't the armor more like trying to get every skill... almost completed it 6 more non-elite ele and 3 more elites. But even now that I've beaten the game with protecter I still can't find anything with much value.
I'm really starting to think my luck is cursed. 3 hours of troll farming ended with 4 blues and a bunch of whites amounting to barely 2K(no anti-farm message either.
At this point I'm not sure wether it's no knowledge of what/how to sell things or simply getting worthless items(been trying to sell a few max staff and bow mods for nearly 2 weeks nowalong with what I think are rare skin weapons(mursaat, shadow, magma.)
I'm really starting to think my luck is cursed. 3 hours of troll farming ended with 4 blues and a bunch of whites amounting to barely 2K(no anti-farm message either.
At this point I'm not sure wether it's no knowledge of what/how to sell things or simply getting worthless items(been trying to sell a few max staff and bow mods for nearly 2 weeks nowalong with what I think are rare skin weapons(mursaat, shadow, magma.)
chessyang
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Originally Posted by Darkwyrm
At this point I'm not sure wether it's no knowledge of what/how to sell things or simply getting worthless items(been trying to sell a few max staff and bow mods for nearly 2 weeks nowalong with what I think are rare skin weapons(mursaat, shadow, magma.)
It sounds like you don't have fractions? well i find the best buyers at Kaineng City. Fridays and Saturdays are good for Lion's Arch. but ya i know the feeling on buying and selling. When i post my sale ad i just make it low because most of the time people will whisper you low prices anyways and haggle you to death.
I just sell it low to move on with life. dont' have all day to get that 100k for 1 item. but hay some people do. also some items are worth that much and do take time to sell. i'm just saying for the other item to make a quick 10k-20k.
As for trolls i do a few runs and run up to the Mineral Springs. both for wood, iron,steel and hide and then sell them all (stacks of 250) on the weekends. gets me about 50k and then if i had any gold drops to sell.
I just sell it low to move on with life. dont' have all day to get that 100k for 1 item. but hay some people do. also some items are worth that much and do take time to sell. i'm just saying for the other item to make a quick 10k-20k.
As for trolls i do a few runs and run up to the Mineral Springs. both for wood, iron,steel and hide and then sell them all (stacks of 250) on the weekends. gets me about 50k and then if i had any gold drops to sell.
stillarook
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Originally Posted by Darkwyrm
I was wondering how people made so much money in game. This isn't for farming locations/builds just more of a general question. Is it getting gold or selling items?
I ask now because how bad I am at this just dawned on me today. I"m at thunderhead keep with my 1st character and have only 600 gold. Also the highest amount of money I've ever had is around 2K.
This is disheartening when there's people who just got to Lion's Arch who have 10+K just on them. I'm not sure if it's me just sucking at farming or really bad luck.
Lately I've been thinking the latter as I've gotten horrible drops. An example is on one try for a mission today there were 4 or 5 gold drops and around 10 purple. With a 4 person(people quit) party I only got 1 blue and barely anything else(3 or 4 white armors/weapons and a few creature parts).
Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated. That's okay, my friend, I feel for you. I'm like you.
I ask now because how bad I am at this just dawned on me today. I"m at thunderhead keep with my 1st character and have only 600 gold. Also the highest amount of money I've ever had is around 2K.
This is disheartening when there's people who just got to Lion's Arch who have 10+K just on them. I'm not sure if it's me just sucking at farming or really bad luck.
Lately I've been thinking the latter as I've gotten horrible drops. An example is on one try for a mission today there were 4 or 5 gold drops and around 10 purple. With a 4 person(people quit) party I only got 1 blue and barely anything else(3 or 4 white armors/weapons and a few creature parts).
Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated. That's okay, my friend, I feel for you. I'm like you.
the_jos
I can give some general advice, i hope.
What i have done in prophecies is playing multiple characters at the same time.
One advanced (started Ne, not the easiest), that generates goodies (collectable drops, salvage, some weapons) for the other characters.
So when I had a new character in the jungle, i would have my Ne get the collectors items for armor. I never used weapons besides the one that dropped for me. Few exceptions, on high level.
The drops for the 'new' characters just go to merchant / storage.
Al those little 10 and 20 golds do add up in time.
On my cathan characters i have used a different approach.
Those should pay themselfs. So collect money and stuff for weapons/armor and no grabbing from the storage.
This also worked, since there are loads of quests out there.
Afaik, i just bought armor there and did not collect.
The number of quests is enough to generate a fair amount of gold.
About the amount of money you can make this way:
I have played several missions today with my monk.
Want protectors for tyria, so revisited some places.
Did Thunderhead, Icecaves (1x bonus, then helped out some partymembers on mission on second try, since most of the team left), Iron Mines of Moladune (helping same partymembers), Dragons Lair (bonus, 2x), Elona Reach (no drops there, 2 people in our team agreed to run), Divinity Coast (twice, first time 3th villager died on arival), The Wilds, Bloodstone Fen (bonus only, henched), Aurora Glade (failed bonus).
On those missions i have had one or two purple drops, no gold item drops. Did not use keys.
I've bought superior protection + protection scalp (droknars), that's about 6K + materials (which i have in storage).
I've taken some gold out of storage for this, about 4K.
Since i don't like large amounts of cash on my char, i must have made about 2K before I bought those. And now there is about 4K on my monk, so I must have made about 6K just playing missions/bonus.
I sell all weapons to merchant (to pay for ID kits and Sup Salvage) and salvage all armor.
Will this make you very rich?
I think not. But those 5-6K a day just playing missions will add up in time.
For me that's enough to buy all runes, armor and weapons I need.
And you should consider what something is worth for you.
For example, a Sup Vigor (+50 health) is about 30K more expensive than a Major Vigor (+41 health). I won't pay +30K for 9 health.
The same goes for major runes in general. They provide +2 instead of +3, but will cost you about 100 gold.
And 15^50 max damage sundering gold weapons of fortitude with rare skins are cool, but i don't need them to finish the game.
You can finish with the collectors weapons or the ones that drop.
Just takes some more time to get them.
When you get your character(s) to max level (and max armor/weapons) there is little to spend your money on, except 'nice to have' goodies.
15K armor, keys, ale, extra weapons/armor/runes, all nice, but you don't need them.
And for skills, check wiki which skills you want and only buy those.
And don't buy what you can quest.
You don't need all the skills and when you have enough gold in time, you can always buy them.
What i have done in prophecies is playing multiple characters at the same time.
One advanced (started Ne, not the easiest), that generates goodies (collectable drops, salvage, some weapons) for the other characters.
So when I had a new character in the jungle, i would have my Ne get the collectors items for armor. I never used weapons besides the one that dropped for me. Few exceptions, on high level.
The drops for the 'new' characters just go to merchant / storage.
Al those little 10 and 20 golds do add up in time.
On my cathan characters i have used a different approach.
Those should pay themselfs. So collect money and stuff for weapons/armor and no grabbing from the storage.
This also worked, since there are loads of quests out there.
Afaik, i just bought armor there and did not collect.
The number of quests is enough to generate a fair amount of gold.
About the amount of money you can make this way:
I have played several missions today with my monk.
Want protectors for tyria, so revisited some places.
Did Thunderhead, Icecaves (1x bonus, then helped out some partymembers on mission on second try, since most of the team left), Iron Mines of Moladune (helping same partymembers), Dragons Lair (bonus, 2x), Elona Reach (no drops there, 2 people in our team agreed to run), Divinity Coast (twice, first time 3th villager died on arival), The Wilds, Bloodstone Fen (bonus only, henched), Aurora Glade (failed bonus).
On those missions i have had one or two purple drops, no gold item drops. Did not use keys.
I've bought superior protection + protection scalp (droknars), that's about 6K + materials (which i have in storage).
I've taken some gold out of storage for this, about 4K.
Since i don't like large amounts of cash on my char, i must have made about 2K before I bought those. And now there is about 4K on my monk, so I must have made about 6K just playing missions/bonus.
I sell all weapons to merchant (to pay for ID kits and Sup Salvage) and salvage all armor.
Will this make you very rich?
I think not. But those 5-6K a day just playing missions will add up in time.
For me that's enough to buy all runes, armor and weapons I need.
And you should consider what something is worth for you.
For example, a Sup Vigor (+50 health) is about 30K more expensive than a Major Vigor (+41 health). I won't pay +30K for 9 health.
The same goes for major runes in general. They provide +2 instead of +3, but will cost you about 100 gold.
And 15^50 max damage sundering gold weapons of fortitude with rare skins are cool, but i don't need them to finish the game.
You can finish with the collectors weapons or the ones that drop.
Just takes some more time to get them.
When you get your character(s) to max level (and max armor/weapons) there is little to spend your money on, except 'nice to have' goodies.
15K armor, keys, ale, extra weapons/armor/runes, all nice, but you don't need them.
And for skills, check wiki which skills you want and only buy those.
And don't buy what you can quest.
You don't need all the skills and when you have enough gold in time, you can always buy them.
easyg
Just one little tip: farm for perfect mods, not for perfect weapons. Perfect weapons drop very infrequently, even when you solo kill mobs of Lvl 23 or higher critters. On the other hand, perfect mods can be farmed very early in the Prophecies campaign and they drop more regularly.
Chest farming is okay I guess, but it takes considerable cash reserves to get started at this. Keys are expensive. And except for certain high level areas, chests tend to yield garbage. Farming intermediate lvl monsters makes a lot more sense since they are fast and easy to kill and drop what you want (perfect mods) with exactly the same frequency as more powerful monsters.
The Northern Shiverpeaks, particularly Iron Horse Mines, are a good place to get started. Solo farm it with your W/Mo. No henchies. For some reason, weapons with imperfect damage but perfect mods will drop here. You will never get a gold 15-22 sword here. But you will get gold swords with only 10-17 damage and perfect 20/20 sundering.
Salvage the mods and sell them.
Chest farming is okay I guess, but it takes considerable cash reserves to get started at this. Keys are expensive. And except for certain high level areas, chests tend to yield garbage. Farming intermediate lvl monsters makes a lot more sense since they are fast and easy to kill and drop what you want (perfect mods) with exactly the same frequency as more powerful monsters.
The Northern Shiverpeaks, particularly Iron Horse Mines, are a good place to get started. Solo farm it with your W/Mo. No henchies. For some reason, weapons with imperfect damage but perfect mods will drop here. You will never get a gold 15-22 sword here. But you will get gold swords with only 10-17 damage and perfect 20/20 sundering.
Salvage the mods and sell them.
aubee
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Originally Posted by Darkwyrm
I'm really starting to think my luck is cursed. 3 hours of troll farming ended with 4 blues and a bunch of whites amounting to barely 2K(no anti-farm message either.
2K in 3 hours? Wow! That seems very low. Are you running with henchies or something? I can make over 10k in an hour just farming the minotaurs at the beginning of the Elona Reach mission with my SB monk. And the few times I've farmed the trolls outside of Droks with my monk or necro seemed much more productive than 2K in 3 hours as well. That just seems awfully low to me for the trolls. Or practically anywhere that you are solo farming.
Darkwyrm
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Originally Posted by aubee
2K in 3 hours? Wow! That seems very low. Are you running with henchies or something? I can make over 10k in an hour just farming the minotaurs at the beginning of the Elona Reach mission with my SB monk. And the few times I've farmed the trolls outside of Droks with my monk or necro seemed much more productive than 2K in 3 hours as well. That just seems awfully low to me for the trolls. Or practically anywhere that you are solo farming.
No henches, it's all solo. My main problem is horrible drops regardless of where I am and who I'm with. Got 2 hours FoW, group of 8, we killed everything we saw, no ecto or shards for anyone, 3 purple weapons, no gold chests, a few purple armors, and a few basic material drops. I got collector drops ,white mostly non-maxed shadow stuff, and a minor rune.
Example:
Just tried trolls for 1 hour. In total got 460g, 12 horns, and 3 or 4 <60g white and blue weapons. Killed all of them in the cave besides the bosses.
Example:
Just tried trolls for 1 hour. In total got 460g, 12 horns, and 3 or 4 <60g white and blue weapons. Killed all of them in the cave besides the bosses.
Don Zardeone
The usual troll farming builds can clear the cave in 45secs to 5mins.
Are you saying you're clearning the cave in 1 hour?
Time = money. Find a way to raise the amount of money you make per minute. My wammo build could clear the entire cave, including warrior boss, excluding ranger boss in as little as 50seconds or less (average).
I now go in there once in a while with my monk to kill stuff when I'm bored.
But 460gold,.. 12 (twelve??) horns.
It sounds like you're not set up for efficient farming o.o
Are you saying you're clearning the cave in 1 hour?
Time = money. Find a way to raise the amount of money you make per minute. My wammo build could clear the entire cave, including warrior boss, excluding ranger boss in as little as 50seconds or less (average).
I now go in there once in a while with my monk to kill stuff when I'm bored.
But 460gold,.. 12 (twelve??) horns.
It sounds like you're not set up for efficient farming o.o
Darkwyrm
I meant going again and again for 1 hour, it usually takes me 5-10 min per run and my succes ratio is around 2 out of 3 runs result in me killing them all instead of 3 and dieing depending on spawns(disrupting chop messing up mist form). Time is due to that along with recharging energy and spells... my E/Me or E/Mo (got a bunch of skills fo all 3 classes) is the only character out of pre-searing.
Exe time wise, 30sec-1 min to reach cave. Aggro 1st mob and kill in around 2min, almost 1 min recharge, kill 2nd mob(or trolls around warrior boss) same way(2 min). That's assuming I don't have to wait on the bird guys outside the entrace to move enough to get in.
Exe time wise, 30sec-1 min to reach cave. Aggro 1st mob and kill in around 2min, almost 1 min recharge, kill 2nd mob(or trolls around warrior boss) same way(2 min). That's assuming I don't have to wait on the bird guys outside the entrace to move enough to get in.
SuperNomad
I never, ever traded anything from a collector I just sold it all to a merchant, I found a good bow max damage bow as my first character (ranger obviously) and I didn't but any armor other than some at Yak's Bend until I got to Droknar's Forge I had about 20k then. I used to buy Black Dyes for 6k at Ascalon and sell them for 6.5k in Droknar's Forge. Then Factions came out and my money skyrocketed.
commando91
The key thing to making money is buy low, sell high. Or, I recommend soloing trolls outside drocks... about 1k in 5 minutes. A few days ago i was at 324 gold... now I am at 300k and 32 ectos from buying low, selling high and farming.
Sacho
Since I hate farming and generally dislike PvE, I'll tell you how I get my bank account filled with a modest amount of cash.
Missions. Yes, simply missions. Buy an ident kit and a salvage kit, and hop on a random, easy to do mission. Grab a random pug, doesn't really matter since you've done the mission and don't care whether you'd finish it or not. Kill stuff, and get all your drops. Yes, even blue and white. Get them. Identify all magic ones. Once you start getting full, start salvaging whites(always keep a few slots for materials). When the mission is done, sell all the magic items(which probably suck), sell the whites you didn't salvage. Stockpile the materials. Rinse and repeat.
Technically, this isn't farming, as most of the time I'm just trying out a build, or helping some of my friends do their missions, or trying out a bonus, or whatever. It doesn't matter.
Oh, and watch what you spend. Remember, fancy armor isn't any better than normal armor - 15k and 1.5k are the same. If you don't want to farm, don't get expensive armor and weapons. Most of the time you can grab a collector weapon and "mission-farm" your wanted mods. Sure, you might not have a +30 fortitude, but +25 works the same. My 2 pve chars might not be able to flash greens(I sell them) and show off perfect gold items, but they do their job fine with slightly supbar. And I can tell you, I have enjoyed all my "mission-farming" for the 30k I have in my bank.
Try it, it works. I get around 1k per mission just by selling the drops. Even better if you ask people who don't collect their drops to just give them to you(pickup-drop, alot of people are kind enough to do it). More gold for you. Whee.
Remember that materials can be 1) highly profitable, 2) needed for your 1.5k armor, 3) easily traded and stockpiled.
I don't see any reason to have ridiculous amounts of money(ie 300k). Once you get your armor and weapons, there's simply nothing to buy but luxuries. Of course, if you enjoy fancy armor, cool weapons and luxury items, by all means follow the advice of the farmers. No way to get to those sums without farming.
Missions. Yes, simply missions. Buy an ident kit and a salvage kit, and hop on a random, easy to do mission. Grab a random pug, doesn't really matter since you've done the mission and don't care whether you'd finish it or not. Kill stuff, and get all your drops. Yes, even blue and white. Get them. Identify all magic ones. Once you start getting full, start salvaging whites(always keep a few slots for materials). When the mission is done, sell all the magic items(which probably suck), sell the whites you didn't salvage. Stockpile the materials. Rinse and repeat.
Technically, this isn't farming, as most of the time I'm just trying out a build, or helping some of my friends do their missions, or trying out a bonus, or whatever. It doesn't matter.
Oh, and watch what you spend. Remember, fancy armor isn't any better than normal armor - 15k and 1.5k are the same. If you don't want to farm, don't get expensive armor and weapons. Most of the time you can grab a collector weapon and "mission-farm" your wanted mods. Sure, you might not have a +30 fortitude, but +25 works the same. My 2 pve chars might not be able to flash greens(I sell them) and show off perfect gold items, but they do their job fine with slightly supbar. And I can tell you, I have enjoyed all my "mission-farming" for the 30k I have in my bank.
Try it, it works. I get around 1k per mission just by selling the drops. Even better if you ask people who don't collect their drops to just give them to you(pickup-drop, alot of people are kind enough to do it). More gold for you. Whee.
Remember that materials can be 1) highly profitable, 2) needed for your 1.5k armor, 3) easily traded and stockpiled.
I don't see any reason to have ridiculous amounts of money(ie 300k). Once you get your armor and weapons, there's simply nothing to buy but luxuries. Of course, if you enjoy fancy armor, cool weapons and luxury items, by all means follow the advice of the farmers. No way to get to those sums without farming.
2ndName
In Prophecies, you will not gain gold by just questing. If you do not have Factions, I would suggest farming trolls, ettins, and minotaurs.
I agree with the above poster. There is really nothing much you would want to buy with gold in GW. I purchased all the 15K armors and have all the rare skinned weapons I wanted. I am still sitting on 1.8Mil.
I agree with the above poster. There is really nothing much you would want to buy with gold in GW. I purchased all the 15K armors and have all the rare skinned weapons I wanted. I am still sitting on 1.8Mil.
Darkwyrm
All of my gold right now is going twoards getting all the skills I can(I think being able to do most any buid would be good considering how hard it is to find a group in high end areas(tombs, FoW, UW, HA) with Elementalist primary), also for personal gratification. I agree with the 1.5K armor is fine and already have enough maxed gold wands/staves that are apparently worthless, but I would rather not pay 50K+ to get 1 more %.
No Factions and as for the others, trolls I explained in a previous post, minotaurs are about the same and I've hardly ever to reach the Ettins(bird things kill me). What are the thing these 3 are supposed to drop anyway. See my other post and replace troll horns with whatever their collector is and you get my luck.(Only seen 1 green drop and it was Rotscale's).
Either way where is the material guy who makes Deldrimor steel, it seems the most expensive thing I have a chance of making, I've got alot of iron, wood, and charcole to use up(that's impossible to sell to people).
No Factions and as for the others, trolls I explained in a previous post, minotaurs are about the same and I've hardly ever to reach the Ettins(bird things kill me). What are the thing these 3 are supposed to drop anyway. See my other post and replace troll horns with whatever their collector is and you get my luck.(Only seen 1 green drop and it was Rotscale's).
Either way where is the material guy who makes Deldrimor steel, it seems the most expensive thing I have a chance of making, I've got alot of iron, wood, and charcole to use up(that's impossible to sell to people).
SaladFork
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Originally Posted by aubee
2K in 3 hours? Wow! That seems very low. Are you running with henchies or something? I can make over 10k in an hour just farming the minotaurs at the beginning of the Elona Reach mission with my SB monk. And the few times I've farmed the trolls outside of Droks with my monk or necro seemed much more productive than 2K in 3 hours as well. That just seems awfully low to me for the trolls. Or practically anywhere that you are solo farming.
The minotaurs make me no more than 4-5k an hour, and that's if I get a few good runs. What drops are you getting that are grabbing you such profits?
~Salad
~Salad
Xavier Lightstone
I've traded to get some cash for more 15k armour sets, but I never really liked the idea of farming, unless it's something interesting like TotPK runs and stuff. At least you have people to chat with, and some changes in strategy (esp. when it goes tits up!)
There should be a fun way to get a lot of gold, without yawning myself to death, it is a game afterall.
There should be a fun way to get a lot of gold, without yawning myself to death, it is a game afterall.
Senator Tom
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Originally Posted by SaladFork
The minotaurs make me no more than 4-5k an hour, and that's if I get a few good runs. What drops are you getting that are grabbing you such profits?
~Salad Minos always give me 500g/3min run
~Salad Minos always give me 500g/3min run
Soldat
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Originally Posted by Jetdoc
4. Look For Bargains. If you have spare time (i.e. when you're setting up skills in a town, changing attributes, or even looking for party members), check out the trade channel. Visit the main trading hubs every once in a while. More times than not, I find a great bargain that I can part with for a very nice profit later on (e.g. I bought a perfect +5 sword pommel of defense for 500g the other day and sold it a week later for 4K). Wow, good suggestions, but I'd like to particularly pay attention to that last part. I can't tell you how much that has helped me get semi-rich. Here are some of my examples of this:
1) Just the other day, I got an awesome deal- I payed 9k and got a 15>50 Gothic Sword, max dmg, and req. 8!! Thats a really rare item, and searching on guru last night, i found sumwhere that that would b worth about 100-150k.
P.S. He also threw in a free Geoffer's Bulwark to add to that. I'm pretty sure he did chest runs in Kurzick territory and just wanted to make more inventory space.
2) A few days ago i bought 54 steel for 90g each, while the merch was selling steel for 220g per. Even after that, i got to lower the price lower just because i was "buying all of them as a package." (Some traders give package deals if you buy a whole set of their items alltogether.) That's especially gonna b helpful to me, cuz when Nightfall is released, tons of ppl will be wanting to buy crafting materials for their new armor, and the prices will go way up.
(Hint: Start saving up your crafting materials you find, and put them in your crafting materials storage vault. You should make lot os money off of that.)
3) Last month while in droknar's forge gettin rdy to farm trolls, I saw a victo's blade on sale for 8k. Since at the time it was a sought after item, i went ahead and bought it. Not even 5 min. had passed and i sold it for 16k in the same district, lol.
Lots more examples I can't remember, but just emphasizing that buying low/selling high has gotten me very far. The only other way I've made money is from farming trolls outside droks mostly, but I hafn't been doin that as long.
P.S. Most of these deals I've found were in my spare time, as Jetdoc said, you don't have to go looking for deals most of the time, they just come your way.
Master Sword Keeper
Usually farming Shiverpeaks for my u can end up with 100k in a few hours depending if u dont let anything stop u..If it hasnt been mentioned....
Now u know...
Get a good farming build then go out and "Go and get some"
G.L
MSK
Now u know...
Get a good farming build then go out and "Go and get some"
G.L
MSK
oles
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Originally Posted by Sacho
I don't see any reason to have ridiculous amounts of money(ie 300k). Once you get your armor and weapons, there's simply nothing to buy but luxuries. Of course, if you enjoy fancy armor, cool weapons and luxury items, by all means follow the advice of the farmers. No way to get to those sums without farming.
You must be new to this game, because a ridiculous amount of money would be 10+million. 300k is doable in a single weekend day of about 10 hours (farming and selling), not to mention a lucky drop, which can give 100-300k quite easily.
I've made about 2.6million in a month of relaxed after work farming, and at the same time, I've developed 5 new solo builds. Doing this, first of all, was immense fun for me, secondly, helped me learn the game better as I've only been playing for 4 months.
Advice: think outside the box
I've made about 2.6million in a month of relaxed after work farming, and at the same time, I've developed 5 new solo builds. Doing this, first of all, was immense fun for me, secondly, helped me learn the game better as I've only been playing for 4 months.
Advice: think outside the box
aubee
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Originally Posted by SaladFork
The minotaurs make me no more than 4-5k an hour, and that's if I get a few good runs. What drops are you getting that are grabbing you such profits?
~Salad The minotaur drops are junk. Non-max weapons, gold, minotaur horns and hides, crummy dyes, etc. Of the drops the only thing worthwhile (unless you get a lucky silver or black dye drop) is the minotaur hides. They salvage to leather squares at about a 1 in 3 or 4 rate. It's not the quality but the quantity. As someone below pointed out, you can do a run in about 3 minutes. It really takes longer to run down to the minotaurs than to kill them all.
Something else to farm if you are bored is just run down into the Maguuma Jungle solo and kill trolls, skales, and spiders. Go on down to the Falls and farm the totem axes. Everything down there is easy to kill except the wind riders and even they can be taken out if you want.
To the OP, if your drops are that lousy running solo, switch characters for a run or two or complete a mission. Maybe some kind of anti-farming has kicked in and needs to be reset.
~Salad The minotaur drops are junk. Non-max weapons, gold, minotaur horns and hides, crummy dyes, etc. Of the drops the only thing worthwhile (unless you get a lucky silver or black dye drop) is the minotaur hides. They salvage to leather squares at about a 1 in 3 or 4 rate. It's not the quality but the quantity. As someone below pointed out, you can do a run in about 3 minutes. It really takes longer to run down to the minotaurs than to kill them all.
Something else to farm if you are bored is just run down into the Maguuma Jungle solo and kill trolls, skales, and spiders. Go on down to the Falls and farm the totem axes. Everything down there is easy to kill except the wind riders and even they can be taken out if you want.
To the OP, if your drops are that lousy running solo, switch characters for a run or two or complete a mission. Maybe some kind of anti-farming has kicked in and needs to be reset.
Sereng Amaranth
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Originally Posted by Darkwyrm
Either way where is the material guy who makes Deldrimor steel, it seems the most expensive thing I have a chance of making, I've got alot of iron, wood, and charcole to use up(that's impossible to sell to people).
I'm not sure if the guy I use makes charcoal. But if you have lots of wood and dust, go out the north exit of Droknar's then due north until you climb up the mountain. After you stop climbing, take the left path. There should be about 3 trolls and a group of birdies there. Fight them and keep going NW through that path. You'll come to an opening where there are birdies on the right and maybe on the left. You should be able to avoid them and move between 2 rock peaks. By the time you're between the small peaks, you should be able to see the collector that makes Vellum.
I've made lots of money by salvaging stuff into wood and dust, then crafting Vellum and selling it either to the rare trader at about 80-90g each, or going to Grotto or Citadel and selling for 140g each. A full set of monk or necro tattoos needs 300 Vellum.
To farm for one full set of tattoos:
1500 wood
1500 dust
6000 gold (20g per Vellum)
300 Vellum @ 140g each = 42,000g.
That, my friend, is a tidy profit of 36k.
I've made lots of money by salvaging stuff into wood and dust, then crafting Vellum and selling it either to the rare trader at about 80-90g each, or going to Grotto or Citadel and selling for 140g each. A full set of monk or necro tattoos needs 300 Vellum.
To farm for one full set of tattoos:
1500 wood
1500 dust
6000 gold (20g per Vellum)
300 Vellum @ 140g each = 42,000g.
That, my friend, is a tidy profit of 36k.
A Leprechaun
yeah i dont know what builds you guys use for elona mino farming but i can do the run(get back to town) in 1 and a half mins and get between 500-750g a run as well as the horns which you can sell for a bit of dosh, although i would suggest vermin farming over anything else if you are new to farming and have factions you get 1.5 - 2k a run + the chance of shredders talons which you can sell for about 2k and its really easy
~A Leprechaun~
~A Leprechaun~
Arkantos
Shredders Talons sell for ~500g.