Sign here if you've been playing for more than a year now, and...

Actually for 5-6 months I was just like the OP.

Playing the game will only get you so far, MOst money I ever had during that time period was 60k, and that was from a lucky sup vigor drop.

Farming is something someone coming into the game would have a hard time with, because most of the builds fall into 3 catagories:
1) Too expensive to start off.
2) Too complicated to do effectively without prior experience
3) The profit is minimal and anti farm code sets in before they get alot of anything - discouraging them.

Trading is something you have to like doing and takes start up money when you do. It involves alot of sitting in towns and browsing stuff in those towns and forums, which isnt why these new players bought the game...

Its hard to find decent guilds nowadays, especially if you are new.

I'm just saying, Looking at it from the point of view of the rich person - It can be hard to understand the plight.

Im no longer rich..I gave up my old account and started fresh on a new one..i have 8k in the bank from a black dye that i sold and dont even have a lvl20 yet.

signed 1 & 2
I used to have a bit of money and a 15^50% mursaat hammer.

Now i got full 15k dragons dyed black with obsidian helm = Instantly poor as i cant sell any of this

... Just realised that sing was probably suppose to be sign in the topic title. Nearly spat coffee all over my computer screen when I realised it.

I do have less than 10k in my storage atm, but I also have copious quantities of greens, golds, and 15k armours.

I've been in GW since the day Prophecies was released, have six toons and deleted six more. Never had more than 20k at a time.

I don't buy, sell or trade anything, just play with whatever I find. If I can't use something, I sell it to the merchant or give it away.

Farmed up one set of 15k druids armor for my R/N, then tossed the vest, because I thought the collectors vest with the skull went better with her necro side.

Just an old ex-hippie and beach bum, running my game with my kids and grandkids, and having fun.

sigh at 1 ( I only saved up my money for the 15k armor, right now have 500gp, never bothered to get more money )

Have near perfect gold and perfect greens.

Have 1 set of 15k.

/not signed

y do ppl keep posting what they have?
this isnt a "if /not signed, tell us what u got" thread..

oh come ON!

You can solo FoW and you dare complaining about all this?!

GG laziness.

/signed

1. Iffy on this one, I pobably have 4k ish in gold scattered across characters(I have 8 now..) some rare materials, but nothing special.
2 Collectors weapons ftw. I have some greens from the divine path, but nothing else.
3. Most of the 15k Kurzik warrior. Got it mostly when amber was 3k+ a piece. All my other characters have 1.5, although I did buy new armor for my elementalist because I was sick of looking at him in his fire dress.

Been playing for 16 months, about a week after release. 1200+ hours methinks...

I mostly attribute it to the fact that I have deleted a few characters in the past (the number 5 comes inot mind), so I only have 2 who have had birthdays. Meh. I think it's funny that I probably have the Higest Time to wealth ratio in the whole game. I have been playing consistently for the past few months, much more so than I have, so maybe I'll get that total up.

Wow, i feel n00b now...

Maybe its because i never dedicated as much time as most of you guys. i have a total of like 600+ hours only. I thought playing 3+ ours a day on weekends was a lot :-(

So i guess i should just wait till next summer before i try to get rich then, when i have time to kill.

lol keep up the "singing" i wanna see if there is anybody else like me.

EDIT: I had one green once, by pure ;uck. Chkkr's Pincers, which i sold for 5k *sigh*

/not signed for all 3
1) Have less than 10k
2) Have no Perfect/near-perf Gold weapons
3) Have no pieces of 15k or Obsidian Armor

I've played since May 2004, I have less then 50 gold on my account and default droks armour. Could care less.

my guildmate (brother in law), has 2 characters, 1st one hasnt even gotten to lions arch, 2nd one is still on monestary island.....he works 2 jobs, one of which is now a splitshift, he has not even been on the game in over 2 months....and before factions he went 4 months.....

Umm, this is gonna sound harsh...

But how can you people be complaining about money? "You can only make money by farming" argument is BULL! It's called, dont spend cash at every new town and opportunity you get. Guess what?!?! It's called SAVING!! And guess what what? It's similar to real life. So what better way to learn then in a game?!

My VERY first character that i took through Tyria over a year ago was well off. Going through the regular story line, doing random side quests as i got them and being wise on when to get better armor or new skills etc, had my character WELL supported and easily able to get 15k armor. Pick up EVERYTHING that you can, and sell EVERYTHING you possibly can part with. Salvage materials as often as possible. These few things will gain you several thousand in a few days, and the salvaged materials will either go towards your future armors, or can be sold at lump sums at the Material Traders. I waited till materials got higher than usual, then sold materials often. Being frugal with your spending is also vital. A scroll here, a material there, and key here, or a "paid run" there:: It adds up. Learn when NOT to spend money.

My first character was 15 days old when he was about 90% of the way to affording 15k armor.




No really people its that simple. You don't believe me? Start a new character and be as stingy as POSSIBLE with that character in terms of money spending and penny pinching. Spend nothing, sell everything. By the time you hit endgame with him, you will have a good haul of gold/loot.

cheers!


EDIT:: BTW. What a HORRIBLY baited trap for all the rich folk to show off. LoL. I just hope my advice gets through the hundreds of "i are so rich!" posts... LoL'd again!

*signed*

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And better!Theres a fourth:I have not finished the prophecies or the factions campeighn yet,ive took my time to explore all the classes,find all the quests,and have fun with mini-games,events,or simple exploration,there was so much to do i havnt even gotton to the end of the game yet!And i damn well hope i never will find the end so there will always be sompthing to do.

Signed, for one, two and three.

Basically I've been playing since the March Beta event for Prophecies, however in May, my ISP decided to have a breakdown that lasted until July, then again, late August to October 31st the same problem.

Later in the year in December it started to happen again, only now the net would work at night but not during the day. SOmething to do with the heat and sunlight and things.

It continued until early June, it was fixed finally, then our net started going out due to our tower being crooked. We live in the middle of nowhere basically and need a 75 foot tall tower to get 1.2MBps net.

Due to all of thsi going on, Guild Wars had died around May last year and continued on through until off and on from October 31st last year up until recently when I started to pull back into it finally due to net that would allow me to play.

I have six characters, two level twenties, and have spent the 30k I had on armor for my two new ones. Soon to be seven or eight with Nightfall.

I may or may not end up with 15k, I've been starting to look into making a build to help me farm places off and on just a bit to get some materials mostly, gold will come as it comes slowly and surely as my friend and I play together.

That's my story, sad to see such a veteran such as myself missing out on so much time really. If it weren't for the problems I may have more than two level 20 characters. I haven't even beaten the game with my first, also for awhile in July last year as I made it to Mines of Malodune, my video card started to reject my new PC and kept freezing up on Guild Wars and other High-graphic games...

Main Char - E/Mo 20 - Minse of Malodune - Currently in Cantha
2nd Mo/Me - 15 - Frost Gate
3rd W/Mo - 13 - Lion's Arch - About to enter Cantha
4th A/N - 20 - Leveled up in 20 Hours, Ran from LA back to Ascalon City for fun.
5th Mo/W - 13 - Beacon's Perch
6th Mo/W - Cantha - 16 - About to go to Keining Center

I have also had a Ranger, a Necro and a mesmer of my own but deleted them to make way for my Sin, my Mo/W and my W/Mo... I have had alot of characters just haven't gone anywhere with them in so long. Now I'm making up for all of that.

EDIT: I have played for 429 hours and 22 minutes over all characters, add about twenty or thirty more hours for those lost in the beta events and ones I have deleted.

/not signed

I have over 10K, more like close to 600K. I have never solo farmed the uw, or fow, never got an ecto drop. All desert farming earned my gold, and only started farming about 8months after the release of prophecies. I started playing during the second beta weekend for prophecies.

I have perfect gold weapons, and turned regular weapons into perfect weapons, gold means nothing, only weapon skins(if I find one I like), otherwise I merch most of my golds unless I want a mod from one, or feel I could give it to a new player or guildy or friend to use.

As for armor, I see no need to buy 15K armor, maybe cheap on my part, maybe not. Personally fashion of my characters is not big on my list, however if I should see something I like, I will buy it, but not 15K armor, ever.

Well lets see now I've been playing since servers went live, thats over a year now and abit


But sadly I have more then 10k and I have a near perfect weapon (14^50. Before I get people saying thats not perfect, Sadly you don't realise the games math doesn't really define 14% and 15%; Oh and its near perfect)

Had a few decent weapons, sold most off.
Have far to many greens

But hey no 15k armour, I think that idea is stupid.

I've been playing since release (of Prophesies), have 15K armor (some of it dyed black) for all of my main characters who want it, 80k in the bank (at the moment), a nice collection of purchased mini-pets, a guildhall full of NPCs that nobody helped me buy (sniffle), and I have NEVER, EVER farmed.

So... no.

/not signed
and i've never farmed in my life
(do chest runs count?)

hmmmm

I can never keep hold of large sums of money for more than a day.....
I normally have 15k on me xD
So i cant sign any but i still feel bad about it lol

/notsigned.
Playing for a year and a couple of days now, and have 150K+ in storage, 3 15K armors and a couple of req 8 15^50's.

/signed for #2

Why? Because I don't care for perfect gold weapons. My casters mostly use crafted or collector items, as well as greens. I don't like my warrior half as much, so I don't really care if she's running around with 13^50 swords or whatnot... I have, however, sold some perfect weapons

As for the others... all my characters have at least some 15k armor. I have no FoW, because I don't like it... the downside is I hardly have any more room for money now

Yes they do!!!

What do you think farming is, killing monsters over and over again?

It's the repetative action of doing an activity over and over again, for items or gold, or exp.

Chest runs, capping, green hunting, ect.

1. lmao no
2. Bought my first one recently
3. 7 sets of 15k armor across 4 characters (5th character has 1.5k, 6th is brand new)

Hmm....

/notsigned

7 lvl 20's, 14 months played 3300 hours

1 Max gold long sword
11 Superior vigors across all armors (Cheapest being 22K)
1 Superior absoption when they were 75K
1 set of 15K armor
785K gold

lol, you read the topic and say"wow, what an amzing question, is it even possible?" then u come here to see who is playing for 1+ year and doesnt have 10k, but all you see is:

/notsignet
i have 999999999999k in storage and 4324 perfect and 534 fow armor on each of my 8 chars (which are dyed black, as u know)
and some more *showoff, showoff*

pls read the question before answering!


its just like that threat about ppl who helped you in GW, all you could see there was: "none ever helped me but once i gave someone 2000000k, and another time i gave someone 5 fow armors for his new char, bla bla bla"
boring!

i am playing for 1 year ++ now and i have less than 1k overall. i dont save.

no fow armors but all of my chars but one(just need a sup vigor rune) are pvp ready.

/notsigned for all of them

@Op: one word .. "LOL"

10k= 1hour at Elona if u rlly suck

dont waste yer time doing PvP ..

if u rlly cant handle easy farming like minos and trolls .. well, take a look at common builds in guides around here

4 chars: warrior, monk, ranger, elementalist
2 fow's, 2 15k's
Full gear and all ready for pvp.


I stopped farming a long time ago and headed off to pvp. I didn't need anymore money anyway, since I already have all my gear set.
My first set of fow didn't even require any advice or sites to get any farming builds. I tend to find out ways my myself.

i can just sign for #3....and i could possibly afford it, but prefer my 15k grotto armor

Capping is not farming. By your definition it would require a reward of items, gold or exp through doing it and that has to be the reason you are doing it. Capping does give exp, but it doesnt count if you were not doing it for the exp. I doubt many people would cap for the exp. Most would cap for the skill.

/signed for all. You couldn't have described me better. Of course, there have been instances where I've had more than 10k but I generally spend money as soon as I get it. I've spent over 50k learning to solo UW, and have recieved only 8k in return. Currently I'm at absolute 0 as far as money goes.

Kinda funny actually.

<6 months and notsigned 123

I got around 200k (I quit farming, awhile back because of PvP and my stack has dwindeld) got some perf gods, and I have all 3 of my characters in 15k and my war has Obsidian helm. Not to mention he has 15k helm, and my ranger and monk both have a second set of droks armor.

Funniest part is, that's really not that impressive. How can you play for a year and not have at least 1 set of 15k armor.

lol? Why would you spend 50k learning to solo UW? I'm assuming you mean one of two things. You've paid 50k in entry fees and die everytime. Or you paid 50k for a lesson. Reguardless, you could just simply watch a video of it and basically get 75% of the jist of what to do.

/Signs #1, Not sure about number 2, seeing as a use a green that would be a good gold...(drago)

Tbh, Im about to hit 10k, so yeah >>

Looks like this is a "post how much wealth you have" boasting thread for most people.

To the OP.. how is that even possible?! I've never farmed, I just played through the PvE story. For doing any high-end mission (the ones with level 20+ enemies) with a full team of 8, you can get over 1000 gold from drops and the stuff you sell to the merchant. Honestly, I don't believe you've never had a perfect gold drop or never had over 10k. I get around 1.5k just for doing a mission in Cantha. I've seen loads of perfect golds drop as well.. I just sell them to the merchant. I don't have a reason to farm, I have enough money for anything I'd want to buy just from playing the game.

In Tyria it's slightly different. I was poor until I reached the Southern Shiverpeaks, but then finishing the game I had more than 10k. The more characters that I finished it with, the more money I had. If you really have no money, you must have spent it all on nice stuff or given it away. Or be the most unlucky person in the world.

Well, been playing since release. 7 fully leveled characters, 6 in Prophecies, an Assassin in Factions. Got plenty of plat, no perfect golds I don't think, lots of greens and mods I'm just too lazy to sell sitting in the bags of a PvP mule. All of my chars have the finest, most of which I got myself, not farming, just visiting the boss of interest now and again with a full crew of henchies. Maybe I'm lucky. Everthorn dropped his Chakrams on about the fourth visit.

I got Chkkr's Pincer's by accident, late at night, sleepy, just wanted to test a new warrior build, decided to go out and kill off some nice crunchable mantises. Aggroed through sheer stupidity, wound up head to head with old Chkkr who obligingly dropped me the Pincers.

Few things were given to me, because I give away cool stuff when I don't need it, SSkai's Sword, Geoffer's Bulwark, etc. Or, you go out into the Footprint, you get a Yakslapper you don't need maybe, then trade it for something you do need.

But I can understand what OP is saying. If you are not in a guild with some people who understand PvE it is hard. Haunting the forums helps too.

/signed times 3

April 2005