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TaiClaw

TaiClaw

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2006

AUS

A/R

17 Sep 2006 at 23:03 - 81
I've been playing for a good part of 4 months now.

I only have 1 character , a male Assassin. Although i've done most of Tyria with him aswell.

I can honestly say that I have never truely farmed before. Not that I could anyway Assassin .

I am signing #1.

First thing I went for were the good weapons, I saved my ass off for the 1-19 stage, and at 20 I had enough to buy full 1.5k exotic and a set of Zelous Dragon Scythes of Fortitude which I am still using.

From there it was all uphill, each few missions and explorable areas rake in about 1.5k in random merchant fodder, not to mention getting masters. Yet, I still saved every penny. Once I hit Levi pits I had enough to buy my 15k Luxon set, about 115k worth.

From there I got into pvp more, cashed in all my faction for jade which can make you roughly 5k every 1hr 30mins.

Then I started in Tyria, where I was immediately ran to ToA by guildies, thus began my FoW days. While I didnt farm the place, I did it alot. Every spare few hours I had was spent in FoW , not farming, but clearing the entire area as intended.

So with the money I had gathered from there + the shards , I was slowly able to peice together my FoW set.

Now i'm horribly poor, as my heart lyes in pvp, and all faction points go straight to the guild.

Oh, i'll restate, I have only been playing for 4 months.

CyberNigma

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2006

San Antonio, TX

W/R

17 Sep 2006 at 23:15 - 82
/signed

#1, #3

almost always had less than 10k except right after sorrow's furnace was released before the drops got nerfed.

as far as number 2, I bought a perfect stanbce longsword a long time ago for 5k cuz I wanted the skin (and used stance), plus I got a perfect bow the other day..

number 3, never had anything other than 1.5k or collector's armour. I do consider Luxon armour between 1.5k and 15k armour due to the price of jade and have that, but never anything more. I used to just have collector's armour before Factions came out.

I will admit though that I've given up on golds and just go after greens now. I have quite a collection of greens that I keep building up..

EDIT: Oh yeah, been playing for 16 months...

Cjlr

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

SMS

E/Me

17 Sep 2006 at 23:20 - 83
Uhhh...

About, 30k? I think that's what's in the ol' Bank Box today... Of course, I can't bear farming for more than about 20 minutes at a time. It's soooo boring! But still, 20 minutes is 10 Elona runs. That's 10k if you're lucky.

No 15k armours, thank you very much (the stats are the same! The same! That's just not worth anything), but I do have about 30 sets of 1.5k armour. Huge storage problem, actually. I want a dresser. But that's off-topic...

And uh, what was the third one? Oh right, weapons. Well, I have a bunch of collector's weapons, because, you know... Collector weapons ftw. Not many mods, though, because it's actually kinda hard to find almost-max mods. You know, the cheap kind? Well, not hard, but time-consuming.

Cassie

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Sep 2006

Disorder of Victory

E/W

17 Sep 2006 at 23:25 - 84
I'm nearly broke, been playing just under a year, and dont have any 15k, but then again, i dont go out and farm until i NEED money - plus im always buying dyes and toys and SKILLS for 6 toons.... which gets expensive.

Since i dont have any war or monk primaries and i have a policy against running people anywhere it IS a bit more difficult to make farming cash BUT anyone who plays the game, and picks up ALL drop items as they go CANT be broke. Quit leaving all those 50g items lying around as you play, learn to salvage what you can't carry, and quit buying minipets, etc, unless u plan to re-sell them. And stop wasting money on playing with Dyes :P like i do.

Oh.. and QUIT begging :P

ps... a good earth/war using bonetti's can farm Witman's with only Lina tagging along. Hammer it. Works for me.... ps- if that's not working for you, and u have an ele/mes... try making up a earth/insp build to compete with all those monk-bots in Elona. clear those pesky minos, alone, in under 3 mins, average 300-600gold a go, and the XP is great (you need the right weapons)

Opeth11

Opeth11

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2005

Richmond, British Columbia, Kanada

Demon of the Fall [Opet]

Mo/Me

18 Sep 2006 at 01:21 - 85
13 or 14 months.

No perfect gold weapons; stopped farming completely about 4 months ago, yet still made enough money for 15k armor playing through the game; has less than 10k in storage currently.

So what?

Malice Black

Site Legend

Join Date: Oct 2005

18 Sep 2006 at 01:24 - 86
Opeth gets paid to troll the forums 5k an hour *min wage*

Opeth11

Opeth11

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2005

Richmond, British Columbia, Kanada

Demon of the Fall [Opet]

Mo/Me

18 Sep 2006 at 01:25 - 87
It's true =_=

And I end up spending it all on painkillers for my arm.

EternalTempest

EternalTempest

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

United States

Dark Side Ofthe Moon [DSM]

E/

18 Sep 2006 at 01:55 - 88
/Sign > 1 year

Started playing in the orginal BWE Events

#1 -> No, but I have under 20k
#2 -> No, I have one. Do you count Collector / Greens as near perfect I do have those.
#3 -> Yes, several 15k pieces but no Fow Armor

Special: Divine Aura (GW CE), Special Dances (GW FE). I have all of the orginal pre-order items except War Pick (Game Stop) or the Celstrial Prism (Europe). I have the pre-order items for Factions. I also have pc gammer gray giant mini quest key on my account.

Brustow

Brustow

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2006

Beer me!

Hey Look Over There [gAnK]

Mo/

18 Sep 2006 at 04:23 - 89
I have more than 10k
I have golds and greens
I have 15k armor(s) but no FoW armor.

Been playing for 15 months

Saelfaer

Academy Page

Join Date: Sep 2005

Belgium

The Blitzers Guild

18 Sep 2006 at 08:00 - 90
if you spend every single penny you find, on beer, or crappy gear...
then you will stay under the 10k yes...

i got now 650k gold, and about 350 of that is farmed
leaving 300k of drops left...

my strategy, every item that drops between lvl 1 - 20 = SELL
after 20 i mostly sell it all, except the highly salvagebles,
i play for 1,5 year now (almost), and have 6 lvl 20s, of which 4 have full 15k armor and green/gold weapons.

it is defenatly possible to gain enough money for 1 15k set without farming.
but then you may not throw out all the money on crap things right...
selling your minipets is also an option...
6 characters of which 4 are already 1 year old, leaves 4 minipets... some doubles = sell those = defenatly over 10k gold ...

Arduin

Arduin

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

The Netherlands

Limburgse Jagers [LJ]

R/

18 Sep 2006 at 08:04 - 91
I have more than 10k
I have some golds and a few greens
I have FoW armor for my primary character.

I've been playing for 16 months

So sorry, /notsigned

Altair

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2005

18 Sep 2006 at 08:51 - 92
/sign 1,3

S_Serpent

S_Serpent

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2006

When not at Aziure's Wizard Tower you can find my in Belgium

Knigths of the Keyboard Order - KkO

18 Sep 2006 at 08:54 - 93
Sorry

Not Signed for all three atm

Stixxx

Stixxx

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2005

Belgium

18 Sep 2006 at 09:48 - 94
/notsigned

1) around 300k + a crapload of materials gathering dust
2) mostly perf weapons i use (fellblade, chaos axe, bla bla...)
3) 3 sets of 15k armor (dont care about FoW armor cuz its ridiculously ugly)

1800++ hours for 13 months

cloudbunny

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2006

DVD Forums (DVDF)

18 Sep 2006 at 11:14 - 95
Quote:
Originally Posted by Carth`
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.

This post almost exactly mirrors my game experience.
You easily get +1k just by picking up all your white drops in a single late game mission. One single elite misison or UW/FoW trip might give you 3-4k or more, if you do not through away your money on keys.

Regards,
Cloudbunny

baz777

baz777

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Dec 2005

South East England

Leader: Lady Hairy Armpits S[mell]

E/

18 Sep 2006 at 12:21 - 96
/notsigned

12 months (approx 1800 hours)

Approx 1.4 m
perfect golds or greens
5 characters with 15k armour


I do farm but not extensively. I farm 5k per day before work leaving evenings and weekends free for PVE/PVP.

The Herbalizer

The Herbalizer

<3 Ecto

Join Date: Jul 2005

18 Sep 2006 at 12:28 - 97
/not-signed

whats the point of this thread btw?

fenix

fenix

Major-General Awesome

Join Date: Aug 2005

Aussie Trolling Crew HQ - Event Organiser and IRC Tiger

Ex Talionis [Law], Trinity of the Ascended [ToA] ????????????????&#

W/

18 Sep 2006 at 14:48 - 98
The point is that its secretly a chance for people to brag about their money/items/armor

pve-er

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2006

18 Sep 2006 at 15:02 - 99
1 I have 300k because I farm adn I am stingy
2 I got most of my weapon from chest run, collector and drops, ocationally buying the upgrades parts
3 I don't have any 15k armor because I am stingy and feel unnessacesry when everyone dress like a batman or guyver, the gladiator armor make you look outstanding. 1.5k ele tyrian armor are just as sexy as 15k armor. my Sin? i was thinking 15k but they don't look too nice for me unless i miss and match a little . last word I am stingy

XvArchonvX

XvArchonvX

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

R/

18 Sep 2006 at 15:10 - 100
/notsigned

I had way too much fun farming Sorrows Furnace back when that came out and hence fell into a steady income for a while. After that I enjoyed the Barrage/Pet ToPK runs that became available. When Factions released I went through a period where I didn't make as much gold since I was too busy doing quests/missions and making new characters to really build up too much in savings, but I've recently gone back to trying out different ways to farm. I tried the solo FoW farm, but it got a little boring (as I have found most solo farm builds to be due to my personal taste), but I have started doing frequent Spirit Bond/SS duo UW runs which has helped my savings a bit.

I've never had Obsidian armor, but I still keep that possibility open. I have two accounts and a lot of characters, so I generally kept myself too spread to ever get a set for any of them, but who knows, maybe I'll settle down enough and actually save for long enough to get a set. :P

gabrial heart

gabrial heart

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2006

Las Vegas

Beautiful Peoples Club [LIPO]

Mo/Me

18 Sep 2006 at 15:16 - 101
/notsigned

I've been playing since release. Plenty of times when i had over 200k, i have just about every greenie for my monk, my ele and necro both have 15k sets and 1.5k sets too. Currently I'm pretty broke due to skill capping, ack! About 40k left from when i started around 150k... But, i do only need canthian protector until i get KOBD, so it was well worth it :P

osk

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2005

E/Me

18 Sep 2006 at 15:24 - 102
it's quite impossible to played >12months
n sign 1+2+3 altogether......something must've gone wrong.....

common 12months with <10k, no perfect weapon, and no 15k/FoW armor??
it's hard to believe.

/notsignd

jonnybegood

jonnybegood

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

huh?

The Final Exodus[FX]

18 Sep 2006 at 16:15 - 103
I apply to all of those terms, but GW is a game where money is hardly needed. All I have ever done is play my character and buy armor for that character, when I come up to an armor vendor most of the time I have the money and material for what I want. And then I go on my marry way to get collectors stuff and my characters already all set.

Diablo???

Diablo???

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2005

Seattle

SPQR

N/R

18 Sep 2006 at 16:20 - 104
/signed, 1

Khift

Khift

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

Ego Trip From Rank [ZERO]

P/

18 Sep 2006 at 18:47 - 105
/signed 2 & 3

I've got a couple greens I use occasionally along with my collector items. All my characters have Kaineng armor. I do have 120k sitting around in storage but I don't care enough about PvE to spend it.

Basically I haven't really PvE'd in four months.

Hand of Ruin

Banned

Join Date: Jul 2006

18 Sep 2006 at 19:29 - 106
/notsigned

Been playing about 3.5 months

have 4 sets of 15k, ~900k cash + 60 ecto and 70 shard

bunch of greens

I actually dont use any golds right now, but I do have some in storage waiting to be sold. And no, I didn't ebay my money lol... I've been farming ever since I got to ventari's refuge and found out I could farm totem axes... never looked back, never stopped making money

Sir Skullcrasher

Sir Skullcrasher

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

California

15 over 50 [Rare]

W/Mo

18 Sep 2006 at 19:35 - 107
I got cash, items, and about 1000 hours over 15 months on my account.

/notsigned

Charqus

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

Mo/

18 Sep 2006 at 19:40 - 108
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hand of Ruin
/notsigned

Been playing about 3.5 months

have 4 sets of 15k, ~900k cash + 60 ecto and 70 shard

bunch of greens

I actually dont use any golds right now, but I do have some in storage waiting to be sold. And no, I didn't ebay my money lol... I've been farming ever since I got to ventari's refuge and found out I could farm totem axes... never looked back, never stopped making money
Do you have a life outside guild wars?
900k alone is over 150 totem axes :/

Rainman

Rainman

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2006

none

P/

18 Sep 2006 at 19:46 - 109
/signed 3

15k armour and obsidion is waste of time to get when you are supposed to play the game for fun and i prefer getting things for my chars instead of special armours but fair enough if u have enough buy it

Cjlr

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

SMS

E/Me

18 Sep 2006 at 20:04 - 110
It's really not meaningful to go by the age of the account. Date of activation doesn't affect your "wage" at all.

Income, in GW, comes from two things, and two things alone: Wage and Time. That's time spend playing, which is only affected by the age of your account insofar as the latter serves to set an upper limit. But play with those two factors, and you will come to anyone's data.

Make crappy money but play a shitload? You'll have a lot of cash reserves. Play the market like a demon but play once a week? You'll have a lot of cash reserves. Play once a week but don't play to earn? You won't. Hell, play a shitload but don't play to earn and you won't.

Really, the only meaningful figure would be net worth divided by hours played.

Alleji

Alleji

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

18 Sep 2006 at 20:56 - 111
1. I always seem to be low on money... once I had 400k when I joined the buy/sell craze for a couple weeks, but then I spent that to buy stuff for myself and kept it. Another time I had ~600k in cash, shortly after factions release when I sold ecto high and then bought it low and crafted a set of fow for my monk. Normally, I have <50k in stash.

2. I mostly use perfect golds on my character, or 1% off items, but with my warrior I've been lazy and just bought a couple cheap-o greens for weapons. Getting perfect gold weapons for a warrior is so much more expensive than caster items of the same caliber. And I prefer high-caliber stuff :P

3. 2 Sets of FoW, 4 sets of 15k + 2 scrapped (my necro isn't wearing anything other than her FoW :P)


Playing since release of Prophecies.

Ristaron

Ristaron

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2005

Canada, eh?

Legion Of Valhalla

E/

18 Sep 2006 at 21:10 - 112
I sign for the weapons one. I don't have any golds whatsoever, and never had one that was perfect damage (hence why they got sold to traders). I have a one green weapon, Morgriff's Scepter, and that's it.
Why use some 'zOMG p3rf3ct' weapon when you can sell it for 100k + ectos and use one of almost identical stats - with the same bonuses - that ends up working just as well?

What I do have is three characters outfitted in 15k armour, 130 plat in the vault, and no need for anything to validate my player competency that isn't in the shape of a skill on my skillbar.

huMptY DumPty

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2006

[BAN]

W/

18 Sep 2006 at 21:19 - 113
/notsigned

I got one b-day present ~ mini hydra

got all 3 spades. I have seven 15k armor sets across my three pve characters (the other 3 is storage + 1 pvp slot), FoW set for my monk, perfect weapons, few shards, ectos, etc, etc.... I'm definitely lightyears away from among the richest in guild wars, but if you use your time online effectively you should have all 3 spades within 12 months of gameplay.

MisterB

MisterB

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Oct 2005

Planet Earth, Sol system, Milky Way galaxy

[ban]

W/

18 Sep 2006 at 23:32 - 114
/notsigned

played since May, 05
1)300K
2)I currently use 4 "perfect" gold weapons across 3 characters
3)Warrior has 15K Kurzick, previously had 15K Glad's, don't care for Ranger(male), or Necro(female) 15K armor sets


Quote:
Originally Posted by Hand of Ruin
/notsigned

Been playing about 3.5 months

have 4 sets of 15k, ~900k cash + 60 ecto and 70 shard

bunch of greens

I actually dont use any golds right now, but I do have some in storage waiting to be sold. And no, I didn't ebay my money lol... I've been farming ever since I got to ventari's refuge and found out I could farm totem axes... never looked back, never stopped making money
Offtopic, but do people actually buy these? They are so easy to farm! No offense meant, it's great that you can find a market for something so easily obtained; I would be laughing at them all the way to storage!

FeroxC

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2006

EOA

P/W

19 Sep 2006 at 00:29 - 115
An hour of solo fow farming a day at 10k a run will get you in 1 month:
300k.

Which is quite alot for 1 hour a day, do some intelligent tradeing and you could have much much more.

I expect 55ing UW is even more profitable.

If you have the gift of not being tempted to spend all your cash everytime you hit 100k unlike me, fow armour and perfect weopons shouldnt be a problem.

Rich people like getting rich and farming is a major part of the game to them which 99% of the moaners here dont understand.

Riken Chrono

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2005

around the corner and up the block

Hero

19 Sep 2006 at 00:38 - 116
umm unsigned for em all. i've had a bit over 25mil at one time
i've own a req 9 15^50 crystalline sword b4 and i own some perfect items right now
15k armor for all chars except mesmer for right now. 1.5 sets of fow armor.

/age for all combined hours is 736 btw thats for 13 months, only about 400 hours is me over the past 11 months, other 2 months was my brother's friend. bought this accoutn off him

sgtclarity

sgtclarity

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2005

I Can Break These C[uffs]

W/

19 Sep 2006 at 00:42 - 117
Unsigned, I've been nowhere near as committed to this game as other since release players have, but I'm still sitting on a respectable pile of cash items and armor. I have no idea what you spend your online time doing, but I assume it's nothing productive.

bizarre_status

bizarre_status

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2006

Toronto

The Mirror of Reason [SNOW]

R/

19 Sep 2006 at 00:46 - 118
/notsigned

6 months of playing
3 char with 15k armor (will be getting more)
every char has perfect weapons
200+ in gold (i don't really care about that much)

Tankster

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Sep 2006

19 Sep 2006 at 00:49 - 119
*signs* 1,2,3...

this is because I've been playing on and off since i got the game and I am coming back for a while now..

bitchbar player

bitchbar player

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2006

still lost

Guy In Real Life [GIRL]

Mo/

19 Sep 2006 at 00:56 - 120
/signed

15 months 1800 hours 6 PvP chars