NF draining your money reserves?

on the contrary, NF launch and the halloween event have bloated my money reserves considerably. I haven't even finished the game, have a full set of sunspear 15k for my dervish, and my storage has more money now than I ever imagined it would. All I had to do was be a bit creative with buying and selling and do a lot of questing.

As for heroes yes, they only get the stuff that I find and don't want for myself. Even then, when I find an insignia I don't want I sell it rather than giving it to them, since insignia prices are so bloated now.

All it takes is a bit of timing. I actually have more gold now that before NF started. My heroes dont get super l33t armor right away and their weapons are either old greens I had in my inventory, random drops or collectors. Once the prices settle down in a month or two, they will get better stuff, till then I make money selling.

- Xeeron

Heros have cost me alot of my money, but I don't outfit all of them. I just use 3 of them alot and make sure they are well equipped. Collector items and greens are my main source of Hero weaponry. The way I see it, I dont need them, they just ocme in useful from time to time. If you cant afford to outfit all of them, outfit maybe 3 of the most versatile heros or PUG it or use the improved henches.

One the other hand, the insignias have made all the aspects of getting new armour and equipping Heros a daunting task. I prefer the Factions armour system.

I'm actually coming out ahead. I've had the same amount of gold in storage now as I did before NF. My paragon was the first Elonian character I created, and he's doing just fine. He's still on the starter island, at level 15, with some 6.5k gold, just from drops and merch food. No farming, either. Just straight missions, quests, and exploring.

I only buy the skills I absolutely need/want, and I only bought my paragon chest and leggings armor. Everything else is collector or starter gear. I've been using the fiery sunspear pre-order weapon, and my heroes either use the soulbreaker pre-order wep, or just random crap I find. Runes and insignias? Screw my heroes. lol. I'll eventually go for minor runes for them, maybe majors. But I don't think the heroes are really worth superior runes, especially considering that they're stupid enough as it is. -75 health is not good for them. lol

One thing I've noticed is that you can make at least double your money through the inscriptions. You get an absurd number of battle medallions throughout the starter island. I just trade them in for an expert salvage kit every now and again, and ID every blue and purple item I get. I expert salvage the inscriptions (flat 25 gold back from the merch for each), and usually manage to keep the weapon, which can also be sold back. From each weapon+inscription, I usually net 30-45 gold (more if there were more inscriptions I snagged off of it), which is just a little bit under what you'd get from a Grenth's Footprint walkabout.

So yes. My paragon has been completely independent so far, and I don't foresee any immediate strain in the future, even when I reach the mainland. There's going to come a point on the starter island when I just don't need gold anymore, so that'll just speed up the accumulation and get me a nice, comfy buffer when I hit the mainland.

I think that if I make another char. in Nightfall, I will just run her over to Factions to get the armor (1.5k) there, rather then try and outfit the 1k armor in Nightfall.

i took advantage of the increased green drop weekend to outfit my heroes. i basically farmed what i could and traded the extra greens for greens i couldnt get.

as for runes and insignias, i mostly use the drops i get. and if i really wanted a rune i would just get majors.

iv taken the game slowly... exploring 100% of elona and opening all chests and doing all quests.

Just got to Bone Palace and im at 90% and i have actually made 20k. i have spent at least 20k on signet of captures + fully runed up and equipped my heros with chest gold drops.

so if anything, im making money from nightfall .

Did the same with my Ele last night. That '5k' armour sure works out expensive

Trying to equipe Hero's with cheap greens or crafter items

I have promosed myself to only have one new character in NF, (4 new one's in Factions cost me a fortune).

4 Superior Vigor Runes (me, Koss, Dunkoro and Master of Whispers), 10K Acients armor, a shitload of insignias, a couple of other superior and minor runes...

I guess it's not nothing, but it's not as bad as it could've been.

Well, not really. I haven't been outfitting my Heroes at all. They're doing fine as they are. But if I do, it'll be collector staves and such.

Welll my biggest hit was the haloween items:P.

i'm actually making money rather losing it (+20-30k so far and on penultimate mission despite having spent about 10-15k on skills).. but then i've been focusing on getting my ele from Tyria through NF and have yet to make a real start on an Elonian char. though i've already decided that any elonian chars i make with have to make-do with collector items till they prove their worth for the more expensive stuff.

i haven't bothered getting anything for my heros unless it drops for me, and even then, i haven't bothered giving them the runes i find >.>

at the end f the day, it's probably because i'm actually a cheap git ^^;;;

Nope, the Shing Jea Boardwalk event and my uncontrollable need to gamble took care of that nicely.

My heroes are wielding my collected greens or a spiritbinder.

Skills used to cost less to buy then Arena Net decided they didn't have enough casual player hurting changes and switched it to cap off at 1k.

You're not lieing there. If I hadn't saved up as many rubies and sapphires pre-NF... I would be hurting now.

I've actually found no money issues thus far. Just playing through and being sure to do all the quests I get has given me far more than I would normally need to get the "normal" armor and crafted weapons (or collector ones). It's when you get to Vabbi and see the cost of the armor there, you bank account cringes. - true you don't need that armor, but a staple of PvE play and enjoyment is "looking good" while kicking butt and taking names, so obviously people that play that way and like the Vabbi armor will be getting it as soon as they can.

I've tucked more money away so far than spent (and that's with three characters in NF). My heros have either found or crafted weapons (crafted in the beginning).

They don't get insignias or runes on their armor -- I figure they take their share of the loot, let them buy their own!

Also, (unless there are significant perks other than vanity) I don't plan to upgrade my armors every time it's available just because I can. Most of the upper scale armor I think is fugly, so no gold will be wasted.

So, overall, NF has actually increased the coffers thus far.

My heroes get weapons that I find from playing, anything that meets their req. The only insignias they get are ones that I find on dropped armour.

I have more money now than before NF.

If I had to get all my heroes for each character perfect stuff like my characters have, I just couldn't play it. Too much of a grind, and it already is quite a grind. But apparantly from the fact that the nerf to farming was complained about so much, people like to grind.

Though raising up funds is kinda slow going for me, the thing that bothers me the most about Heroes is the prospect that not only are they expensive, but they also make desirable items harder to find.

I think the way outfitting Heroes is now in PvE should be rethought. There ought to be alternate avenues of runes, weapon mods, and insignias for them. Giving Heroes free reign in the PvP item creation window would be too much, but something like that with a redeemable point system could help soften the blow of gearing your Heroes up across multiple characters. It should remain a timesink, but a market draining moneysink...not so much.

I've often wondered where they put the drops and cash they steal... that stuff should be useable by them rather than further dipping into the players bank... that or have the heroes stop taking drops (a prospect I don't care for).

QFT, most armor in Nightfall is pretty ugly. A few classes of Vabbi(an) aren't bad; but at the stupid price of the mats for them... I had enough gems to get one set of armor for one character. I would love for a few others to get that armor as well, but in no way paying that price for gems. Thusly, those characters (the ones I want Vabbi armor for) will not be playing through Nightfall (no point - they already have what they need) untill either the drops on those increase ten fold, or the price is fixed to be less ridiculous.

I see it like the dumb 100k+ecto market. Might have good looking stuff there, but I refuse to take part in such a broken economy and will stop playing when such goals are all that's left.

Luckly I rushed a bit so got my vabbi 100kish *dances*