GW Money statistics

I was curious.

Are there any new statistics from Anet on the money that most people have in the game.
I'm just curious i have a total of 225platinum and 672Gold in storage and 4 characters with all 10K allowance, and i consider myself poor.
I heard of people with 500Platinum+ and even over a miljoen(s).
Even heard of and seen a person with 7 characters and 6 of the characters have obsidian armor all black dye and even the best weapons and enough money and matetials 2 do it again.
How is that possible without buying Online money.
I've played since the beginning, even had a taste of the world before the they changed the Farming stuff.
And can even tip the skale of that amount of money
Enlight me plz. ^^

I'm in the same boat as you, nice stuff but not rich. Lucky drop could change all that......dosnt sound like you are hard up for cash anyway.

I am poor, I have been playing for 16 months, and have only around 30k between my 6 chars. I get by. I have been doing Tombs recently with my guild, so that should bring in some money. If anyone wants a Victo' Balde, a Victo's Axe or a Miliu's Pillar, pm in-game pleease.

Ahhhhh i understand i have 2 say my weapons and focus items are all from the weapon smith in buckdek byway from factions. My MM has a wayward wand and my fire ele has a windcather and my paragon a forgotten spear, the rest all have Purple items.
I have 2 say they should make a list of statistics some time soon @ Anet.
And make a deathsentace for all those who sell online money or for the ones who buy it ^^. just kidding
You know what i mean right.

thread with players discussing cash

calling all GW millionaires!
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10086267

Before Nightfall came out I had approximately 250k between my (personal) 2 accounts. My fiance had maybe....25k between his (personal) 2 accounts. So between 4 accounts we had about 275k, which we use to equip 40 various characters. In all honesty, when you have this many characters, even if you don't build them all at the same time, this tiny amount doesn't go far.

At this time, my fiance and I have about 30-40k between us. Most of our money goes for capture sigs, if anyone is wondering. But the normal expenses of decent weapons, the occassional key or two for chest, and armor does add up.

More than likely the people with millions of gold either a) bought it online and won't admit to it, b) never buy anything and have been playing since the beginng, or c) farm their butts off. Part of the reason I had as much gold as I did (in the 6 months I've been playing) is because I did one 10k farm run a day almost religiously for a while. I would still farm, but my minions seem to be stupider than normal, therefore I don't do it as much anymore. lol.

Two of the people I used to play with, but sadly no longer play as GW no longer holds interest for them, used to farm essentially all day with her hubby. They made massive amounts of gold, and it just sits on their dormant accounts, lol.

Wow...

I've never had anything over 40k at one time (and that's just recently I had that amount, and been playing since the game came out / own all 3 chapters. I constantly funnel money in to buying skills equipment (not from WTB /WTS either golds either) or going in to new character.

I do have an impressive number of skill unlock from pve only

I do have a friend that's close to a million, but he's a very smart farmer / good memory for price's and is on a lot.

They way I play more money = faster skill unlocks / new character development. Since I'm not in the WTB/WTS "perfect" item scene, and use the collectors to get weapons for the most part, I don't need 2-3 or higer digits of gold to do good in GW. That and never went after fow, consider 15k armor only if I have surplus... which is not often.

Broke most of the time, our guild helps each other so we pony up to help eachother. The most I have built up was about 160k in gold.

I don't feel as much need for gold anymore. I have more than a million just from ecto. Btw, I did not farm a single one. I haven't been to UW since prot bond was nerfed.

I deck my war out which is really the most expensive character but that's about it.

I really have no use for all the gold though. Just sitting on it atm until the next release.

My actual cash is changing so much atm...I'm saving for fissure armor through powerleveling, so once I get enough cash I buy another 10 ectos. Up to 120 Shards and 90 Ectos.

Meh I have some decent items as well. Rq. 9 15^50 Brute Sword(not nf) and Rq. 9 15^50 Dual Gothic, with some others also, those just my favorite.

Cash is hard to come by at times...so I say when the opportunity presents itself, take advantage of it.

I would say the average right now for someone is...around 100-150k, personal opinion obviously.

lately i'm tying to farm ecto's in UW or Tome of the primevil kings sadly i've bin there for a week and a half and not even 1 ecto and the drops that i get are crapy.
Have 2 say i still don't get it, ok maybe 500 till 800Platinum can be done but having miljoens and everything maxed out bloody hell teatch me the way brothers ^^
Only thing that dropt 1 time was a golden phoenix blade Max stats and someone scamed me with that sold it for 50K.
I can still hit my head against a wall for that. *Stupit ass that i am* ^^

Farming is the slowest way to make money in GW. It always has been but for some reason people still do it.

Before NF, I was around 200k.
I've never held more than 500k in my storage in the entire 2 years of playing GW.
When NF came out, I rushed to the end with a Canthan born Warrior, got 15k armor, geared up my heroes, and went broke. down to 40k or so.

Then I started solo farming bossess.
I farmed 10 Deathbringer in the very early days of NF, and sold them for 25k each or so. My money was back up to 300 range.
After I soloed and collected many greens and sold them, my money was up to 500k.

Then the TRIPLE GREEN DROP WEEKEND came.
I already knew where my usual routine were, so I mapped out all the bossess I usually hunt for, and made a farming map for myself. The weekend hit, and I farmed like an maniac.

Farmed 50 greens during that weekend, but I got sick.
I mean, in real life. From lack of sleep and food, grinding farming like a moron, I was down and out for a few days.
.... But hey, I made tons of fortune off those greens! Even with the drastic price drop in greens after that weekend, the sheer quantity was enough to gain much wealth. I still have tons of those greens left, and they are equipped on my heroes.

Then DoA came.
I played DoA like crazy. Did both quests, and chest running.
Wait, why am I saying this in past tense.... I still do!
I first used four gemstones to unlock Razah, and rest of the gemstones I gained (I had 10 gemstones or so left over) I sold them all away.
If I need more, I can get them by simply doing more DoA.

So today, my wealth just hit 1M.
Even after spending tons on my new characters gears, runes for heroes, etc.
Most likely I will be spending craploadsofcash on keys this weekend, and warrent me another sick-in-bed days following.

You lucky sod

much like the real estate market I buy low and sell high. If ecto's are still 5 or 6k like they were a couple of weeks ago then buy ectos NOW!. When the market for ecto's goes up to 8 or 9k sell. Don't, DON'T DON'T spend the profit. Reuse that money to re-invest. Buy again. If you cannot find a buyer sell to the merchant you be sure you are making a profit though.

You can't get rich spending money. Don't buy anything you can't profit from. You will have plenty of time and the means to buy your expensive items when you get rich.

Every penny counts. Don't use expert salvage kits unless its for a run or upgrade. Use regular salvage kits to savalge items like collectables for crafing material and sell the crafting material to the merchant NOT the material merchant. The common merchant pays more for common crafting material.

It took me a long time to become rich and I consider myself in game middle class not rich. But to many I am considered rich. You can make 100k in a couple of weeks in pre seer just by farming low level monsters following this method.

Now for the big money! I was ingaged in a recent post asking someone to prove to me someone paid 500+ ecto's for a weapon they sold. Someone did and it gave me more insight into the extremely rich class of players in the game. The weapons they sell (I understand) drop in HoH and I never play HoH. Not yet anyway. So I think the fastest get rich quick is to play in HoH and sell those rare weapon drops.

A good opportunity to get rich fast is coming up in the Winter's day event. People will be wanting to buy items like mad. One thing I think will sell big is Spiked eggnog if it returns this year. Candy cane's proved a stable item to sell for a good profit at 1k each through out the whole year. My point, watch the sales in game to see what is hot and farm to obtain as many of that item/items as possible and sell. Don't wait for the event to end. I learned after the halloween event I can't sell any halloween items. You could probably sell candy canes and spiked eggnog after the event though for a good profit.

Consider eggnog or spiked eggnog. I intend to use eggnog for my drunk title but people will pay big bucks since a max drunk title will cost 2000k. You collect eggnogs for free by farming items the collector want thats a huge profit even if you sell at 1000k half price to get max drunk title. I be nuts to pass up an offer like that unless I didn't care to go for titles or that title.

Good Luck

Powertrading.

Investing in materials, (especially currently useless materials such as Rubies and Sapphires before Nightfall etc) can earn a person quite a bit of money. Of course like any economy, investing in one thing is a risky proposal and should not be taken lightly. Many people expected the basic materials price to soar after Nightfall released and stocked up accordingly only to see no substantial rise in the cost per unit sold, it seems enough people had stocked up that the supply outweighed the demand and kept prices relatively stable.

I would imagine that many of the people who hoard a huge sum of virtual money have done so by taking advantage of people selling items for below their value and quickly turning them over for a substantial profit. Having a decent sum of money to start with is essential in that market, because you have to have the purchasing power to get the item (and even under cost, some things could easily set you back 100k+). Most of the Guild Wars players I know are quickly annoyed by the WTS/WTB system and will sell something at half it's value just to get it over with quickly. I myself fall into this catagory, I sold a Stygian Gemstone for 27k when I could've probably held out for 40-50k. So if you have the patience to sit there in an outpost, spamming WTS all day while keeping an eye out for others who WTS something at a lower cost than average, then you can turn a tidy profit. However just like investing in materials, each item you purchase may not fetch the sum you expect it to, and you may have to sell things at or below cost compared to what you paid depending on how the market fairs while you sit on the item.

Personally I've probably spent under half a million gold in Guild Wars between all of my 15k armors and currently only have 60k on hand to get Primeval armor for my Paragon, while I have known people who had hundreds of thousands of gold and all of their characters sporting 1.5k armors. It's a matter of opinion in the end, some people see having a slew of characters in obsidian and a few hundred platinum in storage to be the norm, while others save to buy 15k armors and slowly accumulate wealth through gameplay. As a member of the latter class of player, I believe that it's whether or not you enjoy the game and not how much virtual money you can stockpile that you should judge your experience with a game by (although I am aware that some people truely enjoy the "power trading" and such, and without masochists like that I'd probably have to sit on items for even longer when trying to sell them, so they're useful in their own right. If they have a fun time doing it, so much the better).

You see this is the problem with money and it's not just in GW either

Each class of people looks up the higher one and thinks their "poor" so they think that in order to be happy or to have things that they want they need more money so they don't donate or share money with people who need it.

What happens is a large percentage of people end up wanting more and even the people on top what to go to the next level.

Stop whining about what you don't have and appreciate what you do have!

Eh I kinda resent that statement Gaurdian. I am constantly trying to get more money atm by powerleveling as I stated earlier, to try and get the skins I want and some FoW armor. However, I have already given out over 100k in gold and then other items to people in just the last couple days because they needed something important, say armor for their character, or a pvp ready weapon.

I got my funds from SS/55 UW farming with a mate. When it came to exam study leave, we were able to do runs all day together.

Each run = 20-30 mins; Average 2 runs an hour...
Drops = 2 Ecto's a run EACH + other drops
Total = Around 4-5+ Ecto's an hour
Ecto's were 7k = 28k to 35k and hour + drops
Get a good 6 hours in a day = 210k a day + drops
So your looking at 225k a day average.
Plus the odd gold and rare skin makes in around 260k total a day.
Times that by lets say 14 days = 3640k
That's seems more than we got realistically, but that the total theroretically.

And it's easy cash, and cna be done while watching TV.
That made me heaps, which I sold to people for small amounts of cash.
Sadly thats all gone, so I'm stuck with 6.5k in my bank now
But I prefer the game now that money is alot harder to get, makes it more of a challenge. Plus HA and PvP in general has become alot more busier and competetive.

You also have inflation.
As "poor" people want to get better items and have no way of getting them, the "richer" people can raise the prices of items, so when they do sell stuff to the "poor" people, they get more money and the "poor" people get a headache.

Also salvaging everything salvagable is another way of making some quick money. It builds up huge stocks of mats, which can be sold in bulk (for a higher price) or used for your own gain.

And to all the "noobs" out there - makes use of the collectors. I started off by getting collector items and selling them to other "noobs" for high proces, due to the unusual skins or nice stats.

But I would say the easiest way to make money now is buy low -> sell high. Obcourse you have to have the money to begin with, but thats life lol.

Either way, the GW money system is slowly dividing = the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Sad for me cos I'm poor now lol

I don't farm and I'm always broke b/c I spend every penny on skills. :/

That's why Factions/Nightfall skill system of no free skills killed me.

Everyone has a different "comfort" level with their bank. Their are people who are satisfied with 30k, people who need to see 150k, people who have to get the million.

There is nothing wrong with offering services, powertrading, farming or just playing the game. The game provides earning methods to suit everyone. But don't sneer at people who use other methods than you. They are still putting effort and time into earning.

I usually have about 150k, plus 4-8k on each of 8 characters. No one has 15k armor or rare weapons. (The only rare I found, I gave to my guildmate - he has a paladin and I don't. Over time I'm sure he's given me the equivalent in greens.) Am I rich? No. But I feel comfortable.

I made my last million+ on ecto alone. Before nightfalls came out ecto was down to 4k. I found some for 3.5k too. I bought tons. I took all my items and liquidated to funds to buy ecto. I sold them all back at 9k each. I knew the price of ecto would skyrocket because the same thing happened with factions.

With factions we got to see the armor materials during the preview event. I made 10k vials of ink for 130g each. Sold them all back for 280g each.

I've also been buying claws and fangs since the early days of GW. I had about 2k of each. I bought them all for 100g each. Sold the claws for 1k+ each and the fangs for about 800g each. Wish I had stocked up on more of them.

HoH has always been the best way to get money because its the highest chance of getting a crystaline. My short career in HoH (2 days) we held for 5 hours each day. We didn't stop till everyone's inventory was full. I liked making 10k+ in 4 minutes.

I'm pretty much broke right now, but I'd say over my 16-17 months of playing I've made probably 1.5-2 mil. I just spend a ton on skills, items, armor, etc. I figure its what the money is for why just horde it up?

yet another how much plat do you have post?

i've been playing since last may and now with 10 characters, i have a total of 1000 plat in storage, 100 plat on each character. I used to have 250 sapphires/250 rubies, but sold a bunch of them. Also had a bunch of ecto from just drops when going to uw, and some traded for gems because i couldn't hold any more plat at the time. Then a bunch of greens that might be worth something, but I have no idea. Bunch of rare mats like steel, vellum, monstrous parts. I traded all my ecto for gems to help someone else out ( i assumed they were getting armor). I'll have to rebuy the ecto to get fow maybe for my paragon.

But yeah, I don't have much of a use for gold in the game. I don't usually buy much (except i do collect rare minipets). If i want something, I just go try to farm it, but not extensively. Never did get a rago's staff =) Oh, but I did buy myself a crystalline sword a whlie back.

I have 1 set of fow armor, normal ecto drops + a bit of farming while trying to figure out the uw monk build w/ a friend after we met one of the first. I stopped playing tombs uw after the take over by b/p groups, quit sorrow's after it got boring farming only 5 man groups. Never was interested in uw farming except to get the last 20 ecto for my fow, quit after prot bond. Don't even bother w/ greens anymore these days. Farming is repetitious and boring, and I like challenge and change.

Have a couple sets of 15k for some characters, 1.5k for others. I'm pretty choosy about armor, so I don't get that many sets or upgrade that often. My ranger is still wearing druid's 15k. My necro just got vabbi recently.

So yeah, if you have nothing to spend gold on, it just sort of multiplies and grows on it's own. I use 80% collectors items w/ mods I've found (+1 death 20%, +hp, +ac, etc). Other 20% are greens I've picked up. Never did power trading, used to sell some mods, but just merch them now, even perfect ones.

Probably if I cashed out now I'd have a little over 5000K
Oh and I saved all my dye drops (even blacks which I've use before, but never liked). So I've never bought dye.

But what would i even spend that plat on? there's seriously nothing I want. I'm more interested in exploring the game, finishing quests, getting thru DOA than in buying items. I farm holiday items, but keep them for myself to play w/, get my drunk title, turn into candy corn lol


hmm.. how did i get this gold? I think by not spending myself penniless ever since the beginning. I could never really afford sup vigors, so I never bothered. Just learned to play w/ major and minor vigors. Can't afford skills? choose them carefully and only buy what you need. Want that shiny new armor? Figure out how to farm the materials you need and craft the rare stuff. Got a shiny new green drop? Do you really need it? sell it to someone else for gold.

Also I loved collecting rubies and sapphires pre factions, since they were so rare. I bought them up at 3K, I bought them up at 15K. It didn't really matter to me, I just wanted a stack of 250 heh. I figured they should be worth more than ecto at the time anyway, since their inherent merchant value was the same as ecto (100g), but dropped far, far less frequently. Same w/ diamonds. How many of you have actually seen a diamond drop? I know I haven't.

But I collect them for the hell of it, because they're rare, because they're cool, and because I have nothing else to do w/ my gold. Maybe one day they'll be worth a lot, maybe one day they'll be worthless, at least I can empty my storage a bit so I can breath.

Oh yeah, used to go to fow/uw a lot. You know all the dust and wood everything salvages into? Save it all and convert to vellum. Then sell it for plat. Same w/ stuff that salvages to steel. A lot of stuff expert salvages to steel.

these days I just buy up all skills for all classes for my characters (although some have more skill pts than I can use up lol), even though most of the time that's pretty useless. But the gold has to be used up somehow I guess. I donate to my guild storage as well.

/age i think is about 2000 hours

Currently i have 40k, but i find it useless to have over 100k at a time, im always spending for 15k's on my 6 characters or getting some weapon

Made my millions selling orange dye to dye trader!

My guildie is so lucky...R11 15^50 Crystalline Sword from HoH Chest ><"

She sold that for 100k + 700 Ectos...

...which adds up to 5 Million...lucky bum.

Umm, why does someone start a "How much money..." thread every week?

lol....ive been able to live off of 10k you dont need gold weapons a blue one is find heck collectors weapon...just dont spend money every day salavge enough mats that you have oh say maybe 300-500 of common mats and around 40 rare mats execpt like ecto and such lol and then sell everything else

not to mention farming is one onf the biggest ways to get money

Just for statistic.
I have 10 characters + 2 mules (with some stuff) and ~0 gold for account - everything was been spent for a new skills for every class, LOL.

Farming brings ~1.5-2K/10 min, but it is boring. I do it only if I really need gold to buy next signet or test the new build.

Guys, we do not need 13208423498 gold to play GW. It is only required for new weapon skins and rare armor.

I have roughly 1.5 mil worth of monstrous eyes and only 300K cash :/

If monstrous eyes prices ever rises I'd be rich, but that is one hell of a gamble.

Farming is the slowest way to make money in GW.




O'rly??

It certainly isn't the quickest.

Currently I know 3 ways to make money.

1. Grinding/Farming whatever you like to call that boring act, that I do only when I must or am bored.
2. Getting lucky with drops, which is how I made any of the money I have, I'm extremely lucky.
3. Powertrading, hard to do now if you're just getting into it, but can still be done. It was more profitable in the past I think.

Nothing is 100% because farming is boring to me, you won't always get lucky and blech powertrading.

Define Rich or Poor in Guild Wars?

Is it how much cash you have, or how many materials you have, or is it all of your characters decked out in Fissure Armour?

I have very little cash right now since Nightfall, as my heroes dwindled my account down (a bit like children really), but i do have around (estimated) 1.5 million in materials, dyes etc, if I decided to sell, that is. I tend to hoard, dont know why.

I only have 2 characters to feed and maintain and they have good armours and weapons, which I never buy (My Philosophy: If I havent killed the Boss for it, I dont want it).

I rarely spend my money. I rarely farm par se. I never trade, just sell to NPC Merchants. My only GW vice is cap sigs, skills and the occasional key. I do go into the Fissure of Woe on a regular basis and quest, but this is for the skill points mainly to feed my hunger for more skill unlocking.

I have in the past, had 1,000,000 sitting in my account. It's no big deal! What is the point of it sitting there? There is no title saying ''Tyrian Millionaire''. There is no ''GW Forbes List of the top 100 rich characters''. So who is going to know? and who really cares anyway?

In my opinion, farming for farming sake, just to have 1,000,000 in your account is pointless and boring.

It just makes me laugh when I see people selling ''Uber Items'' for grossly inflated prices. Who cares if your Gold Longbow of Uber Might cost 100+ ectos? My Drago's Flatbow which incidently I went out and killed him for it, is still just as good and it was for FREE and FUN to get.

As for this 'Have's and Have-nots', who is going to know wether you are rich or poor .............. unless you tell them.

Yep, i normally equip with Greens, Good Stats, roughly easy to obtain, no price tags, just a small amout of time and a co-ordinated team!

Necro- The Stonereaper, Green
Monk- Wenslauss' Faith, Green
Ele- Millus' Pillar, yep - Green.
Warriror- Exalted Aegis - Green!
Assassin- Some random assassin Green.

Only non green is my Rit, and thats cause hes lvl 18.

At the moment I might have about 5-10k on my account. This is, however, because I really am a spender; whenever I get some money in my hands I look for a use for it, be it capture signets, a new piece of armor, some weapon I'd like to invest in, etc. I also give money to friends in-game who are experiencing hard times financially.

I think the most money I've ever been in possession of at any one time - just straight gold, not counting items I've also had - was about 180-200k or so. That money came from lucky drops, really. I've gone months without having so much as a dime to my name only to get a key drop in, say, FoW, and find a very nice item in a nearby chest, such as a "perfect" low requirement Chaos Axe or, more recently, a very nice, low requirement Gloom shield.

I took a few simple business courses in high-school, so I know how to make the most of the little money I have. I'm very good at buying extremely low and doubling, tripling, quadrupling, etc. my profit. This is how I make my money. I don't sit around looking for things to buy, but when I'm in an outpost where sales or purchases are being made I do keep one eye on the trade chat and another on whatever else I ahppen to be doing.

I farmed a LOT for a while there, mostly Ettins before the drops seem to peeter out - you can still have profitable ettin runs by the way, I very recently found a superior vigor, which I opted to use rather than sell but could have gotten a good deal of gold for otherwise. But these days I just can't devote hours and hours to trying to make a bit of gold. Once in a while I'll run out and do a few runs in various favorite spots of mine and come back with about 10k or so in gold for something like 20-30 minutes of work, but it's just not that much fun to do the same thing over and over and over again, no matter what the payout.

I recently made a Ritualist that I am bound and determined to play all the way through Factions with only the gold that I find, and so far it's worked out well. You don't always need max armor to get everything done; I still have to craft two pieces of my max Imperial Armor, but what I have left that is not max is rated at 30, and I'm doing just fine and dandy. Being poor is not a bad thing, and it hasn't ever stopped me from playing the game to it's fullest.

I won't deny that I'd like a nice HoH drop, though, which I why I do Heroes Ascent often now :P

As it is, the only farming I do now is UW trapping with my ranger. I usually have fun chats with the people I'm trapping with, and it goes quickly - the payout is also very nice, as I average about 2-4 ecto every 4 or 5 runs, give or take, which evens out to about 6 ecto a night, which I can then sell or, as I am now, save for those "just in case" spontaneous spending sprees.

Unless there's a design I especially like, greens or crafters. Hell, with the arrival of inscriptions, I use lots of purples too.
Edit: that being said, out of my ten (PvE) characters, my ranger's got fissure. But even then, that was a 'Beaten cantha, what to do now? Eh, why not trade and farm for fissure?' thing

Here is a quote a Mike O'Brian, Head of the Design Team.... Sorry about the copy and paste I couldn't figure out how to quote from one thread to another but I promise the original post is somewhere in the forums

"At ArenaNet we play the game just like you do, so we know that for most of you, gold is a precious commodity that you work hard to attain. In fact, our statistics show that 50% of all active accounts have fewer than 10 platinum pieces, and 75% of all active accounts have fewer than 20 platinum pieces."

and there you have it which means that the vast majority of the people posting on the forums about how "poor" they are compared to others are actually the minority and are in reality the rich.