Your Main Source of Income

Eldin

Eldin

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2005

America. How about you, commie?

Fellows of Mythgar [FOM]

R/Mo

I've been toying with the different methods of making money in GW, and I would like to know which of these methods is where you make your primary source of income:

-FoW/UW (This means you, Europe)
-Farming
-Buy Low/Sell High
-Crafting Materials
-Other

Many thanks. I'm primarily a farmer, but with all the nerfing, I'm just flat-out broke now and would like to know the mainstream method.

KANE OG

KANE OG

Banned

Join Date: Oct 2005

Ogmios Graybeards

W/

I still farm all the time, it's my primary money maker. Different spots here and there across all three Campaigns with a bit of Boss farming as well.

Still don't know what this farming nerf is that everyone is complaining about.

KANE

Mournblade

Mournblade

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: May 2005

Houston, Texas

Dawn Treaders [DAWN]

W/Mo

I hate to sound wishy-washy but all of the above. I don't like to do one thing all the time, so I fiddle around with whatever tickles my fancy.

tijo

tijo

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2007

Montreal

[CDDR]

R/

Farming is the best source of income including FoW and UW. After comes running if you have prophecies. For the others, i dont know, i farm and run ppl and dont really do the others. Theres still some money to be made by questing in cantha and elona, if you intend to follow the storyline, questing should cover all of your normal expenses as well as get you a little extra cash.

nomak

nomak

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2006

Beacon's Perch

D/

-Buy Low/Sell High - that was in the beginning.

-Farming - now

Just Another Dude

Just Another Dude

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2006

W/

Farming... tediously... there doesnt seem to be a very reliable fast-money-maker anymore... just farm and farm and farm

KamikazeChicken

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/

Regular drops from playing through the game. You'd be amazed at how many more golds you get when you never farm and play 4-man everywhere. Merching whites also generates a fair amount of gold.

Morgenstern

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

New Zealand

W/R

Playing the game. Brought my warrior to Elone, did all the missions, primary quests, hero quests, Treasure chests, and a fair amount of normal quests to level up my heros. Nice money + the odd alright gold + the odd rune = Primavil Armour once I got to the last mission. I got my weopens as some of my golds. Armour and weopens, plus a character through another chapter, not bad I say. Do that 2 more times = a pimped out warrior.

I have a semi rule that all my characters have to be self sufficent. My ele wants new armour? Tough she has to get it herself, I think that makes the game more fun for me, and makes sure I don't get over bored of farming.

I don't see the point in having lots of money in your account, its there for spending, so I spend it. I don't have a farming build, rarly do UW or FoW, just play the game.

Works for me.

Zapper901

Zapper901

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2007

Fire and [ICE]

W/

Running Droks with my Dervish.

CyberMesh0

CyberMesh0

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2005

Charter Vanguard [CV]

N/Me

Cartography.

DeathandtheHealing

DeathandtheHealing

Banned

Join Date: Jun 2006

In a PVE GUILD YAY! :P

Me/Mo

going on one sf run every other week and getting a crystalline on the first drop cause anet loves me

Lotrfish

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2006

1337ville, California

Generic Name [Tag]

R/

Playing the game and opening lots of chests while playing the game. I farm a little bit, too, but not much.

idicious

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2006

Holland

LoD

P/W

Before AI update Running Droks and Grotto. Still do droks for guildies and m8s occasionally with my Dervish now, Grotto a few times as well.

For a short while I did buy low sell high and made a very large profit off of (from 30k to 250k in 2-3 weeks) but got tired of spending hours spamming in town.

Besides that done the regular farms + some not so regular All in all I'm happy with the income I generate, don't stick to 1 particular method, and when I have a decent ammount I usually broke myself getting a nice new 15k armor set for one of my chars :s

stuntharley

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2006

Australia

Critical Chop [cC]

W/

I farm UW and do w/e is FoTM in farming works great.

Thom Bangalter

Thom Bangalter

Grindin'

Join Date: Dec 2005

MO

E/Mo

Phat HA drops.

Batou of Nine

Batou of Nine

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

California, USA

Angel Sharks [AS] (RiP [KaiZ] T__T")

Mo/E

3 words::

Domain of Anguish

riojin

riojin

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2005

East Coast Australia

A/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Morgenstern
Playing the game. Brought my warrior to Elone, did all the missions, primary quests, hero quests, Treasure chests, and a fair amount of normal quests to level up my heros. Nice money + the odd alright gold + the odd rune = Primavil Armour once I got to the last mission. I got my weopens as some of my golds. Armour and weopens, plus a character through another chapter, not bad I say. Do that 2 more times = a pimped out warrior.

I have a semi rule that all my characters have to be self sufficent. My ele wants new armour? Tough she has to get it herself, I think that makes the game more fun for me, and makes sure I don't get over bored of farming.

I don't see the point in having lots of money in your account, its there for spending, so I spend it. I don't have a farming build, rarly do UW or FoW, just play the game.

Works for me.
this is the simplest way and best way of doin it i say. you only really ned 1 set of nice looking armor and weapons. 2ndry armor sets and weapons suited for the situation can look like garbage for all i care.

Corinthian

Corinthian

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

Any random green drop from bosses I kill while questing through campaigns... Or a gold rune if I get very lucky. I'm struggling to get my necro a 1,5k armor!

VGJustice

VGJustice

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2005

Tyria, cappin' ur bosses

Boston Guild [BG]

R/W

I just play the game. And every so often, I get some phat l00tz that pads my money pouch quite nicely.

Also, buying low and selling high isn't just for people wanting to get rich quick!

Iuris

Iuris

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2006

Crazy ducks from the Forest

W/

I just play the game with several characters, and it would seem that between mission/quest rewards and random drops, they make quite enough to get a nice elite armor for each. Each evening, I find myself several quests and a few thousand gold ahead.

With the addition of Elona treasures, this has gone even further.

It may not be enough for FoW armour and Chrystalline swords, but it is enough for the main character. Also, the collectible drops are enough to let me equip most of my heroes.

Rampager

Rampager

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2006

Australia

Mo/

Running to towns, Running missions and chest runs

SotiCoto

SotiCoto

Banned

Join Date: Jan 2007

Drazach Thicket

Temple of Zhen Xianren [Sifu]

Whatever crap is dropped for me in my travels.... I pick it up and sell it to the merchant. Thats the long and the short of it. I don't have any more special ways of getting cash....

... Ok... maybe one.

I've found some bosses when soloed will drop scrolls... occasionally rare scrolls... and I can merch them for 400 apiece... which isn't necessarily too shabby... Funnily enough I've never tried selling them to a Rare Scroll Trader...

But thats about it. I don't deal with human meatbags as regards buying or selling... generally....

Star Naiad

Academy Page

Join Date: Nov 2006

Farm Kournan Pendants sell them to Helenah in Gandara, the Moon Fortress for Bone Idol which is 270 gold and buy like 20 of them and merch em and i make 5400G

Miss Puddles

Miss Puddles

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

California

Shiverpeaks Search And Rescue [Lost]

Me/

honestly, picking up every single item that drops for me, as long as i have inventory space. id'ing and salvaging all those things and merching what i dont want.
that and the free treasure in elona

Kotetsu Rain

Kotetsu Rain

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2006

Utopia

D/

Now I can do any of the above. I have an A/E Solo green farmer that i toy around with and I run Droks whenever I need some spare cash. I swear my networht across all my characters has to be in the 600k range but I've never seen a 3 digit number in front of my platinum. >:P Anyways when your starting out these are some of the things that you can't come to do quickly so heres what I did when I started out.

You always get meaningless drops from monsters and the such but instead of selling those right away to the merchant see what you can salvage them into first AND how high the stacks (10 of a material) are going for in the merchant. Your net worth will begin to rise little by little by paying more attention to what you can get in the long run instead of immediatly selling for quick cash.

the_jos

the_jos

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2006

Hard Mode Legion [HML]

N/

Picking up everything on my path and merch those.
The rest is just doing quests and missions.

Furtermore, reconsidering what you spend is not a source of income, but helps keeping a positive cashflow.

wetsparks

wetsparks

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2006

I sell all whites to the merchant. Blue, purple, and golds get identified, if they are any good I'll sell to other people for fairly cheap so that I dont spend all day spamming a sell (enless it is worth big bucks, then it would be worth spending all day spamming). IDing all the colored stuff usually makes the 100 gold back after the second or third item plus a couple thousand more gold. After IDing, if it says highly salvageable, I salvage it because the materials are worth more than the item.

After that I do all the quests cuz they give out money, sometimes an item or tradable thing like comendations, plus the loot from monsters. Do some farming with my warrior and ranger but that gets boring. What I like to do though is make a new character and get all the comendations on the noob isle, sometimes I'll trade them for ale for my drunkard title, but mostly I trade them for scrolls for 100g.

Edit: Try to get your Protector Titles also, having to go through the missions, especially the later missions, multiple times can get you decent money. I get up to 1000 gold per run in the latter missions.

Painbringer

Painbringer

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2006

Minnesota

Black Widows of Death

W/Mo

Play the game and collect and sell. Made 20k yesterday off of drops from questing/missions alone. (Granted the black dye and white dye helped get to 20)

My Green Storage

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2006

Arizona

My Blue Storage

N/

Bored: a/e - e/a solo farm
Want to: B/P in SF, Ele in Deep
Really bored: Chest Run
Wanted to ALOT, but recently became BS: Solo E/Me smite farming (Nerf Visage / Grasping interrupts are FTL)

But my source of income: Greens.
Don't have to worry about this or that stat.
People know them.
People know the price of em.
Don't need to have it Price Checked / checked for rarity.
Set a fair price and 7/10 times it's a quick sale.

moriz

moriz

??ber t??k-n??sh'??n

Join Date: Jan 2006

Canada

R/

i do AB on the kurzick side for jadeite shards.

T N Player

T N Player

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2006

The Bay Area

W/

i 55 in moddock crevice, i got a a gold tatoo scim there and sold it for a lot and lots of gold runes there too. my guildie got a white colossal scim so a gold one is possible.

Jesse

Jesse

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2006

New York

Vanquishing Memories [VM]

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Batou of Nine
3 words::

Domain of Anguish
bingo...thats it, That and Fow soloing / UW W/Rt soloing and everything in between

Eldin

Eldin

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2005

America. How about you, commie?

Fellows of Mythgar [FOM]

R/Mo

For me the income from questing, missions, and exploring covers most of my expenses until about the Crystal Desert/Drok's, where between 1.5k armor between salvage/ID kits and such just becomes too expensive for me.

Also, about how much do you make on average after one hour of farming? I'm just asking because I make about 10k an hour, and I want to know, is that "good" by most standards?

-.-

-.-

Banned

Join Date: Oct 2006

Underworld for now, everything else isn't worth it for a Warrior.

The Herbalizer

The Herbalizer

<3 Ecto

Join Date: Jul 2005

pre-factions running
pre-factions power trading

dont need to work for gold now.

cosyfiep

cosyfiep

are we there yet?

Join Date: Dec 2005

in a land far far away

guild? I am supposed to have a guild?

Rt/

questing, missions....and now those treasure chests/buried treasures etc (have 9 toons that can do them and most havent gotten to the later ones yet).
otherwise just playing and then capping all my elites---usually gets me enough for what I need.

BuD

BuD

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2006

Nunya

E/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by My Green Storage
Wanted to ALOT, but recently became BS: Solo E/Me smite farming (Nerf Visage / Grasping interrupts are FTL)
This is still very doable, it takes practice to learn the timing of their interrupts.

When no guildies are around late at night I solo UW with with my Ele & the build youre talkin about. B4 NF I farmed trolls for a long long time with my Ele, then I made a Monk then farmed pretty much everything around the trolls (Avicara Tundra Giants & Grawl). I have since made a Warrior, Id like to start doing chest runs.

Envious

Envious

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2006

13N/144E FoKai

My primary money maker is Farming, though I do a bit of UW/FoW.

Traveller

Traveller

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

Finland

League of Extraordinary Explorers [LOST] (my one man guild)

Me/

I really haven't a main source of income. When Prophecies was new, I used to farm and farm and grind and grind until I became very bored of it and had to take a break from gaming. I usually make money whenever there's a fad around, like IDS or 3x green weekends, but right now I have about 2k in my bank account but I just can't be arsed to grind for more. It'll come if it'll come.

Here's to hoping they reset the Elona treasures once again - that's a really fun way to get some money and some nice weapons!

Cebe

Cebe

The 5th Celestial Boss

Join Date: Jul 2006

Inverness, Scotland

The Cult of Scaro [WHO]

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by CyberMesh0
Cartography.
This is true. I was quite amazed at how much money I made just exploring GW...edge-walking forces you to slaughter your way through piles of Heket..Wardens..Imps....