Journey Towards Maxing Storage Gold

Hi all, I believe some of you already know I have quitted the game. After all the fun in game, money chasing, titles grabbing... it all comes to an end.

I believe many people have maxed storage gold. Thats for sure. I remember from different occasions, I have people asking me how I get money to buy my stuffs ie fow armor, weapons so on. There are many people richer than me. So I would not say this is a guide or what. Just probably some sharing of my own experience of my journey towards getting the gold to buy the things i want.

First off, I got to state that I don't farm. Tried UW, but ended up spending more on entrance fee than getting ectos, haha. Most of my gold are from trading.

I started off trading purple Fiery Dragon Swords (hey they are worthed something back at prophecies). Moved on to SF greens after they came out and later to other higher ends golds.

There are many form of trading. Namely: High Ends, Low Ends, Greens, Mini pets, Festive items etc. I wouldn't say there is a best form of trading. I have a friend who managed a stack of ectos simply by trading low ends.

Another way i made money was by running missions. In the past, running missions is done with friends or guildies (if you can't solo), so you got to split the profit with everyone involved. Now with the introduction of heros, I realised that if I run missions with heros, I only need to share with them :P . And that means I got to keep everything

Ah forgot to add that a being thrifty do helps a lot.

So how about the rest of the guild wars community... come share your gold hunting experience

Anyway I got my maxed storage box by heavy farming,getting my minipets the day they came out,and some lucky drops.

Before LS, I would solo vermin farm about two days a month, maybe another day if I was working on getting the money for a set of 15k for one of my characters. I also turned some common crafting materials into rare materials through the artisans, and then 'flooded' the rare material markets with the new materials. Usually saw about a 5-10k profit margin on that.

However, to reduce my need for money, I also saved all the worthwhile collector items to get max damage weapons, offhands, and shields (Guildwiki FTW). The mods that I slapped on them came from the various forms of loot that I salvaged and from more than one generous guildie. I did this not only for myself, but for all the heroes across my (now) 12 PvE characters, and for at least 5 guildies and their heroes. I also restrict all my characters to one 15k set max (if they even have one), and if they need a special set of armor for something (55 monking, etc), it's just a standard set of max level armor.

Despite all that, the most I've ever had is 125k. I like having extra money just because it feels good to have that money there if you need it, but I wouldn't say that I've gone crazy about chasing that 1 million gold dream. Getting to that point would take so much time that I couldn't enjoy the game for what it is in my opinion.

First two months of Sorrow's Furnace... so much gold to be made it was incredible. I traded fellblades and chaos axes as well, which netted me loads of cash. I'm a pretty cheap guy so I've been somewhat maxed out ever since.

hey kobey, seeing you in high ended alot b4 so does ascalon id1, yea, u are the excatly same type of person as i am- hardly ever farmed(except greens for heros,which is handy with E/A-_-)
k, i am chinese, yes, i speak chinese, and i can type in chinese IG as well. Now u might realized what i used to earn my 1st set of fow after playing GW 1 month and half.yes, you are right, i buy stuff from chinese farmers for low price and sell then in US dis for a decent profit. that was almost 2 years ago.lol
later on, after faction came out, which is right b4 the 1st year mini came out as well, i start to trading zodiac weapons, at that time, a perfect one really worth a bunch of ectos.
then mini came out, big time isnt it? trade trade, bone dragon, shiro,rurik, those are worth more than 100e+ back to the days, and at that point, i start store some ectos and cash in my storage.
NF came out! w00t new skins, either rare or not, they are new! ppl like new stuff, so do i. after two weeks of NF hunting, 1 day stopped at kamadan dis 4, saw a guy selling a colossal simitar req 9 gold max inscriptable 75k, hmm, never heard of that sword, nither saw it, might just buy it and see how it goes turns out 3 weeks later sold it for 100k+115e, tbh, i earned more than a stack of e just from trading colossal. i saved up ectos.....
DoA is out! ppl rushing in and getting pwned by titans,margos,shadows,and those minion lookin thingy lol (j/k) another chance to earn some money from this new area. titan gems, armbrace.mallyx weapons( not until i finally got my 1st green from that monkey after 2 and half months-_-, but it was the reaver), i saved up ectos.....
new mini ghostly! omg, that looks so cool, i want one! and i think ppl saw that 1st day in LA US dis 1 wanted one as well:P bought one 302e sold it 2nd day 700e in ascalon id 1...... i saved up ectos
sweet tooth! bunnies and golden eggs are out, /searching chinese farmers lol during that weekend i sold 30000 points sweet tooth point at guru high ended, 10000 points to a close friend no profit
i know there are ppl out there way richer than me, but i am satisfied, i enjoyed my money that i earned, and i am kinda pround of myself as well(wtb armor+10 vs flame shield inscription) here i want to thx 4 real good friends: PW, EP, SRG, and TD(all 1st letter of the IGN), if any of you see this, i /bow to u 4, u guys helped me while i am in trouble and give me nice advise and helpful infomations.
so yes, my point is, new stuff=good money, catch your opptunity to earn your 1st stack of ectos, i give best wish to u all and take care Kobey, we will miss you^^

Sold IDS for 80k a pop when they first came out. Then I used E/A to farm greens in Factions and NF and made boat loads off that. GG.

What's the point of playing if you gonna stand in town screaming WTB/WTS?!
I don't get it. aren't we supposed to play ?!
that's not playing.
About farming? heck! i farmed almost 5 hours yesterday and got 20k.
Are you telling me you farmed over 250 hours without spending 1g to get your storage maxed?!

A-net ruined the game for true.
Instead of letting a GM stand in bergen spring for example baning the hundreds of botters there, they went and nerfed farming.
Farm in groups?! heck i never find any group welling to go vanquish on hard mode.
Farm bosses?! i was trying to kill some assassin boss for his daggers on hard mode for 2 days killed him over 50 times i swear and it never dropped.
and i know the daggers sell for 5k max.

it is might not your style of"play" but i do beleive some ppl in game are enjoying it, so do i. and i play the game, 17 title maxed, rank 8 as well, i play the game, and i enjoy sitting in the town screaming as well

No offense, but who are you?

It's great that you have so much gold, as you no longer have a purpose for your gold maybe you could consider giving it to me? I'm always short on gold somehow, but maybe I have too many chars.

Undeadgun: Wow, thats a really amazing trading experience. I lost count of the number of ectos you earned.

Deadly Eyezz: I think there are many aspect to the game. PVP, PVE, Farming, Trading, etc etc... U might not like WTB/WTS, but I can assure you there are tons who like doing that. And thats playing the game too

Dzan: I am just a nobody.

Patrick Smit: Hmm, this thread is meant to share our experience of gold chasing, not gold sharing

Btw, there isn't any 24hr bump rule here rite? haha. Been on ventari corner too much

It's kind of fascinating seeing the ways you earned gold, thanks for sharing.

At the same time it makes you realize how the game has devolved into farming gold for many players. That was not the original intent of the game, but it's very prevalant.

I made my first ecto's when Factions came out. Just like undeadgun I noticed a high demand for Zodiac Weapons. I bought a perfect divine favor Zodiac Staff here on guru and sold it the other day here on guru. My profit: 400k. So people who say you can't make good deals because everyone in here knows the prices are wrong.

Would be very poor discussion wise if so

I've never been entirely sure how i managed to net 2 million gold. I got a fair bit from E/A farming in Sunjuing Distract in the first few weeks the build was out. Got a fair bit from Stygian Veil trapping with heros (for gems and LB) before the solo build was posted on Guru and the price crashed from 10k per gem to 2k per gem. Got a load of Ecto/Shard in storage but i never actually sell them so they don't count towards anything.

But hey, i have Ale Hound and Connoseiur and working on my Chests/Wisdom title as we speak. Prefer nice titles over nice skins tbh.

I believe I maxed storage gold before factions came out... and honestly I have no clue how that happened. Made a lot ettin farming, my first experience with solo farming, but I also spent alot on the green SF weapons. Then, once all my characters were equipped, I just played. Lots of FoW, tombs runs, some trapping UW, but at that time I didn't get any lucky drops and gave my ectos to guildies. But since my characters had everything I wanted, I saved every last gold piece I picked up, and it added up over time.

Since factions I started doing a lot more soloing: hydras, bosses, outcasts, wardens, kirins. Didn't get any spectactular drops, but the money increased steadily over time. It was exactly that sort of gold farming that got nerfed recently.

Since nightfall, I've made money just playing through the game on all my characters, opening treasure chests and doing quests. Since I didn't care for much of the new armor, I didn't spend much. My dervish and paragon got vabbi armor, but the rubies and sapphires were all acquired with trade contracts I got from vabbi quests. If I had sold those, I would have made even more.

I also spent quite a lot on minis and my mes' fow armor, so it's not like I saved everything. But pretty much everything else I got on my own. If I wanted a green weapon, I'd farm the boss myself (since factions). And I never have to buy materials from the traders, or sup vigors.

So... um... I'd say I made my money just playing a lot, solo farming for gold, and not spending that much.

theres nothing like a bit of gambling, which is how i got my last few hundred k a couple of weeks ago i farmed some doa gems and got myself some coffers. 5 rubies and 5 elixors for my first two. after that i decided to have another try, farmed myself 2 more coffers and got 5 titans each which i sold off immediately (prices gone down even more now). the rest of my money i got to max out storage was from just farming everywhere, although its getting a bit boring now with such lousy drops and low prices...i even used to enjoy doing solo UW when there were decent drops, always a chest to open and had to corner smites with e/mes. although my money can go quick sometimes cos i like buying armour/weapons.

i personally came to GW about 8 months late, so i first maxed my storage by farming SF greens , then bought monk fow .

then i nthe first week that factions was realesed, i identifyed the most expensive and the hardest to farm green item in the game at that time, ghials staff, and spent fdays perfecting a solo farm method for him, in the space of 6 days i made just under 5million gold from ghials staffs, this is when i descided to share my build with others and offcourse now the build to farm him is widly available, altho the greens nerf means u cant farm half of them in a day now as u cant see if hes actually holding the green weapon now like u could before.

then i bought more fow and was again poor, until the first week of NF, were i spent 2 whole days first finding out if it was posible for inscribable magmas shields to drop there, then finding a place to get them, then chest running over and over again, so after a weekend of chest running i had 9 max gold isncribable magmas shields, wich then filled my storage money many times over.


but now im poor again, and there has been many nerfs to chest running and farming in generall, and IMO they have ruined the game of GW for me, there is no wa to earn any REAL money anymore , anything thats even half worthwhile takes too much time and effort now imo , so i barly play gw now, and im still poor. the last time i played GW i spent the night making a build to solo farm UW in HM, just he first room of axtte tho, but extremly safe and rediculously fast, but i just dont have the patience for gw right now to earn alot .

Nope, Making money of someone that doesn't know the actual price of an item is not a part of the game, believe it or not but it's true.
I speaking for myself when i see someone selling too cheap, I pm and tell them. this item worth more.

maxed my storage for the 3rd time, mostly from trading and farming.

getting lucky in chest runs aswell

All my money was done from farming greens. First Jacquis aegis with Warrior /riposte for 15-20k a pop, but it was kind of slow. Then with NF you could flag heros and hench and get a drop alone, much faster and easier. I made bout 500k selling Wing's axe during triple drop green in cantha. Then I moved on to Wandalz Refuge/Shagu's anthem, 15-20k but kind of slow. Now I farm Dwaynas with rit but it's hard to get 30k for it now, it used be sold a lot easier. Everything is cheaper since HM update ;/

I think trading isn't just about buying from newbies who don't know about prices. Its also part of trading, but definitely not the only way. When I started trading, I look at it as a service. You don't wish to spend hours spamming WTS, and rather take the time to farm more. So, I buy from you a little cheaper (take it as commission for me), then I spend the time to sell it for a higher price. I don't see anything wrong with that.

As for buying items off newbies who don't know prices, might sounds unethical, but really, I again don't see anything wrong with that unless the buyer tried to fool or trick the newbie into selling for a lower price. And to add to that, there are alot of price guides around here, no real reason to be ignorant to prices. Even if the guides are outdated, one could at least differentiate the rare and the common items.

Ahh so you QUITTED the game. I suppose that would make sense if Quitted was a word.

Well I make my money mostly by farming, on and off trading and money from simply playing in PvE. I still get enough to buy usually whatever I want.

yep I maxed my gold including at least 95 plats across all toons before Factions came out, 5 man farming SF (I could play all 5 roles which meant I could get into any party). Back then it was easy and fast to sell.

that also led to my personal obsessive goal: collect every single green in the game. ATM the only ones I don't have are the new Drago bow, Mallyx's Strife, Recurve, axe and sword. That includes all 3 games. All of my heroes across 10 characters have greens for storage.

If someone sells something too cheap in game surely it is therefore part of the game... Anyway unethical it may be, illegal it is not. It happens in real life all the time too and is legal so its nps. People only sell for under the items true value because they are either lazy or ignorant.

I maxed my gold out along while ago so I transfered about 3.5 million of it to ecto. Now I have only a few hundred plat it pure gold

I made most of my gold power trading, then running, then farming. Havnt needed to make gold since around Factions time now so im happy.

I'm making a charge for maxed storage..currently halfway there. I've determined not to buy any more armor/weapons until I get there.
I'm thinking about trying my hand at Chest Running or even Mission Running. I remember you helping me out Kobey..mind sharing some mission tips or builds?

ive farmed 90% of my gold since i was 55 in mid july 05. made about 6-7 mill ish in just straight gold and about another 40 mil or so in items worth since i lost my req 7 15% always falchion to a merchant accident

Did i mention i have 6000 hours of it though lol. not much to do after working 2nd shift job lol.

I dun mind sharing how I do some missions if you need advice or so. Let me know specifically what you wish to know more about thru pm here or in game pm. But generally reading thru wiki should be good enough I believe. As for build wise, there are many players builds as well as hero's build posted here by other members which i took, experiment and adapt to my style of play.

I just play through the game and chest run when i feel like it. Sometimes i vanquish if im in the mood. Pick everything up and merchant it for gold. It adds up in the end. Selling the extremely common stygian gems at about 1k each also helped build my fortune. FFF can be a great way to make money if u want to take the time for all those 150 golds to add up.

Eh, I just don't see any real points to working up to, and then sitting on millions. I'm a spender, always have been, but I generally keep about 20-60k on me at all times for buying dyes, upgrades/inscriptions, runes, keys, etc. Otherwise, if I want a specific armor or weapon, then I save up for it. I've gone up to 100-200k many times, just to turn around and spend most of it on what I was saving for. No biggie. Just means I got a lot of stuff I consider nice, most of it customized (except the caster stuff), not a lot of real tradeable wealth. Just right for me - virtual money is overrated.

At this moment, I have enough wealth in ecto (125) and money (~420K) to max my storage account. Most of this was earned after 28th of April by buying/selling the minipets(I had about 25K before 28th of April).
It's not really hard to earn so much cash, I didn't need to spend most of my time spamming at all.
For example, bought a mini Gwen here on guru for 100K + 45 ecto and sold it within 10 minutes for 100K + 75 ecto.

My personal goal (besides buying some expensive armor and weapons) is to, at some point, have had each and every minipet. For this I'll need ~1500 ecto (I expect the prices of the two rarest to go up in price over time) so I'll be busy for a bit longer .

I do not farm or run missions.... ALL I DO IS SAVE SAVE AND SAVE.
If u do not spend on silly stuff u will hit 1000k in 3 mth. Just based on doing missions in game . The occasional pug fow,uw,deep, urzog run and the selling of ur rare loot helps u achieve 1000k. Trust me on this i have done this.


EXAMPLE

10k saved/day
300k in 1 mth
1000k in 3 mth give and take

I only have max 500 plat in my storage all the time. More than 500plat -> Spend it. Not a big fan of holding that much money in storage.

1 way to earn money is through investment. There was a time when ectos was 4k each and after faction, ectos jumped to 15k each. I know many people became rich here. All my golds are in ectos and it dropped so much. Asset dropped by 25%. That was painful, but it is all parts of the risks.

I do not buy expensive amour, or go for skin (Maybe a little now since you can change the amour mods now) That is a way to save up.

Personally, i do not believe in pug uw/fow/deep/urgo and i seldom do them. I only do them with guild/alliance mates.

I set a target for me each day,
examples:
If the target is 20k, i will farm till i reach my target before doing other things.

I still remember during the first week of nightfall, i obtained a colossal scimitar and i merchanted it away. 2 weeks later and i saw people spamming WTB colossal +200e. That was heartbreaking.

But now, i mainly just do pvp and some pve when alliance called me to go along.

I have the worst luck

i farmed sf everyday got atleast 100k off greens.................!
sold b day presents, and CE minis...
last mission on factions.....that chest run..
saskai blades...whatever there called...farmed them before they got nerfed..
now all i do is random chest runs...i get the keyless chest...i hunt them down, and almost every week i do the deep....(starting to)
highest i got in storage was probably 600k.....and that was not to long ago before the boardwalk...

I'm definatly more the former than the latter

I can see it's not hard to get rich, there are many ways to do it... Time certainly helps...

I hav ebeen playing 3 months now, I have 9 chars of which 3 are my main chars... I never get more that 40K in my storage before I splash out. All 3 of those chars have nearly perfectly set up heros (Full runes, maxed weaps, etc). I feel that once I get them all up to scratch and I have nothing to spend my money on then I too will start to get rich... I've farmed well over 100 ectos but have sold them all to buy things as I go along. e.g. all 3 of my Koss's have max sundering swords and full fortitude shields, my Jins all have perfect bows and my Dunks perfect staves...

So yeah, I think once you get to 6 months to a year and you have decked out all your chars fully, then you will certainly get rich...

If you wanna go thru all 3 camps with your chars and crappy heros, then you can get rich really easily... It's simple... Play normally, Farm a bit but.... DONT SPEND ANYTHING... Guarentee you'lkl have 1 mill in no time...

Two Words: Harvest Temple
A moment of silence please *bows head*

Seriously though, I maxed storage gold with early Sorrows Furnace farming and selling the greens then got a stack of ecto with Harvest Farming *tear in eye*, then saved the extra cash and ecto for a Tormented Shield via Kirin farming outside Maatu. Still have roughly 1.5 mil gold and 150-ish ecto. Looks like most of it wil be going into lockpicks for titles.

I maxed my storage by 55 Mesmer Griffon farming and run SF with 4 henchies (5 include me) no party for mesmer :'(

My first FoW came from buying Bronh, Bortak, Rago Stuffs 80-100k and resell 100k+5-10e

IMO maxing gold in storage is not hard if you do it on the right time.
I did Ghail's solo with my 55 Mesmer at the first week of Factions 2-3 staves/day (100k+ at that time)
untill the price dropped to 50k so i quit.

I also did Exuro's Will farm at the first x2 green drop(or it was x3 rate can't remember) and i got 44 or a little bit more Staves, I keep few of them for my heroes and sold the rest at 50k on first day, 40k then 30k a few days later.

Well i started off selling FDS blue/purps too XD. ofc thats not so good now...

farming and merching was nice not so good now either...

selling a dead sword for 100+25 was nice too ^^

Trading is a great way to make money but the marked is quite flodded atm with most things (for example anything in nf that isnt req 8 or an ele sword is 2 for a G)Trading is hard but it can pay off if you are aware of prices and pretty paitent.

alright, im not rich yet so idk if anyone will care about my story. but ill tell it anyways and maybe someone can give me tips

so i have been playing gw for about 15 months now. and the first 11 months or so i spent dirt poor. never-went-over-45k poor. richest-moments-were-getting-superior-vigor-drop-and selling-a-lian's-lantern-for-800%-of-what-i-bought-it-for poor. (better adjectives i hope?)

i was also hopelessly ignorant of the market. honest to god i could have sold a q9 crystalline sword 15^50 for 500g. not joking here guys. i had never been to UW or FoW.

i had no idea what any trading shorthand (ie 15^50, 20/20, +30, obo) meant. my kind of trading was the noob chat filling kaining: WTS GOLD SORD 20k

i had a 55 monk, but the only thing i ever farmed was trolls and jade brotherhood knights. i had my best friend out of game make an ss necro, and we were prepared to dominate UW. but then we both got bored and quit. note that at this point i had under 1k.

in short, i was a total noob.

then, nightfall came out and we started playing again. we joined my current guild, where my leader tipped me off on tombs farming with a sin. i was poor as hell, but i had a sin and i started doing this. i made a few ectos, which i sold and used for max armor. at this point i was starting to *cough cough* accumulate money (but only like 20k).

this was all about 4 months back.

i found the e/me terra tank build and learned the smite run during the free UW weekend. i still use this build (though with Glyph of concentration rather than ancestor's visage) to farm my ectos.

during this period i also started to learn about the market. i read the gold vs. purple guide in the PC forum, along with any other literature i could find in the thing. i also began learning the rare skins and valuable greens. now id like to say i know more than the average person about the market value, and i PC stuff for guildies.

when my friend told me about the e/a farming build, i didnt really buy into it. id seen it before (its a great build for farming) but it was so widespread that i thought it would be nerfed shortly. plus EVERYONE used it. however, i still figured that it could be good for when we didnt have favor (always, im american >.>) and i thought hell, why not. i saw that a galigord's stone staff would be great for it, and it would be great for my UW runs. so i purchused one for 35k (going rate at the time). i started talking with the person who i purchased from (he is italian but speaks very good english) and we became friends. he actually showed me his farming method for getting the greens. i had never done anything in sorrow's furnace before either so this was eye opening for me. i began farming these greens.

through continuing SF farming and UW farming i began to accumulate wealth. for my standards anyways. i also did some trading, but only when i saw something going for cheap. (i.e. the galigord stone staff i bought for 15k and sold for 25k). did some IDS runs, got the free chests, etc.

then while doing urgoz on HM with my guildies and another guild taht used to be in our alliance i got a q9 zodiac sword inscribable. i sold it for 92k after posting on guru and spamming for a few days.

so that brings us to today, 4 months later, where i am worth ~500k. not great i know, but not bad considering my first 11 months of sheer poverty. im making a warrior and looking to explore the world of running and trading, while of course continuing my solo-farming of UW, and now, FoW. i dropped the SF farming due to extreme boredom and lack of profit.

so i am obviously one of the poorer people in this thread, but i though maybe my story would interest someone. all tips/hints/advice are welcome.

i only make money now to complete my collections. mini pet collection is nearing completion since i only got 2 more of the limited ones, vizu and zhed, to go. after those two, the prices for any of the remaining ones i need are either stable or going down.

once i get my mini pet collection done, i'll probably finish off my green collection since its only a few elonian ones left as well as finishing off my armor collection for all my characters.

trading is definitely the best way to go for quick profit.