What is the Best/Fastest way to make money on Guild Wars?

I was just wondering what was the best/fastest way to make money on Guild Wars. I've been trying various farms for hours and can't seem to find one that is timeworthy. What kind of farms should i try? Solo? Team?

I just help guild members out with quests and the money arrives

I don't think there is a best way anymore as solo UW costs way more than you make (me and a guildy cleared the UW and got zero ecto )

When i go skill capping i aways kill groups on the way and it (doesn't pay the full 1k) but helps for the next sig cap

Basically my way of making gold is to farm titles and help guildys

look in the farming forum ..... its slow steady cash...if you want to get rich quick learn to power trade and get a list of clients that buy highend items.

The above posters seem to have neglected the loot-scaling that's been implemented after boring mode -- I mean hard mode.

I suggest picking out a boss that has an expensive green and and farming him until you go numb from carpal tunnel syndrome.

The easiest way to earn money is to become a runner, the 5 - 9 city tour of NF from Sunspear Sanctuary to Sebelkeh with all stops in between. Run takes 13 -20 minutes based on spawn. You spam for people for 10 minutes or so (get 2 -7), charge 5k each. 50k an hour is very realistic. The most popular build is D/(W, R, A), R/(D, W, A), A/(D, R), or W/(D, R)

The desert run in Prophecies is good also, 500 gold per stop. The Droknars run is still getting 4 -5k a run.

NF also has the Consulate Dock ferry 100 - 500 gold for a few seconds of work.

Play the game by completing quests and missions.

Make a new character.

Play the game.

Make a new character.

Lather, rinse, repeat.





Seriously, I started with Prophecies and didn't see a K until post-searing at Piken Square. Certainly, this was because I was noobtastic and didn't really understand what to spend on and what to keep. Then I took groups of henchies (usually went one less than the max), and found guildies to help with missions.
The addition of Factions did some nice boosting to my bank. Every quest is 200 gold or so, right? Do quests. Don't update armor, just take hench. Quest rewards will be enough.
Buy minimally. Wait a while before buying uber-leet weapons. Just let it come.

Choice #2: Start a prophecies character in pre-searing: monk, ele, or warrior. Do every quest. Explore every nook. Talk to every NPC. Most important: Kill every critter, many times. Sell everything except dyes.
DO NOT leave pre until you have several white and black dyes.
Black dye = 7k or so. Do not sell black dye in pre.

Good luck.

On the note of getting lots of money from quests in factions and NF, The repeatable quest associated with FFFing, mainly on the kurzick side, can gives you 150 gold a run, ending up with 3.75 k at 10k faction, which only takes around 35-45 minutes with a good group. On top of that, the 10k faction can buy you some nice skills from the latest update as well as some amber which you can sell for even more money.

The downfall of this method is that it is fairly repetative and time comsuming, i tried for long enough to get 540k in kurzick faction before i got completely bored out of my mind. It also requires a-lot of knowledge and practice before you can get the runs down right every time at a reasonable speed.

Other wise i suggest doing some hard mode vanquishing, its not too productive but all the drops add up, plus you get some nice gold items on the way...

Wow, I didn't see my first Plat until Henge of Denravi lol..


OP
If I were you, I'd find a farming spot that have a good chunk of bosses, and find a way to farm them lol...

Opps Double post

get an E/A or A/E and farm bosses in hard mode, give the greens to your heroes and sell the elite tomes

honestly though i've found i got plenty of money just playing the game...
55 monking in hard mode works
also got lots of money by selling golds, upgrades and tomes i got while doing the SS/LB points farm with a group of 6.

there's plenty of ways, you just have to look around a bit.

Quick money?

Sell your birthday gifts. I don't collect them, don't care for them, so when I get one, it's just instant cash.

Collected 2 pigs for new years before the event started. A friend of mine got 1. I sold both of mine for 30k each, told him to sell his. He wanted to keep one because how rare they were....until the event. Now they are worthless. I still have 5 that no one wants, and he has 7+.

It's all about priority. What do you want more? A minipet or a better weapon. To dye all of your armor black? Or to play the game and be comfortable with having a little spending cash. When you find that max weapon mod...sell it. Live with -1 the max and still be effective (and way cheaper!).

Run People.

Ascalon City to Yaks/Borlis = 700g to 1k (About 20 minutes)
Ascalon to Beacons = 2k (1 Hour)
Beacons to Droks = 2K/3K
Desert Run = 1.5K/2K

Good combinations for runners
Mo/R (I have this - it works despite what people say)
W/R (Three/Four Run spells at your disposal)
W/Mo or D/Mo (Perfect Combo)

Good luck

Run People.

Ascalon City to Yaks/Borlis = 700g to 1k (About 20 minutes)
Ascalon to Beacons = 2k (1 Hour)
Beacons to Droks = 2K/3K
Desert Run = 1.5K/2K

Good combinations for runners
Mo/R (I have this - it works despite what people say)
W/R (Three/Four Run spells at your disposal)
W/Mo or D/Mo (Perfect Combo)

Good luck

running other people is probably the fastest way to gain money right now if you don't have any to start with.

farming high end areas can earn you money but its not steady and depends a lot on luck.

if you have a lot of money to start with, power trading is the way to go.

He's asking for the best/fastest way to make money and some of you are replying with, "Play the game". I don't think that's the answer he is looking for nor is it correct in reference to his question.

Like others have said running and power trading is your best bet at making money in the shortest amount of time. If you absolutely must farm then perhaps do DoA or UW (ecto has dropped in price as of late though).

the richest players in the game are (or were) all powertraders first and foremost.

end of discussion.

What do you mean by powertraders? Whenever I try to buy and resell ( or just sell old stuff ) I end up losing a lot of money. ( probally because not knowing prices )

I still don't understand why it's so important to get gold. GW gold is not real money, and you collect money buy just playing through the game like others have said. And once you acquire tens of thousands of gold, what is the real benefit of being rich in a virtual game? I'm still not grasping the value of anything in the Guild Wars world. There is nothing tangible that I can physically have from this game other than the CD and the Instructions Booklet. Anything that happens in-game are things that I can never 'own' or actually 'possess'. Collecting things and playing with them in the virtual world is a fun pass time, however I just don't grasp the 'craze' of trying to build tons of virtual money in a virtual game. It's not real money that I can spend on bills or needs. Everybody in various threads are heard ranting and complaining about the "costs" and "depreciation" and the "bargains" in this game. Maybe it's my outlook, but I really don't see how saving this virtual 'gold' has any true benefit on my gaming experience. Can somebody explain why being rich in a video game is important?

(for the record: in FFVII, I spent over 6 months trying to raise Master Materia. After growing out of that stage, I feel there is no benefit in doing that kind of stuff ever again.)

Being rich in a game is being able to show off. Period

Knowing prices is key. The only way to effectively know prices is (yes this is VERY boring) sitting in town (preferably kamadan or Lions arch district 1) and looking at the higher end items. Someone is advetising a perfect req 9 zodiac sword for, lets say for the sake of argument, 100k +10e. When you see this person not advertising for a period of time (I'd wait 5 minutes), PM him or her and ask if they've sold it. If they have, find out how much time it took them and the final price. Based on this you can see if buying that same sword for 90k when it present's itself is a good idea. If it's going to take you 3 hours to sell it, that's about 20k per hour that you've earned (bought for 90k, resold for 150k assuming ecto at 5k each 3 hours later). On the other hand if you can resell a different item that you bought for 30k for 60k 10 minutes later that's an average of 180k per hour assuming you'd keep the same rate going of 30k per 10 minutes.

Basically you look for the largest profit in the shortest amount of time but the first step is finding out priced. Find a friend who is already proficient at it and can give price checks whenever you need them and sit in town and see what the items are actually selling for. You won't make money at first. When you're able to see what's a good deal and what isn't...when you know the prices to everything, you'll start making huge profit. It's faster than any farming and once you build up a nice cash sum, you can start going for the REALLY high end items/miniatures/etc. All it takes is some patience and knowledge of the market.

I agree..if someone is simply trying to hoard money for the sake of having lots of it...is not very useful and in fact impo rather daft.

However..those of us who want to play the game at its 'full level' tend to need a lot of gold simply to achieve this.

eg. Aspiring to learn all skills and capture all elites. This is what i am currently attempting. Each skill or capture costs 1000 gold.

I dont have the exact number of skills to hand and cant access wiki to confirm, but i think there are about 300 skills per chapter... say 900 skills.. thats 900,000 gold, nearly 1 million, and thats only 1 character :P

Those who go for othe titles such as treasure hunter or lucky.. lol that is maddness and costs a lot more again.

So, i do agree that being 'rich' is a pointless target, being able to earn enough gold to complete skills is a standard part of the game.. and one which costs waaaaaaay to much.

Sadly, the average new player, must learn about farming builds and go do the long grind. I scraped through the game with generally 1k max until i in the last week have been forced to learn how to solo farm so i can afford to learn more skills.

So in essence - compelte the game, turn on Hard Mode and test and test until you get a build that allows you to solo Farm as efficiently as possible, the learn skill you want, farm, learn skill etc :s

edit hehe you forgot to mention the small point of that you need to be rich in the first place

impo power trading is the rich staying rich. Fair play if people want to do it, i wont knock them for it at all; but something about it doesnt feel right to me personally and thus i would never do it. Its all quite silly because none of it is real... spending 100k or whatever on an item that is technically worth maybe 400 gold or whatever ... lol

Ok, I think I'm beginning to understand more.

So mainly the reason why players want more money is because they want better skills to use. And what you're saying is that the fastest way to reach that goal is to build up your gold. And so this is where the 'craze' comes from? From wanting to have all the best skills in the game? Ok; I'm learning the ropes now.

So if the true objective is the skills and not the gold, then is there an alternate method for gaining them? Or is farming for gold the only way to unlock the best game skills? It would seem the slowest way is to play the game yourself and buy them with your money. And the faster way in comparison is to farm gold and sell items/services in the game. Is there a next step up from that or is this the answer that all the players understand? If somebody desperately wanted to have those skills more than anything, would they only have these 2 options? I am curious to know if people use another e-service to "buy" skills/gold from other players; or if those actions are not allowed buy the creators of GW. I am very interested in this now because I am aware that in other Online RPGs there are people who pay monthly fees, yet GW is not one of them. And does that fact that GW is free Online play make it a less "Time-Investment" kind of game? Are the games where people pay-to-play more serious about 'time investment' VS 'in-game acquisition'?

(you can 'unlock' skills by buying the PvP edition of each game, in the GW online store. This does not give all your PvE chars the skills though, you still need to do points 1 and 2 below (or possibly for elites you could use elite tomes..but they are even more expensive than 1k)

Well..most people do want to learn more skills and to do so they need to do 2 things.

1. Buy the skills using (generally) 1000 gold and 1 skill points. (normal skills)
2. Buy Signet of Captures which cost 1000 gold and 1 skill point. (elite skills)

To get elite skills you also have to find and kill each relevant Boss that uses that skill.

To me personally, spending gold on skills is the most 'valid' reason to need and gain gold ingame. Buying 'pretty' armour isnt my thing, though others do like to do it, so there are people who try to gain a lot of gold to buy such items.

Generally yes, farming/services is more a more efficient earner in a strict time/gain perspective, than simply playing through the game.


Legally, yes those are the only options - normal play / farming / services / trading.

Unfortunately there are people who sell ingame gold for real world cash. This is expressly against the rules set out by ANet in GW and thus is banable to buy or sell ingame gold for real money. (but no, you couldnt buy the skills even if you wanted...you still need skill points which you can only gain by playing the game)

untrue.
i started trading with about 2,000gp to my name and a handful of dyes.
it took me less than a week to hit my first 100k, before my first character was even level 20.
its just a matter of learning the prices. finding people who will sell items for less than you can resell them for isnt the issue, it happens all the time (literally) the hard part is knowing prices well enough to be able to recognize a deal when you see one and knowing wheather or not the profit margin is worth the risk of potential loss of investment and the investment in time it will take to resell the item.
when it comes to powertrading i'd say 50% of it is knowing prices, 25% is knowing the profit to time/risk ratio, 15% is how much investment capital (starting cash) you have available, and 10% is who you know in the trading world.

I wanted money so that I could afford anything I wanted on the spot, whenever and wherever.

Then again, I've never bought a rare or prestigous item, since I simply don't care about that. As such, the largest sales I've ever needed to do were in the 100k range (a fully runed/inscribed set of armor, for example).

Why money? Why pvp? Why titles? Why finish the game? Why play at all?

There is no "right" way to play. So there is no need to justify it.

In GW, money won't buy you power, skill or advantage. There are many ways to grind those now, but money is completely unrelated to that, and always has been.

And as such, it has always been a vanity item by definition, unlike games where you need money so that you can buy gear good enough to even compete.