Noobish- Making money on the way up?

Targren

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2007

Primeval Warlords[wuw]

R/

30 Aug 2007 at 07:51 - 1
Azani's my 15 R/Mo in Proph (I just made LA tonight. Yay!). I'm doing ok progressing, mostly henchies, but a few PUGs that don't make me want to wipe out humanity and start from scratch, and I'm just wondering: how do you make money before you're 20 and skilled-out enough to do most of the advanced 'farming'? I'm even having trouble getting the 5K I need for my max armor. I'd be in real dire straits if I didn't have my /bonus bow too...

Re: Soloing instead of running with henchies: This works ok in the lowbie areas, but throw more than 2 or 3 level 9s at me, and Sora goes down, and I'm next. Since most groups seem to be linked and stand really close, the old hat of pulling them apart and plinking them to death seperately doesn't seem to cut it.

I'm not looking to get rich, just keep myself in weapons and armor. Any advice would be great. General Advice that I can also use on my Sin would be awesome.

Zev

Zev

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2007

30 Aug 2007 at 12:24 - 2
The way in which you acquire money in Guild Wars is not a difficult concept at all. There really isn't any big trick or gimmick.

While playing PvE (i.e. killing mobs of things) take whatever drops and sell it to merchants. If you are lucky something will drop that someone wants, and will pay a nice sum of money for.

Farming is not that effective anymore, its more for people right now who want to "feel" like they are farming. While gold and green drops are no scaled, they are still rare drops and still take a long time (and a bit of luck to fall, even while farming)

In prophecies you are at a bit of a disadvantage. about 75% of the game is under level 20, which means weapon drops will be worthless when trying to sell them. Weapons and mods are so easy to acquire (to a buyer) that it makes sense that everyone would only want to buy Max weapons with Max mods. Prophecies however has only max weapon drops in about 25% of the game (on normal mode).

But after your first time through the game, you can activate Hard Mode. Then all mobs everywhere will be *ABLE* to drop max weapons, which if your lucky means you have something to sell to other players.

Specific Solo farming has been addressed in the Farming Forum, and usually involves very specific surviving First, and offense Second.

But just playing the game, going from area to area normally (not getting runs) and grabbing everything that falls, keeping anything good, and merch*ing the rest will work well at building up some cash.


Cheers!

Targren

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2007

Primeval Warlords[wuw]

R/

30 Aug 2007 at 13:07 - 3
Quote:
Originally Posted by Zev
The way in which you acquire money in Guild Wars is not a difficult concept at all. There really isn't any big trick or gimmick.

While playing PvE (i.e. killing mobs of things) take whatever drops and sell it to merchants. If you are lucky something will drop that someone wants, and will pay a nice sum of money for.

Farming is not that effective anymore, its more for people right now who want to "feel" like they are farming. While gold and green drops are no scaled, they are still rare drops and still take a long time (and a bit of luck to fall, even while farming)

In prophecies you are at a bit of a disadvantage. about 75% of the game is under level 20, which means weapon drops will be worthless when trying to sell them. Weapons and mods are so easy to acquire (to a buyer) that it makes sense that everyone would only want to buy Max weapons with Max mods. Prophecies however has only max weapon drops in about 25% of the game (on normal mode).

But after your first time through the game, you can activate Hard Mode. Then all mobs everywhere will be *ABLE* to drop max weapons, which if your lucky means you have something to sell to other players.

Specific Solo farming has been addressed in the Farming Forum, and usually involves very specific surviving First, and offense Second.

But just playing the game, going from area to area normally (not getting runs) and grabbing everything that falls, keeping anything good, and merch*ing the rest will work well at building up some cash.


Cheers! Thanks for the advice. I just felt so far *behind*. I guess I'm doing about right given my poor luck. >_>

Div

Div

I like yumy food!

Join Date: Jan 2006

Where I can eat yumy food

Dead Alley [dR]

Mo/R

07 Sep 2007 at 06:58 - 4
You won't be able to acquire your max armor until much later into the game, and if you've been picking everything up and selling them to the merchant, you should have 5k easily. There are also collector's max armors if you can't afford the regular ones.

Prophecies makes it much slower for you to get gold as you progress through the game, but at the same time you won't have need for gold until much later in the game too.

Targren

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2007

Primeval Warlords[wuw]

R/

09 Sep 2007 at 05:21 - 5
Quote:
Originally Posted by holymasamune
You won't be able to acquire your max armor until much later into the game, and if you've been picking everything up and selling them to the merchant, you should have 5k easily. There are also collector's max armors if you can't afford the regular ones.

Prophecies makes it much slower for you to get gold as you progress through the game, but at the same time you won't have need for gold until much later in the game too. Well, 2/3 done with my acension now. Just have to finish Thirsty before I can take on the dopple. I took the merch food I dropped and managed to get my 70 armor from Cantha. Should make goings a bit less painful, I hope.

I guess spending so much time in Factions first got me feeling like I was falling behind in Proph. Talk about a difference in curves.

Tundra

Tundra

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2007

12 Sep 2007 at 05:41 - 6
Fastest way to get money is doing quests. Try to complete every secondary quest in game and you will get plenty of money. I was in LA at lvl 18 and I had 5.4k in my pocket for just doing primary/sidequests and selling items