Can you really be THAT rich?

While browsing guru for a while I've found myself staring the screen with the greatest astonishment I have even known; Players are offering sums of 4000e and up for a mini Panda. After regaining consciousness and eventually deciding NOT to commit suicide, I've decided to open a new thread about the whole Ultra-Super-Duper-Rich-Guys matter.

I'm playing GW for about 30 months now and I've never felt that pathetic. Players all around me mention buying their 23rd Obsidian set, their 7th perfect Crystalline Sword and their 80th set of chaos gloves (one of each color for each of their chars! ). I dunno what about you, but I feel like killing somebody.

Getting incredibly rich never seemed so easy. Yet, I'm feeling like the poorest player on the game. While I'm desperately trying to get a Glob of Ectoplasm, some players prefer not to pick them up because their inventory just can't contain any more of these.

Is god playing with my mind? Could it be I'm the unluckiest man on earth? Or maybe I'm just a big, fat n00b? I turn to you, dear GW players. What are YOUR opinions and thoughts about this matter?

I'm just glad I have better things to do than play GW that much. Or dupe items/get in on the latest exploit.

Farm a lot, scam some noobs, get lucky a lot, get rich quick, the story of guildwars.

~Frantic

People just farm ALOT, one of my guild members managed to farm 80 ectos in a day :/

So really its up to you, if you want ectos and stuff farm for it at the cost of a lot of time.

And people trade.

Do you put a ridiculous amount of time into farming and/or powertrading? No? There's your answer.

I'll take having a life over farming stacks of ectos.

I figure that people with that kind of money are the really good power traders. There's just no way to reasonably farm that kind of cash.

And don't feel bad, you don't need a panda.

Just pick up everything as you play, don't spend wastefully, and you'll never find yourself unable to get most things.

1 word will solve this little riddle for you

DUPE

sooo many ppl duped ectos,mini-pets, armbraces etc.. over the past 3 years and have since moved a lot of them on, as for the whole - Anet banned all accounts that duped armbraces... LOL, that was proven false on wintersday last year when ppl were offering 1750 armbraces (yep 7 stacks of armbraces) for a mini-polar bear, this also occured about a month ago when there were 6 diff ppl selling a mini-polar bear (when there are only supposed to be 3 confirmed drops) again offers of 1500+ armbraces were being given

if you had farmed DoA in nightfall from day 1 for 8 hours a day you still wouldnt have 7 stacks of armbraces even now

A-nets much vaunted banning for duping is a load of rubbish IMO whenever you see any uber high-end items for sale you will always see some of the same 20-30 ppl bidding for it and a-net can do nothing as they cannot now proved how they duped or received items.

I can't wait for gw2 as everything these ppl now own means a big fat ZERO and I am hoping that a-net keep a closer eye on how monies and items are acquired in game

give up every other aspect of life and you too can become that rich.

Seriously all it takes it the right gear/build and time. I will never be that rich, or even close to it, because I don't want to dedicate that much time to a subpar game.

4000e uber rich players with the nicest looking items in the game and 20 stacks of ambraces still die in pvp and pve, so all that wealth doesnt mean jack when it counts. And even if they are super rich and never die in the game and are the greatest player ever, they probably work at jack in the box and live in their uncles basement snorting pop rocks with a mountain dew chaser.

Who cares, their money won't make them better players.

You know whats your problem? You have rich friends (or bragging liars) .

Who cares if they are rich and can buy 102485 pandas. You play your game and play it the way you like it. Knowing that someone owns 102485 pandas does not make me feel poor or pathetic.

Oh, and since you mentioned about people offering 4000ectos on the panda, don't forget most of them are bidding without even having 1% of it. They bid with e-peen.

What's the point of being that rich? if you can afford every thing in the game.......I rather be poor this way if I want something it's like Goal that keeps me playing, because if I was that rich I would Quit GW, I am not into titles, don't care for it, I love Swords and armors, I want a second set of FOW and that's my new goal right now.

thing is in GW you can get max stuff for free. . . from collectors...

You can probably max out a good PvE build for all of about 20k start to finish. The expensive bit is usually the armour, but if you get the 1k stuff (which is every bit as good, just sometimes less visually distinctive), you don't need to spend huge amounts on that either. The rest goes into buying the skills pretty much, and that's not huge either. Get a decent green endgame weapon and you should be set. If you want a good gold it'll take you longer though (but that said you can usually buy them + components for < 20k).

I'm willing to call BS on all of that.

There's a simple solution to your problem: stop caring about vanity items.

Wow suicide? Hardcore! O_o

As people mentioned, who cares if they're that richer than you? Does it affect your fun in game that someone has a panda and you don't?

I don't think farming is the main source of 'income' for these people, it's definitely power trading and through duping. Thing is for these kind of games, rich people just get richer. Because you can buy a high end item, this is usually a high end pet and then resell for a profit. Because it's a high end item, the profit gained is huger, repeat. The fact you now have more gold, you can do this twice for example, gain twice as much profit, repeat... Power trading wins.

I take it you didnt see the bid for 10k ectos in the same thread (said post has since been retracted/removed by a mod). It is entirely possible to be that rich, people could make 2million in a week when urgoz was new, before prot bond was nerfed people were making tonnes of ectos a day and then selling them for 10k ea, or keeping hold of them and selling them for more/less depending on fluctuation, the first ever torm wep was sold for something like 6mill, so just getting a good group and stomping through there in the early days before ursan could net you a fair bit.

Nowadays there arent as many ways to get rich, with the price of armbraces dropping by the day, and most good farming pots being sent to hell its harder than it used yo be. But still entirely possible

There is a great deal of luck involved here. It takes some very good timing to get in on a quick money making build/farm/exploit before it gets nerfed.

I know a player that made tonnes of money long ago when the europe dists were split from ours and thier merchants/traders had items at different prices then ours.(the other day he showed off a trade window with 7 full stacks of ectos) I also know a few that made mad money farming with the very first 55monk build before Protective Bond was first nerfed.

I may not be in a class with the 4000ecto crowd but I like to think I've done quite well just by playing the game. I've got FoW/chaos gloves/rare skinned items/ect...
My only secret was to not spend money on anything I either A) couldn't resell for more or B) wasn't 100% certain I would keep forever.

I've never farmed past the point of finding that a build works, I don't powertrade, I don't scam. I estimate I've been making about 250k a month - average - during this time I've been playing. I find that enough for my titles/armours/minipets.

On the other hand if you feel you fail at the game you probably are.

Pretty sure you farm IRL bro<3

Once you get "kinda rich" assuming you have a very good knoledge of the economy you can get really rich though trading.