Richest Person on Guild Wars

Kidney Licker

Kidney Licker

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Europe Server

That's odd, I thought "GOing swear" was also being filtered *shrug*.

What I find interesting is that no one appears to have gotten rich from the other way that people suggest to earn money, dancing semi-naked for gold. Or maybe those people are too embarrassed to admit it?

furiousfunk

furiousfunk

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2006

DK Dragonic Killers

Mo/W

I dont worry much about money, I give away 15K to just about anyone that demonstrates they are new to the game. It's play money, I have about 850K in the storage and 18 ectos. I keep full amounts(250 each) of Parchment, Iron, Leather, hides, wood and cloth in case a guildie needs supplies. I filled up my storage bank one time but I bought a bunch of chaos axes and gave them away. I do wonder why so many people in Lion's Arch are scamming people for fake money. I see people selling stuff at outrageous prices and then 2 minutes later someone else is selling it for twice the outrageous price. I sell zealous bow strings for 500 gold anytime I salvage one, in LA, they advertise them for 20K+ 24 hours a day. What is fun about ripping people off?

Edge Martinez

Edge Martinez

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

NC

DKL

I just go make money when I want something. Usually I just want green items so I go do the missions for them. When I wanted 15k drakescale and 15k bonelace? I just did tombs until I got a bulwark. At any given time, I maybe only have about 5k... if that. I'm one of the lottery people. I buy keys. And like other lottery people... I lose.


Oh, and just to test the GOREDENGINE...

Pilots sit in the RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GOpit.

EDIT: HAHAHA

konohamaru heaven

konohamaru heaven

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2005

Some where in Cantha beyond the Petrified Forest and the Jade Sea

The Amazon Basin

I personally think our own Dralspire is the Richest Person in Guild Wars.

makosi

makosi

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

"Pre-nerf" is incorrect. It's pre-buff.

Requirement Begins With R [notQ]

Me/

Had i not purchased 5 sets of FoW armour, i'd be in Guild Wars' own Monte Carlo. I'm a third of the way to my 6th (and final!)

Ensign

Ensign

Just Plain Fluffy

Join Date: Dec 2004

Berkeley, CA

Idiot Savants

The richest person in Guild Wars is almost certainly a high-up in a gold selling operation.

Peace,
-CxE

Benjamus

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2006

Near Leeds, Yorkshire, UK

Mo/Me

or a very sad person

Akhilleus

Akhilleus

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2005

If it aint expensive, it aint worth buyin'.

Leading/Co-leading Bretheren Of Chaos [Dark]

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ensign
The richest person in Guild Wars is almost certainly a high-up in a gold selling operation.

Peace,
-CxE
yeah, but those people also often have 1,000+ others working for them, and the money goes directly to ebayers, so they probably have on the lines of 30-40 mil at any given time, in pure gold (that would be my guess). but that amount is constantly being depleted.
and thats assuming if you want to count the people who directly have hundreds of people piping money to them, for next to nothing.
as for richest collector, theres a good chance there are a few not-so-popular richies out there who dont like making themselves known; but as for the reast, i'm certainly the most pompous of the bunch.

Da Cebuano

Da Cebuano

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2005

Virginia born in Cebu

Jelly Toast[jT]

W/

Well, it certainly is for a fact that the richest person in GW would have too much time in their hands ^^ I mean to have like 3+ accounts all filled w/ riches, and have the time to dedicate playtime to each account, still I have mad respect for them for being able to situate themselves that comfortably in the economy, something that I try to do even now, although I've given up the whole trade till I drop thing in favor for farming till I get that 1 perfect drop to set me for life. Mainly cause I refuse to give up on my luck ^^; as terrible as it is, just can't find it in me to give in.

Man, must be great to be friends w/ these guys ^^; to be able to get the new armors so quickly w/o having to worry about going broke going all out, I wish I could do that -_-

Anway, I met a guy while doing some of my "usual" money making runs and this guy was spamming for the same thing i am, which only few people know about. I asked him "so you know about it too huh?!" and he said he's know about it for a while, infact he did one better than me and found it earlier and actually dedicated quite a bit of time to this. It funded 2 fow armors w/ 3rd one on the way, he also has 250 of each dye color(including black) a mill in storage and 160 ecto and was about to cash in all his gold to convert to ecto, then go to mill again. Honestly I can do the same but I really can't stand the thought of doing that much work and monotony, sure farming is essentially the same thing, but atleast there is a challenge and less spamming in cities staying idle(those days are over me). We talked alot and he even thought into going to ebay, w/ his riches, it would basically pay for his house mortgage, I said it would be GG but if anet found out, GG indeed.

Anyway, mets lots of rich people, alot of them actually don't bother to get known, as I see alot of players at high end out of nowhere and bid massive amounts, crazy, but inspires me to kinda get w/ it and get as rich as these guys.

The Herbalizer

The Herbalizer

<3 Ecto

Join Date: Jul 2005

Quote:
Anyway, mets lots of rich people, alot of them actually don't bother to get known, as I see alot of players at high end out of nowhere and bid massive amounts, crazy
Town dwellers suddenly bidding stacks of ecto i usually consider fake bidders. if i ever decided on wanting to pay the actual value of an item i would wana see they had the ecto before bidding as it must suck to pay a few hundred ecto more due to fake bidders.

o and i met a sweatshop master and his minions on a run earlier at sanctum int 1. I asked if i could join their operation and they all went, "^^". whenever i asked them stuff they would all go, "^^". so i dont think they understood me. all of them guildless aswell to conceal their business but they all had names such as [name i cannot remember] [then a single letter]. and for all those who will start zomging at me, i would never have joined if they offered me the chance.

X of Thulcandra

X of Thulcandra

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

Sector 001

N/A

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by The Herbalizer
and for all those who will start zomging at me, i would never have joined if they offered me the chance.
Yeah right, you would have been all over it since your dream is a Tyria-wide troll annihilation...

s t o m p y

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

FoW

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I know one rich guy who quit guildwars to play WoW.. He went to Ascolone City Districr 1 and gave EVERYYTHING away... over 1000k in gold to random people....15% always weapons 15^50 and ectos rubies shards and saphires... 478 dyes and even his FoW armor..... (Made no sense) but yay then he gave me his account.. i was pissed so i sold the account to a freind for 40$

but he now plays WoW like crazy.... I personally think he was a moron and he still roams these forums Lol just seeing what people post and what i post

Prince Aoki

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2005

Vancouver

The Land Of Rising Sun

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mako
That is rich.....

not the pic, but the fact that you people think its for real.

Even if the pic wasnt photoshopped by a pro and it is indeed someones storage account I HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY x a billion doubt that this person actually earned all FIVE THOUSAND globs of ectoplasm. Ive seen and heard of many people item dupping and theres plenty of forums out there that have the sole purpous of promoting this type of activity. (but you have to pay for it naturally)

Then theres always the ebay or IGE'd gold/items... it just takes a person who cares enough about a game to pump their real money into having items on it.

Seriously though. 5,000 ectos.

Not earned. Im sorry, but impossible. Unless this person is a robot and has dedicated 24/7 of their life since the game came out of farming/running/ and straight up playing the game all the time without rest then maybe, maybe.

Actually scratch the photoshoped by a pro line, anyone could do that.
i agree...

Prince Aoki

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2005

Vancouver

The Land Of Rising Sun

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ajantis
Found this piccie somewhere:

Not my vault.. don't come begging

I won't say where I got it, neither to whom it belongs (privacy thingie)
Im above average. 300k and slowly going up.. I make 100k a week.. Conbined with all 4 characters and all the armors I have deleted.. theyre worth 2 million gold..

Back then when farming UW was easy (yes the old farming), I get 10 ectos a day(3 to 4 hrs).. Sometimes I cant make 10.. At the end of the day, I was really exhausted.. It took me 2 weeks and a half to get my fissure, which was pretty fast.. 12 days x 10 ectos = 120 ectos

Lets do some math here. 5000 ectos divide that by 10 ectos = It would take 500 days to farm 5000 ectos.. 500 days X 10 ectos = 5000 ectos.. GW is not even a year old

POSSIBILITIES = Maybe he abused the ectos when they used to be cheaper (He somehow knew prices of ectos were sky rocketing).. They could be some other items with the same skin (eg Mursaat Tokens?).. He used bots to farm UW all day?

THE ANSWER = IMPOSSIBLE

Rustjive

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2006

There are some good arguments in this thread, and these arguments can teach us a lot about real life.

Look at Bill Gates. The man is sitting at about $64 billion dollars of personal wealth. But it's OBVIOUSLY Photoshop-ed. If you work at McDonald's, you'll make 7 dollars an hour, and you work 8 hours a day. $64 billion divide that by $56 dollars = 1,142,857,142 days.

THE ANSWER = IMPOSSIBLE

Isildur The Paladin

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Dec 2005

Kansas

Apocalyptic Guardians

W/

friend with 3000+ecto...no ss

Lets Get to Healing

Banned

Join Date: Dec 2005

You want see?

True Gods of War [True]

Mo/W

Im am the richest person. Not in material items tho but in love!!!!

Riceboi

Riceboi

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

Anet employees are the richest people in Guild Wars because they can just code their storage to hold infinite amounts of gold, ecto, shards, perfect crystalline swords, etc...

The Herbalizer

The Herbalizer

<3 Ecto

Join Date: Jul 2005

i love the way people say owning 5000 ectos is impossible. a well known player said how he has a 15>50 crystalline sword, 14>50 and 14 -5 and has many many other high end items. If someone else can drop 1200 ectos on one weapon i am sure they have many more for future purchases. In fact i am sure there are a number of people who can have 5000 ectos. just because you cant make 5000 ectos using your cookie cutter farming builds does not mean others cannot. they are that rich because they use their head and look for opportunities to make large amounts of gold. i know for a fact owning 5000 ectos is more than possible.

Str0b0

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2006

North Carolina

N/Me

what usually happens is after a player reaches the limit of their storage they will convert that cash to a stackable item like ecto. this process repeats until they have 5000 ecto and a buttload of gold. It's a matter of being able to hold all their wealth on one accounts allotted storage space.

Ajantis

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2005

W/

If you'd read the whole topic, you'd find out that some actually mentioned the name. If you then go find out what that person does around here, and what his guildies say about it, I don't see why it would not be possible


I'll give you a hint: you don't get that many ectos by griffon farming

Ludi Cigan

Ludi Cigan

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2006

Croatia, Zagreb

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W/

I hate rich ppl, so Spil and Akhilleus keep the distance

Most I ever had was 72 ectos and 400k...
Maybe if I would sell my items now, storage will be full

Mustache Mayhem

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

BEN

R/N

definitely more impressed with items.. one of the rarest items I've seen was a pic nef posted while back.. it was a gold earth staff with the orr skin and it was maxed- that's the only one I've seen maxed out.. I've got one that's white since that screen was posted.. the crystalline would be awesome rare if it was'nt given away in pre-searing as a longsword.. they took the value out of alot of rare skins with the greens too- serpents and dwarven axes are still one of a kind though.. then you have the offname items like swamp clubs with no rare skin on em- nothing special.. the really rare stuff has to be the discontinued stuff that is limited in number (hod items and that blank staff wrapping- some of the collectors items) money really does'nt mean anything until you have the rares.. you can easily spend a majority of your gold/ectos on one rare- you can't really consider alot of things rare imo because they are dropped all the time (shadow/storm/eternal items- fellblades) demand is there for the looks

Trylo

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2006

[Here] | CKOD

E/R

i gots myself an HoD swordy, make me rich?

Da Cebuano

Da Cebuano

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2005

Virginia born in Cebu

Jelly Toast[jT]

W/

I'm poor -_- someone give me money, I have mouths to feed, they only eat ectos and shards -_- someone help out and be nice to me please.

Akhilleus

Akhilleus

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2005

If it aint expensive, it aint worth buyin'.

Leading/Co-leading Bretheren Of Chaos [Dark]

W/Mo

atm i have about 2,400 ecto; and i could easily have 5,000 if i didnt think that was a highly excessive number.

s t o m p y

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

FoW

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Akhilleus
i could easily have 5,000 if i didnt think that was a highly excessive number.
Lol i bet you could

Konrow

Konrow

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2005

NY, New York

Warlords of Earth [WAR]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Akhilleus
atm i have about 2,400 ecto; and i could easily have 5,000 if i didnt think that was a highly excessive number.
lol so how much bots you got working for you?

{IceFire}

{IceFire}

Forge Runner

Join Date: Oct 2005

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Akhilleus
atm i have about 2,400 ecto; and i could easily have 5,000 if i didnt think that was a highly excessive number.
-_- nice job though Akh; good to see someone who gets their money legit.

PsychoX

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2006

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Da Cebuano
We talked alot and he even thought into going to ebay, w/ his riches, it would basically pay for his house mortgage
lmao x 2 .

i've heard it all now

Poison Ivy

Poison Ivy

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

Toronto

Hopping

Mo/A

I have...4 sets of 15k armor...

850k 24 Shards, 1 Ruby, 1 Sapphire

Just starting to get in the farming thing.

selber

selber

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2005

www.peace-and-harmony.de

Quote:
Originally Posted by Konrow
lol so how much bots you got working for you?
You don't need this. You just need to buy low - sell high. That is the easiest and most stable way besides having luck with drops or strange occurrences (like the reset). Some people do this nearly all day. Some would call it: Farming nubs. =)

At the end Gold is not needed in such amounts in Guildwars anyways. Most want to achieve is FoW-Armor and after this is nothing much left. The guy buying an item for 2 stacks will hardly customize it for his warrior. So why bother?

SilentAssassin

SilentAssassin

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2005

Belgium

Remnants of Ascalon, KT alliance

R/N

I am happy with my 1240k + 20 ectos

+4 * 15k sets