too many gold items!!

Geek 2.0

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Aug 2008

Silver Charr Knights

A/R

I've got a lot of gold items, and I dont know what to do with them!! They take up inventory space, and they are the kinds of things nobody wants to buy. How can i get the best value out of them?

Martin Firestorm

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2005

Louisiana

E/Me

Merch or salvage them.

Arkantos

Arkantos

The Greatest

Join Date: Feb 2006

W/

If you're positive no one will buy them:

1) Salvage for good mods that you can use/sell
2) Give to heroes
3) Merchant

Geek 2.0

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Aug 2008

Silver Charr Knights

A/R

from my past experience, gold items aren't as good as they are hyped up to be mostly b/c superior runes are cheap

Jade

Jade

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

Canada...... Eh!

You could go to one of the noobie towns: Shing Jea, Ascalon, Kamadan, etc and just give them to people level 10 and under. Then you get all warm and fuzzy on the inside. And to top it all off you'll be able to fill up your ignored lists with people begging you for more! Yay!

Sadly though, it's that or merch em, or heroes.

DarkGanni

DarkGanni

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2006

Malta

[CuTe]

E/

This is nothing new, all my 14 characters are mostly mules (and yes they were pve characters at some point).

As of lately I try to not keep everything at heart but just merchant or salvage if any good mods.

What Jade said is a very good idea

GoodApollo1234

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2006

Ohio

R/

I'll gladly take'em off your hands :P

Or you could just go to Ascalon city or something and sell them for slightly more than what the merchant will pay. That's what I used to do with some of my drops from high-end areas.

KoKoS

KoKoS

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2007

aBove Empress Amarox xP

KDT

Mo/E

i have the same prob as you...
All my heroes have a nooby gold weapon band my storage is still full D=

you can make a guild, make all kinds of newbies join and give them weapons to make 'em like teh guild and stay =P haha

germanturkey

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

[PoW]

E/

i cleared out a bit of storage today by giving stuff away or selling them at merch price.

Commander Ryker

Site Contributor

Join Date: Jun 2005

R/

If you are not sure of their value, look in the price check forum here on guru.

fenix

fenix

Major-General Awesome

Join Date: Aug 2005

Aussie Trolling Crew HQ - Event Organiser and IRC Tiger

Ex Talionis [Law], Trinity of the Ascended [ToA] ????????????????&#

W/

I did this exact thing last night. I merched about 20 golds that were half decent, but were either not worth my time selling, or would take too long to find a buyer.

-Makai-

-Makai-

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2007

WA

DH

Rt/

Out of curiosity, do people still buy unidentified golds for the Wisdom title?

Fury Incarnate

Fury Incarnate

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2006

Connecticut, USA

R/

Yes, the going rate is 4-5k for 7 unid-ed golds, although you can get much more for certain skins and such (Ie, selling unid-ed Chaos Axes, Eternal Bows, yada yada yada. Generally people only want req 9's, or req 10's for VERY rare skins).

Hyper.nl

Hyper.nl

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2006

Defending Fort Aspenwood

E/

Sell them unidentified if you want some $$ for them.
Or ID them, get good mods, trash (merch) the rest.

dilan155

dilan155

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2007

living room

N/

you should give them away to new people. set a level cap and give away. The satisfaction youll get from their thanks will be worth more than money. unless your dead poor then merch, except for iron containing stuff salvage those.

Rothan Celt

Rothan Celt

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2008

Aura

Mo/R

Quote:
Originally Posted by dilan155
you should give them away to new people. set a level cap and give away. The satisfaction youll get from their thanks will be worth more than money. unless your dead poor then merch, except for iron containing stuff salvage those.
Give them half decent things at least o_O

Evil_Necro

Evil_Necro

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

川崎区、日本

currently guildless..

Rt/

POST it on "GIVEAWAY" section there.

I know some people will take almost anything as long as it's free.

Darcy

Darcy

Never Too Old

Join Date: Jul 2006

Rhode Island where there are no GW contests

Order of First

W/R

From my own experience, I will say that giving them away in low-level areas is easier than running a giveaway thread in Ventari.

People post to say they want then never show up to claim. At least the newbies take the stuff right away and give you a free inventory space in return.

@OP - you need to learn to be very strict with yourself about what you keep. You can end up paying RL cash to add mules (like a lot of us have done). Don't keep something because the mod looks good. Ask yourself if you want to spend your time standing around trying to sell it.

Omega Precept

Omega Precept

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2007

San Francisco, CA

Graduates of Berkeley

E/

Use to have the same prob early in my career, here is a guide I made for exactly that reason. Hope it helps a bit

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10316313

Quaker

Quaker

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Aug 2005

Canada

Brothers Disgruntled

Quote:
Originally Posted by Geek 2.0
I've got a lot of gold items, and I dont know what to do with them!! They take up inventory space, and they are the kinds of things nobody wants to buy. How can i get the best value out of them?
If they truly are things that nobody wants to buy - like less than max items and/or common skins - your best bet is to salvage any valuable mods off them (if any) and simply merch them.
Also, if they are less-than-max or have crap mods, don't give them to Heroes that you want to actually use. You want the Heroes you use to be well equipped . However, unused heroes make good storage spots for weapons.

If some of the items are things you don't need, but things you just want to keep (like my dagger collection), consider using a character (slot) as a mule.

sigshane

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2007

Augusta, GA

R/

Anything with the word 'give' or 'donate' sounds good to me.

That's what I do with all the weps, inscriptions, and mods I get.

Because when I was starting, I remember someone doing it too.