Farming> than having a life?

Hey all, this is my first post, I'm a brand new member so bear with me. I've noticed on the wiki dozens of people claiming that a player can easily get 100k in a week, or even 100 ecto. Now i'm here to ask how? When I asked on the wiki forums they simply said farm. What do you farm? Where? How long do you spend farming?

I only spend a couple hours a night on GW so I am not wiling to spend 40 hrs a week farming stuff. Sure the money is nice but I like to enjoy the game as well. So please fellow player enlighten me. In what ways do you farm to make easy money in GW. I'm not looking for 100 ecto in a week (although that would be amazing) . But 100k a week doesn't seem too far stretched. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.

Uriel Wolfblood.

let me introduce you to the farming forum

the only time i really farm is during holiday events when special items drop. if you spend an hour or 2 farming the right drops at the right time, you can make 50k pretty easily by selling the event drops and any gold items as unidentified. do it a couple times a week and there's your 100k.

other than that, i do elite areas and dungeons with my guild and occasionally come across a rare item or pick up a few ectos.

Farming is actually one of the slowest ways in the game to make money nowadays. Clever players can make much more money power trading or playing PvP or running areas.

That said... if you are new to the game... don't worry about money yet. I've been playing for 4 years, and I pretty much never have to worry about money. Just don't spend money on things you don't need right away. Proper budgeting/patience will get you the most bang for your buck in the long term.

It will be much more rewarding and worthwhile to keep your priorities straight - dealing with life issues before gameplay - than to go headlong into a massive farming effort for whatever you might be thirsting for.

Besides, if you rush to buy something and end up not liking it, that's wasted time. If you build up your cash reserve over time before you get what you're going for, you'll leave time to think and maybe second guess what you're aiming for so that when you finally do buy something, you really will be satisfied with your purchase.

If you haven't noticed, you can spend about 150k across all of your characters and you'll have the same effect someone with 150 million had.

Same armor, same weapon mods, same skills. etc.

Except your earth staff doesn't have a glowing heart in the middle, it's the same.

A beginner can make plenty of money just playing the game and recycling every dropped item, then salvage and or sell everything.

Try clearing low level areas solo to maximise drops also dont buy every new shiny item you see.
Use collectors or use what you find.

As you gain the requisite farming skills and really know how your build works try farming other areas for better drops.
When you have completed the game repeat in hard mode.

power trading is the way to get large amounts of game cash but its pointless unless you really know the current in game value of items.
You could farm away till you get 2 or 3 hundred k then blow it all on a couple of items you mistakenly believe will make you thousands.

What you end up with is junk worth 30 k, point is power trading is for experts.
So to a certain extent is high level farming.

i highly suggest actually playing the game first. i keep hearing gw was not meant to be a farming game, yet i keep seeing players who jump straight into farming without even experiencing many of the things that make gw great.

(sorry if i misinterpret "new guru member" as "new gw player")

Well, naturally, you can't "play" the game [i]and[/] farm in only a couple of hours a night. Serious farmers spend almost all of their time farming - why, we don't know. To amass great wads of imaginary wealth I suppose.
Personally, I never farmed very much. I made most of my (play) money while vanquishing (Legendary) and selling the good stuff on Guru auctions. I have occasionally done things like 600/smite CoF or VSF runs, but mostly just for a specific goal - like a VS.
Other than that I still occasionally farm for the Traveler's latest item.

If you only have a couple of hours and enjoy playing the game, I would suggest that you just keep playing and not worry about farming. AFter all, what would you do with all the "money" you would get by farming? Buy expensive, but not better, stuff is about all.

Some people enjoy farming, not only for the profit but for the actual process itself.

Also, I'm not sure why so many people look down on those who enjoy amassing in game wealth, even if it is only to horde. The game is not limited to one mode of play, and no one is above anyone else just because they don't see the point in certain aspects.

And really, when you say play the game properly, what do you mean exactly?

You might think the repetition of farming is dull, but then many consider playing through the game multiple times with different characters, or vanquishing etc.. to be just as boring.

Repetition is part of this game whether you farm or not. PvP, Pve, Famring, Vanquishing, etc.. it all repeats itself and is all a waste of time really. The time spent playing the game could be used to improve actual beneficial real world aspects of your life instead.

So, yeh, anyone investing a huge amount of time in this game, regardless of what they're doing, is just as much a waster as the next guy.

That's true - I have a guild-mate, who I play(ed) with often, who enjoys farming and trying out solo builds. He has amassed great amounts of gold. But I have to admit I still don't see the point in hording great amounts of imaginary wealth - but I will defend to the death, your right to horde it.

I've looked back through all the posts in this thread, and I can't find where anyone said anything about "playing properly". I've certainly never said it.

I would say focus on missions, quests, and vanquishing. those will get you some decent loot. After a while, you can work on a few solo farm builds for holiday items, and maybe golds/ectos/rares. Then just play the game, and when holidays come up, dust off the farmers to restock your larder. That's pretty much how I have been playing lately. Focusing on farming got pretty boring for me.

There is a simple truth, there are those who can farm, and those who can't.
It takes a certain personality, and a focused will.
Now, nothing can help you if you don't have the right profession/build mix. I don't care how patient you are, you'll never be able to solo farm the UW with a paragon (if you think you can please post here immediately!)
However if you vanquish areas in HM you will reap riches easily. Likewise Dungeons have some rare drops, some that are worth 25-30 ectos easily.
I recommend finding yourself a PvE dedicated guild and always be ready to join in. Ask them what they need for a profession too. You might just love your warrior, but if your guild has 15 people and 9 of them are warriors, you might want to go caster.
Like someone else said, clear every campaign you have and you'll find yourself with a good starting pot of gold. Usually it's enough to buy yourself an elite armor so you can start decorating your Hall.

The easiest farming lately is feather-farming. You can do it in normal mode and stacks of feathers sell for 10k each. But this still requires certain builds (see the Campfire section Farming sub forum), access to the areas (North Kryta, Shing Jea Island, etc.) and time to spend doing it.

I have a guild mate who feather farms. He has stocked a guild hall with NPCs (his sister is GL at the moment) and equipped several new characters over the last few months. He has steady customers for whom he farms. But he has grown to dislike the farming, as the initial excitement of the income has dissipated and boredom has set in.

Question why are feathers worth so much?

cause of essence of celerity. need for uwsc and fowsc

Unlike some MMOs GuildWars doesn't have someof the great gold sinks which plague other games. Weapons and armor don't degrade. Travel between locations is free. There is no automatic guild tax.

The need to amass lots of gold is not driven by play mechanics, but by other factors

If I wanted I could spend near 1,000k on one set of armor, but I could also by a different set with exactly the same stats for 5k , and it would give no differences other than cosmetic

That said, through normal play I can make a couple of k a night, and that's without specific farming, or vanquishes, but just from playing missions, and completing quests.
I occasionally farm, if I'm bored and just want something to do, or if I have a specific expensive goal in mind (like my recent saving spree for FoW armor). Some find it fun to keep doing. Some, like me, find it a fun occasional thing. Some don't farm at all, and get by fine in game just doing missions and quests and the like

Really though there is little reason for amassing large hourds of gold other than bragging rights, be it in showing off your expensive armor/weapons/minipets, or just saying "Look, I have hourds of gold"

1: Do just about every quest in a campaign. I did this for my warrior in NF. I made 30k on doing everything and not buying an expensive stuff
2: Make a PvP ranger and buy multiple accounts and do the Elite Zaishen everyday, redeem your Balthazar faction for zaishen keys. You can sell these for +- 4,200g each.
3: Learn the ways of UwSc/FoWSc. You have a good chance of getting rare materials and a chance of 100k+xe weapons. Make sure your groups are not pick ups or you will fail more than you succeed, losing money
4: As long as there are UwSc and FoWSc people will need consets. Feathers are needed here, find a good way to farm them and sell em' for 10k a stack
5: Learn dungeons. People will always need dungeon runs for weps and desire to get a high end drop. A solo runner running frostmaws will easily net up 100k+ with a full party
6: Start a service here in guru. Get the publics attention and start making profit
7: Start farming gifts of the traveler (from Nicholas). You can sell these from 4-4.5k and can get up to 5 gifts per week

^Best advice from someone who's in the meta

There are some armors that need a lot of them. Less enemies are programmed to drop them (in comparison to tanned hide squares and wood planks, just to name a few) and the items in which you can salvage them from tend to give very few of them at a time.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Feather