Most Efficient way to earn money in gw

Bright Star Shine

Bright Star Shine

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Nov 2009

Belgium

Club of a Thousand Pandas [LOD???]

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Originally Posted by Alex/Stuiver View Post
Usual PUG runs don't take 40 min, also counting the amounts of failures you can have. I remembers a usual PUG run takes about 1hour and 20 minutes and that is without doing Mallyx, counting mallyx with that time takes you around 2 hours to get at least about 3 gemsets which are worth 37k, some greens and some goldies.

I doubt 75k per run is possible.
You're missing the fact that not everyone does retard DwG way..

HM SC in 40minutes (which is a very realistic average): Assuming you do 4 runs starting in every area once. So that yields 20 gemsets from chests only. Assuming you don't get gem drops/jew them after runs too, to make a worst case scenario. You get 5,4k gold from quest rewards. 20 gemsets @ 13k/ea = 260k + (5,4x4) = 281,6k in 4 runs, that's 70,4k/run. So, add additional gemdrops and general drops to that, you easily get 75k/run.

Basic math says hi..

ErrantVenture

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2010

Social Darwinism [SaD]

A/W

Quote:
Originally Posted by Bright Star Shine View Post
You're missing the fact that not everyone does retard DwG way..

HM SC in 40minutes (which is a very realistic average): Assuming you do 4 runs starting in every area once. So that yields 20 gemsets from chests only. Assuming you don't get gem drops/jew them after runs too, to make a worst case scenario. You get 5,4k gold from quest rewards. 20 gemsets @ 13k/ea = 260k + (5,4x4) = 281,6k in 4 runs, that's 70,4k/run. So, add additional gemdrops and general drops to that, you easily get 75k/run.

Basic math says hi..
On top of that, filling up an inventory with purple/golds usually nets another 4-5k/run.

Lady S Shiva

Lady S Shiva

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2005

CA

LOD???

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mokeiro View Post
powertrading.

Explanation:

Find a casual player who don't know their r8 divine favor Celestial compass cost a lot and buy for 5k

Find a casual player who don't know your r9 sword is quite common and sell it for 50k

PROFIT!!!
sell ur scamming crap somewhere else, u are the disgrace of all powertraders.

on OP, 750zkey a month sounds pretty good, but not every1 can or want to pvp, then again every1 has their own way of making money, some do powertrading, some do speed clear,some farm ecto, feather,etc, so it's more about which way suits you better.

aelesia

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2010

I used to farm Glints Challenge repeatedly with 2 accounts. It was pretty easy, efficient and would net me about 22k every 22 minutes, averaging out to 60k/hour.

There definitely are faster farming methods, however there are several other factors to take into account too:

- No time required to form groups
- Only 22 minutes per run, so it's not that exhausting and you can quit anytime
- Chance of failing is very very low, and even if you do, it's not as bad as failing DoA as it's only 22 minutes
- 75% of it can be done while AFKing

Aba

Aba

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2006

Vancouver,Canada

Quote:
powertrading.
Explanation:
Find a casual player who don't know their r8 divine favor Celestial compass cost a lot and buy for 5k
Find a casual player who don't know your r9 sword is quite common and sell it for 50k
These are the type of players I hope get there acounts hacked and left in rubble. This was never so widley used until now a days....
I despise selling stuff now for this very reason....
No one being resonable...everyone trying to buy stuff at 1/8th the price.

Wolf2581

Wolf2581

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

Joliet, IL, USA

Hardcore Militants United [HMU]

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I generated more gold than I need by farming greens, particularly totem axes, and selling them on Guru's auction site. The methods require no heroes, henchmen, or other humans, and only a modest understanding of supply and demand. There is no instant gratification since a lot of selling is involved, but it does pay off if one is sufficiently motivated.

Coast

Coast

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jul 2006

Belgium

Whats Going On [sup]

Mo/

theres something new: cheat and smurf in casual division with ur friends in guru cup

shady tradesman

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2010

E/

Most efficient way to get money: Winning an art contest. Bar none.

Let's say I spent 30 hours on my art contest entry, and I sell my MKG for 100 armbraces (which is low).

That's about 3.3 armbraces an hour, which is about 73 ecto an hour. That's not bad at all, I don't think. Plus you're not grinding in front of a computer screen, you're doing something creative. And on top of all that, if you place high enough, you get real life prizes too.

Pleikki

Pleikki

WTB q8 15^50 Weapons!

Join Date: Nov 2006

???oo ???ugs ???lan [?????????]

Quote:
Originally Posted by shady tradesman View Post
Most efficient way to get money: Winning an art contest. Bar none.

Let's say I spent 30 hours on my art contest entry, and I sell my MKG for 100 armbraces (which is low).

That's about 3.3 armbraces an hour, which is about 73 ecto an hour. That's not bad at all, I don't think. Plus you're not grinding in front of a computer screen, you're doing something creative. And on top of all that, if you place high enough, you get real life prizes too.
Yeah but count that u can do it only once a year so within one years time its
0.25ecto/hour

enter_the_zone

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Nov 2007

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Pleikki View Post
Yeah but count that u can do it only once a year so within one years time its
0.25ecto/hour
Which is still more than I average farming Underworld....that place hates me, it really does

Verene

Verene

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jan 2009

[SOTA]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by shady tradesman View Post
Most efficient way to get money: Winning an art contest. Bar none.

Let's say I spent 30 hours on my art contest entry, and I sell my MKG for 100 armbraces (which is low).

That's about 3.3 armbraces an hour, which is about 73 ecto an hour. That's not bad at all, I don't think. Plus you're not grinding in front of a computer screen, you're doing something creative. And on top of all that, if you place high enough, you get real life prizes too.
Holy crap. Working it out like that, and how much I got for my tonic (and I sold it low, because I hate trying to sell things), I made something like 900e an hour with my entry.

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Originally Posted by Pleikki View Post
Yeah but count that u can do it only once a year so within one years time its
0.25ecto/hour
There's two official contests per year, not including the other contests and workshops we hold here on GWG. There's a rather nice art community on here ^^

Also, sure, it's about a quarter ecto an hour over a year...however, no one farms 24 hours a day every day. If you were to spend two hours a day farming, with shady's estimate there that'd be about 3e/hour, or 6e/day. And his estimate with how much to sell the mini/tonic are way low - you could double that number pretty easily. Enter both contests and you're looking at a potential 12-24e/day, if you place and decide to sell your in-game prizes.

That's pretty damn good as far as efficiency goes.

Widowmaker

Widowmaker

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2008

N/

Given the total lack of control over actually winning, gambling on winning an art contest really isn't all that efficient.

Mireles

Mireles

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2009

W/Me

Anything that a million people aren't already doing... get creative... I've ran a mod store that earned me r11 zrank over 2 years...

Prof Black

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2008

Getting Ghostly's from the HoH chest. 2000 Ecto each time .

EPO Bot

EPO Bot

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2006

Mo/N

You can do a Z vanquish, wait until everyone leaves and then clean the floor of drops. I got a minor soul reaping out of it last week.

MithranArkanere

MithranArkanere

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Nov 2006

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Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]

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The Most efficient way is picking all items that drop for you, and playing normally, without wasting time trading or farming.

Yes, you'll get more gold while farming or trading, but you won't get 50/50 and GWAMM doing that.

Once you've did all things you can do on your own without farming or trading, you can then go for the titles that require more cash, and waste time with trades and farming.

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Originally Posted by EPO Bot View Post
You can do a Z vanquish, wait until everyone leaves and then clean the floor of drops. I got a minor soul reaping out of it last week.
When doing that in Vabbi, I got 3 rubies and one sapphire once, from trophies people left on the ground.
In no way I'm leaving a geode unsalvaged.

Gabs88

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2011

Quote:
Originally Posted by MithranArkanere View Post
The Most efficient way is picking all items that drop for you, and playing normally, without wasting time trading or farming.

Yes, you'll get more gold while farming or trading, but you won't get 50/50 and GWAMM doing that.

Once you've did all things you can do on your own without farming or trading, you can then go for the titles that require more cash, and waste time with trades and farming.



When doing that in Vabbi, I got 3 rubies and one sapphire once, from trophies people left on the ground.
In no way I'm leaving a geode unsalvaged.
Is it now? Because I concider picking up white and non valueable crafting materials a complete and utter waste of my time. Sure of course you pick up and salvage geodes \ sapphire essences and other stuff like that. And sooner or later you will be needing more money then this technique provides if you're going for 50\50 and you have to resort to speedclear \ farm or whatever else.

So I'd say this if anything is something you should stop doing, stop wasting time on every single pit stop \ merchant run or cluttering your inventory with tons of bullshit worth 50-75g per slot. Anything worth less then 200 you simply throw away and play the game until you find something worth 200+.

And if you want to make real money, just playing the game, that's not at all impossible. Look in services section for people seeking services, find someone needing the same missions you do including masters in HM. And do them for him while he's AFK and youre playing for 60k per hour.

In short, I'd say you're tip here is nothing but a highway to never getting anything close to rich.

Verene

Verene

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jan 2009

[SOTA]

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And how much time are you going to waste, not to mention gold, by leaving behind every drop that's less than 75g waiting for the ones that are worth 200g+? A lot. It builds up.

Playing normally will not likely get you rich, but no one in this game needs to be rich. Playing normally (and picking up everything and selling or salvaging it) had gotten me enough money to purchase several sets of elite armor, including Vabbian and Elite Kurzick (before the HoM update, but still). Playing normally, picking up everything and selling/salvaging it, got my guild leader enough money to purchase several sets of elite armor, including Vabbian before the HoM update, and Elite Kurzick afterwards, as well as enough to do Skill Hunter.

Those are, you know, not things that are exactly cheap.

Not to mention that "non-valuable" common salvage materials are still worth collecting. Yeah, a stack of cloth or leather might be cheap, but it's also easily collected, and it's a more efficient use of time and money to keep the ones that drop for you while playing than to sell it and later have to purchase it because you want an armor set that requires it.