Preparing for Factions

For those going to buy and merge accounts only please... what are you doing to set up yourself for Factions? For example...

Sold all ectos and shards to merchant for gold, continue to do so after every run that produces them. Stockpiled 250 vials of ink for armors, 65 glass vials just in case.

I know people are starting to think ahead. Share the love! How are you preparing?

Yeah I know a bunch of people who have serious dough saved up, too bad they didnt implement a different sort of base currency to make everyone start from scratch...because the rich are going to just splurge on thier new characters.

So are the middle class! That being said, I'm just planning for the materials to be on hand before potential price spikes as well as the gold to be comfy and buy skills as needed.

On my "warehouse" chars I have about:

crafting mats:
2k in iron (i plan on making a warr in factions ^^)
2k in cloth (for my monk)
250 vellum just about now
150ish deld steel now
100 or so steel

dyes and others:

6 or so black dyes, sup monk runes, a couple of sup vigs and a lot of skillpoints to unlock stuff for pvp side

so yeah I'm ready for factions ^^

Same for me, but in poor class . So farming for money and materials (and so little time to play). But at least I have almost all max pack of common materials for the armor...... and try to get my first Ecto when farming to sell it bc I dont need it and for gold.

Edit: With Nightmare voice in Soul Caliber series: "More... need more gold"

Stockpiles of standard salvaged materials. Cloth/Tanned Hides/Dust/etc.
2 black dyes , 18 silver dyes, and about 60 red/purple/blue/green/yellow/orange dyes

i fiddle with builds in gwfreaks :l

also bought 40 vials of ink, might buy more when i get my comp back

Gold, lots of gold.

I sold my REQ8 +15% Always -10AR Eternal Bow, REQ8 15%>50 Chaos Axe...
so yes, I'm ready for factions. I have gold spread generously between two accounts

saving gold, ectos a bit...

not more actually, PvP alot

Sold everything that I didn't need, including my favourite 14^50 req. 8 Storm Bow. Other than that, just a few crafting materials here and there, maybe a stack or so of some common materials. I don't plan on picking up many new armour sets for my current characters. Maybe I'll just refuse to touch the money in storage and start from scratch on my ritualist...

...and I'm looking into buying a 7900GT. Factions is going to be murder on my current card.

do they have big new specs or are you marginal at this time and want a nice big jump?

I am just starting to stockpile things now,

Well, It's kind of funny to see this post. Seeing that after the first Pre event I saw a few things that made me want to start preping for the factions release. I had already ran my 3 main charcters thru everything under the sun along with capping out my primary skills. After that I had caught the tail end of the mass parchment selling before everyone and their brother started selling it. During the second event I hopped straight over to the Armorer and Material traders to see what was going to be hot. I too have noticed the ink being needed for Armor and made 100 vials of ink. During that on the first day I saw that back in the original GW that Amber chunks and Jade Shards were being sold by the vendor so I bought them up ( total of 47 ) Sold them for 230k. (only know of 3 others that were buying them at the time and one was a chinese guy , go figure ) So after that an Ettin Rune farming for my needs I have a grand total of 1,067,891 gp ready for Factions not to mention all of the crafting materials, which is to long of a list to type out. So, That is what I have done to prepare for Factions.

I'm not saving for anything, really. If I need something, I'll buy it then and there and not waste materials. Or I'll farm whatever I need.

What, the 7900GT or Factions? Factions would run nicely for anyone using a 6600GT...just like GW:P, now. I bet even someone with one of those awful integrated graphics solutions could get Factions to work. Unfortunately, I don't fit into that first category of "anyone." The 7x00 series of cards is nice, I definitely want to take a step up.

The 6600GT I have is a piece of junk. Random BSODs (nv4_disp.dll), random lockups (driver issue, again, caused by) overheating with the stock HSF, new HSF doesn't fit exactly (I had to take a knife to the plastic on the NV Silencer), underpowered ("laggy" at my resolution, entire map turns glowy-white).

Yeaaahhhh.

Er. Did I mention farming? Lots of casual farming.

working on it

Since I don't know exactly what is required for anything, i'm not doing anything to prepare. Learned my lesson in other when when I start preparing early, it usually ends up time wasted.

I have a small amount of money saved up... about 20k... little materials but quite a few dye.

I got rid of all my gold. It wasn't much [150k] but still...

I want to play Factions fresh, and struggle to earn my new armor like I did in Guild War's release. Buying the best stuff immediately just seems like a way of robbing myself of the fun. But thats just my opinion.