Yet another Thread about accumulating wealth

I saw a price check on a shield for 7.5 mil and it astounded me. I have been playing the game for just over two months now and have 3 fully equipped (armed and armored) chars, about 400k in the bank, and a handfull of extra green/gold gear in storage. I play about 30-35 hrs a week including missions, quests, farming and spending time helping low-levels chars with quests.

My question is how does one accumulate so much wealth to be able to drop 7 mil on a piece of gear?

Do you farm incessantly? Buy it on ebay? It astounds me. Altogether I have probably earned just shy of a single mil but have spent most of that outfitting my chars. My GW-holic guild leader with 8 chars (and who spends alot of his personal bank-roll buying gear for guildees) just liquidated his ectos-shards-gems-black dye collection and only came out with 1.7 mil.

I am amazed at comments I see where some rich players only play PvP now. How did they get soo rich?

Thank-you for your atttempts to bring clarity to me. I am Stumped.

Id like to know how you manage to get to 400k ! lol

Ive been playing since the game came out, I've barly got 50k together on all characters!

you spend it on things you dont need.

i have basic drok a crap non max weapon and a lot more by not spending it

I just don't understand how anything is worth that much. Top level items aren't that difficult to obtain, espically since the SF Greens were introduced.

Top level items ARE difficult to obtain. Greens are no substitute, as they cannot be modded, and the high end shields are very rare. A good drop from HoH chest can net you over 5 million, so thats one way.

I'm more floored by the 30-35 hours a week of playing.

With more than 40 hours per week of working full time, a fun/happy/enjoyable life with my wife, giving myself time to read... I'm lucky if I can get in 2 hours a day and even then, it's really late at night and just before I go to bed. I pretty much save this game or any gaming for when I have the time to do it.

It's amazing to me how many hours folks put into games. How do you folks do it?

Not spending I guess, I am constantly buying new armour pieces and skills to try new stuff, I gave that a rest for a couple of weeks and found I had 120k~ For a year if you did farming a lot I guess you could get 7 times that, I think the more likely answer is ebay though

ummm...HoH?

As for the time, I work 45-50 hours a week, time with spouse (quite rare), time with kids, time with friends (getting quite rare), commutting (sp?) to work -- 2 hours daily; GW has taken over my reading time and has cut sharply into sleeping time. I play about 2 hours daily- 1 in the morning as kids get ready for skewl and 1 (or so...) before bed if wife has already crashed. On my days of I play about 5-10 hours (how sad) unless projects or trips get in the way. LOL . I'll prob cut back when the game isnt as exciting as new, but I am starting char #4 (a monk) and still have lots to learn. What is HoH btw?

Oh...Hall of Heroes...duh. thanks

6 hours of school a day, finish at 3PM, plenty of time =

I'm jealous! I need more than 24 hours in a day.

its possible to become very rich off a few very good drops, the nerfed items go for insane amounts of money and long time players of the game who had them before the nerf hit the jackpot when they got nerfed.

building perfect weapons is one way but it is tedious sometimes and you have to have a pretty decent bankrole to get the perfect mods.

and then there is the sad sad option, e-gay...oh..did i say that...i meant e-gay..oh i did i say that again...

now im in no way rich the most ive had in the bank was about 150k(before i started my necro) but you just have to keep at it, watch your drops an item may look like junk but look at the mods and see what youu can salvage off it some mods go for a pretty penny. be careful how you spend your money, when i first started playing i got scammed a few times because i didnt know any better. if your looking to buy something buy it here, the quality of people selling here is much much better than most people selling in game.

HoH = Hall of Heroes, a PvP area. If you win a chest spawns, and there are drops for some of the winning teams players. Any item in the game can drop from it, mostly Celestial Sigils (for guild halls), but there have been Dwarven Axes, Crystalline Sword etc.

Simple answer is Ebay - with over 200 adds for GW gold available through Ebay, and that is only one of many sources. I find it quite pathetic and demoralising to find that so much of the MMORPG community is this type of player, the ones who pay real money for game resources, who would rather not play through a game learning as they go, the type who prefer to cheat thier way to a hollow victory rather than struggle thier way to a real victory.
Damn shame GW is full of this type of player and not those who just "play" games.

For 7.5mill, ebay is the only way to go.

Actually, the rich players in the game have never ebayed, just no one can understand that. There are hundreds of ways to get rich without ebay.

Hundreds? Pray tell please.

just curious what the shield stats were...

the simple answer?
buy the ringmail gauntlets autographed by me, that are currently selling in high end...

out of curiosity, what shield was PCed at 7.5 million; and where did you see the PC exactly? (an item worth 7.5 mil means its expensive enough to get my attention )
the real answer to wealth is in the form of a complex mathematical equation located below;

wealth=skill in tradingX(time(patience X starting money)^common sense)-stupidity^y
where y=the number of idiotic moments that lose you money.
enjoy.

hMM Ectos and shards and any gold rq8 with 15% above 50 and furious/sundering mods....guess if ya wanna count my liquid....400k plus gold weapons haven't cashed in on 2.5mill exp and 6 months old...normally a month learning curve for item values. maybe 4hrs a day
EGayers are pathetic Why would you spend Real life money for In-Game gold...knowing that your supporting abuse of child labor laws just sick

My trouble is that I dont know how much my drops are worth..

and I cant be botherd sitting there spamming the trade for hours, everyone who looks at my items never buys.

Farming.. well, apparently all the best farming spots are known, but I dont know where they are or what builds to use.. its boring anyway..

the only thing I do is keep hold of my materials and convert them into parchment or rolls of velum.. but again im not farming for them really.

I dont really spend much gold either!... if I had 400k I would probably purchase lots of stuff for FoW armor.

hmm, guess im just lazy really, theres nothing that I ABSOLOTLY MUST HAVE.

Except for maybe decent armour and dyes.