How to make money in GuildWars And GuildWars Factions

Now before someone says use the search button, i would like this thread to be a list of how everyone gets their money, and not the money that just gets them that 1.5k droknars armor but that can help get the big stuff like higher end armor/guild halls/guild improvements and such. Any avenue of getting money can be listed here no flaming against 55 hp monks and such as it is the case in other threads. So to sum things up:

In YOUR opinion what is the best and legal way to get money in Guildwars and Guildwars Factions, with no restrictions other than that. Remember no flaming If you dont like the ideas presented here you are not being forced to follow or believe them.

Materials Materials Materials. That is the easiest way to go. It requires no real farming just the ability to pick up all the crap drops you get along the way and salvage them. then take them to artisan Daved and spend the small amount of gold to turn them into rare things like parchment and steel. Parchment averages out to about 60% profit on the initial investment which isn't bad at all. Steel is spiking. Now that running is kind of out of the question in Cantha the best way to go is materials. People always need new armor.

Yes Strob0 thats what i have been doing so far, sometimes i find it hard to sell it to people though. I have been trying Droknars and LA to sell my materials such as iron, wood, steel, and tanned square hides.
-I guess thats the one downside to that technique. Or am i just selling it in wrong prices and in wrong places?

You need to hit cantha. Materials sell in a big way there because the armors utilize some of those more or less unused items like monsterous eyes and steel in a big way.

I guess...My 55 hp farming on trolls outside of Droks is going really slow. Anyone else have any suggestions? Are any greens (prophecies and factions) going for much? Pref Prophecies.

Gotta agree with Strobo on this. I do farm ettins, but my main profit comes from the materials, not the runes (unless I get a lucky drop, most runes are 500 gold or less to sell anyway).

Put it this way, I currently have one stack (not all full stacks) of each common material in my storage, plus maybe 8 different rare materials in there with varying amounts, and if I were to sell those to the npcs at today's prices, there's another 50k sitting there that I have yet to cash in And of course players will pay more for that (though I never bother selling to players unless I see someone requesting it at the time)

make 55 necro, make ss/sv necro, make mm...jus make a necro and get going!

or do chest runs now that drops are good.

*mumbles something about luxon chests outside of Breaker Hollow*

Lol. Is UW farming still viable now that ectoplasms are only like 4.5k? How many ectos do you get per run on average nowadays.

Right now, I'd say chest farming the Cantha late game, and faction farming + selling amber.

I'm so mad I'm cut off from the game till friday T_T

The dragon mini-pet totally makes up for it though^^

I just go kill things, collect all the garbage, fill my inventory with junk, sell it to the merchant, and steadily make money that way. Works great if you solo, but I've noticed in some missions, with a full group of henches, you can easily make up to 2k by picking up all the junk they drop too. This is in prophecies by the way. I'm a regular junk collector I guess, because every piece of junk is worth 50 gold or more in the high end areas, with the occasional precious items and purple/gold drops (which mostly go to the merchant if not worthy of salvage). All those 50 gold items along with other things start to add up after a while. I've gotten about 5 sets of 15k armor so far doing that, and am experimenting around with dyes now, maybe I'll work on another 15k set, but I think I'm pretty good at the moment. If I need materials, I just start salvaging the armor drops I get instead of selling them to the merchant.

i have about 1,100 wood (almost 5 full stacks) that i got from salvaging raven staffs from trolls but im too lazy to sell it



Edit: Removed a quote relating to a past-deleted thread.

I second materials... third?... I just agree with it. I can't see wasting my time playing alone and soloing with a 55 build. Been there, done that, just about quit the game from boredom.

I also suggest another route, buy an ident kit and just identify blues through golds and sell everything. Don't buy keys. Don't waste cash on stuff you really don't need.

Right now it seems the ecto market is pretty much dead Jim. If it hits 4k though, I'm going to buy like 100 of them. Small investment if it picks back up.

identify everything before selling, it increases the value and gold you can get for the item from merchants. when I farm runes, majors usually always sell for like 25g to rune trader. identifying them gives them a value of around 50 something. I then instead of selling to rune trader for the 25g, I sell to regular merchant for the 50 something gold. why sell off two majors for 50 when I could sell the same two for 100. minor runes after also ups the merchant value slightly, these I sell to rune trader since they like to actually give me the value they've been identified as. not a lot of money gained, but every little bit counts.

materials are the way to go of course. wood, iron, steel, tanned hides are probably the most common and will end up giving you several k for even small stacks.

You can spend a lot of gold on keys chest farming, and no one wants to give you beans for a near perfect gold anymore with greens falling out of the sky everywhere.

Pick it up, ID it and sell it, and be doing it on a run where you just may come across a 'to die for' green.

1. Farm Cantha Chests sell 15^50 bows/warrior weapons in LA to c1 peeps for more then what they're worth(or before they realize you get a 15^50 almost every time).
2. Farm Celestial Weapons and sell the 15^50's you get.
3. Farm the max new greens from cantha bosses and sell.
4. Farm end game greens and sell.
5. Mini-Pet Market(buy low sell high).
6. Rune Trader Lottery (spam them until u get a sup rit/assn rune and sell for x3 the amount)
7. Buy CE and sell the dragon pet.

SF Farming is dead since all their greens are dirt cheap or have been replaced by canthan collectors.
2 man UW is slow, and even more now that ecto are 5k at trader.

Great tips guys helps a lot... Still find the money income slow to the good ol' days though sigh... .....

Well if anyone has any tips keep em coming, i might compile them sometime.

Buying green items off noobs and selling them to even bigger noobs with a profit.

The materials market is so volitale right now with things I used to ignore now being worth a lot. I am having a grand old time farming areas I never thought to farm before and making some money. Plant Fibers, Chittins, and Cloth are pretty valuable right now, so my efforts have been to gather up things that have a fair number of those "in the raw" or salvageable from other items and getting around 1,000 gold for every 10 minutes of farming. And that is just the common farming materials. Rare Materials are also realy coming up in certain categories like Steel and Charcoal.

Agree with a lot of peeps here. Materials. Rune market is crashing but you can still make a little there.

Where do you guys sell your materials? Im on Prophecies and i can never sell my 1k+ wood or iron.... and this is a little off this thread but what are good prices to sell those materials for?

I took advantage of the Rune Market crashing to finally make a 55 outfit for my monk. 5-6k per rune!

I don't enjoy farming very much, but just picking up all your drops and not buying unecessary things will leave you on the + side.

I do a few quick farms sometimes. Half a dozen Drok's troll runs (white weapons for salvage or sale), One or two N. Kryta Ettin runs (runes). Low-level charr (fun).

Chests have improved, so use those keys you find. I never buy keys except for use in Tombs, but I've gotten max mods as early as N. Kryta. The weapon, even if gold) will rarely be sellable to other players, and never from mid-level areas, so you are really looking for mods. But I hear idiots pay a lot for unid's weapons, you could try that.

It comes down to time. If you do troll runs, you can take the tusks to a trader and sell the resulting weapon for a lot more than you could sell the tusks to a merchant, but do this with an empty inventory and a full stack of tusks because the run is a bit of a pain. If you don't want to make the trip, there is always someone in Drok's buying tusks for more than the merch value (but less than the 25 per for crafting).

If you get good at troll runs, double your pleasure and power level someone for 1k per level.

Playing like a normal person, having fun and then realizing you just got a superior rune.

I like taking people new to an area around for a fight. Crystal desert is great for it. By the time we have fought are way to every city and outpost I have usually made quite a bit just merching out. Fighting thru the Shiverpeaks is just too much trouble. Fighting people thru all the towns from Druids to Magumma Stade. Fighting from Beacons to ToA is also good. But even if it isn't worth much xp, the fight is always worth a chance a t a good drop or opening something new.

Fitz

I guess...Good Way to get your tyrian explorer Rank thingy up as well
a Fun battle is a battle to maw the mountain heart and killing him.

Still....in Prophecies where do you guys sell your materials and on average for how much..... and same question for Cantha.

EDIT: Soloing missions and quests (without henchmen), having fun then realizing that you just got a superior rune every single night.

wich misson?

55 hp the mineral springs. u get 250 hide squares per run and zone out and repeat for stacks of hide squares.... then do some trolls for wood and tusk (that you can trade in at the collectors)... then Minotaur w/ the bots in Elona Reach for more hide ... then the undead out side of Hot springs to cursded lands for cloth repeate for stacks upon stacks of cloth (you have to salvage the item they drop i forget the name) ....... then do hydras out side of Augury Rock with a few griffins and the griffins out side of density gourge... and then pass out from boredem........

I'm not talking about farming - I'm talking about doing every single mission and quest in the game (at least as much as you can) solo. I've made over 200K with my Necro (who is now in the Shiverpeaks) by doing that, and not spending one minute farming.

Where do you farm these Celestial and Zodiac(i think) weapons? I know its in cantha, but where exactly?

This reminds me of a previous thread started. Someone wanted people to post their farming locations shortly after anet made some 'changes' to the game.

Did the same with my ranger. Although I wasn't solo, me and my wife paired our way through the game. Both of us rangers. I cut that character off from the rest of my characters so any money he aquired stayed with him. I used bows from crafters, collectors or ones I found through most of the game and got new armor at the first opportunity when I got to Kryta, The Wilds, The Desert, then my 15k. I knew from what to get the materials I needed for the armors I got so I only bought materials when I was short. I also didn't bother with runes durring this time since I knew I would only be buying new armor unless I found the rune myself. After doing every mission, bonus and quest (including going back through doing class specific quests after changing my secondary and quests requiring favor). The only way I was able to afford the 15k armor and the runes I currently have on it was a combination of getting lucky (found two superior vigors) and got a good tombs run. The bow I use I trade a rare bow I got lucky and found. So in short I never came close to the 100k mark after it was all said and done.

Even though I cut my character off from all the rest, that only meant no money left that character and doesn't mean I didn't add money to that character from my others. Those vigors were found by my warrior durring a test run on the ettins when anet added the Luxon and Kurzick villages. A run that gave me odd drops like superiors from purples and majors from blues. So one vigor is used on the armor and the other was sold by my ranger while the rest of it all stayed with that warrior. I wanted to see how long it would take to fill my inventory with runes. Three hours.

So either your lying or you got even more lucky than myself to have achived over 200k. Since the vigors came from my warrior they don't count to the money my ranger earned. With out them I would have reached abot 60 to 65k. Yes I was paired but that still come out to be 120 to 130k, quite a bit short of 200k.

i did same thing like Sparrow with my ranger, cuz it was my first character. only after i beat the game with her i tried other classes. no farming. buying armors, using a gold bow that i got from a drop in shieverpeaks, and after killing Rurik, the most i ever sewen in my inventory was 86k after the 60k that went on my druids.... then i started farming.

then i made a 55 monk, then i made a nuker....

lol fun times nuker before the aoe nerf. i remember me farming outside the gates of kryta. i thought you couldnt farm mineral springs since the necros there strip your enchantment? and still guys where do you sell your materials once you do get them? and for how much???

It's really too bad that farming is so widely used to be introduced into the economy of guild wars. The economy is such a poor system and in such a horrid state of average players standing very little chance to actually buy decent or good looking weapon (which every MMO really allows).

One major problem is that the guild wars dynamics really don't help the economy. Guild wars has an economy but at the same time attempts to lower the importance of it. The conflict arises when someone asks.. "can I have more than just collector things?" Now other games have farming, but that is usually waiting for spawns and fighting without having to worry that your character isn't a 55 monk.

This game has farming, but it is very limited.. farmers and early gamers who took advantage of certain flaws have created an economy that is repressive to newer players to the game. Too bad too, because other than the economy, guild wars is a great game!

lol of course UW farming is still viable... on average 2 ectos drop per run, or at least for me, 1 for me 1 for partner. As well as this 3-4k worth of crap drops. Sell the crap and ectos for 4.5-5k. thats 6-7k a run and a run takes about 15-20 minutes. Very viable, very fun.

Half the time i do uw farming with my 55 hp monk i get a noob ss necro who doesnt even have arc echo -_- sigh.

i keep fow solo with warrior :x

Sound like a big farm run to me actually, but no matter. Post more ideas here???... anything good posted will of course more then likely be the next nerf when masses of people start to use it unfortunately.

I doubt anyone will share their BIG SECRET TO MAKING MONEY but i mean the little ones help you guys. Be a good sport and share em , o and has anyone tried farming titans from like the titan quests? do they give good stof?

If you really want to go for the big monies, there are really only a couple of ways. Due to the amount of nerf Anet has put to farming, farming really doesn't get much cash. It gives you a nice steady stream of cash, but nothing really big. Here's my advice on making money in this game

1) Farming can only make you cash if you farm the really high end stuff. Otherwise, it can only give you a nice steady stream. Farming minotaurs at elona will give you 1-2k every 10 minute. Even soloing fissure can only give you so much money. (although it is certainly more fun) This is of course assuming you don't have an uber place to farm that can give you like 100k per hour, if you do, then by all means farm there.

2) Due to the over abundance of perfect weapons now, only the most rare will sell for a lot. If you're gonna try to farm for money, farm for the chaos axes and crystalline sword (farmable if you have a group that can hold hoh a lot). And probably the new elite missions will have something exclusive to it. (although I still have to wait for 10 days for my factions to arrive so I don't know about that yet)

3) Running is a also a great way to make money. A simple droks run with a standard 3k charge per person is 15k for about 30 minute of work. Far better than farming. I got a friend in LBS who has storage full of ectos and 3 accounts with full storage and he made all of these by running. (75k from LA to ascension) Although I get a feeling that Anet is trying to put their foot down on running also.

4) Power trading is a great way to make money. Due to the fact that there is no auction house, the discrepency in price between some players in huge. I almost was able to buy a mini shiro for 20k and sell it for huge cash, but somebody bought it a few second before I did. Really though, power trading is only for the high end items. So it'll require some money to get started. Also, there is also the risk of losing money as you make a wrong purchese. So this requires some trading/bartering skill. (I would suggest the mini pet market right now as that's about affordable as power trading is gonna be for most people. Beyond that, you're gonna have to look to perfect crystallines and stuff once again due to the over abundance of standard perfect weapons)

5) Milk the fads. What does this mean? it means whenever something new comes out, go sell those cus they will sell high. Mini pet for example. It's the same case with the IDS and the first Green weapons. (I made have of my cash milking the green weapons when it first came out and then the IDS) The current fad is all those new cantha weapons, so make some money out of those. Although once again, due to over abundance it's not easy.

that's about it for my adivces on making money. Those are the only real ways that I can see a beginner player make enough money to catch some of the veteran players. Hope it was helpful to you.

WOW. Nice Comprehensive post Looks like you really put some time into it THANK YOU!