GuildWars Millionaires everywhere! (?)

They either get the money from ebay or get very lucky farming. And even without ebay prices would go over 100k...

I've played for a year and haven't even reached 60k.
I think it's because I spend it when I get it, or just splash out on materials and stuff- and I make alot of pve characters alot, and buy max armors for them, often. I too am worried where people get this money. I'm not accusing them of anything, but alot of people just get lucky with drops... or maybe just have alot of time on there hands farming.

Ashleigh

100k is a savage amount of cash really, considering what other materials are worth and craftable swords etc...

Things wouldn't often go over 100k because nobody would have 100k to spare because nobody could ACCESS such large amount of funds.

This is indicative of the fact you can only carry 100k. Seems as if the economy and structure of the game was not meant to facilitate such transactions.

Freaking eBay queens. I guess it's no REAL major deal... but eBay queens are lame. They're the dudes switching green weapons in your group and hitting alt+left click on them. URGH!

It's possible to farm that much.
If you know how and when and why and all that then you can make some nice money from farming.

Still, there's a lot of noobs with pricy items. Kinda makes ya wonder....

Wow.. i love how people always say E-bay when this is brought up. Since factions came out it is so easy to make money is scary. I made 46k just selling extra materials to trader when i got to full. Ive been playing for about 1600 hrs so far, and its easy to make money. You just have to know were to look. Not everything is about farming, figure stuff out for yourselfs and u make alot of gold. No not scamming. Dont cry when u cant buy the coolest looking stuff in the game. Why? CAUSE IT HAS THE SAME STATS. I dont get this who cares if they are rich, you want to be rich go find something to make money on. U can get perfect items from any crafter now in cantha and they also have nice looking skins also.

Them being rich doesnt give them anything better than other people. So why complain about it?? I will never pay 100k and ecto for anything. Why cause i dont care about skins cause only 8 people can see them. Also i dont like to spend gold on my war. and thats what all the expensive stuff is.

Couple explanations:

55-monking. Farming ectos/items when prices where lot higher & drops weren't yet nerfed like nowadays was very very fast way to get huge amount of money.

Dreadnought's Rift wonderbox: There used to be a chest near grenth's statue (there still is but not very usefull anymore), when GW was released that gave awesome items to all who ventured there. But when ppl started to do 24/7 trips to that chest Anet changed that chest to drop rather normal items. This way some of the earlier player got hands to rare items like dwarven & crystalline...which are now found mainly from HoH...

+ 1000 other well known ways to get money.

I've been playing for 400 hours and have close to 1 mil. All farm and good drops that sold for more than 100k+ectos. You just need to get lucky and get good drops and sell to people who are willing to pay for it. Now, where did they get that money? Who knows? Ebay or farm. I also know of spots where I can farm 10k an hour, which isn't that much but reasonable. I never bought anything that cost over 10k. So, if you save you can have lots of money. However, what is the money for other than spend it in cool skins? I really can't use GW gold to feed family or buy cool stuff in the real world.

The trader resets made a lot of people very rich very quickly aswell.

Ok, so. In this post you state that you've;

* "farmed" close to a million plat
* you've never spent over 10plat on anything
* and you can't really use plat for anything but buy cool skins

So, why did you bother "farming" 1,000,000gold ?



The concept of getting over 3platinum for anything I find is completely foreign to me. Unless, it's a rare ecto drop i get 1 in 4 runs in the tombs.

Who knows, maybe I'm just unlucky... but I doubt it.

Well, this post is an eye opener. I wasn't aware of such things that existed within the game, I guess I'm just out of the loop with the farming thing. Forgot about the 55 monks too. Man, they looked more like a job than a game character.



Once I get my sword I'll be happy anyways.

Anyone know what a Gothic Sword with +5 energy would be worth?

I've had almost every single one of the green items at one point in time and they all dropped for me. I played about 1200 hours to get them. So I'd really appreciate it if people would stop complaining about how they can't get anything and go do some work for them. We took statistics on the drops and I didn't just get lucky either, it was an about average rate of drops. I'm not saying you have to play a lot to be good at Guild Wars, just that there are a lot of people who spend/spent upwards of 8 hours a day farming for an extended period of time (in my case, months), and therefore have a lot of money/valuable weapons.

Ive played since the beta... Ive made millions and lost millions and spent millions on 5 sets of FoW...

However when i played in the prime of guilds wars... There Was no Area Of Effct IE a 55 Monk could use Symbol of Wraths Balthazars Aura and Shiled Of Judgement and No enemy would run away..

Thus i made millions in gold drops and Ecto farming... Ectos when i used to be a 55 about 7 months ago were 15k each... So yes I am a millionaire however i never had to use ebay... These days making money is quite hard.

Also rought Price Guide...

7 Months ago...

Malinons Shield 85k, Brohns Staff 90 -110k, Bortaks Bone Cesta 150 - 165k, Ragos flame Staff 70 - 85k, Razerstone 90k

So you see it was a good thing to play earlier... When a new Item is added to the game people Go CRAZy to get it look at Icy Dragon swords first day those came out 100k plus... Its all about being in the right place at the right time.

As for all these newer players... Ebay people. Especially the reatards in Fissure saying im buying fissure armor... Where is the crafter?

I think the economy has been abused in this game far more than any other MMO that I have played. The game dynamics cannot handle farming towards the economy (only recently have they attempted to really prevent it), early gamers had FAR too much access to quick ways to get money, and it's sad that newer gamers really don't stand a chance to introduce themselves into the economy of guildwars..

The damage is done, I suggest you try to have fun with other aspects asside from the economy of this game.

Be that as it may, I doubt you represent the majority. On one hand you can spent upwards of 8 hours a day farming for green items, or you can log on to eBay and cash up. I know which most option most chose, thus is the cusp of my post, which shows through when my post is read.

To say that it's hard to make money... it's hard
To say that it's easy to make money... it's easy

It does require effort and knowing how to sell, when to buy, what's hot, where to farm...etc...

don't worry too much if you don't have the money. Money is really not that important in this game. The only thing that I spent on that's more than 100k was my HOD sword (bought it at 250k looong time ago and it has served me well enough that I don't regret not selling it recently) I think I'm one of the few people who have a lot of money and still wear droks armor. But i just don't see the need to purchese 15k armor or fissure armor when there is no benefit to it. If I'm gonna spend my money it'll be on stuff like the 15% Flame spitter and such.

I've been playing for 9-10 months now and have about 1.5million in storage. I never even knew you could buy gold from eBay until a few weeks ago, and i never intend to either.

Do i buy things often? No
Do i sell things often? No

I've made a decent amount from selling Tomb Greens but even then it was when the prices dropped. Nothing like the 100k +30 ectos people once paid for Victos Axe.

Wrong. Many people, including myself get large amounts of money from buying and selling items/weapons and materials. Or taking advantage of a material price fluctuation- like ectos for example, they used to only cost around 1k, but now cost around 5k.

~Jiao

People make money when they hit the market at the right time. For example, many players stocked up on steel, cloth, and iron before factions came out. They easily make a ton of money.

I made most of my money when the IDS first came out. Used a solo warrior build and made almost a million gold in one weekend. People were buying themm at 80k the first day and I was able to farm a lot of them.

When were ectos 1k?! Iremember seeing 21k last summer and the lowest i saw was today - at 5k.

I made my first million from greens then ectos from then on.