I Have 270k...But Nothing To Buy...

Zinger314

Zinger314

Debbie Downer

Join Date: May 2006

N/Me

17 Jun 2006 at 16:27 - 1
(NOTE: I am NOT giving away money. Do NOT fill up this this topic with "Can I have some? plz?" as it's not funny and it's borderline trolling.)

After selling the Totem Axe for ridicolous amount and getting on the enemy vs. enemy farming bandwagon, I now have quite the sum. I have 270k, which is probably more than atleast 90% of the users.

However, I have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to purchase.

The problem lies in the fact that there's nothing substantial (for primary casters) to buy inbetween 15k Armor and FoW Armor. A full set of 15k costs 75k (or 155k if you involve Luxon/Kurzick Armor) while a full set of FoW costs more than 1 million+ gold. That's quite a big gap.

In-between this gap, there are weapons with special skins that can be purchased. Perfect Celestial, Perfect Zodiac, Kanaxi's, and Urgoz's weapons are good examples. However, only Warriors, Rangers, and Assassins are overly dependant on weapons. So how do casters spend huge chunks of moola?

My main, as you see from the avatar, is a Necromancer. She sports 15k Canthan and has perfect Weapons for all 3 Necromancer Attributes (even that overpriced Ghial's Staff.)

My other main, a Ritualist, sports 15k Kurzick, dyed completely black, and also has a set of perfect weapons (fortunately, that's very easy, since Restoration and Channeling rely on Ashes. )

Another one of my characters, my Monk, sports 15k Saintly, dyed black, and also has a set of perfect weapons.

My Elementalist (which sports 15k Pyromancer), my Warrior, and my Ranger have been put on hold indefinately since no one seems to want them in groups.



Now you see the problem. All my central chaarcters already have 15k Armors (with expensive dyes!) and perfect weapons. There's nothing for me to buy.

What exactly do casters do with large sums of money?

KamikazeChicken

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/

17 Jun 2006 at 16:29 - 2
I hear you. I'm sitting on ~1.2 million pure gold, and that's after dropping at least 200k on making a character PvP ready. I've nothing to spend it on except making characters pvp ready, and even that only spends it to a certain extent!

fb2000

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2006

17 Jun 2006 at 16:30 - 3
Quote:
Originally Posted by Zinger314
What exactly do casters do with large sums of money?
they make warriors and buy stuff for them. personally, my casters have seen like 100k max, the warrior in the mean time is surely approaching the 2mil mark.. ive talked with guildies, everyone seems to like buying stuff only for warrior


and who said you actually have to buy soemthing all the time? ..

Rent

Rent

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2006

Darkness Within

Mo/Me

17 Jun 2006 at 16:31 - 4
Sit on it, wait for something to catch your eye?

Zinger314

Zinger314

Debbie Downer

Join Date: May 2006

N/Me

17 Jun 2006 at 16:35 - 5
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rent
Sit on it, wait for something to catch your eye?
As I said, that won't happen. Casters can't find BETTER weapons. And I can't get BETTER armor.

Riplox

Riplox

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

North Carolina

Shrophire Protectors [Lion]

W/

17 Jun 2006 at 16:40 - 6
Work on bettering other characters. If you have a character you've been neglecting, start using him/her. Level that char up and get stuff for it. I'm pretty sure that 270k would go pretty quickly with getting a new char up and running, and it expands your playing potential too.

Mr_T_bot

Mr_T_bot

Banned

Join Date: Apr 2006

17 Jun 2006 at 16:46 - 7
Start buying pointless stuff and stop helping inflation.
Buy superior identification and salvage kits and give them to n00bs or something.

Rent

Rent

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2006

Darkness Within

Mo/Me

17 Jun 2006 at 16:51 - 8
Quote:
Originally Posted by Zinger314
As I said, that won't happen. Casters can't find BETTER weapons. And I can't get BETTER armor.
I'm not sure where I said weapons or armor, nor where I said to spend it soon.

Sit on it. Long-term. See if they introduce new armor/items/whatever to the game that you decide you want.

Bane of Worlds

Bane of Worlds

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2006

Meadow

Rt/

17 Jun 2006 at 16:54 - 9
try to achieve one of those expensive goldsink titles lol

chessyang

chessyang

Not far from Elite

Join Date: Apr 2006

Florida

W/

17 Jun 2006 at 17:00 - 10
Quote:
Originally Posted by Zinger314
(NOTEWhat exactly do casters do with large sums of money?
well when amber was selling at 3.5k i made few 100k and now i can affort a nice crystline sword! and one of them shepis axes. Just stuff i aways wanted -)

But ya i still have 200k+ left and just don't know what to buy. i guess a few ectos when the prices go back down.

tomcruisejr

tomcruisejr

Banned

Join Date: Apr 2005

17 Jun 2006 at 17:06 - 11
buy yourself some show off items. such as mursaat hammer 15^50 8-9rq.

HawkofStorms

HawkofStorms

Hall Hero

Join Date: Aug 2005

E/

17 Jun 2006 at 17:08 - 12
Might I suggest buying several different armor sets for the characters you use often. Get Tormentor, Scar Pattern, MM, and Reverant Armor (don't forget the bloodstained boots). Wearing certain armor for certain situations/builds is viable.

Mister O

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2006

17 Jun 2006 at 17:13 - 13
skills...

quickmonty

quickmonty

Ancient Windbreaker

Join Date: May 2005

17 Jun 2006 at 17:13 - 14
Gotta love the "I have more money than I know what to do with" types.

Buy some NPC's for your guild hall. Buy guildies' Droks armor when they get their first character there (doing the storyline, not running). Give gifts to guildies and friends. Sit on it until you have enough for FOW armor. Lay awake at night worrying about what to do with it. LOL

KamikazeChicken

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/

17 Jun 2006 at 17:17 - 15
Well, once someone's UAS'd, has every NPC in the guild hall (not that I bought them), and has all the vanity desired (15>50 crystalline enough for ya?), there's just nothing to spend gold on that's not entirely boring.

I'd just be happy increasing max storage capacity, so my characters aren't full. >.>

Jestah

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

Mo/Me

17 Jun 2006 at 18:09 - 16
Quote:
Originally Posted by Zinger314
I have 270k, which is probably more than atleast 90% of the users.
I seriously doubt that. All it takes is 1 lucky drop or a bit of farming. Even bad players can do things like ettins, there used to be endless whammos with 1.5k plate in bettletun talking about how many sup vigors they've found. That was easy enough but now with faction farming even weekend players can get 100k in the space of a few hours.

You can kit a character out with a perfect (stats wise) set for 20/30 or so plat. The only real economy in guilds wars is for rare skins and expensive armour materials. It's just a way of letting grinders have their rewards without punishing casual players.

If you don't have practical items to buy just blow it on frivolous stuff just for the hell of it.

Fate

Fate

Elite Guru

Join Date: Feb 2005

New England, USA

Shadow Knights [SK]

Mo/Me

17 Jun 2006 at 18:15 - 17
If you're looking for functional, I'd go with skills.
You never know when you're gonna hear about a new build and want to run it only to find you're missing a critical skill. I don't mean just for your primary, I mean start getting all the secondary skills too and the elites. Not only does this make it easier to run different builds but it also helps you on your way to the skill capper title. Also, you could buy lots and lots of keys and work on the chest opening title (which simultaniously works on the gold item identing title)

With a little spending like that you could have the "Kind of a Big deal" title real soon

drunkard title is a big cash sink too

Wildi

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2006

PvE is the Metagame

17 Jun 2006 at 18:23 - 18
Quote:
Originally Posted by Zinger314
As I said, that won't happen. Casters can't find BETTER weapons. And I can't get BETTER armor.
this is what I hate in GW, if I have millions of gold (I don't) then let me buy a unique 1 hand staff for one million gold with 6 energy instead of 5 (pve only)
this is just an example

LiQuId StEeL

LiQuId StEeL

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2005

/u/liquidsteel30

Ego Trip From Rank [ZERO]

W/Mo

17 Jun 2006 at 18:27 - 19
Spoil your casters rotten with vanity skin weapons, and multiple, multiple sets of 15k

Kurow

Kurow

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

Seattle

Faces of Death [Tye]

R/W

17 Jun 2006 at 18:31 - 20
put your money towards something good! Make a dye chart for some of thsoe armors youve got. (be sure not to do it in maguuma jungle, who can tell what the colors really look like in those pictures... >_>)

Dj Tano

Dj Tano

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2006

17 Jun 2006 at 18:40 - 21
Save the money and when you can buy char slots make new chars and buy stuff for them, theyll need it...

Guardian of the Light

Guardian of the Light

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2005

Radicals Against Tyrants

W/

17 Jun 2006 at 19:29 - 22
Do what most people do with a lot of money. Spend it on Dwarven Ale and ge the drunkard title .

Or you could try to collect all the greens.

Or get Candy Canes.

xuemin

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

E/Mo

17 Jun 2006 at 19:33 - 23
just go and continue with your ranger since the henchies will take anyone =p and later you'll end up spending all the gold on all the bows he/she will need for all the different types of situations etc

CartmanPT

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2005

W/Mo

17 Jun 2006 at 19:40 - 24
I like to spend in titles, elite cap and chests atm

Malice Black

Site Legend

Join Date: Oct 2005

17 Jun 2006 at 19:40 - 25
nec FoW is cool just get the chest and arms the rest looks like shit

Ensign

Ensign

Just Plain Fluffy

Join Date: Dec 2004

Berkeley, CA

Idiot Savants

17 Jun 2006 at 20:31 - 26
You can't find vanity skins for caster weapons. They may exist in theory but the frequency at which they pop up for sale is ridiculously low - at least for weapons with perfect (collector) stats. So while physicals get to collect sexy gear for their characters, casters are basically stuck choosing between collector, crafted, and (usually bad) green weapons.

The best thing you can do with lots of money right now is to roll a warrior and start filling him up with vanity weapons. Until there's a serious change to the game's item system casters just don't have that option.

Peace,
-CxE

MelechRic

MelechRic

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

RA

[ODIN]

N/Mo

17 Jun 2006 at 21:24 - 27
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ensign
You can't find vanity skins for caster weapons. They may exist in theory but the frequency at which they pop up for sale is ridiculously low - at least for weapons with perfect (collector) stats. So while physicals get to collect sexy gear for their characters, casters are basically stuck choosing between collector, crafted, and (usually bad) green weapons.

The best thing you can do with lots of money right now is to roll a warrior and start filling him up with vanity weapons. Until there's a serious change to the game's item system casters just don't have that option.

Peace,
-CxE
QFT

The problem with caster weapons is that the "perfect" ones with collector stats just don't show up in drops. How many times have I gotten a low req staff of Death Magic only to find that it has a 20% recharge rate for Divine Prayers or some other garbage I don't want.

Zinger314

Zinger314

Debbie Downer

Join Date: May 2006

N/Me

17 Jun 2006 at 21:47 - 28
Quote:
Originally Posted by Riplox
Work on bettering other characters. If you have a character you've been neglecting, start using him/her. Level that char up and get stuff for it. I'm pretty sure that 270k would go pretty quickly with getting a new char up and running, and it expands your playing potential too.
As I've said, all my other characters are on an indefinate hold.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Rent
Sit on it. Long-term. See if they introduce new armor/items/whatever to the game that you decide you want.
They CAN'T introduce anything different, really. Caster Weapons never change and don't really have any kick-arse skins.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Eve The Sorceress
try to achieve one of those expensive goldsink titles lol
Already have Treasure Hunter.

Quote:
Originally Posted by HawkOfStorms
Might I suggest buying several different armor sets for the characters you use often. Get Tormentor, Scar Pattern, MM, and Reverant Armor (don't forget the bloodstained boots). Wearing certain armor for certain situations/builds is viable.
ALL Necromancers should be using Tormentors/Necrotic. It's a constant +10 AL, who WOULDN'T use it?

Plus, I have very little storage space.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Jestah
That was easy enough but now with faction farming even weekend players can get 100k in the space of a few hours.
Well, not anymore. Amber and Jade are at 1k.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Fate
If you're looking for functional, I'd go with skills.
That may be the answer. I still have a bunch of Ritualist and Monk skills I need to buy, respectively.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Fate
Also, you could buy lots and lots of keys and work on the chest opening title (which simultaniously works on the gold item identing title)
I had that idea. Until I realized that I needed to open 5,000 chests. That's 2.4 million gold and way way too many hours.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Malice Black
nec FoW is cool just get the chest and arms the rest looks like ****
Wrong. Female Necromancer FoW makes you look like a...man's toy. 15k Canthan makes you look badass. The choice is obvious.

raven214

raven214

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

R/

17 Jun 2006 at 21:49 - 29
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr_T_bot
Start buying pointless stuff and stop helping inflation.
Buy superior identification and salvage kits and give them to n00bs or something.
Or hand out black/silver dyes at random.

shadowfell

shadowfell

hamonite anur ruk

Join Date: Jan 2006

Echovald Forest

[PhD] Teh Academy

Me/A

17 Jun 2006 at 21:51 - 30
Work on your ele and ranger, use the money to outfit them as well. Ele and ranger are both needed in the missions and, honestly, I have absolutely no problems getting into groups with either of mine. Might as well do them now, while you have the cash for it.

joncoish

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2006

17 Jun 2006 at 21:56 - 31
give it to me!

Mr_T_bot

Mr_T_bot

Banned

Join Date: Apr 2006

17 Jun 2006 at 21:57 - 32
Quote:
Originally Posted by Guardian of the Light
Or get Candy Canes.
I could probably mturn a pretty penny selling off my Candy Cane stock.

EF2NYD

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

17 Jun 2006 at 21:59 - 33
Make all your characters PvP ready.

Vahn Roi

Vahn Roi

Forge Runner

Join Date: Apr 2006

[HiDE]

17 Jun 2006 at 22:00 - 34
Invest in items such as Ecto and they ever popular Rubies and Sapphires. It gives you something to do with you money and if done right it will earn you even more money later on (perhaps when you actually have a use for it)

ColaManiac

ColaManiac

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2005

DISNEYLAND!

R/Mo

17 Jun 2006 at 22:03 - 35
buy more keys for chests! it's always nice to find out that un ID req 8 jade axe has after ID no dmg mod... =)

what about if you start collecting minipets?

buy some ale and get drunkrad title?

invest on materials? buy lots of dif materials, wait for chapter3. sell em for huge profit

Da Cebuano

Da Cebuano

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2005

Virginia born in Cebu

Jelly Toast[jT]

W/

17 Jun 2006 at 22:08 - 36
Here's the thing, I have the same problem sort to speak except i do have items in mind I wanna buy but my chars are set real well at this point and I don't really need. I have quite a bit of sum in pure gold, saveral times your current amount to put it lightly, items that are gonna net me atleast 100k+ more and money invested in 176 rubies 61 sapphires and a couple of ecto as well as 74 CC, not much but its there for me to invest in gold I have no room for.

Thing what I'm trying to say is that the whole point of getting rich is to reach for the skies, meaning get as rich as mutha........... possible. If you enjoy GW and will probly stick around for the next saveral games, why have set yourself so well that you can just blow money on FOW costing armors and weapons w/o flinching? yes, only a few of us can ever get to that point, I myself have only FOW armor on my monk and thank god I don't like the way the rest of the classes fow looks like. Thing is, I'm not even close to getting there yet, till then, gotta stay hungry. I have 6 chars and each equipped w/ a bevy of items I'm comfortable w/, yet I'm still waiting for ANET to increase the storage cap to 5 mill or more just to see if I can cap it. I know thats not much to alot of people here, but its a goal I have yet to reach :\

Oh and not to make ya feel bad but I had that gold amount during my south shiverpeak days w/ my warrior b4 I discovered farming, so welcome to a milestone.

kvndoom

kvndoom

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2005

Communistwealth of Virginia

Uninstalled

W/Mo

17 Jun 2006 at 22:19 - 37
I have a warrior, my problem is I'm not much on vanity, so I don't spend much. And my goodness did I overfarm before I stopped. I have 900k in storage, about 75k in pocket change on my 3 PVE toons, over 400 dyes (including 19 black and 67 silver), 115 Bleached Shells which I shoulda dumped before Factions came out, 90 Candy Canes, and all sorts of other stuff. No point in giving anything to guildies, because everybody in my guild is freaking rich already (our guild hall had every NPC within 3 hours of Factions being released on April 28th).

What's funny is that most of us got that way from pure grind and not buying and selling. The last high-ticket item I sold was Victo's Axe when it was new, for 100k. Two weeks later I bought the shield for 85k, so that kinda evened out (moreso when I accidentally sold it to the merchant for 35 gold. ARGH). Lately all I do is Alliance Battles, random arena, and foolishly hope my guild will get serious about GVG once more. So I know what it's like to have it and not need it. And still sometimes I go and farm in the desert just to pass a little time, and wind up with even more money...

Sweetest

Banned

Join Date: Apr 2006

W/

17 Jun 2006 at 22:32 - 38
i have over 8 mil on 4 accounts : ( what should i buy?

raven214

raven214

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

R/

17 Jun 2006 at 22:44 - 39
Wow! 0.o .... Let's see, the most I ever had was around 70k. I currently have 7k and some common materials. Just 100k and I'd be set for quite a while.. lol

Mr_T_bot

Mr_T_bot

Banned

Join Date: Apr 2006

17 Jun 2006 at 23:13 - 40
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sweetest
i have over 8 mil on 4 accounts : ( what should i buy?
A bunch of mostrous claws for me.