Drops: This is insanity.

Also helps that it's butt ugly for every single class, IMO. Not that I mind. For everyone that likes, it's another buyer for ecto.

Keep an eye out for max-damage/max-AC items with low requirements, these can easily be sold for good money back in Ascalon City. I found a max-damage longbow yesterday with 8 requirements and sold it for 500 gold in about 5 minutes.

Clean, max, low req. weapons can sell for 2k... yes, it's sad. But it happens all the time

im not saying its a lot im saying its all i need.. some people just don't understand you don't need 15k armor so to them 40k is not a lot.. but to me (1.5k armor) 40k is more than enough for me

Yea, I've made over 700K gold by just spending time on the trading market, and buying and reselling and salvaging... Didn't farm once =)

Sadly, I spent all my gold buying ectos and shards for that FoW armor =/

Not hard to grasp, just something that isn't taught to our young these days. But in defense it wasn't taught in my day either. Money management is very important. But many parents don't teach it to their kids, they don't teach it in schools, so your on your own.

And many of the people who play GW are kids still at home. God I envy you guys and gals. No bills, no worries. You don't have to worry about money. Enjoy it hehe.

But the game does expose peoples' weakness with money management. Here there is an unlimited influx of money, it is not limited like in real life. So, you have room for error. If your broke in this game you have to evaluate how you take care of your gold.

It's a good exercise for real life. Learn how to be tight with your money in an enviroment where it's easy to come by and you will do well in places where money is tight to come by.

boy thats just sad, i can clear the entire gates of kryta mission solo in about 25 minutes and walk away with at least 3k, and i usually get at least one or two good items as well, just got a 5:1 vamp string yesterday, so there must be something really wrong with you, or its a big conspiracy against your drops or something

LoL thats funny, play taxi, (barf) or cheat, and if we dont want to do that we need to stop whining?? Get a clue.

Where the heck do you get 2K for clean max damage weapons?
I couldn't shift these yesterday in Lions Arch 1 until I'd dropped the price to 1.5K:
http://mikes-machine.mine.nu/temp/silly/halfmoon.jpg
http://mikes-machine.mine.nu/temp/silly/shield.jpg

This staff didn't sell at all for 2K, didn't even get people wanting to see it, and I simply refused to go lower, so I salvaged it for the upgrades instead: http://mikes-machine.mine.nu/temp/silly/goodstaff.jpg

I'd never even bother to try selling something like this:
http://mikes-machine.mine.nu/temp/silly/cheapostaff.jpg
as the most I'd get for it is 300-400 gold, and it's just not worth the time spent selling it.

If it isn't a *perfect* stormbow, fellblade, chaos axe, or eternal shield, it's pretty much worthless.

I've said it before, I'll say it again: GW doesn't have much inflation, what GW has is mudflation. Because there is no item sink.

well i'm trying something new..

use collector armours instead of buying them.

when i was lv 5 i had 10k, when i was lv 10 i had 50k, when i was lv 15 i had 150k, when i got to lv 20 500k+

and i dont farm at all, i just buy things low price and sell them for a higher price

That, uh, sounds like fun.

I *like* farming, but spending two hours in Lions Arch shouting "WTS..." is like pulling teeth.

what are you comp-laining about??? i have well over 1000 hours and have never got a black dye to drop

When selling I work Ascalon City first, then Lion's Arch second. As a general rule, the greater percentage of high level characters you have in a district the more difficult it gets to sell 'average' stuff, simply because they already have better than average gear.

Consider someone on their second/third/fourth character playing ranger for the first time. They have plenty of money from their other characters, but they might never have bothered saving any of the bows those other characters found. So when they hit 8 marksmanship they are quite eager to buy a max-damage low-requirement bow.

And I agree with Numa, being in District 1 in Lion's Arch or Ascalon City is an almost nauseating experience if you actually try to -read- the massive channel spam. This is, IMO, the current biggest design issue with GWars and hopefully we'll soon see -something- that lessens the unpleasantness of trying to buy and/or sell items. Buying/selling is clearly one of the major activities that people do in GWars, improving the mechanics of it would make a lot of people much happier with the game.

I,d like to see a 150 gold drop! I have never seen more then 35 i think. And never gotten a purple or gold drop. 60+ hours and i got like 4k. A i never buy expensive armor or weapons. So If you getting 150 gp drops Please show me a location.

Storm bows are only good for one thing to me: Wood. 'nuff said.

Ok:

#1: Don't farm drakes. They've been nerfed ALOT and were never worth much anyway.

#2: You can buy black dye from another player or the trader. The price is low again, but IMO it looks like crap on the 15k stuff anyway.

#3: If there are threads on the forums about the frog, read them. "Soon stuff of value will be easier to come by" or something like that. Like we really need whine threads on here about issues that are being addressed.

Drops to me are the same.

Eh, people spend time working for fake money. Why bother with that fake money in the first place? If the fake money can lead to fun, but its not fun earning that fake money legit, and you are willing to pay for fun, paying for fake money = paying for fun. And buying any video game is paying for fun. (I don't eBay BTW).

Drops are luck. Clearly it isn't horribly broken if good stuff dropped in a low area for your friend. It's not the biggest crime in the world that I don't win the lottery. It's luck. It's chance. Granted, I wish the odds were better, but if max dmg perfect weapons dropped all the time, what would be the point in having them?

Erm, Southern Shiverpeaks maybe?

Not hard.