What do You do For Gold?

Monkish Monkey

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2005

Kinda new to the game and just cant get enough money any advice?

Sister Rosette

Sister Rosette

Lady Fie

Join Date: Aug 2005

Sapporo

Tha Skulls [Ts]

D/W

Well once I have a few in me I get up on the bar and....


Oh. In the game. Um.....farm?

huh

huh

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Hou Lan Geng [HLG]

I buy it off Ebay!!
Yes thats right!
I'm one of those people who have too much money in real-life and too little money in Tyria so I blow it all on in-game gold.

sigh......I wish I had too much money in real-life.

Note for the slow, everything before this line is not true except for the last line before this line.

I kill monsters, and sell whatever garbage they drop to merchants, traders, or other players.

Edit:
Hey when did our little tags come back?
I'm a member of the Ministry of Knowledge!!
Woohooo

Sister Rosette

Sister Rosette

Lady Fie

Join Date: Aug 2005

Sapporo

Tha Skulls [Ts]

D/W

They came back around 8:00 AM central time.

nightrunner

nightrunner

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Oct 2005

San Francisco

W/Mo

Search the forums for farming strategies. The majority of farming is done by Warriors (usually W/Mo) or smiting monks (usually Mo/W), but not always.

That said, if you're new to the game, you'll want to play through nearly the entire game before farming. Just playing the missions and doing the quests will get you enough money to buy the best AL armor in the game (Droks). It's less efficient to farm at lower level areas, you get more money for your time farming high level areas.

Ashleigh McMahon

Ashleigh McMahon

Site Contributor

Join Date: Apr 2005

North East England

WoTU[Warlords of the Underworld]

Mo/Me

Heheh.

I asked this earlier, it got fixed, i'm so happy
Hello my personalized title

Regards,
Ashleigh.

Xue Yi Liang

Xue Yi Liang

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

Northern CA

Outlaws of the Water Margin

Mo/Me

One popular way to earn money is to hang around in any city and spam the chat with "please give me money." If you're lucky you might earn enough after 200 hours of begging to buy a starter wand.

j/k - please don't do that.

Pik uR BuM

Pik uR BuM

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2005

aussieland

Quote:
Originally Posted by Xue Yi Liang
One popular way to earn money is to hang around in any city and spam the chat with "please give me money." If you're lucky you might earn enough after 200 hours of begging to buy a starter wand.

j/k - please don't do that.
Hahahaha...

...hahahaha...

i bet you've tried that before.
The only way to get money is to farm, find items worth something eg. gold items or pickup everything you find and sell it to the merchant if you've just started.

One and Two

One and Two

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2005

You can always /dance.

Rico Carridan

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

Eternal Comrades

E/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Monkish Monkey
Kinda new to the game and just cant get enough money any advice?
I've found running to be a pretty good way of making money, if you're a warrior. Even at mid levels (~15), you can make about 1-2k doing a run from Ascalon city up to courthouse, or Yak's bend if you have balanced stance, for example (500 g each for 3 people, something like that). Once you get to 20, you can take on more difficult runs, like Lion's to Temple of Ages or ToA to Sanctum. Once you get charge!, you can do forge runs that will net you 10k or more per run. Of course, by that point, you don't have a whole lot of use for money so...

Rico

Suuk

Suuk

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2005

the Netherlands

Lovers of Whisky and Women (LWW)

E/

  • Dont buy new armor everytime you have a new opportunity to do so. Like, buying it in Ascalon, buying it in Yaks, buying it in LA, etc.
  • Make sure you know what drops salvage in materials you need for armor. Salvage these drops. Either sell the other drops or salvage for materials, which you can sell to materials trader or to other players (dont go standing there all day, but go back to Yaks, LA or whatever place where armor can be crafted once in a while).
  • Make sure that if you sell drops to the merchant you identify them before you sell. This way you get a better price. This is only worth the cost of the id-kit with the items you get when you are away from Ascalon (already around Yaks?). Not sure where exactly the break-down-point is.
  • Dont buy fiery dragon swords for 5K
  • etc (aka read other posts)

Seissor

Seissor

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2005

Squiggilyville. Population: Me.

[oRly] Hello Kitty Death Squad

R/Me

-Run from Ascalon to Lions Arch for cash.
-Run to all desert locales for cash.
-Run to Copperhammer, and Ghrotto for cash.
-Kill minotaurs and griffosn outside augury for cash and drops.
-Do the final few missions over and over for cash and drops.

Evil Hypnotist

Evil Hypnotist

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2005

I Dragon I [PAIN]

I too had problems getting enough money together until I decided to farm sorrows, maybe 2k per run plus the chance to have a green dropped. The real wage-earner for me was picking up everything i could get my hands on and salvage all the white items and sell everything else. Been doing that a couple of hours a day for a week now and I have 55k in the bank, not much compared to some but a hell of a lot more than I had a weeks ago

The_Janitor

The_Janitor

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2005

New Jersey

The Adventurer's Society [TAS]

Me/N

Quote:
Originally Posted by One and Two
You can always /dance.
My preferred method