Guild Wars 2

So for the past few days I’ve been grinding “a lot” of gold to save up and buy The Hunter of Rage (Plated Sniper Rifle in PvP) however, the price just increases more and more!

Before it was about 50G and then slowly crept up to 62G and then 75G. But now overnight, it’s being sold for 120G!?

The Hunter is my favorite weapon skin in the game, and until I can obtain it, I’m not doing much else in Guild Wars 2 besides working for it.

The question is should I continue saving money and buy from the trade post? Or is it unbelievably easier to do some other method of farming specifically for this gun? I heard Mystic Forge can make it? Please clarify the recipe?

You can gamble, but the odds are against you.

AFAIK the prerequisite weapons to make Legendary weapons (of which ‘The Hunter’ is one) require you to stuff 4 rares (or exotics; level 70+ .. or maybe its 76+?) of the weapon type you want into the forge and then hope you get super lucky with the random number generator and it spits out the exact exotic you want (in this case, ‘The Hunter’).

Basically you’d be feeding, at the cheapest, 4 high level rare rifles into the My$tic Forge over and over and over again. You’ll get a lot of “hey I put in 4 rares and it gave me 1 rare back that isn’t any better”, maybe a few “hey those 4 rares turned into a level 80 exotic, but it isn’t the one I want”, and if you’re lucky 1 “zOMG my Hunter!”

IMHO, save your cash. Either the rifle you want will drop in price if the supply goes up (not too overly likely) or you’ll find a different skin you want (more likely, especially as they add content in the future).

So I should save my cash afterall.

Now, if I place a bid of a “very high” amount of gold and then someone places a bid higher than me, wont black lion trade take a bunch of gold from me if I want to withdraw it and big higher? I’m confused how offers work?

One dude is currently offering 77G. Hypothetically I offer 78G and someone outbids me, then do I lose money with tax to bid even more than him?

Im not sure if I understand your last question, but asuming I do: Whenever you place a bid, you are not charged any tax. If you placed 75g up for the item, and changed your mind later for whatever reason, as long as you didnt actually get the item yet, your money is in the pick up tab without any tax taken.
It is only a listing tax and a sales tax currently. Placing a bid, doesnt equal a listing, and since youre not the seller, you also arent deducted a sales tax.

Kain, no, there is no charge for placing a buy order.

If you offer 78g and the guy who offered 77g bumps up to 78.01g then you can, in turn, offer 78.02g without loss of coin.

AFAIK (so don’t take my word for it, test with small amounts first), there is no charge for ending a buy order. Not so for sell orders of course- you lose your 5% listing fee when you post something for sale, so it’s gone whether the item sells or you eventually remove the listing.

If it were me, I’d place a reasonable buy order and just leave it there why continuing to farm more cash. You never know when there might be a sudden increase in the numbers available (that’s the nature of random numbers), and you suddenly find your order unexpectedly filled. Don’t just hope for the best, be prepared in case it happens.