Guild Wars 2

Have not yet tried to play with gambits. Is it worth or should I only do the minimum required for achievements?

Any experience on how the rewards increase?

Every gambit gives you one extra loot bag. Its the same bag you get for beating the enemy. So you can either spend one ticket for one bag, or spend x tickets for x bags. Its a dumb system because the ticket to loot bag ratio doesn’t increase for making many gambits, so the only advantage is that you get rewards faster. I’d say only do it for the challenge.

Seems not like a good system. One of these reward bags is not really giving that much. Sometimes if I remember only a few silver and a few sprockets – not even enough to get a new ticket. You should be able to win much more tickets so you can just farm tickets easily with easy bosses if you need tickets for a harder boss.

If you can find a way to kill a Tier 3 enemy with 4 or 5 gambits active, you can get alot of money and items quick.

If you can enter and win a match every 2 minutes for example like I did on my Ranger, you can get around 14 Gold an hour. . . Yes, that is 14, not 1.4. Doing a Tier 3 match and not dying though with gambits active is pretty darn difficult though, and because of several bugs and my own mistakes, I can often die and lose all 5/6 tickets I spent to start with. (5 tickets cost around 35 silver total (silver and sprocket cost) when if you try to buy them yourself instead of finding them)

Winning a Tier 3 match with 4 gambits can give 5 bags that net anywhere from 40-60 silver total (5 gambits active can be anywhere from 50-75), so you can see the profit margins, provided you don’t die.

Those tier 3 bags you get for winning also have chances for the new Recipes, the New weapon skins, portals, and several other things like Charged Lodestones and more tickets, You also get those watchwork sprockets (normally 4-6 per bag) so you don’t have to buy them or find more to trade for more tickets.

So with alot of planning, it can be much more than worth it, after two days, I have managed to double my money from 25-50 gold, but I probably lost about 15 gold total during that time as well based on trial and error, bugs, and mistakes, and I end up dying about every other match, losing alot of money in the process, but when it works, it works.

Thanks Chrispy. A very helpful post. I haven’t played tier 3 that much yet. Just noticed the silver from the bag is a bit more and I already know about the 4-6 sprockets.

So about 5 tickets = 5 fights… maybe 50 silver, 25 sprockets. That already should be good if you win all 5 fights and can buy for 20 silver and 15 sprockets 5 new tickets and still have made more silver than needed to rebuy.

So gambits will make this faster it seems. But the probability for lodestones and stuff like that for each bag is not higher with gambits? (Only more bags?)

Did not know there were lodestones from that bag. I think I remember getting 1 portal. But lodestones would be nice.

I’m going to try for achievements first and then maybe if I can find an easy boss(slime seems easy if you already have the achievement for not killing the smaller ones and can just AoE and knockback spam him… or other CC).

I opened around 250+ of those bags in two days, and I have gotten 1 Charged Lodestone, and 1 new Weapon skin, and 2 New Rune/Sigil recipes. I also got 5 Portals. Almost everything, except the lodestones and sprockets, are account bound, so I didn’t figure any of that into my 14 gold an hour number. Some classes can do fights faster (such as the Warrior, if used properly) and make in excess of 20 gold an hour (as talked about in this thread: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/jubilee/Gauntlet-Farming-20g-an-hour), but the insane amount of skill required for that makes it completely impossible for some people. This is not a braindead way of making gold (atleast the first few dozen tries aren’t!). The Bags will probably be nerfed next tuesday, but, theres some food for thought if you need some gold Fast!

also, Deadeye is extremely easy if you can figure out his pattern when he teleports around the room.