Guild Wars 2

Hi, I’m quite familiar with dungeons but I must still have some noob in me as I seriously cannot figure out why people would buy arah paths at 7g/8g that they sometimes list at.

I assume it’s nice and quick, which is convenient, but you gain 3g 26s plus 60 shards, which can be 2 rares -> on average 2.5 ectos with a BLSK, plus other minor items, let’s round up to 1.5g. That means you just paid 7+ gold for less than 5g in rewards.

Can someone explain the logic of this? I keep seeing these LFGs posted so they must be working for the runners (and I have nothing against people selling paths, fwiw).

I’ve thought maybe it had to do with getting exotics weapons but that’d take almost 4 runs to get the cheapest exotic, and losing 2g per run means you’re paying way more than market value.

Maybe it’s about berserker armor? But, CoF tokens can purchase berserker armor so that would both be quicker and you’d make money in the process.

I’ve thought maybe it was for the XP, but XP isn’t a daily reward, so couldn’t you just keep rerunning CoF p1? So that must not be it.

I’ve thought maybe it was for achievement hunters, but it seems like most of those people would actually want to earn the achievement, and the market for those that don’t would shrivel up quickly.

So I honestly cannot understand why people would pay money to make less money. What am I missing?

Tokens for armor, alt leveling, boredom, having enough gold but not enough time, feeling like supporting local dungeon sellers (my reason generally), monthly dungeons or daily dungeons, fun. There are a lot of reasons.

Exactly. It’s about saving time/frustration, not getting rewards.

It’s mostly about getting the armor/weapon skins, or Dungeon Master title.

thanks for the answers! Obviously some people have different concepts of value than I do, and that explains why I was confused.

These seem like legitimate reasons, and I hope to one day be rich enough to consider them :P

For what it’s worth, I’ve been desperate/tired enough to sell p2 for 4 or even 3.5 gp. There are some good values at 3 AM

I don`t buy dungeon paths at all. There are far too many scammers around who take your gold then kick you.

I’m “dat guy” that sells for 3gold, literally takes like 10-20minutes to fill up my party for free gold and tokens -_-. PS I don’t scam, I always tell people that I’m streaming my run just to assure them I am legit.

Anyways to answer on whos buying? I think its mainly people who want the Arah armor skin.

Mac.3872:

I don`t buy dungeon paths at all. There are far too many scammers around who take your gold then kick you.

That’s too bad. I buy semi regularly and have never had that happen. More often, a scammer comes in to kick the seller. The seller always returns the gold.

The ones that scam are usually people that you can tell if they are going to scam as soon as you enter the instance (sitting at the dungeon entrance, no objectives complete or path selected).

In my experience all people who put the effort in to complete the dungeon will not scam legitimate buyers. There are rare exceptions such as guild groups selling at the end and repeatedly kicking pugs after paying. Although ive never witnessed it, only heard rumors (could be untrue).

spoj.9672:

The ones that scam are usually people that you can tell if they are going to scam as soon as you enter the instance (sitting at the dungeon entrance, no objectives complete or path selected).

In my experience all people who put the effort in to complete the dungeon will not scam legitimate buyers. There are rare exceptions such as guild groups selling at the end and repeatedly kicking pugs after paying. Although ive never witnessed it, only heard rumors (could be untrue).

Yup, that. I’ve bought Arah paths three or four times (got lucky and grabbed a couple “p1 5g” and “p2 5g” postings) for quick tokens for armor. I never had any issues where I was scammed. I always took screenshots of the name of the person I paid, just in case, but things always went smoothly.