Guild Wars 2

Doing map completion and halfway done. Having trouble with the gold part. At 100 of the prolly 2000 I’ll need for mats and for the precursor. Trying to get the predator. Does anyone know any easy way to make decent gold? It’s stressful and any tips would greatly help. I appreciate everyone who comments..

Best advice: unless you want to risk being burned out on the game when you finally do get the legendary, don’t try to see just how fast you can get it.

If it’s stressful, you’re trying to make it too quickly. It’s not supposed to be a stressful goal. It’s supposed to be a long term goal.

Just want to add that they are the same stats as Ascended gear. So you’re really only working towards the skin and the swappable stats.

And is that truly worth the stress and chance of burn out to you?

I’m doing the same, grinding for gold is tedious.
If you have a bunch of alts, gathering can still be pretty lucrative, it’s boring though. http://gw2nodes.com/ will show you where the ori/ancient woods are. Otherwise daily dungeons are pretty good for some extra gold. And the world boss train is alright, just time consuming, http://guildwarstemple.com/dragontimer/events.php?serverKey=119&langKey=1

1st option (most secure) .. Farm everything.

2nd option .. Learn to flip the tp

3rd option .. gather alot of gold, and gamble it all away at once (very depressing, and biggest cause of rage quits in gw2, when you loose it all )

4th option .. (what have worked for me) Don’t bother with farming, play what you enjoy. I do pvp reward tracks for dungeon weapons, and dungeons also for dungeon weapons. I instantly throw the exotics in MF.
This is pure RNG based, but i’ve been kinda lucky this way. Biggest pro about this is that you most likely won’t rage quit with his method xD
There is a big difference in earning enough for a couple forges a day compared to forging 500 g worth of weapons, you know .. on a psychological level ^^

eyesrutherford.1357:

Doing map completion and halfway done. Having trouble with the gold part. At 100 of the prolly 2000 I’ll need for mats and for the precursor. Trying to get the predator. Does anyone know any easy way to make decent gold? It’s stressful and any tips would greatly help. I appreciate everyone who comments..

Ahhhh yes the predator, I was going for it…then gave up because I would really only use it on engi since rifle warrior isn’t the best…and i don’t really play my warrior, and engie needs to use his kits to be fully effective, and I love my phoenix rifle!

ANYWAYS! TIPS! Run the world champ train, salvage rares you can, get the ectos. I highly recommend getting the ectos and crystalline dust first. Why you might ask? Well, they are pretty much the easiest t6 to get access to…least IMO. Once you are maxxed on ectos and the crystalline dust, you can then start to make money just by salvaging the rares and selling the excess ectos…man i’m saying ectos a lot…ectos.

Other tips! I’d say go on the wiki, find out which mob drops what, also orr is good to farm of course for heavy moldy bags. DO NOT OPEN THEM! Least I didn’t, they are worth about 8 silver a piece and you can get a good bit from doing the events, heck even just killing mobs for a good while. Depending on magic find of course.

Also dungeons, great source of raw gold and indirect gold. What you can do is use tokens to buy the exotics, and salvage those for more ectos and even the insignias. IF you do a dungeon that rewards level 68+ rare gear at the dungeon vendor, you can get a lot more ectos to unload for gold! (Note, when doing this, buy the cheapest cloth item, reason being silk goes for a good bit on the market, nothing great but you’ll be getting a lot of it, so use it to craft or just sell the dang things.)

Can craft, with you salvaging so much you’ll probably have a lot of mats you can use to make stuff, which you can sell, or if rare quality salvage for, you guess it ECTOS! How many times have I used that now?(might recommend getting the copper salvage-o-matic, really really helpful for breaking down all the green and lower loot you’ll get without wasting your mystic forge kits.)

Also, really, don’t burn yourself out on trying to make your legendary. In a way, it’s a reward for experiencing all that the game has to offer.