I had 40 gold and I felt poor

I had 40 gold and I felt poor

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Posted by: XPilo.5862

XPilo.5862

Man you can do 15-20 gold in less than 2 hours doing dungeons. And gold on this game is only to buy new looks.

I had 40 gold and I felt poor

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Posted by: Awbee.8405

Awbee.8405

The bullkitten RNG in this game is bullkitten. Don’t ever expect to loot anything yourself. If you want something you either grind gold or buy gems and convert to gold. There is some guides to help with grinding gold but its mostly a very boring unfulfilling job.

I feel that this is one of the few real weaknesses the game has at the moment. In another famous MMO that I play, I always have something interesting to do on any of my characters, because all the “goals” I have in that game (stats armor, transmute armor, mini pets, mounts, etc) can be reached by more or less interesting means like questing, running old or new dungeons /raids, completing achievements, gathering reputation, and so on.

Whereas in GW2, when I have a goal (a certain look or mini etc), most of the time the only way to realistically and reliably aquire it is the TP, so the way to aquire these items is always the same: farm gold. Farm gold, farm gold, farm gold. As efficiently as possible.
Or in the case of the exclusive BLC weapons: farm human personal story until you keel over.
It doesn’t make for interesting gameplay most of the time. Champion farming for weeks on end isn’t interesting. :/

You should either be able to aquire a lot more gold than you currently do by “playing the game” (aka no dedicated farming, no TP shuffling), or rewards shouldn’t be so highly RNG dependent.