Guild Wars 2

Many people I know have personally told me that they do not know how to earn enough money to support themselves, which surprised me immensely. If you want to gain money, and only money, then there are always ways to gain a lot of it.

CoF part 1 is my answer. Doesn’t surprise you, does it? Getting some magic find food and running through it a couple times a day will get you a few gold, which is enough to support yourself. Should you find the need for more gold, use the dungeon tokens you received as a reward and buy exotic armor pieces with the tokens. From there, you can either: A. Salvage them for ectos/other mats or B. Mystic Forge that crap. I personally wouldn’t recommend mystic forging anything nowadays, but that’s just me being paranoid.

Should you have need of even more gold, doing the daily and buying the tier 6 mats from the laurel vendor should get you about 50 silver. If you don’t feel inclined to go for the pointless ascended gear, then you can save up your laurels and buy all the tier 6 mats you want.

Buying rares from the TP and mystic forging them hoping for a precursor is a definite no no. Though there are some people that have claimed they did this and got a precursor, I have done it on multiple occasions to no avail and would not recommend doing this as you will go broke soon. I can almost guarantee you cannot stop spending money hoping for a precursor. If you need to mystic forge something, get rares from the meta-bosses and mystic forge those bad boys.

Go to meta-boss events and get the chest at the end. You get a guaranteed rare and a chance at more rares or a precursor (yeah right), and some salvageable items. You can either salvage the rares for the ectos, if you’re saving the ectos, or you can sell the actual rare on the TP for a little bit more money.

These are the fastest ways I’ve learned of how to get money quickly and efficiently. I hope this helps any new players wondering about this particular aspect of Guild Wars 2.

For the more experienced GW2 players: What are some of the ways you guys earn money quickly?

I threw 80 rares into the Mystic Forge today and pulled The Chosen. Sold it for 314 gold. Feeling rich right now.

1. Lions arch usually has banners up at peak times and it’s worth the silver to jump there to get the buff.
2. Keep food buffs up.
3. If you camp the boss events don’t just stand there waiting – farm until it starts.
4. Kite as many mobs as you can handle into a blob then aoe them.
5. Use speed buffs to get you to the next mob quickly – the quicker you travel the more money you make.
6. Don’t just farm one area or for one thing – stay ahead of the DR.

These are my general rules when I actively farm, hope it helps.

I don’t really care for the whole CoF P1 farming culture (a topic in many other threads that should stay there), so I farm Frostgorge Sound for T6 mats and Corrupted Lodestones. I make similar money to my guildies who farm CoF P1; it’s much less on a bad day, much more on a good day. You can bypass the issues one may have with CoF , with the only caveat being that magic find gear is requisite. While good money solo, it really comes into its own with random farming neighbors, or especially a friend/guildmate or two.

I tried my hand at the mystic forge once, made about 20g in a day only to lose it all and more over the next two days. 3: I would not recommend it either.

Meta-boss hopping has never really been that great for me, to be honest. When I’m in Frostgorge and I see Claw of Jormag up, I usually go for it, but I end up spending quite a lot of time off farming for what’s often just one rare. Two T6s alone in that time would have covered that (this ignores both CoJ chest exotics and Corrupted Lodestones, for equity’s sake). As for less time-consuming meta events, time spent waiting on windows and money spent WPing all over the map tends to gnaw at the profitability of it. I usually only do this when I explicitly require ectoplasm, but even at that farming the money to buy them usually goes faster for me.

tl;dr: I don’t like CoF, I’m indifferent to world bosses, and I like Frostgorge very much.

bloodletting wolf.2837:

1. Lions arch usually has banners up at peak times and it’s worth the silver to jump there to get the buff.
2. Keep food buffs up.
3. If you camp the boss events don’t just stand there waiting – farm until it starts.
4. Kite as many mobs as you can handle into a blob then aoe them.
5. Use speed buffs to get you to the next mob quickly – the quicker you travel the more money you make.
6. Don’t just farm one area or for one thing – stay ahead of the DR.

These are my general rules when I actively farm, hope it helps.

You are a wise wolf. If you want money, do all of this. (About the DR, I never farm long enough to feel the effects of it.)

Pappy.2758:

I threw 80 rares into the Mystic Forge today and pulled The Chosen. Sold it for 314 gold. Feeling rich right now.

It’s amazing how it feels that you can buy all the kitten you want without having to be worried that you’re going to run out.

Galtrix.7369:

CoF part 1 is my answer. Doesn’t surprise you, does it? Getting some magic find food and running through it a couple times a day will get you a few gold, which is enough to support yourself. Should you find the need for more gold, use the dungeon tokens you received as a reward and buy exotic armor pieces with the tokens. From there, you can either: A. Salvage them for ectos/other mats or B. Mystic Forge that crap. I personally wouldn’t recommend mystic forging anything nowadays, but that’s just me being paranoid.

I do this, except the rares you can buy with tokens are a high enough level to salvage for ectos. One run will get you enough tokens for 3 rare pieces for up to 9 ectos if you’re lucky.

I’d also salvage some of the ectos into crystalline dust, and use that to forge your Molten Cores into Lodestones for a good markup.

bloodletting wolf.2837:

1. Lions arch usually has banners up at peak times and it’s worth the silver to jump there to get the buff.
2. Keep food buffs up.
3. If you camp the boss events don’t just stand there waiting – farm until it starts.
4. Kite as many mobs as you can handle into a blob then aoe them.
5. Use speed buffs to get you to the next mob quickly – the quicker you travel the more money you make.
6. Don’t just farm one area or for one thing – stay ahead of the DR.

These are my general rules when I actively farm, hope it helps.

good tips, i’d also add bring a ranged weapon, in areas with many players it can be a lot easier to get hits on more mobs than a melee weapon.

Also how long does it take for the DR to kick in when farming an area?

Im just waiting to see if they’ll give us some actual farming spots. The mystic forge pooped out the colossus for me earlier so Im good for money now, but I would like some spots to farm in now and again. Spots that don’t take 3 hours of farming to get 1 corrupted lodestone. (Frostgorge coughcough). CoF p1 is all fine and dandy, but when its the only viable option to make decent money, it gets to be more of a chore then anything after doing it for the thousandth time

Find a competent group with which to run CoE. (standard dungeon group – Guard, 3 Warrs, Mes) More up and down than CoF, but that makes it more interesting. There will be dry runs – though those are not valueless – but there will also be runs with multiple charged cores, or even the odd lodestone, worth over 1g and 3g respectively.

Key thing is to mix things up. Yes, running CoF 24/7 is probably best for money, but it is eye-bleedingly boring if it’s all you do. I don’t have infinite time to play, so on a typical day I’ll do a CoF P1 run, maybe a P2, 1-3 paths of CoE, P1 HotW, some combination thereof. 60 tokens per run = two extra rares. And toss in the odd dragon event or WvW. Slower than nothing but CoF but you won’t hate yourself and the game won’t feel like a job.