Guild Wars 2

Someone in a group I was in got a SPARK drop (which currently sells for around 1100g) so after selling – TP taxes they would have a little less than 1000g. We all asked "what will you do with the $? They didn’t really know… I had to think about it too… As an aside, they didn’t have the 5% listing fee so would have to sell at the highest buy price anyway.

How would you SPEND 1000g?

Hmm…

tough choice but a toss up between;

Buying up the exotic minis I lack
or
Putting it towards collections and/or armour I lack for cultural/fashion sets

Buy armors, weapons and things for my alts basically.

I have accumulated roughly 1600g on my travels so far, and money tends to usually go towards new full builds (armor sets + runes) or weapon skins.

The answer is quite obvious: People who have that kind of gold and spend it do so on a precurser as it’s more than enough for everything else.

- Buy black Lions weapons

- Buy silk to craft ascended armor

- Maybe buy one of the weapons A Gift of Light is used to make.

Give about 500g away to randoms in chat. Give friend about 200g. buy random skins with the rest

Buy 1800 gems and transfer to SFR for guaranteed first-place WvW prizes and maximum XP, karma, and loot bags from EotM. It’s amazing the difference ‘training’ that doesn’t constantly get interrupted by a bigger zerg can earn.

No skill required! Pay to win ftw!

Oh… and before you whine about hate… I’m serious. I’d transfer in a heartbeat. Servers mean nothing anymore. Why wouldn’t one want to be on the side guaranteed to win.

1000g is not much. I would probably spend it in a blink of an eye to complete collection achievements.
Still need about 40-50.000 gold to finish them all.

Buy a spark off of the TP.

I’d get Tooth of Frostfang. It’s the last thing I need for my Frostfang!

I’d save the rest to get a start on Howler.

I would organize games with prizes or help my friends

BL wepon skills a full set to get the 7 BL tickets for the next set etc… as a means of saving gold from set to set and a way to get a full wepon skill set. At least till the 1k gold is gone but i think its more then 1k G to start the combo i am not comply sure on the numbers.

Dump it in my Eternity fund.

Invest them in stuff and later turn this stuff into profit.

Finish my Frostfang

i would buy pumpkin infinity

DonQuack.9025:

Give about 500g away to randoms in chat. Give friend about 200g. buy random skins with the rest

Haha I do that sometimes; I tend to waste pockets of 70g in the MF so sometimes I transform into a quaggas and sit on a rock and send 15-20g to people who pass me and email them saying the Mighty Quagg Quagg bestows his blessing on you. 3/10 people send the gold back. Makes me sad

I would play the TP and make 10,000G

Buy the scarlet rifle and see if I had enough left over to buy an inanimate object transformation potion lol.

Buy the Hunter, so I can finish “The Predator”. All gifts are ready, just need precursor.

I’d fully expand my account to its maximum. 8-10 character slots, all bag slots for each character, full bank tabs + maxed out guild storage, full makeover for every character, and then I’ll get my materials for my legendary and ascended gear for my main and my other two female humans if anything is left.

I’d buy Tyria a little chunk of world peace, bro. World peace.

Just FWIW, using “Sell to the highest bidder” still charges you the 5% fee up front, so he’ll be unable to sell it until he comes up with the fee. It then takes the remaining 10% from the sale and makes it available for pickup from the TP Trader. 50g isn’t that much, I’m sure if they knows a few people in game they could find someone willing to loan them the fee for a few minutes.

So if the current highest bidder is at 1,000g, it would immediately take 50g from his wallet to sell the item, then he would pick up 900g from the TP Trader. (Total Fee: 150g).

That said, I’m a packrat. I probably wouldn’t buy anything – unless Gem prices come back down, then I’d probably convert half of it to Gems and hold onto the rest for a rainy day.

I got Zap from the forge a while back. I used the profits to help pay for making Eternity.

Now that that’s made, I’d definitely use it on an Ascended Armor set then save up the rest for future gemstore armor (not outfits) or items from expansion-quality content (Not Living Story).

Georgieee.4958:

DonQuack.9025:

Give about 500g away to randoms in chat. Give friend about 200g. buy random skins with the rest

Haha I do that sometimes; I tend to waste pockets of 70g in the MF so sometimes I transform into a quaggas and sit on a rock and send 15-20g to people who pass me and email them saying the Mighty Quagg Quagg bestows his blessing on you. 3/10 people send the gold back. Makes me sad

I think My other account was one of those people. Sorry Hun. I don’t take money form random people. =) Appreciate the awesome gesture though!

I’d buy Leaf of Kudzu for a friend.

Jana.6831:

The answer is quite obvious: People who have that kind of gold and spend it do so on a precurser as it’s more than enough for everything else.

lol

“more than enough for everything else”

not even CLOSE – believe me
xD

with 2 black lion skins alone the 1000g can be easily gone…

now i for example like many different styles for every character i play (8+)
i even have usually between 2-4 different armor sets on every character of mine (with different looks so i need new weapon and armorskins and not just use 1 skin for 2 sets)

and 2 blakc lion skins are like 30% for ONE characters look maybe..
for example warrior has a fiery zerker style —> if i buy only pyro greatsword and sword the 1000g are almost gone already
still need a fitting longbow then and Axe and Mace

then i have a condi set different style new weapons
etc etc.

the same thing for at least 5 characters tha ti actively play atm (and plan to equip the other 3 more when i have materials)

as you see 1000g can be gone VERY fast! ^^

ofc you can get some nice skins with much less and if you have only 1 character that you mainly play thats a complete different story but me and most people i know have between 3 to 6 characters that they regulary play and therefor equip

if you then hunt for achievement slike collections you can count in a lot more gold

im more with what Malediktus said … maybe not 40.000 but at least 15.000g that i could use and immediatly spend

Buy up all the cheaper ticket skins

Its interesting to see what each person would do in game, is shows the way different people play the game, me personally id either put it towards mats to help a friend get infinite light, or id buy 1000g worth or exotics and forge them to try for pre’s ( im kinda addicted to do that )

I once had over 2k gold. I’ve been lucky enough to get 3 precursors. I’ve given away over 800g, some to friends, some to strangers. I bought at least a dozen people kites, 3 people commander tags (before the price increase) and a fuzzy bear hat for a few people as well. I usually hover around 100 – 200g at this point.

But to answer your question: spoil people.

I’d make a full ascended armor set of all 3 armor types to get that Achievement about that done in no time.

If then stays some money over and its enough, I’d buy a missing exotic weapon from the exotic hunter achievement or maybre two in regard of how much money is left over after the 3 full ascended armor sets.

If the money shouldn’t be enough for all 3 armor types for full sets, then at least for 2.

Will add it to the gold i already have and buy a dusk…thats all i want

If you’d asked a month ago I would have said most of it would go on buying The Lover.

But now I’ve got that it would go towards one or more of the other things I’m working on:

• Ascended coat for my ranger
• Spinal Blades
• Mawdrey
• Triforge Amulet
• Mini pet collection

Obviously I’m working on The Dreamer too, but I’m taking my time with that as I still need to finish map completion and I do that very slowly.

I personally would buy some skins. As a scrubby noob, I only have access to a few skins, and 99% of my equip drops are iron or soft wood

Buttercup.5871:

Amurond.4590:

Dump it in my Eternity fund.

Same! I’m about 1k away from buying it straight up, so I know what I’d do

Roughly 1,800g here (assuming a very conservative 1/2 way between buy order & sell).

I’m still bugging that friend of mine who left the game in 2013 to hurry up and give me that kitten greatsaw skin that’s rotting in his bank.

I got Dusk from a champ. bag and i made it soulbound on my guardian. I like dusk more than the legendary you need it for. And when i need gold i farm for a week.
greetz exp

Save it for when gem market drops down again below 11 gold then sell said gems around xmas for 13-15g for 100. Did it last year and walked away with a 5k gold prof

The funny thing is before I had money, I wanted it so much. Now that I have 2.7K, I don’t know what to do with it. :s

exp.3178:

I got Dusk from a champ. bag and i made it soulbound on my guardian. I like dusk more than the legendary you need it for. And when i need gold i farm for a week.
greetz exp

A better approach would have been to sell Dusk and buy or craft Naegling which has the same skin but costs about 60g, then use the rest of the money for other things.

Add it to the 100g i usually run around with upgrading home borderland. It will be gone ina few months anyway that way.

I’d save it.

I’d flip stuff on the TP and have another 1000 g 2 weeks later.

Gems and weapon skins. Probably give one or two of my characters a makeover.

I currently have just over 700g . I have the armor and weapons I want thus far, so what I do with it is let it sit in my bank collecting dust.

I’d use it to make the infusions I need for high level fractals, and maybe to make another ascended armor set.

penelopehannibal.8947:

The funny thing is before I had money, I wanted it so much. Now that I have 2.7K, I don’t know what to do with it. :s

You have 2,7k gold and you don’t know what to do with it ? I’d love to be in your situation xD

Hmm, how about you help with it people, that could need a little money injection sometimes here n there??
Nothing big, like between a range of 5-50g
That kind of range can do some tremendous help very often for alot of people already and youself can naturally decide, how generous you want to be.

With like 40-50g you could help me at the moment for a simple example with getting my Exotic Hunter Achievement done so that I could buy me a missing exotic weapon from that list from the TP for which I would otherwise have to grind douzens of times the dungeons for that money xD

Somebody else might use such an amount of money perhaps to buy his/her absolute dream dye, or use it to buy all the needed materials to level up a Crafting Job to 500 ect. pp.
I can’t believe, that You have no goals anymore or no use anymore for gold ^^

There are so many ways how you could help out people, when you self have more than enough of money and no goals anymore for what to use it, if you mean that serious, other than maybe turning it into Gems.

I wish I’d ever have so much money like you lol (not wanting to sound like begging or so, but I’d naturally appreciate help in my goals when you self have no usage for gold anymore, other than Gems perhaps.

Life is unfair xD lol ^^

I recently looted Xanthium of Dreams, sold it and a few other things to obtain 1000 gold. I spent some of it leveling my last two crafts to 500, made a few ascended weapons, outfitted some alts, finished the ascended skins collection, bought a recipe so that I could craft and sell something for long term profit, used some of it to buy gems for things, bought a birthday present for a friend, started doing crazy stuff like crafting rare weapons to throw into the forge, and most recently placed a buy offer for the Lover which I may or may not remove (I like seeing hundreds of gold when I look at my wallet).

Sell the gold for real money, buy Assassin’s Creed Unity and quit this stupid game that keeps everything secret, makes no promises and isn’t going anywhere.
J,K

Buy all the high profile dyes I got missing it’s the only collection that mean anything
to me and keep the rest for future legendary.

I would probably buy some cultural armors and spoil my 9 characters with the best armors and weapons available. Of course I would also share the gold with my fiance, maybe secretly buy all his characters the best armors or even convert some gold to gems and if there’s enough left, buy him nice stuff from the gem shop like new character slots. I’d probably also buy rare dyes and minis for friends.