Guild Wars 2

im lvl 36 and i cant afford any good item. repairing equipment is expansive,traveling too, i cant afford any rare part. if arenanet is trying to make me buy gems,it might make me buy gold. u said its 1 time pay and u lied like all mmo developers. without pumping euros in ur pockets its impossible to play.

ill quit or ill buy gold,tyvm

What’s your goal then? What are you trying to get?

I havent had any problems so far. I’ve even got meself enough gold to buy me 2 minipet packs just for the fun of it.

I believe the word you are looking for is EXPENSIVE…not “expansive”

I would offer suggestions as to ways of mitigating your costs, but since you are threatening with gold buying, the single greatest detriment to the game, then quite frankly sir, I don’t give a skritt.

Pick up a crafting profession and build the items yourself? If youre buying from the playermarket its not Anets fault that the items are expensive.

And instead of traveling around alot, run! Kill things on the way and sell what you find, that way youll save alot of gold.

Also, dont salvage every item you find, sell it to vendor (except when salvaging for sigils/ecto @ lvl 80). The price of the salvage material are in most cases less worth then the item sells to vendor for.

Vorch.2985:

I believe the word you are looking for is EXPENSIVE…not “expansive”

I would offer suggestions as to ways of mitigating your costs, but since you are threatening with gold buying, the single greatest detriment to the game, then quite frankly sir, I don’t give a skritt.

its not a threat. as a customer i can buy their product(gems) or another product. as they created the need for the produnt itself, im feeling free to choose whatever is cheaper.

AsgardNation.2953:

im lvl 36 and i cant afford any good item. repairing equipment is expansive,traveling too, i cant afford any rare part. if arenanet is trying to make me buy gems,it might make me buy gold. u said its 1 time pay and u lied like all mmo developers. without pumping euros in ur pockets its impossible to play.

ill quit or ill buy gold,tyvm

Considering Arenanet sell gold… Mission accomplished?

Okay I’ll try and be helpful here. I just bought a full set of Masterwork level 40 cloth gear for about 20 copper over vendor prices. The total cost was a few silver which I’ll make back most of when I vendor them. I also managed to pick up a few % of magic find so odds are this will actually make me money. Rares are, well, rare. You don’t need them, if you find them they’re a great source of income.

Apart from that gather everything and sell some of the stuff you don’t use. If you aren’t dying left and right the only thing that’s actually too expensive is travelling, and I’m afraid that’s working as intended. Anet are after our money when it comes right down to it.

AsgardNation.2953:

Vorch.2985:

I believe the word you are looking for is EXPENSIVE…not “expansive”

I would offer suggestions as to ways of mitigating your costs, but since you are threatening with gold buying, the single greatest detriment to the game, then quite frankly sir, I don’t give a skritt.

its not a threat. as a customer i can buy their product(gems) or another product. as they created the need for the produnt itself, im feeling free to choose whatever is cheaper.

You are really thinking about buying from gold sellers? Those TheWordKittenIsTooSweetForThem who are ruining the whole economy? Those $%^&%$$% who destroy dynamic events?

How about instead learning to manage your income better?

I haven’t had any problems either. Not sure why people complain about this so much….

You don’t need to be buying rares at level 36 to level. I’d go further and say you don’t need to use the market at all, but if you do? You can get fine quality item to keep your gear up to date for mere coppers.

So basically, what on earth are you talking about? You don’t even remotely need to spend all your gold to play.

How do you not have money? If I didn’t purchase crafting recipe items I’d probably have even more.

A full set of gear around your level is maybe a few silver, cultural armor tier 1 not counted.

’’’’’’im lvl 36 and i cant afford any good item. repairing equipment is expansive,traveling too, i cant afford any rare part. if arenanet is trying to make me buy gems,it might make me buy gold. u said its 1 time pay and u lied like all mmo developers. without pumping euros in ur pockets its impossible to play.

ill quit or ill buy gold,tyvm’’’’’

Sorry to say that , but you doing something wrong if you dont have money to afford anything.
At 66 lvl i got 2 proffessions at nearly 300 ( upgraded with personal mats i found and some mats i bought from trading post) and i still running with 3 golds ( bought the Trait books too)
You dont really need to get gems to play this game

its not a threat. as a customer i can buy their product(gems) or another product. as they created the need for the produnt itself, im feeling free to choose whatever is cheaper.

There is no need to buy gold in this game, please don’t ruin this game by supporting those scumbags.
Also, if you’re finding yourself that broke, you’re doing something wrong. By lvl 20, I had the necessary 1G (plus extra) to buy the 2nd skill book, which I bought. Then I saw it wasn’t useful until lvl 40 (so I banked it and moved on). By the time I reached lvl 40 and could use that book, I didn’t need to buy it again and had roughly 3.5G in my pockets. Gold is scarce, to be sure, but you shouldn’t ever find yourself running out of it.

Protips (or semi-protips):
1.) Mine every node, chop every tree, pick every herb. Every if you have no intention of ever using these items in a profession (cooking, for example) you can sell the goods on the TP for a small profit.
2.) Don’t buy useless crap. I see folks posting leveling guides with nonsense like “replace your gear every 5-10 levels.” This is stupid and wrong, don’t do this. You can easily get by just using what you find when killing enemies and questing. Occasionally you may want to upgrade your weapon to up your damage, do so by buying the cheap Karma “Invader” weapons in the WvW area. They’re only a couple hundred karma, and can be useful upgrades.
3.) If you’re trying to level professions, DO NOT buy ingredient crap on the TP unless it’s absolutely necessary. You get the most experience/progress from discovering recipes, and you will likely find enough raw mats just leveling in the world to level the profs to a pretty high skill without wasting money on unnecessary materials. If you find yourself short, don’t buy stuff, just go back to a lowbie zone for an hour or two, do some hearts, explore the map, and collect materials. You’ll be gaining gold, exp, and mats while working on 100% map completion all at the same time.
4.) Don’t buy your cultural tier armor at lvl 35. it’s a waste. Maybe you’ll want to buy it later for appearances, but statwise it’s not that significant an upgrade to justify the costs (IMO).

The Trade Post is the complete opposite of expensive for low level items, the abundance of them makes them no more than 2c above the vendor price. You could get a whole set really inexpensively.

Low level Mats
SELL FOR ALOT
if you are a low level person and say you got 5 blood 20 lute scraps and other items Sell it thats there is instant 10s which will pay for alot of your fares at low level It really is not hard to earn enough money to get by