Guild Wars 2

So when i reach lvl 80 then what should i do to get money into my pockets? I know crafting is possible and so is making money off the trade exchange.

How should i approach this by getting some $ into my pockets? I have only 5 gold.

What did you do when you were poor?

Dungeon runs are enjoyable for me and yield 1g per run at least… A lot of people would say champ farming is the fastest way though (other than TP flipping which I don’t particularly care for).

You could also make ascended mats and sell those if you don’t care for ascended weapons.

You just reach lvl80 so suggest you don’t be too hurry into the money making world. Many (almost all) things are profitable in PVE. You can gain good money from dungeon. Easy rare drops from world boss events. A lot of blues & greens if you champ farm. Also gathering is profitable.

TP is possible but it needs much patient and time investment. So I would avoid that unless you like looking at stock market instead of playing an MMO.

My advise, my truest advise which netted me a quite respectable amount of gold wile still remaining non-boring and repetitive? Do NOT do champion chains. Not only are they beyond boring, mind numbing, slightly nerfed (recently), repetitive, fun-sucking, highly profitable still, but they will make sure you become “greedy” and every content you do from then on will be compared to “time vs gold” ratio and how you could have been on that champion chain making 3 times the amount of money you are making by helping friends or doing other non-gold-profit stuff.

Dungeons is BY FAR the best answer. Get a group of friends ( I made around 3-4 Dungeon friends who do dungeons on regular basis and we call eachother out before doing dungeons as our to-go guys, resorting to pug for the rest of the group.) It will increase exponetially the fun, but give you friends, ensure the group is “geared” and knows its stuff, knows your style, you know their style, might even team on some voice-chat.

As for gold, dont worry to much for it, it comes the better when you are not going for it.

But do dungeons; dungeons that you find fun! (AC , love blue. HoTW love snow and winter-oriented maps. SE; i HATE dredges, cant wait to kill some more in the bunchs)

Dungeons are good, and so is map completion.

Once you’ve got a little jingle in your pocket, you can start gambling on the Trading Post.

Crafting is largely useless for money making, outside of some very specific places (like certain parts, completed items are almost never worth it).

Personally, I like the world boss train. In 2 hours you can make approx 15g. On my server, LOTS of people do this, and I always group up with friends or guild mates. If you enjoy dungeons, do that. If you enjoy “stock market ticker” play the trading post. Personally, I’m an accountant and the thought of more THOUGHT in my PLAY time is not fun… at all. Keep in mind that you will need most waypoints for world boss train. There’s nothing worse than being left behind because you haven’t been to a certain map/WP. Regular champ farming has died right off on my server in the high level area, so that’s not really an option anymore.

Keep in mind how much gold you can make depends largely on how you play. I am not really working toward anything like a legendary, so I salvage and sell everything I get. My son, on the other hand, enjoys crafting everything he has and so keeps everything for that. I have gold, he does not. He has fun, I have fun. Play how you like and find ways to make gold doing that!

I just want to add that you do need to learn to USE the trading post (I don’t mean “play” it in this case) in order to not make less money than you could. For instance, when I first started playing, I sold everything I got at a merchant. I had no idea this was netting me very little cash compared to what I could get on the TP. Once I started to learn to use the TP, my income went up exponentially. If you sell copper ore at a merchant you’ll get, like 3c for it… sell it on the TP and you’ll get 36c. That’s just common sense, but I think a lot of people don’t know much about the TP.