Guild Wars 2

Hi guys!

I recently hit 80 on my Warrior, who I mainly leveled through EoTM. I’ve been able to get some exotic gear from the badges of honor received through training there. Now however, I realised that being level 80 actually comes in pretty expensive.

I would like to level my crafting up furthermore and I would like to maximise my gear into full ascended, so I can finally be fully geared and prepared for anything.

My question is pretty general;

How to make a decent amount of money in Guild Wars 2?

I’m mainly a PvP player; not very fond of dungeons, so if possible, I’d try to avoid them, but if there’s no other way, I’ll be happy to jump into one to gain some gold.

All help is appreciated.

Westside of Gandara

You should never sell anything to a merchant, unless it’s junk items (grey name) or when the price on the TP is the same as you’d get at a merchant. Either sell the item directly on the TP or salvage it and sell the materials if you’re not going to use them (but seeing as you want Ascended gear, I’d make sure to keep the materials you need).

I recommend dungeons even though you said you didn’t like them. There are very easy and fast paths (CoF p1, CoE p1, HotW p1, SE p1, AC p1, TA up/up are my favourites to run for some quick gold) and you get both gold directly (1.30+ gold per path), drops and you get tokens you can turn into rares to salavage for ectos to sell.

You can also do world bosses for rares to sell/salvage for ectos.

Umh. I was going to say EotM, because that’s the best gold I have made in a long time while trying to complete the Season 2 achievments. I presume your ‘decent amount’ is more than mine or that there is a clear difference between what underlevelled and lvl 80 chars make.

Garambola.2461:

Umh. I was going to say EotM, because that’s the best gold I have made in a long time while trying to complete the Season 2 achievments. I presume your ‘decent amount’ is more than mine or that there is a clear difference between what underlevelled and lvl 80 chars make.

Your response is much appreciated and I thank you for it, but I was getting barely any gold during my leveling in EoTM. Perhaps if I sold all the items I got there at the trading post it might have been decent. I either salvaged the items or sold them to a merchant, cause it takes too much time to sell at the trading post and my patience doesn’t benefit the cause.

Anyhow, thanks alot for your reply and looking forward to more answers.

I might message you some time in-game to make your day and perhaps we will play some EoTM together!

That is if you are of the Overgrowth.

Regards, Westside of Gandara.

1 full dungeon tour you get 2 sets of exotic armour + some weps.

Why do you need gold and ascended items if you mostly do pvp? Ascended armor doesnt give any pvp advantage. All pvp gear costs the same amount (free) and has the same armor rating.

Maybe as pvp he meant wvw? If so he would need ascended for infusions. Actually I would say runs daily bosses to get some rares/exotics that you sell to post. Same thing with dungeons, and it even work on EoTM. On EoTM just salvage all items that arent rare or exo with at least 8 silver kit and you can get nice money from materials if you plan on selling em.

Melanie.1240:

You should never sell anything to a merchant, unless it’s junk items (grey name) or when the price on the TP is the same as you’d get at a merchant. Either sell the item directly on the TP or salvage it and sell the materials if you’re not going to use them (but seeing as you want Ascended gear, I’d make sure to keep the materials you need).

I recommend dungeons even though you said you didn’t like them. There are very easy and fast paths (CoF p1, CoE p1, HotW p1, SE p1, AC p1, TA up/up are my favourites to run for some quick gold) and you get both gold directly (1.30+ gold per path), drops and you get tokens you can turn into rares to salavage for ectos to sell.

You can also do world bosses for rares to sell/salvage for ectos.

Thank you very much for the reply, it appears that I will give dungeons a try after all. Again, thank you for the explanation, your help will be put to good use

Regards, Westside of Gandara

COFp1p2, AC all paths, SEp1p3, TA up, CMp1p3 all pug friendly and relatively quick with full zerkers group. With your warrior it should be easy to run them to the point of boring. Easy money.

dungeons / eotm / gold farming will get you around 3-7 g/hour. This does include selling everything you get to the TP.
There isn’t any easy way around that. With a few small tips you could extend 4g income to 4.5g income (such as selling to a merchant if the TP price is too close to the merchant price, or refining the materials before selling them), but you will never get double digits consistently.
If that income isn’t enough for what you want, the only alternative is some sort of TP trading. There are lots of posts on here and the other Game Discussion forums about ways to make coin off the TP.

I completely agree with Melanie’s post. I usually do runs with guildies in AC p1/p3, TA up and forward and CoF pt1. Nothing complicated, easy and quick way to get some gold.

I went from 20 gold to 70 gold in 3 weeks by occassionally farming Frozen Maw and the nearby Dome Champ – they dropped the abyss dye once and celestial dye once during that time. That’s all I got. Maybe I just got lucky but that more than doubled my gold in short order.
I have a friend who goes to the trading post and buys items cheap, then resells them high. He earns money at will.

Melanie.1240:

You should never sell anything to a merchant, unless it’s junk items (grey name) or when the price on the TP is the same as you’d get at a merchant.

The projected profit value in the TP does not include the listing fee. So if projected profit minus listing fee is less than the merchant value, don’t sell it to them.
If projected profit minus listing fee is the same amount as the merchant value, sell to the merchant as you get the coin faster.