Guild Wars 2

1. How do I get Transmutation Charges?

2. I read on the Wiki that it’s possible to exchange coins for Gems, Is it possible to not have to pay for Gems, ever? Or will you need to purchase Gems eventually?

1) Do map completion (get all points of interest, vistas, skill challenges and hearts in a zone). Starter cities give them and are quick to complete if you want some in a hurry, though you may want to save them until level 80 – you go through gear quickly while levelling.

2) You can always buy gems with IG gold if you don’t want to spend cash.

Rhianne.4027:

1) Do map completion (get all points of interest, vistas, skill challenges and hearts in a zone). Starter cities give them and are quick to complete if you want some in a hurry, though you may want to save them until level 80 – you go through gear quickly while levelling.

2) You can always buy gems with IG gold if you don’t want to spend cash.

1. Thanks, I was just curious where I was to get them from. Thanks for your tips.

2. That’s what I meant, I’m able to buy Gems with the Gold I’ve gotten ingame? Are there any other ways to obtain Gems? I will probably buy some Gems eventually, But I’m curious

Yes. You also get a few gems in some of the chests you get for getting certain numbers of Achievement Points (check the tracker in the achievements panel, it tells you what you get when).

Brilliant. Cause those little hats are adorable

Pangu.7053:

Rhianne.4027:

1) Do map completion (get all points of interest, vistas, skill challenges and hearts in a zone). Starter cities give them and are quick to complete if you want some in a hurry, though you may want to save them until level 80 – you go through gear quickly while levelling.

2) You can always buy gems with IG gold if you don’t want to spend cash.

1. Thanks, I was just curious where I was to get them from. Thanks for your tips.

2. That’s what I meant, I’m able to buy Gems with the Gold I’ve gotten ingame? Are there any other ways to obtain Gems? I will probably buy some Gems eventually, But I’m curious

Yes, you can buy gems with gold, go to the TP window and them exchange tab. Currently the price is something like 13g for 100 gems, or you can sell 100 gems for like 9g or so. Prices fluctuate depending on offer and demand, you can view the rates here:

http://www.gw2spidy.com/

Note that they aren’t free gems, every gem sold there means that it was bought by someone and then exchanged it for gold.

Other ways to obtain them is by purchasing them (of course) either directly or by buying a gem card, and also you get 400 gems for every 5000 achievement points you gain.

The 3 most common ways to get gems are:

• Buy them with in-game gold.
• Buy them with real money directly through the site.
• Buy a gem card in a store (for real money) and use the code to add gems to your account.

Other people who have a GW2 account can give you items from the gem store as gifts if they want to and there are sometimes contests where gems or gem cards are given away (like the upcoming Pink Day in LA which raises money for cancer research) but that’s not a reliable way of getting them.

How hard is in-game gold to get? is 9/10 gold a lot?

the price for the most desired items are around 4000 gold. Exchange rate of gold to gems is 1 gold getting you 7 gems. You will not be making huge amounts of gold until 80 and doing dungeons, temples world bosses on a regular basis. Getting to 80 is fast though even if you do it the long way (exploration/story with no crafting)

Pangu.7053:

How hard is in-game gold to get? is 9/10 gold a lot?

Doing the “best” farms, will net you around 10-20g/h.

This translates to about $2/h (current market value), very roughly.

Keep in mind, by farms I don’t mean trading on the TP (although farming for items to trade on the TP counts).

If you’re introducing new gold into the market (by selling to NPC’s or any other method of new gold, then you’re going to be making around 10g/h at your peak.

If you’re not introducing new gold into the market and not playing the Trading Post, you’re going to be making around 20g/h at your peak (not counting low chance, RNG drops).

And to answer your second question: For casual players, 9-10g is a lot. For non-casual players, it’s nothing.