Guild Wars 2

I recently started playing GW2 for the first time and have since leveled my first character to almost 80. I have found leveling to be not that difficult but getting gold for good equipment VERY difficult.

Over my 80 levels i have amassed a whopping total of about 8 gold. This included selling off most of my mats along the way. This is frustrating since exotic armor and gear ina general for a level 80 runs about 20 gold a piece not to count some of the skins i would want like the cultural armor.

I have tried looking into ways to make gold at a slightly faster rate to reduce the amount of time i would have to “farm” to get it but haven’t found much that is promising. Alot of the articles recommend champ trains that have since been removed from the game. Others recommend dungeons but with the limited time i play coupled with not knowing anyone who does play and never having done one before finding a group is difficult and even harder to be able to do anything near speed runs to acquire gold fast.

I have considered playing the tp as well since i have delved into irl stocks and am very good with numbers but there seems to be a sharp learning curve when it comes to the economy. I testes out the waters a few times and cant seem to figure it out. Obviously it is sell high buy low. Any time i have found anything worth “flipping” i put in a buy order and one of two things happens either i never get sold any because it turns out to be an extremely slow moving item even if i am the highest buy order the whole time or i am quickly undercut by several large orders of 250 units. Even if i then unlist my original order and uncut them (yes this is bad for the economy but i only do this when buying around 5 to test if the item even sells) i am just undercut again repeatedly. This ends up leading me to lose money due to the fees or at best break even.

I know tons of people play the tp and do great with it but it seems they all have their own list of items they know they can easily buy and sell quickly where as everything flippable i find seems to take a whole day just to buy 2-3 of an item. Is there a good way to get gold faster or even a way to tell how fast an item it normally bought and sold on the tp or can anyone suggest some items to get started with in the tp flipping business. Everyone seems to say they have a list of typical items they flip that is their secret.

Thanks for any advice

I can’t offer suggestions on the trading post but for a first set of armor, why not look into temple armor or dungeon armor?

Temple armor comes in different stats (one for each temple) and is 42k karma per piece or 252k karma for a set. Just be aware that karma items cannot be salvaged and it you put valuable runes or sigils on them you will not be able to get them out.

Dungeon gear (weapons and armor) also comes in different stats and can be run to both gain gold and tokens towards these exotics If you use the LFG and get in groups that allow anyone, then you can use whatever gear you currently have. Some people make a fair amount of gold running daily dungeons (and it’s very low risk as compared to the trading post)

Welcome to Guild Wars 2, a wonderfully skinned gold-farming simulator.

From what I know, the fastest way of getting gold is doing dungeons and/or farming in areas like Orr.

AC p1, 2, 3, SE p1, CoF p1, TA up and fw only take 10-20 minutes each. AC gives 1.5 gold upon completion and the rest gives 1 gold. Being new is not an excuse, I take newbies in my groups all the time. As long as you do not join the speedrun groups you usually won’t get kicked.

If you still don’t want to run dungeons, then yes I guess playing the TP is an option, but prepare to stare at excel sheets a lot (probably more than 10-20 minutes) to really get anywhere.

Oh, and exotic armor is nowhere near 20 gold a piece, more like 1-5 per piece.

Edit: Oh, you can also try farming Silverwastes by the way. I heard the gold gain is good there.

Thanks for the info. I guess i will give dungeons another try as they seem like a good way to get gold. I have yet to do one yet and think they seem like a fun way to make some gold. I just havent had luck finding a group yet it seems the one or two times i tried it was all groups wanting full zerker gear for speedruns or wanting people that knew all the ins and outs of the paths. I haven’t even been able to find a group to complete my story modes yet.

Thanks again for all of the advice.

Just post “story, all welcome” in the appropriate dungeon LFG section. Then mention you are new and if you will be watching the cinematics or not. They are on YouTube if your group doesn’t want to watch them.

If you want to do the story.

As long as one person has done Story in your party, you can get into the explorable paths. You just need to ask if someone has done the story mode.

Apexevolutionx.1203:

Thanks for the info. I guess i will give dungeons another try as they seem like a good way to get gold. I have yet to do one yet and think they seem like a fun way to make some gold. I just havent had luck finding a group yet it seems the one or two times i tried it was all groups wanting full zerker gear for speedruns or wanting people that knew all the ins and outs of the paths. I haven’t even been able to find a group to complete my story modes yet.

Thanks again for all of the advice.

Have you tried making your own group? Try putting in “everyone welcome” so you get friendly people or fellow newbies, and be sure to note what you want to run(story, or if you want to do an explorable, which path). It usually fills within 5 minutes.

Flip out your credit card, buy gems and exchange to gold. 10 bucks will buy you about 80 gold with the current rate, which is enough to get you an exotic set with runes and sigils.

There are various ways to make money on the TP, and various guides telling you how to do so, but most of the ones people tell you about aren’t that great.

The reason is that the more people who know about a specific way to make profit on the TP, the less profit made per person as more and more people do it.

Look at some guides on how to make gold on the TP, but then just take them as general ideas.

If you wanna make a lot of gold on the TP you have to find opportunities no one else is noticing, and then move on to something else when other people find out about it and jump on your bandwagon.

Also worth to add without a decent nest’s egg you’re not going to make much money on the TP, and 8g is way too little to get started.

Which brings me back to buying gems with cash and trading for gold…

Play dungeons:

CoF P1,2 = 2.5g
TA UP, FW = 2.5g
SE p1,p3= 2.5g
AC p1, p3= 3g
thats 10 g per 2h + materials and tokens.

Ac p1, p3 will give you 3g and they are easy, short paths doable within minutes. Add some silverwastes farming and in 3-4 days you will have full exotic set. Runes are more pricy but you can buy cheaper ones if it’s your first character.

Or run eotm all days and night and soon you will have enough karma for full set.
I bought some gems before I realized that 10€ = ~80g, which is a joke, because you can make that money in couple of days. You will also find T6 mats + ecto from salvaging and if only you don’t care about saving them you can make some more money.

Another good source of karma is Tequatl. I typically make about 15k karma doing one Teq. However you do need to get there ahead of time in order to get on a organized map with enough people.

There are items on the TP that can be salvaged, and the results can be resold for more coin than you spent on the original purchase. Insignias and inscriptions of a type that only come from salvaging come to mind. Use a BL Salvage kit. There are also some runes that sell for higher than the exotic armor that they are attached to, although not so many these days.

Melanie.1240:

AC p1, 2, 3, SE p1, CoF p1, TA up and fw only take 10-20 minutes each. AC gives 1.5 gold upon completion and the rest gives 1 gold. Being new is not an excuse, I take newbies in my groups all the time. As long as you do not join the speedrun groups you usually won’t get kicked.

If you still don’t want to run dungeons, then yes I guess playing the TP is an option, but prepare to stare at excel sheets a lot (probably more than 10-20 minutes) to really get anywhere.

Oh, and exotic armor is nowhere near 20 gold a piece, more like 1-5 per piece.

Edit: Oh, you can also try farming Silverwastes by the way. I heard the gold gain is good there.

I leveled through map completion to about 20% world(did only low level areas) and the rest i spammed dungeons and world events.

Im level 76 and i have 80g. That’s more gold than levels! ANd this was from a brand new player, 1-80(today will hit 80) in ~3weeks.

Note that dungeons aren’t really lucrative if you’re doing story mode or not “pug speedrunning” explorable. If CoF P1 + P2 takes your group an hour, you’re probably better off farming silverwastes.