Guild Wars 2

Hey all,

I have been playing Gw2 for some time now, and i still haven’t picked a “main” character to focus on. So i have been trying new professions to see which style fits me the most.

But re-starting a new character is kinda painfully specially at lowerlevel. Gearing and buying some new stuff.

my question is, how to level quickly so that you can see what the class is about and how to earn some gold with it. Since crafting isn’t profitable i don’t know how to make enough money to gear up my characters. On my server Light armor are ridiculous expensive compared to medium or heavy armor.

Any advice is welcome. Im already selling all gather items i have. Any way to make some decent coins? 15 slots bags are pretty expensive T^T and i dont wanna convert gems to gold.

Thank you !

First of all, it’s not that prices are high on your server. The marketplace is game wide, not server wide. There’s no server where the price is better.

Low level characters don’t make money very fast. That’s the thing. I don’t know of any easy way to make money on low level characters. Gathering and selling mats is the only thing I can think of.

But you don’t have to fully gear out characters to play them anyway. I don’t. I don’t look at replacing something until it’s at least ten levels below what I’m using, sometimes more.

Thanks for your reply, im already doing that. and i did not know that prices is game wide xD.

And yes each 10 levels i buy new gears and weapons. or i just use what i get from drop.

I really want to know how people can make 1000+ gold

Have you tried going to PvP to test out the classes and get a feel for them? Given you say you’re trying to see what they’re about, the fact PvP gives you most skills and traits available right away might be a good way for you to do that. Plus with the reward tracks it’s now possible to make money from it as well as level up, since you’ll drop tomes of experience every now and then.

It’s a lot easier at level 80 to make gold.

First rare armor/weapon/trinkets about level 68 can drop globs of ectoplasm when salvaged with a high level salvage kit. They are going for 42s a piece right now. Also since most armors/weapons that are dropped have runes/sigils, recovering them by salvaging can add another 4 to 5s. But it is a crap shoot. A master salvage kit has an 80% chance of recovering the upgrade and on average, 82.5% chance for an ecto. Actually it’s more like 40% of getting none, 45% for one, 7.5% for two and 7.5% for three (this is based on my 1200+ salvages). You can always just sell the rares, most armor and weapons go for 30-35s each.

Second is finding a niche in crafting, using the mystic forge to upgrade mats and items, etc. Only problem is not all items crafting or using the MF is profitable.

Third is converting other game currencies into gold. 1 Laurel can by a 3, T6 mats which is worth right now around 1g. So you can earn 1g a day if you do your daily.

Fourth is running daily content like boss events for the boss chest or do dungeon paths for those rewards.

Then there is always buying gems and converting them to gold.

I make around 50g a week and I’m a slacker compared to hard core players in terms of earning gold.