Guild Wars 2

I just got back into this game about a week ago, after having not played since the second Super Adventure Box event. Right now I’m just focusing on map completion and trying to get some nice gear for my necro. But… I’m dirt poor. I can’t buy anything worth buying, and even waypoint costs are nontrivial to me because of how often I use them. I will admit that this is mostly because I have a super casual, VERY disorganized playstyle where I just run around doing whatever I feel like at any given moment. I also spent a lot of money on crafting materials, which is apparently extremely inefficient.

Anyway, I want to correct my gold shortage now and I’m seeking the best ways to do it. I’ve heard that dungeons give you a lot of gold, but I play this game solo 99% of the time, so I’d rather not have to rely on those if I can avoid it. Plus people who run dungeons generally are not noob-friendly, and most dungeons I have little experience with so I’d get kicked out of most groups. This is not to say that I’ll never run a dungeon or anything, I would just prefer a solo solution.

I’ve already figured out that killing things and selling their stuff on the TP (as opposed to in-game vendors) is a good start, and completing events and hearts are things I’m prone to doing anyway. But surely there are some tips & tricks that solo players utilize to maximize their gold gain…

You could join the world boss runs, salvage the rares and sell the ectos. That´s a fair way of earning money in a rather short perios of time.

Otherwise you could try out the dungeon mentor guild to see if you can get some more experience in dungeons and run those more often as well.

I solo play 99% of the time as well with the occasional temporary meeting up with players at random as I help them out with events or things they are too low level to be doing in the first place

Harathi Hinterlands is fantastic for solo play. I solo the event chain from the start up until Ulgoth spawns and sometimes a few people show up at that point to help out. But generally the entire chain is more fun alone so it is good nobody goes there on my server. End up with full bags and 6 champ loots. If some help on Ulgoth then you have your boss and bonus chest as well. Sometimes only one other person shows so we 2-man Ulgoth. Usually deaths are involved, but it’s so much fun! Generally can run the whole chain from start to Ulgoth in 30-45 minutes solo.
If you let Ulgoth’s timer expire then the centaurs regroup and push in on the last camp. Defend this camp and you get another run at all of the pre-Ulgoth events of 4 champs and a ton of centaur waves, which means tons of loot. Let Ulgoth’s timer expire again and use that time to empty bags. Then defend the camp again and do the run to Ulgoth again to get 4 more champ bags and full bags of loot. Can start from the defend the last camp stage about ever 30 minutes or so. Each defend to Ulgoth gets between 3 and 6 gold worth of loot (mats, junk loot) and usually 1-4 rares with 124% MF, as well as 80-120 supply bags. Usually enough time to clean bags before the next assault starts…usually.

a few questions if you could answer I could try to recommend depending on your answers.

1)How often do you play?
2)How many characters do you have? (and how man are at level 80?)
3)Do you enjoy grinding?
4)If you only have one or a few lvl 80s what profession are they?
5)How much money do you have currently? ( is it enough to start reinvesting didn’t sound like it but thought I’d ask)

StinVec.3621:

Harathi Hinterlands is fantastic for solo play. I solo the event chain from the start up until Ulgoth spawns and sometimes a few people show up at that point to help out. But generally the entire chain is more fun alone so it is good nobody goes there on my server. End up with full bags and 6 champ loots. If some help on Ulgoth then you have your boss and bonus chest as well. Sometimes only one other person shows so we 2-man Ulgoth. Usually deaths are involved, but it’s so much fun! Generally can run the whole chain from start to Ulgoth in 30-45 minutes solo.
If you let Ulgoth’s timer expire then the centaurs regroup and push in on the last camp. Defend this camp and you get another run at all of the pre-Ulgoth events of 4 champs and a ton of centaur waves, which means tons of loot. Let Ulgoth’s timer expire again and use that time to empty bags. Then defend the camp again and do the run to Ulgoth again to get 4 more champ bags and full bags of loot. Can start from the defend the last camp stage about ever 30 minutes or so. Each defend to Ulgoth gets between 3 and 6 gold worth of loot (mats, junk loot) and usually 1-4 rares with 124% MF, as well as 80-120 supply bags. Usually enough time to clean bags before the next assault starts…usually.

This sounds great! I like Harathi Hinterlands too, so I’ll start doing this whenever I’m in the area.

Infamous Darkness.3284:

a few questions if you could answer I could try to recommend depending on your answers.

1)How often do you play?
2)How many characters do you have? (and how man are at level 80?)
3)Do you enjoy grinding?
4)If you only have one or a few lvl 80s what profession are they?
5)How much money do you have currently? ( is it enough to start reinvesting didn’t sound like it but thought I’d ask)

1) A couple of hours a day at most, a little more on weekends
2) Four characters (see my sig). Only the necro is 80.
3) I am not averse to grinding if I feel like there’s real progression while doing it, and if there’s an end in sight.
4) Necromancer is 80, guardian is 48, ele is 20 something and mesmer is in the teens.
5) About 3.5 gold at the moment

If you don’t mind doing a little work you can learn to play the trading post by flipping items. This tool is pretty good for that:
http://www.gw2spidy.com/

Other than that unidentified dye is still going for a lot right now so if you have been saving your laurels you can make some good coin off of that. You also may want to consider doing some Frostgorge Champion farming before the nerf kicks in on April 15th.

StinVec.3621:

I solo play 99% of the time as well with the occasional temporary meeting up with players at random as I help them out with events or things they are too low level to be doing in the first place

Harathi Hinterlands is fantastic for solo play. I solo the event chain from the start up until Ulgoth spawns and sometimes a few people show up at that point to help out. But generally the entire chain is more fun alone so it is good nobody goes there on my server. End up with full bags and 6 champ loots. If some help on Ulgoth then you have your boss and bonus chest as well. Sometimes only one other person shows so we 2-man Ulgoth. Usually deaths are involved, but it’s so much fun! Generally can run the whole chain from start to Ulgoth in 30-45 minutes solo.
If you let Ulgoth’s timer expire then the centaurs regroup and push in on the last camp. Defend this camp and you get another run at all of the pre-Ulgoth events of 4 champs and a ton of centaur waves, which means tons of loot. Let Ulgoth’s timer expire again and use that time to empty bags. Then defend the camp again and do the run to Ulgoth again to get 4 more champ bags and full bags of loot. Can start from the defend the last camp stage about ever 30 minutes or so. Each defend to Ulgoth gets between 3 and 6 gold worth of loot (mats, junk loot) and usually 1-4 rares with 124% MF, as well as 80-120 supply bags. Usually enough time to clean bags before the next assault starts…usually.

This is so much fun to do. One of my favorite chains in the game for sure.

Keep an eye on world boss timers at a site like gw2stuff.com . The events give a guaranteed rare. On my server there is a well organised World Boss Zerg that does the events one after the other at reset.

Events where lots of bags drop are useful given the current price of fabrics, particularly if you are good with aoe attacks.

Get your ele to do jumping puzzles or hunt for chests. While a character’s level is in the 20’s there is a chance of getting Silver Doubloons from chests. The chances of them dropping is only about 1 in 6 (from my experience), but at over one gold each you if you find jumping puzzles fun it might be worth the time.

one way to make a decent amount of money currently is farming raptors or moas and selling off the poultry meat, for your 80 though you could farm SW area of southsun cove lots of sharks and skelks there that drop powerful blood and armored scales.

If you have enough patience, you could learn to solo Arah… That’s about 30g/hour if you sell it.