Money making?
run a lot of dungeon paths. farm champions and hope to get a good new skin. http://dulfy.net/2013/08/06/gw2-champion-weapon-skins/
orichalcum ore, ancient logs and omnomberries can be gathered daily
http://www.orrmaps.com/server < select your server and find a map that have the same node locations as you. then you can easily go and collect everything. you can make 2-3g pr lvl 80 character pr day and takes about 20-30 min pr character to collect all.
you can also make money using the trading post, however, that can be somewhat difficult if you have no idea to begin with + it helps to have some some capital to get started.
Uhm yeah there are a few ways to get decent money without doing stuff like boring grinding. 20g is a good amount once you’ve just hit 80 btw.
So here are my main ways of getting money. They’re not all the best ways (which are normally grinding etc.) but I find that they’re a bit of fun and they also don’t interrupt what I’m doing too much:
Doing large group events in Orr. Join a guild and whenever anyone says ‘Shatterer up’, ‘Maw (pre) up’, ‘Jormag up’, or anything like that. Basically anything with the word ‘up’ after it lol, that will be a big event. These are bosses around the map and when you kill them you get a rare or an exotic. Also you get a chest which gives you another rare or exotic as well as some cash and some Karma.
Carry gathering tools with you everywhere you go. Just going around collecting them all is great.
Do dungeons such as Citadel of Flame and ones which you enjoy/want the gear for. They nerfed Citadel of Flame speed-running which was a way to get loads of gold, but that doesn’t really matter. Dungeons give good gold, good loot, and also tokens for great looking gear.
P.S. don’t buy that gear off the Trading Post. Maybe you have a friend in-game who has 400 blacksmithing? Ask them to make the gear for you when you give them the mats. It will be so much cheaper.
Also, you probably already have 3/4 of the mats if not all of them. Go to the bank and click the collectibles tab on the left-hand side of the window. That’s all the stuff you’ve deposited. Use it or sell it, your choice.
Well that’s all I have
Have fun.
Oh and also events normally give a bunch (by events I mean Queen’s Jubilee etc.) because ANet like to award you for doing them so check them out if you want.
Drunken Alliance [DKAL]
Piken Square [EU]
I just do a few different dungeon paths on a day. A few runs easily give you 5 gold or something. Sure, it isn’t the fastest or most efficient, but it’s pretty fun, and isn’t very repetitive like many of the better methods.
Don’t forget you can get exotic level armor from karma vendors in Orr. Personally i try to do champion and temple events and kill and harvest everything in Orr. Salvage rare weapons and armor with a black lion salvage kit. Salvage fine weapons and armor with a fine salvage kit. Sell everything on black lion trading post to get the most money, except masterwork weapons and armor. Sell those as is to regular merchants because the salvaged materials will be worth less than the original item.
Don’t forget to upgrade trinkets too or you will miss out on a lot of extra stats. Laurels are a great way to get those.
I used BL TP to buy most of my stuff. It was reasonably priced. Most pieces i bought were under 5g. If you want stats but don’t like the look just buy another piece you like and transmute it.
Yeah I agree with what ozmanian said. On my new 80s that I level up I just use some of the money I got from levelling to buy a set of exotics on them, and then I find what armor I like the look of and transmute it.
It cuts out a lot of boring CoF runs…
Drunken Alliance [DKAL]
Piken Square [EU]
Well, I spent about an hour just running around maps gathering nodes only and avoiding all mobs and I managed to get about 6g. Though, I’ve tried crafting on here before and never really understood it (even with a guide) so I decided to sell all my high tier crafting materials to the TP and I’ll farm them back if I ever need them. I still have another 80 listing on the TP but I’ve currently got 30g waiting to be collected so i’m hoping to have atleast 60g when it’s all sold.
Also, I opened 80 champion bags earlier and only got 2 rares from them, was expecting a skin if I’m honest, but oh well.
I’ve only been to Orr for a brief period of time to grab the Karma armour when I just hit 80, but I’ll look into gathering there. I did collect some resources on my way there as I noticed a fair few nodes but I missed plenty of them due to being bothered by enemy mobs.
I’m quite happy with the look of the Karma armour at the moment but I’ve seen a build I really like which utilizes the Sword (my weapon of choice) so I’m working towards that, it’s just the armour its’self was going to cost me a fair amount.
I made 2 of the mystic salvage kits and have salvaged maybe 30 rare items now, but I’m lucky if I’ve had 2/3 globs more than twice. I mainly get 1 glob or 0 globs. I’m pretty sure I’ve lost money on them so I’ve resorted to just selling them on the TP.
I’ll also look into the dungeons. I really like the look of the Arah and Twilight Arbor armour sets, so I’ll have a look into working on those some time.
Thanks for the responses folks.