Guild Wars 2

today is October 11.

If you were to legitimately buy gems today from the Black Lion Trading post, what is the most amount of gold you could get with your gem purchase?

…i’m having a debate with a friend on this topic

thanks in advance for replies
any and all strategies for maximizing your purchase are most welcome

It pretty much averages around 33s per 100 gems, so 300 gems per gold. It sometimes goes above or below those depending, but that’s the average I’ve noticed. If you really want to maximize, just wait until the price is a bit higher. It fluctuates.

It looks like anet are trying to fix the price to a point that buying low selling high wont work without getting to loose a market-feeling with the system. so in the end the price is fixed round 33s/100 gems and not fluxuation enough to make decent amount off money when smart-investing in the gem market – jeez, that sounded negative, I mean that if they wont to prevent powertrading they should do so and fix the price and change it when they feel the need for it. I am against powertrading when it comes to rl money (wich gems basicly are) so I really agree with them, but they should make it open so that powertraders or people who want to be to know they should stick to the TP to make ingame gold instead of the gemstore (powertrading on the tp is perfectly ok, specially when people get better in not going for the lowest seller option. still lots of opportunity’s for the good powertraders, but making it a nicer and more challenging game).

http://www.gw2spidy.com/

It’s $3.42 for 1 gold right now.

Mahaedros.7085:

today is October 11.

If you were to legitimately buy gems today from the Black Lion Trading post, what is the most amount of gold you could get with your gem purchase?

…i’m having a debate with a friend on this topic

thanks in advance for replies
any and all strategies for maximizing your purchase are most welcome

What is there to debate? You can always see the current rate in game and also the average price for the week.

There’s around 20% cut for Anet in trading gold to gems or vice versa. It’s there to prevent people from playing the gem market and earning money.

That said, you can be 100% sure the price of gems (vs. gold) will slowly but steadily increase over time as people have more gold in game. At the moment I think it’s too expensive to buy gold with gems, unless you have a lot of disposable income and don’t mind spending it to the game.