Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone. So I just hit level 80 with my Warrior and I’m kinda lose where to go and how to farm gold. Can anyone teach me any tips or any of your “secrets” on how do you get your gold?

Group Content

Dungeons – very high coin drops from bosses.
Fractals. Crapload of masterworks and a couple of rares.
World Bosses. There’s a few timers out there that tell you where and when they spawn, each fight will offer you one rare per fight per day. So if you do every world boss, that’s quite a few…

Solo Content

World exploration gives you some coins per heart, more coins per map completed, and some equipment. The Orr maps for instance give you guaranteed Exotic Lvl 80 equipment when completed. I got a Berserker mantle ‘of Divinity’ off one of the map completion bonuses – which is worth basically 9 gold by itself.

Jump quests, once per day, give you guaranteed masterworks and occasionally rares at a higher rate than normal farming. However, it’s not going to be very spammable due to the day limit, and waypoint costs may make profits somewhat lower than you might have expected.

Running around with a steel hatchet and chopping the heck out of trees that drop seasoned wood logs is also good for 80 copper ish per log – or usually about 2.5 silver a tree (some can be chopped 4 times). Multiply this by the number of trees there are, you’ll get easily 1 gold in one map’s worth of trees. These have a spawn timer though so it’s worthwhile unlocking all the maps in which these trees are contained.

Running around Orr with an Orichalcum set of gathering equipment helps, too. There are Orichalcum nodes, Orrian Sapling nodes and a couple of rarer herb-type materials that you can sell for higher than the usual gathering materials.

Other

Trading post stuff. Buy low, sell high. This is actually probably the fastest, but it’s hard to find a good item to do this to that other people’s market monitoring automated tools haven’t already found.

However, honestly, you won’t even need that much gold unless you want a Legendary weapon. Otherwise, in most cases you can reach full power with all the runes you want at, maximum, 150 gold (full exotic berserker armour [20g] + 6 runes of divinity [60g] + 6 exotic weapons [15g] + runes for those [30g] + full exotic berserker trinkets [25g]) – and this build may not even be suitable for many players. Generally 80-100 gold is enough. And you should be able to generate 5 gold a day if you try.

Hayashi has some good tips above.

On the other side of the coin (heh), the best advice I can offer is to watch your spending. I’ve seen people blow through their savings in just 5 minutes by buying lots of dyes, minis, runes or shiny new weapons. (Although by all means, if buying stuff like that makes you happy, go right ahead. Hoarding money will only make you happy if you’re like Scrooge McDuck. ) Even things like waypointing around all adds up after a while. If you only spend when you absolutely have to, you’ll soon see your bank balance start to increase.

Hayashi.3416:

Group Content

Dungeons – very high coin drops from bosses.
Fractals. Crapload of masterworks and a couple of rares.
World Bosses. There’s a few timers out there that tell you where and when they spawn, each fight will offer you one rare per fight per day. So if you do every world boss, that’s quite a few…

Solo Content

World exploration gives you some coins per heart, more coins per map completed, and some equipment. The Orr maps for instance give you guaranteed Exotic Lvl 80 equipment when completed. I got a Berserker mantle ‘of Divinity’ off one of the map completion bonuses – which is worth basically 9 gold by itself.

Jump quests, once per day, give you guaranteed masterworks and occasionally rares at a higher rate than normal farming. However, it’s not going to be very spammable due to the day limit, and waypoint costs may make profits somewhat lower than you might have expected.

Running around with a steel hatchet and chopping the heck out of trees that drop seasoned wood logs is also good for 80 copper ish per log – or usually about 2.5 silver a tree (some can be chopped 4 times). Multiply this by the number of trees there are, you’ll get easily 1 gold in one map’s worth of trees. These have a spawn timer though so it’s worthwhile unlocking all the maps in which these trees are contained.

Running around Orr with an Orichalcum set of gathering equipment helps, too. There are Orichalcum nodes, Orrian Sapling nodes and a couple of rarer herb-type materials that you can sell for higher than the usual gathering materials.

Other

Trading post stuff. Buy low, sell high. This is actually probably the fastest, but it’s hard to find a good item to do this to that other people’s market monitoring automated tools haven’t already found.

However, honestly, you won’t even need that much gold unless you want a Legendary weapon. Otherwise, in most cases you can reach full power with all the runes you want at, maximum, 150 gold (full exotic berserker armour [20g] + 6 runes of divinity [60g] + 6 exotic weapons [15g] + runes for those [30g] + full exotic berserker trinkets [25g]) – and this build may not even be suitable for many players. Generally 80-100 gold is enough. And you should be able to generate 5 gold a day if you try.

May I ask what is Fractals? And what particular boss event should I go? I’m trying to do world completion right now but it’s kinda boring so I’ll go for Citadel of Flame to try and see how it works. Running around in orr is kinda ……….. Dangerous for me lol it’s so hard to dodge and even harder to fight multiples of risen at a time. T.T

Zaxares.5419:

Hayashi has some good tips above.

On the other side of the coin (heh), the best advice I can offer is to watch your spending. I’ve seen people blow through their savings in just 5 minutes by buying lots of dyes, minis, runes or shiny new weapons. (Although by all means, if buying stuff like that makes you happy, go right ahead. Hoarding money will only make you happy if you’re like Scrooge McDuck. ) Even things like waypointing around all adds up after a while. If you only spend when you absolutely have to, you’ll soon see your bank balance start to increase.

OMG! This one T.T I have to admit my friends give me some couple of golds to help me out since I’m just new to the game and what I did? I buy weapons and armor every time I level up LOL then I realize …. I shouldn’t do it T.T If I just save up those money I think I have more or less 10 gold by now

Do world bosses then run Citadel of Flame path 1 for 1 or 2 hours a day. I made about 25g in two days.