Guild Wars 2

So lets break down how easy it is to get money in this game:

1x Omnomberry Bar (1hr 40% M.Find 30% Gold Find) (1s 30c from the TP)
1x M.Find set (Optional)

Waypoint to Frostgorge, Malchor’s Leap or Cursed Shore. (at the most this will cost 4s)

1) Dynamic Events – the events in these 3 zones give 1-2s per event. That’s a measly 5-10 minutes of time to cover your Waypoint, and give you some return as well. This excludes any item drops that you may get from the mobs while doing the events.

2) Farm NPCs – I usually kill humans/beasts in areas that I go to. No, I will sadly not tell you my farming spots as I like to be the only one there :P Since you are consuming an Omnomberry Bar, just by killing 3-6 NPCs you will have covered the cost and profited from the Waypoint. Who farms only 3-6 NPCs though? Stay awhile, and farm! You’ve got a good 30 minutes to an hour before you need to change zones. Just of pure coin (excluding item drops) I gain about 50s-1g in an hour.

3) Loot NPCs
-Hit EVERYTHING you can in Dynamic Events. Some of those events spawn a good 100+ mobs (try checking the one in front of Arah). With an Omnomberry Bar, I usually walk away from that event alone with 1-2 yellows, 5-6 greens, 10+ blues, some odd whites, crafting materials and even a few grey junk items that go for a few silver a pop. (that event alone can net me 40-60 silver after putting some items up on the TP
-Sell some loot! Vendor off a couple blues, it’s really not going to hurt. After awhile your bags are going to be overloaded anyway.

4) Mystic Forge – Take your blues/greens back to the Mystic Forge if you are feeling lucky. Try to turn them into Yellows. Once you have some yellows, you can sell them for 20-25 silver a pop. If you want to take a gamble on Ecto’s, use a Master Salvage Kit and extract those yellows, sell the Ecto’s or use them to make gear and sell the gear.

5) Loot Bags – Open them! A lot of those bags can give you bloods, cloth scraps etc. Gossamer sells for alot, so do bloods.

6) Nodes – Collect everything you see! You pay 4s for the gathering tools, and once those deplete; if you decide to sell what you’ve collected you will make a good 40-50s profit. I’ve found Malchor’s Leap to be a great place for rare nodes such as Orichalcum.

I’m sure there are lots of other ways to net coin, really easily. I’ve given 6 examples on how simple it is to easily profit after using a Waypoint, and get a lot more in return. If you’re cheap, or just starting out at 80 and have limited coin; I would start with the event in front of Arah before beginning your journey ’round the three zones.

Total travel cost to get between the three zones is 9-11 silver, and after a few hours; you will have easily profited a good 2-5 gold.

Thanks, Gopher, for this very informative post. I am nearing 80 (hit 74 last night) and this info will be most helpful.

One thing to note is that if you are going to be hitting those large-scale DEs, bring some decent AoE skills, otherwise you won’t be scoring anywhere near what you could be in terms of drops. Mass mob tagging is needed to farm those things. Without it, you’ll have better drops just wandering around the zone, farming mobs.

Most definitely on Blacklights suggestion. If you’re trying to single target mass mobs, it will be very difficult to get loot. Try to make sure you are hitting everything, and fast (the non veteran/champion mobs drop really quick)

Not sure why people are having a hard time making gold. I power leveled 3 crafting skills to 400 and I’m still holding on to 1.7g. I can make 1 gold/hour just completing maps. I made a full set of gladiator/explorer and just popped on some opal orbs (+3% magic for ~1.5s). With omnom, that’s 66% magic boost. You can easily get all this for about 1 gold just buying it on the market.

Running through any event that spawns a lot of low HP mobs and some AOE (I use a greatsword), you can fill your inventory in 45 minutes – 1 hour with greens and blues + mats. Sell junk and anything below 70 to a vendor. Scrap the rest for ecto or more mats. Mithril and orichalcum fetch good prices on the market (especially orichalcum). Crafting drop can go for 1s- 2s depending on type. I’ll probably pick up some explorer trinkets soon too. I’m saving the explorer rune set for my knight armor, but that gives something near +100% magic find.

If I can keep a constant stream of gold while power leveling 3 crafting skills, nobody has the right to complain about wealth.

I’m sitting on about 70 gold that I’ve made just from crafting. dig through your craft, find something that makes money, and make that. Also, try not to undercut people, sharing the market for an item with 2/3 people isn’t bad, and not worth it to ruin everyone’s profits.

Personally I do a set of level 50 rare armor making ~10s a piece when I buy all the mats, and that’s after the TP fee.

You can craft up 4-5 sets, throw them on TP and go farm while they sell to make double to gold.

Edit: That 70 gold is after powering 2 crafts to 400, not sure why/how people can’t do this. There’s profit to be made, just look for it.