Guild Wars 2

Is it possible to make 5-10g/day in about 1-2 hours MAX of game time?

I found that selling Yellow (Rare?) items on the market place gives a lot of silver, so it’s a good idea to farm bosses because those usually drop 1-2 Yellow items, however that’s RNG and you waste a lot of time in pre events and waiting.

Is there a more straightforward way to make 5-10g in 1-2 hours?

You can make 10g in about 90 minutes with average groups running dungeons such as AC p1/2/3, CoF p1, CoE p1/2/3, Arah p1/p2, SE p1/3, and so on.

Mine the rich iron near Gallowfields waypoint in Brisban. Worth about 10 silver for a minute’s effort, more if you have a watchwork pick.

Also, I forgot to mention pdavis’ solution immediately below. His is the most efficient and cost-effective way to make gold, hands down.

1. Buy Gems
2. Convert to gold.
3. ?
4. Profit.

The easiest, fastest, and most reliable way to make gold. Period.

$10 of gems is worth around 82 gold at this moment.

Gems are technically the fastest way yes but I don’t want to pay any more money on MMOs than the box cost itself.

The reason why I want to farm gold at a decent pace is so that by the end of the year I can have enough to convert to gems and buy infinite gathering tools and such from the gem shop. If I was going to invest more money in the game I’d just go ahead and buy those items with money.

KorbenDallas.6729:

Gems are technically the fastest way yes but I don’t want to pay any more money on MMOs than the box cost itself.

The reason why I want to farm gold at a decent pace is so that by the end of the year I can have enough to convert to gems and buy infinite gathering tools and such from the gem shop. If I was going to invest more money in the game I’d just go ahead and buy those items with money.

Then dungeons are going to be your best bet. However, they do tend to get boring fast (IMO) which burns people out. And then they complain that dungeons are too easy, too grindy, too boring, etc.
In the end though, if you enjoy doing them over and over, by all means, feel free to do so. When going for my legendary, I ran dungeons/fractals all the time. Now I rarely touch them. I much prefer open world stuff, and doing what I find fun, and getting stuff to sell along the way. It may not be super efficient, but it’s far more entertaining.

You don’t want to spend money yet you don’t have a lot of time to play to earn gold at a more normal rate. Yea, you’re basically screwed by your lack of willingness to do either.

All I can recommend then is the boss train, not selling to the highest bidder, understand the price of salvage mats and know when and when not to. Gather everything you are passing by and selling all your mats and unneeded loot, again not at the high bid price.

Also look into ways to convert alternate currency into coin.

It’s also good to understand when spikes in gem conversion rates occur and buy before then. Don’t wait to buy all the gems at one time. Buy frequently but be aware that the rate is worse with under 100 gem purchases. This way even if the gem rate increases, your overall cost is less.

Side question: How does one make gold off of dungeons or SW beyond the basic reward for doing a path? People comment all the time that those are the places to go, but I think I’m missing a step somewhere, likely because I salvage everything that drops and keep the mats for myself until they overflow the collections tab. I might sell an exotic rather than salvage, but those don’t drop terribly often.

Donari.5237:

Side question: How does one make gold off of dungeons or SW beyond the basic reward for doing a path? People comment all the time that those are the places to go, but I think I’m missing a step somewhere, likely because I salvage everything that drops and keep the mats for myself until they overflow the collections tab. I might sell an exotic rather than salvage, but those don’t drop terribly often.

Well if you hold onto everything you obviously can’t make gold from it. I go to SW a lot and between doing the events to breach then to Vine Wrath, then chest farm, I can make a good amount of gold by salvaging and selling everything. But, I’m not a crafter and I don’t hoard mats so I just sell my stuff maybe every 3 days or so and reap ~30g. If I get rares, I salvage with a mystic kit if worth under 40s on the TP, or sell on TP if over that. I sell exotics worth more than 1g but salvage with a BL kit if worth under 1g. IF the exotic has a sigil/rune worth more than the entire piece on the TP, then I salvage with a BL kit and sell the sigil/rune separately.

I’m not a dungeon runner, so can’t comment on that. I only do dungeons for tokens when I want to.

ETA: I ran SW chest farm last night with 505% MF with buffs.

Behellagh.1468:

You don’t want to spend money yet you don’t have a lot of time to play to earn gold at a more normal rate. Yea, you’re basically screwed by your lack of willingness to do either.

What the hell are you talking about, “lack of willigness”? I laid out what my time frame is, and I asked for options, not judgment.

KorbenDallas.6729:

Behellagh.1468:

You don’t want to spend money yet you don’t have a lot of time to play to earn gold at a more normal rate. Yea, you’re basically screwed by your lack of willingness to do either.

What the hell are you talking about, “lack of willigness”? I laid out what my time frame is, and I asked for options, not judgment.

5-10g in 1-2 hours a day.
Unless you are speed running dungeons with the same group of people so you don’t need to use the LFG, it’s not likely to happen.

I understand your unwillingness to spend RL money, and only have a limited play time. But what Behellagh was getting at, the restrictions you DO have, and the goal of 5-10g a day isn’t very realistic.
With an average party doing dungeons, you might be able to do 3 MAYBE 4 paths a day within that time frame. Which is about 4-5g a day. With a speed run group, just doing the easy paths, you could potentially do 5, possibly 6 easy paths a day. Which would be 6-8g. However we don’t know your level of skill, or if you can even do speed runs, so we have to assume that you are among the average.

KorbenDallas.6729:

Behellagh.1468:

You don’t want to spend money yet you don’t have a lot of time to play to earn gold at a more normal rate. Yea, you’re basically screwed by your lack of willingness to do either.

What the hell are you talking about, “lack of willigness”? I laid out what my time frame is, and I asked for options, not judgment.

It’s not a judgement, I’m simply being honest about how the reward system is set up for the Gem Shop. You either have the cash to buy gems directly or the in game gold to buy gems via the exchange. Of course to get a reasonable amount of gold you have to put in the time.

Unfortunately there just isn’t a path for those with both limited playing time and limited cash when it comes to gems. There is no Destiny loot cave. No short cut to riches if you aren’t already rich.

Right now it’s 140-145g for 1000 gems via the exchange. This link shows you the fluctuations in the exchange rate every 30 minutes. You can see it’s currently hovering around 14g so if you see it less than what ever price it’s bouncing around, that might be a good time to buy 100 gems. Informed decision making is the key.

https://www.gw2tp.com/gems

As for rares while selling them are a sure thing, depending on the price it may be more profitable salvaging them with a master salvage kit. It’s probably what most of the people you are selling them to are doing, if you are selling to high bid. Assuming they are over level 68 you have can get Globs of Ectoplasm out of them as well as major sigils/runes from weapons/armor (if they have a “of” in their name).

So much coin is left on the table at the TP simply because players go for the quick sale. Put items up for sale yourself. Set the price above the high bid and below the low sell price. Split the difference. Knock 1% off the sell price. Ask for 20% above the high bid. Throw darts. Doesn’t matter the method. If the items have a high velocity, lots of sales per day, it’ll sell likely within a week and for more than you would have gotten from the high bidder. You are in a race against time here to collect as much coin as possible, so be smart about getting the most out of buyers. Use the charts at GW2TP to get an idea of the trading range as a guide to pricing. You may be selling at a point way below average for the day, or way above what the actual going rate is.

https://www.gw2tp.com/search

On the flip side you may want to watch your spending. You can burn through half a gold if you are waypoint happy. Within a City waypoints are free but 1.5-3 silver per jump can add up if that’s how you are moving about.

So hop onto the boss train. They should drop a rare or two each. Do two a night. Maw and Fire Elemental are popular and are 1/2 an hour apart for instance and take only a 10 to 15 minutes each. So use a boss timer to see what’s available during the times you can play.

http://dulfy.net/2014/04/23/event-timer/

Learn where mats cluster on frequently visited maps and harvest them for sale. You may want to salvage all your blue and green drop items to raise your luck and sell off those mats.

There are a lot of little things you can do to earn more, but it takes a little bit of learning and knowing where the info can be found.

KorbenDallas.6729:

Behellagh.1468:

You don’t want to spend money yet you don’t have a lot of time to play to earn gold at a more normal rate. Yea, you’re basically screwed by your lack of willingness to do either.

What the hell are you talking about, “lack of willigness”? I laid out what my time frame is, and I asked for options, not judgment.

“Lack of willingness” maybe wasn’t a diplomatic phrasing of the fact that the game rewards those who spend time or RL money; those who don’t have either are at a big disadvantage. I strongly recommend Behellagh’s specific advice.

The short version is that there are only limited number of ways to earn 5+ gold/hour:

• Master power trading on the TP.
• Speed clear dungeons.
• Become a super-efficient farmer for Silverwastes, Orr, Harathi, or various niche farms.

Each of those requires some sort of initial investment before you can start earning top coin and each tends to lead to burn out by people who do them exclusively over other content.

Good luck.