Guild Wars 2

Something I’ve noticed in this game is that there really isn’t a huge use for gold other than a legendary or a commanders book.

Buying armor with gold is only if you’re lazy, have plenty of gold, and you want the stats that crafted armor can give you.

But for the the most part buying armor with gold is a terrible idea. If you’re not interested in saving karma for a legendary then using karma to buy gear in Orr is much better, and it covers a wider range of stats. Explorable mode dungeons is probably the best way to obtain armor. Buying armor with gold (crafted armor) is pointless as it’s overpriced, and doesn’t even cover all the different stat combinations possible. Half my P/V/T light gear came from Orr karma gear, the other half from AC explorable.

So there’s just the runes, unless you want divinity runes (which aren’t that great) then 6 superior runes are easily obtained with a handful of gold. I got 6 superior runes of melandru for under 3 gold.

Same for weapons. Weapons that you get from explorable mode look better, don’t cost any gold, and offer a superior range of stats.

So then you have accessories. About 10 gold on exotics will get you 4 of them (rings/earrings) as well as a different gem in them if that’s what you want. Throw in a few extra gold for the amulet and you’re set.

So armor/weapons is easily obtained from explorable mode. Accessories are really the only part of your gear you should be spending money on.

Now that I just got my Triforge pendant, which was the only part of my gear that I spent a lot on, I have nothing to do with my gold. I don’t feel like going for a legendary or a commander book so I don’t really have anything. Then it’s just repairs/waypoints/gambling.

I wish we had more cosmetics or something to spend money on. Stuff like town clothes (current selection is tiny and looks awful)

Build it up, trade it in for gems, max out your bank space, bag slots and character slots.
I’d also recommend using some of it to invest in maximum sized bags.

Go for some of the rarer weapons maybe? There are some being discovered on the mystic forge that are pretty sweet (you can get the skin of the ele summoned hammer), try collecting them?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Forge/Other_Items

Or if you have too much feel free to give it to me….

Could spend it on cultural armor, just for looks?

Just GIMME, I need like 15K gold for everything I want :P

500 gold per legendary (x20)
120 gold per cultural t3 armor (x9)
1000 gold to fully upgrade my account (character slots, bank, bags…)
and the rest for what Jam linked

You can give it to me
I need only 5 gold to buy abyss dye and I am frustrated that my wealth never even pass 2 golds.
How do you people gather those much golds anyway? (no, I already know the answer – playing TP – selling mats – farming orr – etc etc, none of them works for me)

Wasabi Kitty.8247:

But for the the most part buying armor with gold is a terrible idea. If you’re not interested in saving karma for a legendary then using karma to buy gear in Orr is much better, and it covers a wider range of stats. Explorable mode dungeons is probably the best way to obtain armor. Buying armor with gold (crafted armor) is pointless as it’s overpriced, and doesn’t even cover all the different stat combinations possible. Half my P/V/T light gear came from Orr karma gear, the other half from AC explorable.

Farming gold at a rate of 3-4 per hour (Lyssa meta event) means you can buy 1-2 exotic pieces an hour. I’d like you get 300-500 dungeon tokens per hour.

Exactly. Doing explorable dungeons is probably the worst way to obtain armor. It’s only good for skins.

Waar Kijk Je Naar.8713:

Wasabi Kitty.8247:

But for the the most part buying armor with gold is a terrible idea. If you’re not interested in saving karma for a legendary then using karma to buy gear in Orr is much better, and it covers a wider range of stats. Explorable mode dungeons is probably the best way to obtain armor. Buying armor with gold (crafted armor) is pointless as it’s overpriced, and doesn’t even cover all the different stat combinations possible. Half my P/V/T light gear came from Orr karma gear, the other half from AC explorable.

Farming gold at a rate of 3-4 per hour (Lyssa meta event) means you can buy 1-2 exotic pieces an hour. I’d like you get 300-500 dungeon tokens per hour.

Exactly. Doing explorable dungeons is probably the worst way to obtain armor. It’s only good for skins.

Implying you don’t make any money from doing dungeons?

Exactly. Doing what you want is probably the best way to obtain armor.

If you really don’t have anything to do with it, do minigames or whatnot for people to participate in, or something, or simply donate some gold, to people like me.

I need 20 more gold to buy the last piece of Protector’s Armour, that’s Human Heavy Tier 3.

You know who to mail it to, my name is in the top left corner

Gab Superstar.4059:

Implying you don’t make any money from doing dungeons?

~50s, minus repairs?

If you’re after money/armor, dungeons aren’t the place to go. Unless you’re looking for skins.

What repairs?

You say it yourself, you earn 3-4g an hour doing a lame farm. ~50s for a dungeon, and most dungeons take what? 15min? That’s 2g an hour + the tokens.

You can’t win this one.

anathemawhite.6879:

You can give it to me
I need only 5 gold to buy abyss dye and I am frustrated that my wealth never even pass 2 golds.
How do you people gather those much golds anyway? (no, I already know the answer – playing TP – selling mats – farming orr – etc etc, none of them works for me)

For what it’s worth, farming copper in queensdale and selling to highest buy order should easily earn you those 5g in a few hours. I earned my 30g without playing TP, without farming anything and by simply enjoying the game while not buying useless stuff. I play around 2 hours a day and easily make 2g in that time.

All the gold I spent currently was on:
- 80s on yellow gear
- 5g on orange weapons
- 2g or so on crafting
- upkeep: repairs, wp, …..

Earning gold while playing to enjoy the game:
- focus on the daily
- do events when possible
- harvest whatever you find and just sell it if you don’t have a use for it. Even the copper from copper ore adds up quickly.
- salvage salvage items with basic salvage kit, not higher. It doesn’t give better drops so that’s wasted money!
- sell anything that’s not yellow to the vendor
- check price for exotics and rares on TP and sell to highest bidder if the price is good
- do not die lol so you don’t need to repair
- drop of all gold except 30s in the bank at the end of the day and don’t pick up money from TP unless you bought an item. Money you don’t see is money you don’t spend.
- whatever you need, check whether it can be bought for karma instead of gold

While those won’t make you rich fast, these tips will add up over time and you’ll have the money to buy yourself something cool every few hours.

Mungrul.9358:

Build it up, trade it in for gems, max out your bank space, bag slots and character slots.
I’d also recommend using some of it to invest in maximum sized bags.

This and try rolling an alt if you really have nothing to spend gold one. Playing one character I can understand, after T3 and commander there really isn’t that much gold sinks but I’m willing to bet most people in the game right now haven’t even gotten close to 100g yet.

Unlocking everything in the gem store on your main would be a nice extra dump but I doubt even that would last very long. I think 10g nets you about 1200 gems? I haven’t checked in a while so I may be way off (don’t kill me)

edit: I was close about 1300 gems, price went down to 77s per 100

I think we are missing the point of OP though, I agree we need more things to spend money on. I think at this point if you don’t want to go for legendary and are sitting on gold, just save it, eventually more things will be added to buy I’m sure.

marnick.4305:

anathemawhite.6879:

You can give it to me
I need only 5 gold to buy abyss dye and I am frustrated that my wealth never even pass 2 golds.
How do you people gather those much golds anyway? (no, I already know the answer – playing TP – selling mats – farming orr – etc etc, none of them works for me)

For what it’s worth, farming copper in queensdale and selling to highest buy order should easily earn you those 5g in a few hours. I earned my 30g without playing TP, without farming anything and by simply enjoying the game while not buying useless stuff. I play around 2 hours a day and easily make 2g in that time.

All the gold I spent currently was on:
- 80s on yellow gear
- 5g on orange weapons
- 2g or so on crafting
- upkeep: repairs, wp, …..

Earning gold while playing to enjoy the game:
- focus on the daily
- do events when possible
- harvest whatever you find and just sell it if you don’t have a use for it. Even the copper from copper ore adds up quickly.
- salvage salvage items with basic salvage kit, not higher. It doesn’t give better drops so that’s wasted money!
- sell anything that’s not yellow to the vendor
- check price for exotics and rares on TP and sell to highest bidder if the price is good
- do not die lol so you don’t need to repair
- drop of all gold except 30s in the bank at the end of the day and don’t pick up money from TP unless you bought an item. Money you don’t see is money you don’t spend.
- whatever you need, check whether it can be bought for karma instead of gold

While those won’t make you rich fast, these tips will add up over time and you’ll have the money to buy yourself something cool every few hours.

All very good advice. Also be careful with your WP costs. It is possible to get anywhere in the game from anywhere for just a little over 2s. Mapping from Cursed Shore to Frostgorge Sound will cost you 4s+, but if you travel thru the mists and go from there you cut the price in half. It is over 3s to go to CS from LA, but if you use the asura gate to The Grove, the cost become 2s 6c. Doesn’t seem like a ton, but if you save 1-2s per WP and you WP 4-6 times per day you could save as much as 1.2 to 3.6 gold per month. Money not spent is money in the bank. Like marnick said…these things will not make you uber wealthy or buy you a precursor next Tuesday, but for a casual player saving money here and there will add up fast.

Skar Hand.5037:

marnick.4305:

anathemawhite.6879:

You can give it to me
I need only 5 gold to buy abyss dye and I am frustrated that my wealth never even pass 2 golds.
How do you people gather those much golds anyway? (no, I already know the answer – playing TP – selling mats – farming orr – etc etc, none of them works for me)

For what it’s worth, farming copper in queensdale and selling to highest buy order should easily earn you those 5g in a few hours. I earned my 30g without playing TP, without farming anything and by simply enjoying the game while not buying useless stuff. I play around 2 hours a day and easily make 2g in that time.

All the gold I spent currently was on:
- 80s on yellow gear
- 5g on orange weapons
- 2g or so on crafting
- upkeep: repairs, wp, …..

Earning gold while playing to enjoy the game:
- focus on the daily
- do events when possible
- harvest whatever you find and just sell it if you don’t have a use for it. Even the copper from copper ore adds up quickly.
- salvage salvage items with basic salvage kit, not higher. It doesn’t give better drops so that’s wasted money!
- sell anything that’s not yellow to the vendor
- check price for exotics and rares on TP and sell to highest bidder if the price is good
- do not die lol so you don’t need to repair
- drop of all gold except 30s in the bank at the end of the day and don’t pick up money from TP unless you bought an item. Money you don’t see is money you don’t spend.
- whatever you need, check whether it can be bought for karma instead of gold

While those won’t make you rich fast, these tips will add up over time and you’ll have the money to buy yourself something cool every few hours.

All very good advice. Also be careful with your WP costs. It is possible to get anywhere in the game from anywhere for just a little over 2s. Mapping from Cursed Shore to Frostgorge Sound will cost you 4s+, but if you travel thru the mists and go from there you cut the price in half. It is over 3s to go to CS from LA, but if you use the asura gate to The Grove, the cost become 2s 6c. Doesn’t seem like a ton, but if you save 1-2s per WP and you WP 4-6 times per day you could save as much as 1.2 to 3.6 gold per month. Money not spent is money in the bank. Like marnick said…these things will not make you uber wealthy or buy you a precursor next Tuesday, but for a casual player saving money here and there will add up fast.

Indeed I forgot that crazy simple tip. For this I suggest an SSD drive though or you’ll pull your hair out in loading screens. Cheap upgrade that’ll give lots of money.

For casuals this will give the money for precursors in about 2 or 3 months. By that time you should also have full map completion and the right crafting professions.

The craziest tip is also to check what you earn per hour in your job and whether making extra hours is feasible. I can make the equivalent of 30g in 2 extra hours, and since I love my job I don’t see that as a bad thing. It beats farming so the time spent in game is actually time spent in a fun way.

Me just meet you and this be crazy! Me be newbie, give gold coin maybe?

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