Guild Wars 2

Hello,

I’ve just reached level 80 on my Necromancer, and because this is my first character, i’m really poor. So as a possible solution, I thought maybe I could farm for items/mats and sell them for $$$. I’ve tried looking all over for the forums, and I couldn’t really find a build for magic finding. I’m guessing for efficiency an AOE build would be better. If you know of any that worked for you please help =)! (Please post the runes/skills/weapon sets/etc.)

Thanks a lot for your help!

Magic Find is not the best way to make a quick buck. But if you must, just use mf-food with a regular build. (omnomberry bars, lotus fries, spicey pumkin cookie)

If you want to farm for gold, you could join dungeon runs (like Citadel of Flames).
Or just go WvW and run with the zerg or in small groups. Event participation is really frequent there, which will give you 3,xx silver each.
And you’ll get lots of items from loot bags which you could salvage (white+yellow) or sell directly to a vendor (green and blue).

You could also try to join a guild and then have their members help you out with gear etc

Oh okay. Yeah I thought Magic Finding would be the best way for money (lulz). I guess dungeons sounds better. I’ve been doing WvW for a while, and I just wanted something else to spice things up. Thanks again!

Actually I have relative success with Magic Find farming on my necro, and oddly enough I do it with minions. Try running 20/0/20/30/0 with the traits that boost minion health, damage, cd reduction, minions heal you. I tend to use dagger/focus. For gear just get rares, exotics are pointless, but remember to save the gold for your accessories. Also, putting a sigil of superior luck on the focus is incredibly helpful. With food, gear, 25 luck stacks I sport about 145% magic find out side of southsun, you can use that to your advantage to farm T6 mats and sell those for some money, you just can’t farm for more than 30 mins before diminished returns start to affect you.

I had the same thought when I turned 80 on my necromancer, which also was my first char. Then I crafted complete exotic MF gear, what a waste…
Best build (MF-solo) would actually be the MM, as Minions do not scale with your stats, which is good, as MF gear does leave you with bad stats anyway. Farming with complete MF solo with minions is one option, the other option would be to join event groups in Orr. With groups you should trait to bigger marks and ground targetable wells, to damage the highest amount of enemies possile in short time. Normally enemies are dying rather fast and you want to hit as many as possible before the groups just clear them, to get the loot.
Another option is event farming the Zone events like Jormag (dragon) etc.
Last would be (and this you should do anyway) farming rare mats like orichalcum.

Fastest way to make money though is going dungeons in your normal build. The speed runs are not very hard and earn you 1g/h or more, but you need to find a group.
If you have no need for the tokens you can even buy the cheapest weapon/equip and salvage them for ectos.

The third way would be market speculation. But this is time consuming and needs some invest cash, but can be the best money maker.

To be honest, the best way to make cash is not thinking about it. Check for the dungeon armor that suits you best and farm the tokens. Or, do what ever you want and just have fun. The money comes automatically and actually, you dont need that much money to buy tkittenentials. The only thing that is realy expensive are legendaries and “some” weapon skins, which would take you months anyway.

So my advise, dont think about farming, but go out there and just do whatever you want

Haha okay thanks got it. If I ever feel like MF for some reason, MM, but dungeon runs are the best…don’t think about money. Thanks for the help.

If you do wanna kitten with money, just build whatever you wish for add scav runes with omnom bars as food and go farm CoF 1 with a casual group or do the champion chains in orr, (first being guaranteed 1g pre 15 min other being sell all 1g pre 30 minutes with chance of lodestones).