Guild Wars 2

Direngrey.8376:

Wesley Of Florin.2150:

Direngrey.8376:

Yeah, there is a chance, key word is chance but it’s low. The higher the quality and rarity the better, or so they say. Here is what I do. You don’t have to do it, and I am sure there are better alternatives.

I farm CoF with my warrior and mesmer. I get about 1,000 tokens a day and at least 30-50 ectos.

Daily I make about 30g

I spend 10g on nothing but rare greatswords ( Daily ) I have been doing this for 3 days = 30g spent, and I have not gotten 1 precursor, however I have gotten plenty of exotics which I am saving up to attempt to use those.

Legendary is all about determination and dedication ( Don’t sacrifice your health ) if you want it you’re gonna have to farm your kitten off.

Just out of curiosity, how long do you do this per day? I mean, with 2 characters, 3 paths, and DR hitting on each subsequent run, this must take all day to amass 1000 tokens/day.

I do cof on 4 lvl 80s path 1 & 2 = 120 tokens + 9 ( from the bags ) 120×4 = 480 + diminishing returns which easily add another 500 from my toons which totals to about 1,000 tokens. It takes about 3 hours dedicated time. I use mystic salvaging kit which is 250 kits that are equal to a master salvaging kit.

Thats about 35 rare lvl 70 helmets. I salvage all of them for ectos. The lowest I have gotten were 40 ectos. Highest I got was about 60.

Sell 60 ectos for 30s each. You can kind of see how much gold that is.

+ the things I find like rares, molten lodestones

All total to about 30g daily.

I then use 10g to gamble at my attempt to get Dusk/Dawn.

Nice bullkittent ing.

35 ectos give you 40-60 ectos? How many times you’ve done it? 2?
I have been farming cof a looooooot. Thousands and thousands of tokens spent. On average it is 2 ectos per 3 rares.

So still no answer from anet? Surprise surprise

Anet, do you have 2.5 guys working on a game or you set up wrong priorities?

I noticed that the people who are happy about current situation are either of those:
1) Bought precursor in september
2) Buying gold from gold-sellers
3) Buying a ton of gems
4) Made a fortune in september/october, when the prices were low
5) Don’t care about legendary at all
6) Doing/done the legendary, which requires a cheap precursor

Relax guys, it doesn’t concern you then.

They are just controlling the market and pushing the price up like for other precursors.

According to our beloved anet, it is all fine and how it is supposed to be.

Izuna.5307:

Anarion.3678:

Arena, aren’t you ashamed deleting the posts containing truth?

Just once again: yes, the market for precursors is manipulated by a bunch of people, who sell only a small number of them at a time and CONTINUOUSLY putting the price up, and you know it. You do nothing about it so far for whatever reason, may be, because it suits you well – people will need to buy gems.

Kacigarka, I’m sorry, but you’re the one who don’t get it You probably don’t even know what’s happening in the market of precursors, how much the price was 8, 4 or 2 weeks ago and how much it is now.

One guys in another thread posted a very relevant example – a kitty trying to catch it’s tail. You farm 10g a day – precursor goes up 20g the next one. Farm more. Moooooooaaaarrrr.

mmm i dont see your problem i personal knew after karka event that precursors would fall so i bought maybe 11 now there back to normal price i call that being smart supply vs demand dont they teach this in economics you wait for the idiots that are impatient to sell theres then when there all gone you put the price you want its a very easy to see business choice. Punishing smart people mmm i dont think so

Yes-yes, you are the smart one, take a cookie

Omg, of course I exaggerated by saying 20g a day. It wasn’t like this EVERYDAY.

But the idea is still the same – it’s going up, and going up considerably. You can see the increase on the graphs you provided yourself. Predator stated it as well.

I don’t care, how legal/illegal it is to control the whole market for the most desirable things., but this is not how it is supposed to be. That’s a fact. Something needs to be changed/added, otherwise the price for Dusk, for example, would reach 1k by the end of January, while the ways of earning money stay at the same rate.

Arena, aren’t you ashamed deleting the posts containing truth?

Just once again: yes, the market for precursors is manipulated by a bunch of people, who sell only a small number of them at a time and CONTINUOUSLY putting the price up, and you know it. You do nothing about it so far for whatever reason, may be, because it suits you well – people will need to buy gems.

Kacigarka, I’m sorry, but you’re the one who don’t get it You probably don’t even know what’s happening in the market of precursors, how much the price was 8, 4 or 2 weeks ago and how much it is now.

One guys in another thread posted a very relevant example – a kitty trying to catch it’s tail. You farm 10g a day – precursor goes up 20g the next one. Farm more. Moooooooaaaarrrr.

I don’t care about all this stuff about “legendary is now pointless since it does not demonstrate the amount of time and work a person has put into getting it” – because almost everything needed for legendary you can buy on TP ANYWAY – ecto, precursor, lodestones, t6 materials, which leaves only 500 badges, gift of exploration and dungeon tokens as a challenge.

What I don’t like – is that now there is ANOTHER market, manipulated only by a couple of people like a market for Dusks and Dawns. They continue to be a monopoly and dictate(which 99% of a time means putting the price up) the prices for it, leaving us, normal gamers, who want to craft legendary, with the only choices:
Leave the game
Play TP
Buy gold from gold sellers
Buy gold from Arena if you’re rich enough

because you cannot accumulate the needed amount from the normal gaming.

plasmacutter.2709:

All of the above have skyrocketed because ANet allowed the exploits mentioned to happen, producing wealth gaps that make the situations leading to the arab spring look like absolute bliss and social justice by comparison.

+1

And they still sit idle and do nothing about it

awe extender.1908:

So there’s some offer for a legendary gsword for 2200g on TP!

Is it legit gold? I mean is it really possible to make 2200g in game after 3 months? Or is it real life cash? Or bots?

If it’s legit gold from playing the game (credit card players / gem buyers don’t count!), whoever you are my friend, I salute you! Kudos!

It is everything. There are thousands of people who made thousands of gold with bots.

An honest player, who JUST plays the game (not trading post) even in hardcore mode, CANNOT farm that much money in that period of time.

That’s why, a guys who put Twilight for 9500g twice (spending almost 1k g just for putting it up) should be banned immediately.

Facepalm………

And now add to your statement the fact that “when supply of cores/lodestones increases from 300 to 550” in several days, the price rises still. And try to explain it, smart one

This topic is not for you, guys. You all have twillights allready, no doubt about it

I guess all those people answering, you just don’t care about the prices, because you:
1) either made a lot of gold in early stages of the game
2) have everything already
3) playing 1 hour/day and don’t care about all things like precursors

Lucky you I can say

P/S I know how markets work, thanks to economics I studied/studying Worth mentioning btw, real life market laws do not work/fully work in mmos, shame you don’t understand it

Mousethecat.1835:

You seem to think Anet has something to do with this…

They don’t.

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They do. When they don’t ban bots in time – it’s only profitable to ban them in waves. When they don’t ban exploiters. When they break drop rates (recent problems with dye and drop from champions). When they set overrall probability of getting an item.

When there’s a freak change due to whatever reason (espicially because of them), they should interfere and stabilise it.

Thanks for the website. Actually, it even strenghted my words about overall price increase.

Dawn – it was CONSTANTLY increasing in price until…that event, when many people got it. After this what happened? That’s right nothing. Again, it’s increasing in price overall. Where is solution to this? Another event, again increase, then another event or what?

Loadstones, again – it’s increasing since 19 November and not stopping.

The same about everything.

When I said “a month” I did not ment EXACTLY 1 month meaning 9th of November, but general october-november past.

“Charged Lodestones were up around 2.9 gold at the end of October. The price went down. Now it’s back up.”

Do you have proof? Not saying that you’re lying, but…Don’t really remember that price. I know, it was higher and it went down thanks to Fractals, but this fact is not helping anymore.

About Dawn – could be. 61 gold is not big enough for you?

Another example, Abyss dye. Something like a month ago or a bit more it was 4.5g. Now it’s 19.5g. Isn’t large enough inflation for you?)

Another example, t6 Blood. Hundreds percent increase.

10 days stability for ecto prices? Wow, it’s an achievement. I guess I should be really happy that it’s not 1g/ea yet.

Yes, it is called inflation. But it is not normal, when precursor’s price is going up by 100g/month. It is NOT possible to deal with it.

And the reason for that vast increase is only because of Arena.Net. I don’t see anything they do to prevent this.

Arena, are you going to do something about it?

Almost everything is increasing in price, ecto, loadstones, dyes, precursors, etc. And the ways of getting gold (for honest player!!!) are staying the same.

And don’t tell me about demand and supply. It’s not the case:
charged loadstones – 350 on the market – price is 90s/ea. A week later, 550 on the market – 1g/ea. A week later, 300 on the market – 1.04g/ea. NO MATTER how many are on the market, the price is rising everyday, every hour.

I am not even talking about precursors. 1 month ago it was 200g for Dawn, now it’s 300g. So should I expect 400g by the end of december? In other words, WTF???

I’m working on the Sunrise now and found out that all those money I’m getting from farming are countered by the increase in prices.

Why should I suffer that all those exploiters are getting hundrends all of golds, not getting banned and are prepared to pay those crazy prices?

Almost 3 months are gone. Three. THREE fing months. And there is still no reasonable party search for dungeons. WTF arena guys? You all are so much concerned with addons and do not think about very easy and VERY NECESSARY things, like the one I’ve mentioned.

How am I supposed to find a party??? Spamming into the chat? “Your message was suppressed due to blablabla” after I wrote twice. 8 minutes are gone and I’m still not allowed to write into it?WTF???

I had a break of a couple of weeks, now wanted to farm a couple of dungeons. I don’t have any interest after this kitten anymore.