Guild Wars 2

I’ve run into the opposite situation. Admittedly I am a newish player (was here when it launched, came back 2 months ago), and I am sure many will tell me I am doing it wrong, since I haven’t run any dungeons or fractals, and just run around doing explorers and having fun.

However before the expansion I raised 4 characters to 80, and each earned about 30 gold or so, just running maps/personal story selling everything that dropped on the TP. Which was about enough to get half a set of exotic gear (2 of my 4 characters have exotic gear). However when the expansion launched I started leveling a revenant, and just finished 100% world completion today, since I normally hit 80 with about 50% WC, I would expect to have about 60 gold or enough to gear up my character.

However, counting it up I have earned about 240 gold from start to world completion.
60 gold on exotic armor
40 gold on tradeskills
20 gold on haloween bags/costume
120 gold in my bank

Which is about 4x what I expected to have, not sure why, though I have noticed the price on ore is going through the roof.