Guild Wars 2

Draknar.5748:

Faoiltiarna.4271:

Avectius.3271:

Thus, for me the best way of earning gold right now is doing fractal 40 with champ skip. There are many parties in lfg, give it a try. 60s minimum comes from selling fractal encryptions (u might want to save them for patch), not counting t5/t6/rare mats that drop and magi/cavalier/soldier exos and rares. I could get around 20 gph when i was really lucky and around 9 when i decided to deposit mats and had no luck with exos.

Wait, what? How does that work exactly? You sell the encryptions you get as rewards? How many do you usually get?

Encryptions sell for 20s on TP (usually) and u get 3 of them. 1 run should be around 3 minutes or less, so 20 runs per hour with a good group. That gives you 12 gold from boxes. Besides that u get a lot of items and rare mats that can sometimes sell well or salvage to ecto + insignia. Apparently, it isn’t easy to keep a good pace with a pug group though so income is fairly less then since time might be up to 5 min. Loading times also are a factor here.

I, uh, I don’t think you realize who you are talking to lol.

Wanze is essentially the forum authority on all things GW2 economy / TP flipping.

I’m saying this seriously, there is no sarcasm here, the dude knows what he’s talking about.

Yes especially when u talk about iron rich nodes being profitable (20s much profit rofl) Skipping in fractals is as bannable as was bugging mai trin, double damage on teq and so on. Funny because i can’t find any research on gold per hour when farming nodes. Is that 5 gph tasty? And after u do the node route what will u do for next few hours?

Avectius.3271:

Thus, for me the best way of earning gold right now is doing fractal 40 with champ skip. There are many parties in lfg, give it a try. 60s minimum comes from selling fractal encryptions (u might want to save them for patch), not counting t5/t6/rare mats that drop and magi/cavalier/soldier exos and rares. I could get around 20 gph when i was really lucky and around 9 when i decided to deposit mats and had no luck with exos.

Wait, what? How does that work exactly? You sell the encryptions you get as rewards? How many do you usually get?

Encryptions sell for 20s on TP (usually) and u get 3 of them. 1 run should be around 3 minutes or less, so 20 runs per hour with a good group. That gives you 12 gold from boxes. Besides that u get a lot of items and rare mats that can sometimes sell well or salvage to ecto + insignia. Apparently, it isn’t easy to keep a good pace with a pug group though so income is fairly less then since time might be up to 5 min. Loading times also are a factor here.

Wanze.8410:

Gathering mats arent cheap, lots of them gained more than 100% since HoT released.
T6 fine mats lost 50% since hot, t5 mats arrived at a couple of copper over vendor value, so i dont know why you would even mention those. They arent worth much more than t5 leather before hot.

Gathering mats is cheap. You are farming 10s per node at max (on good nodes and those are rare) , that IS cheap. t5 rares are still valuable and fractals drop mostly those, although normal t5 is 1-2s each so it isn’t worthless for sure. If u give me gold per hour research on a repeatable node route then maybe i can reconsider this being a thing but for now it is just a fun, casual way of earning few gold that doesn’t involve any group. But if we are talking about getting some serious gold, running some funny nodes isn’t even a thing.

Wanze.8410:

Highest gold rates will always be farming the mats that are currently in demand and yield a high value. Unfortunately, those change on a daily or weekly basis, so you would have to alter your route and think for yourself.

That is not true. The number of mats u get per hour is very different depending on the farming method. Some farms may include more of those, some less thus making you different gph. Farming nodes is not a reliable way of earning gold since gatherable mats are cheap (besides ori, ancient wood, flax) and said nodes are actually rare.

Thus, for me the best way of earning gold right now is doing fractal 40 with champ skip. There are many parties in lfg, give it a try. 60s minimum comes from selling fractal encryptions (u might want to save them for patch), not counting t5/t6/rare mats that drop and magi/cavalier/soldier exos and rares. I could get around 20 gph when i was really lucky and around 9 when i decided to deposit mats and had no luck with exos.

Silverwastes are a good source of piles of coarse sand which is needed for guild halls. Despite that, silverwastes is in the same spot as before because of t6 prices falling down a lot after HoT. This way it is still by far the best place to farm.

If you have HoT, you might want to park chars at flax spot under Itzel. Farming events is worthless but if u have some aurilium u might wanna snipe some Tarir defense and farm chests below. Those are easily accessible if u use lfg to get into done Tarir, unlike ones on other maps.

Tbh, after dungeon nerf it is hard to earn pure gold. Most of gold comes from mats, but the more u farm the more prices drop….. So yeah it is kinda kittened up now.

Farming silverwastes seems to be still on top (not counting tp obviously). You could also farm fractal 40 for minimum 60s per run. Nothing more comes to my mind tbh

You are kitten because people don’t want to play with you? Go find yourself a group.

Chrono.6928:

Ronah Lynda.2496:

Can anyone explain what is the ultimate goal in this game because every time I am setting up one for myself, A-nets messes it up

- When I hunted the map completion star I had to go through the WvW and play with 5FPSs in those zergs so I can just get those stupid PoIs and vistas. Now they are not included into it anymore.

- When I was glad I got all my traits open, they thought to add more traits and use skill points and money to get them. And now they just open them like before.

- When I decided to grind for the money to buy some legendaries out of the TP then they added new Legendaries so the old ones become obsolete. And the new ones made only by crafting. I despise crafting

- When i thought my character became a Hero after killing the biggest threat in Tyria: Zaitan, A- nets brings up a silvary psyco who raises up another “Biggest” threat: Mordemoth. What will it be next? Another (race) psyco rasing up another “Biggest” threat? Ao we have 5 races, one was, 4 more to go?

- When I thought that reaching lvl 80 with multiple characters was my ultimate goal, A-nets throws in new leveling : the mastery system which makes all my lvl 80’s just a waste of time becasue now I have to get exp for more then my number of lvl 80 to get some elite specialization. So now having lvl 80 written next to your name make you a noob again when others show off their 134 mastery points (aka the new infinite level)
What will be next? A secondary elite specialization with a new zone to grind for new mastery points? I guess so.

and the list can go on.

I am sorry, but no matter how A-net will describe their game, for me it is not an evolving game but a trickery for a time waster where every goal you set up for yourself will be crushed down sooner of later.
They said they don’ t introduce new gear treadmill, but instead they introduced something much worse: grinding millions of exp for illusionary goals which will be shattered with the new expansion because you will never ever reach the ultimate best but instead you will return back to your noob status just feeling better then a super noobs (aka new players)

Ultimate goal: Enjoy the game.

Hah, funny how can you enjoy the game when you get all possible completions on 5th alt. Ha, ha.

Horizontal progression is too much for Anet. I wish they would introduce something better statwise than ascended and actually not buyable/droppable – only crafting. It is riddiculous that ascended gear is just 10% better than some 50g exotic set.
Truth is that based on horizontal progression only Anet will lose more and more people. They can’t create content that would be enjoyable forever. For example, im not an altoholic so i don’t need to farm gear and stuff.
I am not into pvp since i don’t want to learn skills and tactics to play the kittening game properly (like thief is pure kitten when it comes to 1v1….. ekhm “assasin” my kitten.
I am not into fashion and trying out clothes and skins because that doesn’t impact the game at all – i have 1 cool skin or 2 and i stick to them.
And lastly WvW is pretty much destroyed by unbalanced matchups and laggs. At least for me, i don’t like having 10 fps and getting wiped all time long because enemy zerg is 2x bigger.
So what is Anet gonna do to make us play? Story is cool but only for a week. Fractals are repetitive (did they even add something for last year?) so are meta events on maps (kill trash, move, kill trash, move) . New maps look cool though, so those are like 2-3 days of exploration.
So seriously, only reason for me to play the game is just gaining gold. I gain gold so i can some day enjoy some actual CONTENT that is nonexistent right now.
Btw, raids are ment to be done once per week – another time gated content because players can’t get rewarded if they decide to spend more time in the game right?
I still have hope but after HoT it is slowly fading away.

Lol this is one of tp tactics….

Funny when u can buy 5 matrices at the ascended salvage tool cost. And you won’t lose ring Ring drop ratio has been nerfed severely (i personally didn’t drop one for 4 days or so, doing all dailies) so it is really stupid to salvage them now. Moreover if they are infused. Thus, if u don’t profit at least 1g per ring – there is no point risking in salvaging it.

From my experience normal rings return maybe 2 matrices so that is -60s and -fractal relics. Infused rings as i noticed drop 2+5 matrices, thus making you ENTIRE 40-60 silver depending on matrices prices. That is pretty low if u ask me.
So, considering fractal boxes – the best way to profit is just sell that kitten. Easiest, fastest, no RNG and prices will go down for some idiots who actually buy that.

Beldin.5498:

Faoiltiarna.4271:

Rofl. Witcher has models weighting bigger textures than entire zerg. Gw2 is 32 bit crap using dx9 that even WoW turned away from. Maybe they should reconsider using worse textures if their client can’t handle their own creation?

Than have fun playing the witcher for the next 3 years .. beacuse I don’t want
worse textures only because some people a too stubborn to change 1-2 settings.

It just says all about the game when you have to turn options off to actually be able to play And no problem, if Anet keeps on destroying this game i will surely go back to witcher since it is an actual masterpiece.

Beldin.5498:

Faoiltiarna.4271:

I am not planning to lower anything down on a PC that can handle The Witcher 3 on 60fps and everything on ultra. Seriously i wish they already swapped to 64bit client with dx11 already. My memory is like 5gb free anytime i play so it isn’t about my PC. It is about how the game uses it’s memory. Same about graphics and processor that don’t even sweat.

Then have fun with even more crashes .. yay .. some people simply don’t want help.

Btw.: How often are there zergs with 100 player characters, all with different armor
Skins in the witcher ?

Rofl. Witcher has models weighting bigger textures than entire zerg. Gw2 is 32 bit crap using dx9 that even WoW turned away from. Maybe they should reconsider using worse textures if their client can’t handle their own creation?

sirsquishy.8531:

because GW2 is a 32 bit application and can only access up to 3.5GB of ram total. That is why.

Then maybe Anet should focus on optimization and lower memory usage so we can play the game the way it is ment to be played?

sirsquishy.8531:

this is such flawed thinking. The only setting you need to lower is character limit. As that is what really drives the memory in the game client. You lower that, you probably stop crashing.

Why would i do that if i have few gb of unused memory? 2-3gb used memory is not much. It is gw2 client that needs optimization and/or upgrade.

I am not planning to lower anything down on a PC that can handle The Witcher 3 on 60fps and everything on ultra. Seriously i wish they already swapped to 64bit client with dx11 already. My memory is like 5gb free anytime i play so it isn’t about my PC. It is about how the game uses it’s memory. Same about graphics and processor that don’t even sweat.

Ascended rings are considered trash to any veteran fractal player.
Gold generation from boxes is pure crap, it is more worth to sell them to tp (if prices don’t go down).
Soon we will get more data about chests drop rate so we can compare that to before hot. Before hot we had around 25% chance of dropping an ascended chest/skin/tonic/anything but ring, on level 50. I am sure that now it isn’t even 5%.
Just need the data to prove that.

R9 Fury on Windows 64bit, crashes few times a day since HoT. All graphics maxed.

50 s more for 100 lvl compared to lvl 1 ? What exactly does it fix? Noone want gold rewards in fractals, we want ascended drops. As a fractal player myself i rather prefer the ‘i won’t have to spend kittenload of gold for asc eq so i can run frac on alts’ type of profit.

Yeah i am feeling scared about raids now… and it is the only piece of content that i actually care about now since fractals got gutted.

Yes if he didn’t buy boxes he would profit 142 gold.
But if he had boxes he could have sold them for 200 gold right away so that is -58 in gold.
Are there still people that can’t understand that?

Well, nerfed is a really light way of saying it….

The matrices drop is 2 per ring. Infused rings drop 2 + 5 per each. U might have salvaged infused rings so u get this sort of ‘high’ salvage return.

Salvaged a weapon and got 1. Just salvage weapon/armor and u will get it easily.

I like it, i won’t need any more frac skins so i can at least earn some money…

VaLee.5102:

Pact Supply Network mastery. It’s RNG but still, chance to make a lot of gold.

How much is a lot in this case?

Lol, internet connection? No mate, it is too many people having problems. Also u might want to look at the account subforum – number of crash/lag threads is BIG.

Me too, salvaged a greatsword and got in the first try.

Their god kitten servers….

Wow u consider farming events for exp an actual content? End game content especially, is something u do when u max out your character. So how can you call levelling masteries an actual content? It is just a mindless grinding of necessary exp this way or another. What we could call content are fractals, raids, dungeons, wvw. Levelling masteries is not content. It is an obstracle on your way to maxing your character and account.

Actually i would like 10 dailies in each own bracket 1-10 , 11 – 20 etc. so you would choose fractals on same difficulty. Right now 21-50 is pretty much a joke. What is even a point of doing a 50?

Anet just did a quick money grab. Nothing you can do about it besides looking for a new game. It just sucks not to have expansion now.

I did maybe 200 runs so far, all 5 dailies done every day after HoT release and doing lv40 molten duo numerous times aswell. So far i dropped 4 rings (1 infused). I find it humiliating that after doing 3 fractals over lv 51, i don’t even get a ring (got it 1 time out of 4) . I won’t even comment on ascended chest drop rate which is a total joke (none of my guildies dropped anything, same as me).

Before HoT, we were doing 50,40,30,20 which usually ended up with 3-4 rings 1-2 infused, 4 pristine relics. Now we don’t even get pristine for each daily so already – in pristine relics. From my own experience i got a asc chest/ skin every 3rd 50lv daily. Now it’s a joke. Back then if u knew what u are doing u were doing everything extremely fast. But if u didnt know tactics or got wrong build – u got wiped over and over again. Now it is just a matter of time.

And yes, i have mastery 4 from the beginning.

tl;dr Fractals were better without HoT.

Too bad OP is actually partially right.

This thread stinks of socialism….

The more you farm the more you get and you can’t expect others stop farming if you don’t want to do so. Capping the farm would be harmful for many players and would propaby make them leave the game. Currently, only way to get legendary stuff is farming you kitten off – and nothing will change that.
Capping loot would only cause people farm dungeons all day instead of running from 1 boss to another.
This entire thread is pointless. How can you expect to gain same loot as other players when you don’t try equally hard and you don’t sacriface same amounts of time?
Players don’t enjoy zerging but it is necessary to drop anything valuable.
That is the world of GW2, drop a lot to gain very little and you want to make it even less.