Guild Wars 2

Human Female Warrior
CoF shoulder
Commando Coat
Commando Pants
T3 glove
T3 boots
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Charr Male Warrior
T3 helm
CoE shoulder
T3 chest
Arah pants
T3 glove
HoTW boots
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Human Female Mesmer
CoF shoulder
Karma coat
T3 pants
Karma boots.

Windwalker.2047:

Charismatic Harm.9683:

I think the transfer rate is fine as it is.

As more players want new things available in the Gem Store, they convert their in-game gold to Gems and the price goes up. The reason they do this is because they’d rather part with their in-game money than their real money. The value of the items in the Gem Store doesn’t change unless they go on sale. When things go on sale, the conversion increases yet again…and more complaints arise.

What players don’t realize is that the conversion of gold to Gems is a convenience that ArenaNet added into GW2 so that you didn’t HAVE to buy things from the Gem Store with real money. As the conversion rate gets “worse and worse”, more players will turn to using real money to buy Gems instead of converting their gold to do so. That’s what ArenaNet wants anyway. They don’t care about your gold, they care about your money.

Btw….those sales….they are really only meant for the players that use real money to buy Gems….not the ones that convert gold to Gems.

Only problem is that some of the things in the gem store are needed for normal gameplay (if anyone can play with the basic 30 slot bank i take my hat off to them)

Quite easily, with more than ample spaces to spare.

Wings of Dwayna recipe:
100x Mystic Coin
1x Eldritch Scroll
20x Superior Sigil of Purity
1x Gift of Light.

Have fun!

“It’s just a deer…OH DEAR KITTEN NOOOOOOO”

VOLKON.1290:

I think they’d be a nice weapon addition in the future, sure. A crossbow would be another option they could consider adding in the future. What would be challenging is thinking of other types of weapons for more casterly types.

Chakrams from Kingdoms Of Amalur: The Reckoning is kittening AWESOME, and it would also work very well in GW2 combat system.

And yes, I ABSOLUTELY want 2H Battle Axes. In fact, after I get my Volcanus, I will be saving up all the gold for 2H Battle Axes when they come out in an expansion.

Shout Warrior
Support Guardian
Shout Warrior
Banner Warrior
Frenzy Berserker Warrior ( me )

Bruno Sardine.2907:

All the examples the OP describes are surrounded by more complex issues… it’s not like Anet is proactively trying to slight it’s player base because kitten ‘em that’s why. They’re trying to create a balance between all aspects of how stuff is acquired…. the balancing act that occurs swings both ways.

DR was to combat botters, speed runners, and people exploiting things in order to get constant waves of mobs (like grubb’n). Prices are shooting back up partially due to the DR, but mostly because less botters/people are farming and a lot more people are clearing content… They’re walking away mostly with gold, but nothing to spend it on. Basically, supply is lower yet demand is the same if not greater and you’ve introduced more money; hence price inflation.

Plinx nerf was an attempt to make more of the map (Cursed Shore and the rest of the world) viable/desirable. A relatively quick and easy DE chain of 5 events that are near at least 2-3 other DEs (some you can do while doing the plinx chain) that respawns quickly is awesome for players, but unbalanced in the grand scheme of what they were trying to shoot for.

Ori and Ancient wood prices are market factors, and probably dipped due to botting, also dipped due to a lesser demand in needing those materials; for example, not as many jewelcrafting exotic accessories are necessary/desired. Not sure what the market is now, but dips/spikes are mostly market driven.

The new Arah gold run is just as bad as, if not worse than, the original token farming runs. All you’re doing is inflating the market… but hoping you can get your cash quick enough to buy stuff before the market responds. Anet fixed this exploit for the second time now, deal with it.

You can still make money…. try your hand at farming some stuff. With all the folks running fractals and dungeons, not focusing on T6 mats and such; you can make decent profit. You just can’t make absurd sums of money easy for low risk…

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By “Farming T6 mats” you mean, grinding and hoping the kittening RNG gives the items in question? That has been covered as “RNG-dependent sources”.

Ryuujin.8236:

A warrior, engineer or elementalist in full magic find gear farming dynamic events can get tonnes of rares, which broken down for ecto is worth a small fortune in the current economic climate. The gold from the event is dwarfed by the gold from drops if you’re a grinder

Trading on the auction house is by far the most profitable option, but you need to enjoy maths and that sort’ve thing; it is however technically not a grind since you place your bids and go do something else, come back later to collect your gold.

Exploring high level zones can yield quite substantial rewards in terms of gold and gear as well as gold and loot from kills while exploring (Assuming you don’t just run everywhere and kill nothing which probably explains why you’re so poor in the first place!)

Grimshetara.3265:

One recently discovered way of income is running Dungeons of Citadel of Fire and higher, converting the tokens into 30token rares, and salvaging them for Globs of Ectoplasm. .

This is an exploit. Karma/token rewards are usually not salvagable for this very reason, if you do this don’t be too surprised if you get your kitten busted and temp-banned like all the similar exploits before it

I agree with that exploring gives substantial rewards, but there are only so many level 70-80 areas. I would be satisfied exploring for gold. On the part on exploit, even the level 80 Exotics are salvageable. I doubt it is an exploit overlooked by ArenaNet. I will gladly stand corrected however. Still, if it IS an exploit, it will add to the list inherent in essence of the thread.

Yes, I am rather ashamed to admit I am a hardcore player.

this falls in line with anet’s anti grind policy. i admit that at times there are grey areas when it comes to interpretation or implementation of their manifesto, which as we have seen, has evolved, though the wording on the document stays the same.

if they wanted you to grind out gold, they would have left all those mechanisms alone. the fact that they did away with these methods proves that they don’t want you sitting in the same zone for hours at a time, whether it be making gold or doing something else. granted, player expectations vary wildly in both directions for what is considered fun. some love grinding, some don’t.

anet has repeatedly shown us(in both blatant and ninja-like forms) that they want us to explore the world, experience the richness of the story-telling, the art that was created and the music composed for our enjoyment.

this is my personal opinion….but i feel like the hardcore gamers want what they want right now and if they don’t have it, they throw a tantrum, which usually involves ranting here on the forums and has a collateral damaging effect on other players who read their posts.

if you’re no longer having fun…why play? this game has a rather large audience from casual mmo player to grindfest mmo player to dungeon crawler and people after ‘phat lewtz.’ anet can’t please everyone so invariably, someone will get angry. if those players don’t vibe with this game…go play something else.

My plan is to look good before I start exploring so that the Screenshots will be nicer. Mock me all you want about that (Not directed to quoted person), but I like it that way.

Also, I may be offending or generalising, but I think Hardcore gamers like me as pointed out prefer swagging around with gold and looking better while Casual gamers have fun with what they like such as Exploring or WvW.

At the start, we had a reasonable way of gold income without Diminishing Returns (DR) . It didn’t make us instantly significantly richer, but it helped, and we were satisfied with what we earned. Then, because of the bots ( presumably, since ArenaNet is biased against them and is responsible for introducing new stuff), Diminishing Returns was implemented, and we earned less. That is one hit to our gold income.

Moving on, as you all know, Plinx WAS the most manually profitable way of earning gold. It wasn’t much, but we could get by with what we earned there. However, due to some inexplicable reason, the event chain was nerfed. This hit us hard. Second hit to our gold income.

Hitherto, selling gathered materials such as Orichalcum, Ancient Wood Log etc. was very profitable. We could net a tidy sum to last us through. It needed patience, but we thought this was a stable income that will not be hit. Unfortunately, it was. Orichalcum and Ancient Wood Log prices took a dip, for reasons I do not know, and yet again, gold income was affected. Third hit to our gold income.

So, with so many hits to our gold income, we had to improvise to pay the bills. Here comes the Arah bag farm. This was highly profitable, with roughly 5g per hour. Honestly, it is an significantly above average income, and also provided the ONLY STABLE income, since we are guaranteed the loot, unlike the kittening RNG-run sources of income (Magic Find, Rares, and Exotics). This became popular, and many people who disregarded ethnics (This is a fact) run them for many hours. Sadly, it seems we are not allowed to earn gold. ArenaNet, surprisingly quickly, “fixed” this and our income from this was halfed.

What is left, then? Fractals Of The Mist ,Trading Post? The former plays a ridiculously large factor of the oh-so-mighty-and-revered RNG, while the latter requires impressive economic skills to profit. Add to that that Fractals Of The Mist is undeniably hard to find groups of our specific level.

One recently discovered way of income is running Dungeons of Citadel of Fire and higher, converting the tokens into 30token rares, and salvaging them for Globs of Ectoplasm. Now this again, is RNG. Profit is luck based whether you get a Glob of Ectoplasm or not. From personal experience earlier today, salvaging 15 of these netted me nothing but a drip of mithril. This may be due to supreme bad luck, but still, it is an example of the negativity of RNG.

As of now, the remaining source of income is either via RNG-dependent sources, Trading Post, or Running Dungeons by itself.

This thread, is to place the facts on the table, and let us discuss how we can attain STABLE gold, or are we even allowed to. This is also a show to ArenaNet that RNG is not the best way to reward players. It is guaranteed rewards that are attractive. The Arah bag farm is proof of that. The negative response to Gem-Store chests are proof of that, as well as the Mystic Forge.

As of now, Minis are kept in the inventory. When the inventory function to “Deposit All Collectibles” is used, the Mini is also deposited. This is irritating to people who keeps a clean inventory while also wanting to show off their Minis. To circumvent this problem, I suggest an equipment slot for Minis. When a Mini is equipped to this slot, they will not be deposited into Collectibles, thus enabling a better experience when using Minis.

Shooopa.5632:

Grimshetara.3265:

I think you are missing an important part of this problem: What was your response. Because frankly, judging by your post, it’s very … offensive and brusque. You are seriously over-reacting. If you had just chilled, not taken offense and showed a mere smooch of restrain, the argument with your party wouldn’t have escalated. In short, the problem lies with you, not the general community.

Him trying to play the game and them calling him a “slacker” and “AFK” is not an over-reaction then?

And there’s no exaggeration there.

Is there really a need for name calling? Surely, I’d think you’d be more sensible than that. Anyone can insult, but it takes restrain and maturity to not insult.

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I think you are missing an important part of this problem: What was your response. Because frankly, judging by your post, it’s very … offensive and brusque. You are seriously over-reacting. If you had just chilled, not taken offense and showed a mere smooch of restrain, the argument with your party wouldn’t have escalated. In short, the problem lies with you, not the general community. I have had countless experiences with the esteemed “Nice Community”, and it is no exaggeration on anyone’s part.

Funset, if it makes you QQ more, then I’m all for it.

Phandaria: norn guardian

Relog and you’ll get the achievement and title.

Costume to be worn only out of combat.

Indeed. Some people will not be able to attend the one time event, and it’ll be very sad that this one event rends the work put in hitherto for the Emissary Of The Mad King title.

<3 and cheers for awesome Halloween, ArenaNet!

Don’t know if its because I’m an Asian, but I did it in 24minutes on my Charr and 10minutes on my Human, then first try on my Asura.