Guild Wars 2

Here is a story about gaining 400 gold, and losing it within 24 hrs to gambling.

Starting from the beginning, I had 125 gold, which was quite a large amount in my mind. I never thought much about getting a legendary, but after reading all these (and being envious) lucky precursor stories, I decided to try a few for the heck of it. After spending 25 gold on rare weapons, a precursor came out (Zap) which I sold for 150 gold. That got me to around 250 gold, which was an amazing feeling.

After a few hours, seeing such a large amount of gold, I spend 50 gold trying to get more precursors, to no avail. Still with a good amount, I spend another 75 gold, and near the end, I hit the jackpot. The legend, a staff worth 300 gold was in my hands. With a loss of 125g, I still managed to have a net gain of 150g. That was 400 gold in my hands, a colossal amount. I was ecstatic, I celebrated by buying 75 gold worth of rares and threw them in the forge.

Only after 25 of that gold, The Lover appeared, a shortbow worth 250 gold. I was now over halfway to the 1000 gold mark. This was an extreme amount of gold, around 550. With that I bought a few insignificant things, bringing me to around 500. Forward a few hours, I was bored and decided to see what other precursors would drop for me. 500 gold dropped to 400 with nothing. 400 dropped to 300, still nothing. I started to have the gambler’s fallacy, surely a precursor was due? 300 dropped to 200, I was getting very worried. Once I saw that 200 drop to 125, I pondered if I should just ignore all this precursor stuff. Guess I should have listened to myself, 125 dropped to 25, and finally to 0.

There was a brief moment of silence for myself, and with that I shook my head and closed the game client, for good.

Now for trivia/statistics:

-The gold items I used were all random 74-80 rares, I bought the cheapest prices listed.
-I sold all exotics that came out of the forge worth over 1 gold
-All exotics under 1 gold were put in the forge again with a forge stone
-Around 6000 gold items were used
-All 3 precursors came from four rares
-There are many unique skinned exotics
-I got around 170 exotic weapons total from 6k rares
-The most expensive non-precursor for me was the charrzooka
-Non-unique exotics popped out more frequently than unique named
-74 rares seemed to have the same outcome as 80 rares.
-I lost an estimated 200g due to trading post fees
So in closing, quit while you are ahead if you get lucky. Don’t lose everything like me to the mystic forge.