Guild Wars 2

kokiman.2364:

Cassocaster.4576:

For the next few days, I would just run around in circles doing events in LA….this series of events should provide everyone with a boat load of cash.

And this is wrong aswell because you are not supposed to form a huge zerg and provoke huge spawns, you should spread out and rescue as many citizens as possible

Yeah, I am not talking about what “you are supposed to do”, I am trying to provide the OP with a fast way to raise gold. Thanks for making sure I know the rules though.

For the next few days, I would just run around in circles doing events in LA….this series of events should provide everyone with a boat load of cash.

Excellent advice, I am on this….have the gold and the mats to fill.

Wanze.8410:

It might be right that champ trains give more bags, but the amount of people farming LA right now also dwarves any number of players on the trains at any given time.

tl;dr warning———

You make a solid point but it spawns a follow up question. Could this vast amount of loot upset the economy on a grander scale than just iron and fabric? I had to have salvaged 600 items since Tuesday evening (I got 3 agent of entropy AP awards), at least and opened no less than 750 bags with various mats. Every time I hit LA, I am in overflow. How many people are in each instance of LA? 200? 500?

A ton of of mats could crash because of this…..the iron fiasco will splutter out quick because only so many people want the back item, I love it but a ton of people hate it. That splutter will happen before the LS for Lion’s Arch is finished and has been alluded to, I doubt this monsoon of loot is going to abate in the normal 2 week window.

Could we be on the precipice of a true devaluation of a broad set of commodities? Could this be what they hinted at last year when they said the economy of the game was going to change? Scarlet was a loot fest but it was difficult because they time gated it (the loot was better but there was less of it). If I want to, I can run in circles around the old crafting area of LA for 45 minutes of every hour of the day. I can easily see acquiring 1000+ provision bags in a single day.

Take a look and gem to gold conversions over the last 4 days…it’s fallen every day. What do people think parity is for gems to gold? 100 gems to 4 gold? To 5? It’s currently trading at 5.90 gold per 100 gems but Monday night it was 6.30. That’s a small percentage but it has only been 4 days, what about after 4 weeks of this?

Wanze.8410:

Cassocaster.4576:

I sold all my measly iron ore, ingots and steel but made 3 times what I paid. Made 40 gold profit….I know that’s nothing to some of you guys but it allowed me to take advantage of several other commodities that are silently sliding down to favorable numbers. Gonna have to create a bank toon soon, 2 of mine are already filled.

Edit:
At 8 PM last night, I sold my entire ore lot at 3.63S per ore…..

Make a storage guild, way cheaper than bank toons.

What does it cost? This is a great idea as I just purchased about 60 stacks of various mats and am running out of room. Thanks again Wanze.

You only get credit for FOUND heirlooms, not the drops from the bags (I have 7 heirlooms in inventory but only 2 found). The daily reset is what sucks….I guess ANet knew someone would have a map an hour after patch launch

They will drop, think of aetherblade keys…..

This build is designed around a ton of power, survivability and condition damage. P/P and D/D alts. Soldier’s armor with runes of strength, bloodlust and agony on both sets. Trinkets are carrion.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fYAQRAqa4YlUmaPHfS5E+5EBnCjqUNFysldPya81KA-jACBYMBkgIQk0hO7pIasVOFRjVzATjiIq2hoIa1SBMp0I-e

Tweaks? Thanks

As a side note, I would hold the initial menu pieces (the 4 that go into the forge). Those will only drop during the event and after, it’s over. Those and the quaggan potions are gonna be worth a ton.

You already get 10 laurels and mystic coins, if they add keys in, what goes lower on the loot chart instead?

I sold all my measly iron ore, ingots and steel but made 3 times what I paid. Made 40 gold profit….I know that’s nothing to some of you guys but it allowed me to take advantage of several other commodities that are silently sliding down to favorable numbers. Gonna have to create a bank toon soon, 2 of mine are already filled.

Edit:
At 8 PM last night, I sold my entire ore lot at 3.63S per ore…..

Tallis.5607:

Cassocaster.4576:

You’re telling me that because I spent money you have to?

Thank you for proving my point about people with an attitude towards a person like me just because I spent money.

If you do not see that a company caters to the need of people that spend money, at the expense of people that do not spend money, then there is really nothing I can say to help you understand.

Call it an attitude if you want. That doesn’t make it wrong.

I 100% agree with your view of the COMPANY. I am complaining of how you align me with them as a catalyst to your having to spend real currency to get gold. Listen, McDonalds sells billions of burgers and in the process they destroy huge tracts of farmable land to set up pasture and feed lots for the billions of cows those “burgers” come from. If I buy a burger, do you have to buy a burger? If McDonalds wipes out 50 farms to create that burger I am enjoying, am I complicit? You are aligning me with the cause of your angst and unfortunately, you’re wrong. Your angst comes from you in relation to your view of unfair practices by ANet.

Good luck getting them to change their business model and not cater to people who spend money, that would be asinine.

this is temporary as buyers focus on metals to get the mastercraft and rare versions of the new backpiece. The ascended version requires one of three paths that use either damask, deldimor or elonian materials. Lots of speculation and even ANet has said to use the leathersmith path but silk will still be needed.

I can honestly say that I never expected to read the words silk is crashing….

Well, you can take this one of two ways, either you see the obstacle or you see the potential money. 3S per ore? Make one back piece (you can easily farm the first 2 upgrades and the step to exotic uses mithril which is dirt cheap) and then farm iron. I made my exotic this morning from inventory mats but when I see how much iron has climbed, I am going to liquidate…..

Zypher.7609:

I have not gotten all the blueprint pieces yet. Was trying to not buy them off the TP. There are a couple people in my guild with them, they look awesome. The engineer will greatly appreciate it.

Will you be upgrading yours more?

No, my build needed an exotic level Soldier’s back piece (was trying to get into Grenth but that’s tough) so I just built this one up because I need to use a Celestial jewel as the upgrade and ascended pieces won’t hold that.

I have a ranger the ascended could go on so I may go that route, he has a very steam punk look that this piece what look good on.

Really, no one has this yet or do people hate it? I think this is one of the best they’ve done, honestly.

Tallis.5607:

Cassocaster.4576:

The thing that kind of irks me is that people take an attitude towards those that can afford to buy gems (or choose to should that be the delimiter in deciding to buy or grind), no one HAS to buy gems.

Unfortunatly, this is not true.

People that buy gems with dollars ‘force’ others to do the same. It is because of players that are willing to pay-to-win (read: get top DPS), that others have to pay too.

There is no way for a player to make 3,000 gold by ‘just playing the game’ so that he can buy the top-DPS legendary. That is 300 hours of pure hard-core, mind-numbing grinding. The only realistic way to get 3,000 gold is to spend real money.

Because some people spent that money, ANet will never give a non-pay-to-win way to let us get that top-DPS weapon. Why would ANet do that, when they can get people to pay dollars to have the best gear?

So, yes, it is because of people that spent 700$ on a game, that others need to spend money too to keep up with the insane legendary (read: top DPS weapon) price.

Are you blaming me for your lack of gear because I spent money on the game? An amount, I might add, which only averages out to $15US per week. You’re telling me that because I spent money you have to?

Thank you for proving my point about people with an attitude towards a person like me just because I spent money. I don’t own any legendaries, I crafted the 4 ascended weapons I have with mats I farmed. I use gems for things that cannot be bought with gold, like character slots, bank expansion, black lion keys, skins, BL salvage kits. I also just spent 25 days getting enough laurels to get an ascended earring for the build I am completing, should I feel bad about earning my laurels? Are those unfair?

Bang up job on the back piece, got an Exotic level soldier’s this morning. Post a screen shot with your new look, here’s my guardian:

Great response but still not quite I was asking though Mystic. Even if we were to jump up to 100K runes/sigils per character in my outline or higher, what has the higher impact on pricing? The person who hoards the items or the person who destroys them? Or, is it an equal effect? I know this seems silly but at some point the hoarder will want the bank space back and want to sell and will reintroduce those items to market. The MF-er (heh) is just eliminating them in hopes of a high return. I am thinking the forger has a bigger impact…..just looking to see what others think.

Having thrown a whole lot of sigils into the forge in the last week, I agree that it sucks to do it Vol, with you on that one.

The easiest method outside of crafting is exploration of the capital cities and then branching off of them. Getting 100% completion for Lion’s Arch is gonna be tough though…..also, champ events pay well in EXP. Check out dragon timers on Google.

Hopefully you are tracking this so you can give a summation after this thread has run its’ course:

1. Sword – Mesmer
2. Greatsword – Warrior or Guardian
3. Mace – Warrior
4. Hammer – Warrior or Guardian
5. Staff – Necro and guardian
6. Focus – um…..got nothing
7. Shield – everyone
8. Torch – Mesmer, Ranger or thief
9. Dagger – Thief, necro
10. Scepter – Mesmer
11. Trident – Light armor…Mesmer or Necro
12. Spear – Warrior or guardian
13. Harpoon gun – Engi, Ranger
14. Shortbow – Ranger
15. Longbow – Ranger
16. Axe – Warrior
17. Pistol – Engi, Thief or Ranger
18. Rifle – Engi or Ranger
19. Warhorn – Warrior or guardian

Having leveled 2 necros and not being able to move past level 65 on the ele even though I wanted to finish him makes my preference far swayed to the ’mancer side.

I found that I was having fun with my necros immediately and the ele was a chore though I have to say the eles have the best animations and colors of all the classes, to me.

I couldn’t have fun with the ele, he always felt weak where my necros seemed to be really good right out of the gate. I equipped him efficiently but once a toon is past 60 and superior sigils and runes open up, that’s where I could tell that the toon was destined for a return to the ether of ones and zeroes.

The important part, to me, is to have fun, create 2 toons, same race but make one an ele and one a necro. Keep the one that your game style acclimates towards….

Along this line of buying up and holding in speculation, what is the impact point? If I pile up 10,000 major runes to hold onto, how much do I actually impact the system as opposed to a player who buys up 10K of their own and then throws them into the forge to see what the slot machine kicks out? The circulation point is easy, between us we’ve pulled 20K major runes from supply and that tightens the market and has a small chance to impact prices especially if we both purchased on buy orders.

That has to be but a tiny percentage in the supply bucket BUT if the second player destroys 3 out of 4 runes of his 10K then we get an attrition of 75%, or 7500 runes. Those runes are gone forever, never to return to a sale point on the TP. During his further spinning of the Mystic Forge his remaining 2500 will be a mix of superiors and 80% majors so 2000 more can go into the forge, this time destroying another 1500.

We’re up to 9K major runes destroyed at this point and my 10K are still sitting in my inventory. Ultimately, to get to just superiors, 9500, approximately, major sigils have to be destroyed. Now this is just 2 hypothetical players (I don’t have any rune holdings), there are scores of players doing this, holding for speculation or gambling with the forge and destroying 3 out of 4 items.

The ultimate question is, what has a larger impact on prices?

Ponce de Lion – white and midnight fire dyes; vigil gauntlets, pauldrons and boots; dark leggings; draconic helm; enduring chest piece; all soldiers runes and weapons:

Impossible to do. It will never happen.

My reasoning on this particular skin set is that it caters specifically to usage by female toons, yes I am stereotyping here but my Charr isn’t going to sport these. Other than the dream thistle skins, most everything is aimed at the boys with skulls, serpents, dripping blood, fire and death themes, as it should be for the traditional MMO mindset and our immature, boyish views. But, lest we forget, there are a ton of female players and lots of female toons yet not as many options when crafting a sweet looking toon who can tear your head off. I am basing my thought on the availability aspect and the limited options aimed at female characters.

Halloween weapons were meh to me other than the great sword, which I have for my ranger. The flying bats and screeching sound were too tempting to deny…

Love Juggernaut…..the only legendary I want. Is that black Abyss? The Norn cultural tier 3 looks great….only the Charr is better for heavy armor, IMO.

mtpelion.4562:

Stock up now…

shhhhh………..

I think it’s further decay as we wait get the details for the new content and then finding that ascended jewelry is still not released. Want to see cheap, check silver and gold, same deal.

sorudo.9054:

Cassocaster.4576:

sorudo.9054:

DarkSpirit.7046:

Rising Dusk.2408:

OrianZeta.1537:

Stop rewarding so much gold just for playing the game. There are a billion currencies; pick another one (how about laurels?). Bound items (you know, actual physical rewards?) are also things.

If selling gems earned a lot more gold and rewards were reworked away from injecting sacks of gold into everyone’s wallets we would have a more rational gem market, balanced economy and rewarding ecosystem.

I generally disagree with this sentiment. Even for obtaining 6g per 100 gems right now from selling gems, that’s 48g for 10 bucks, which for many people in this day and age is one hour of work or far less than that for people with higher paying jobs. Compare this to the number of hours of focused grinding you’d need to get 48g in-game, which is about 6 assuming a maximized 8g/hr rate from champ trains. 1 hour of real work or 6 hours of in-game work. For a lot of people, the appropriate course of action for them is crystal clear.

I think the values are in a good place right now given the amount of time it takes to earn the equivalent value of gold for those gems.

Sure if you don’t have to consider food, paying your house mortgage/rent, paying up your car, paying for your children’s education, paying your ISP, taxes, etc. That $10/hour becomes much lower now, so not too crystal clear to me.

i tried to make that clear many times, way to many ppl are to young to realize all that….or are in debt to prove their irresponsibility.

The line of assumptions are long here. I make good money (computer programmer), I have a family to support and a finite amount of TIME to play. Discretionary income is strong enough to buy gems from time to time and as I have posted on other threads, I have spent somewhere around $700 in the last year on the game.

For myself, who is not a kid and is not irresponsible with my finances, it makes a whole lot of sense to use my game time as efficiently as possible so I have more time with my family and other responsibilities. For those that are cash poor and time rich, maybe it makes more sense to farm but for me and many others like me, it simply doesn’t make sense.

The thing that kind of irks me is that people take an attitude towards those that can afford to buy gems (or choose to should that be the delimiter in deciding to buy or grind), no one HAS to buy gems. ANet has a vested interest in making money so the exchange rate favors the conversion FROM gems, not to gems. This is a simple thing, it’s about profit and nothing to do with game play.

you know, the problem is that you make the exact same mistake as allot of other ppl, you assume there are only 2 kinds of player.

• players who are poor but have plenty of time
• players who don’t have much time but have plenty of cash to burn

what you (and many others) fail to realize is that there is a 3rd kind, the kind that is poor and barely has time to play games.
answer me this since you’re sooo smart, how do you solve that problem huh?

To directly answer your question:

“I would stop wishing people would carry me and hand me what I want instead of putting the effort to earn it myself. If I had scant time, I would figure out the best way to make use of it by getting a routine down (I can run dailies in 20 minutes or less almost every day), in a few days you have enough mats for several gold just by spending 20 minutes each day. Can you keep up with someone who spends time and/or money or even both? No….”

Now my opinionated response:
You are asking for something for nothing and it’s not up to this forum nor the economics of this game to give you what you want on a plate. For a person who has so little time, you certainly spend a lot on this board….

sorudo.9054:

DarkSpirit.7046:

Rising Dusk.2408:

OrianZeta.1537:

Stop rewarding so much gold just for playing the game. There are a billion currencies; pick another one (how about laurels?). Bound items (you know, actual physical rewards?) are also things.

If selling gems earned a lot more gold and rewards were reworked away from injecting sacks of gold into everyone’s wallets we would have a more rational gem market, balanced economy and rewarding ecosystem.

I generally disagree with this sentiment. Even for obtaining 6g per 100 gems right now from selling gems, that’s 48g for 10 bucks, which for many people in this day and age is one hour of work or far less than that for people with higher paying jobs. Compare this to the number of hours of focused grinding you’d need to get 48g in-game, which is about 6 assuming a maximized 8g/hr rate from champ trains. 1 hour of real work or 6 hours of in-game work. For a lot of people, the appropriate course of action for them is crystal clear.

I think the values are in a good place right now given the amount of time it takes to earn the equivalent value of gold for those gems.

Sure if you don’t have to consider food, paying your house mortgage/rent, paying up your car, paying for your children’s education, paying your ISP, taxes, etc. That $10/hour becomes much lower now, so not too crystal clear to me.

i tried to make that clear many times, way to many ppl are to young to realize all that….or are in debt to prove their irresponsibility.

The line of assumptions are long here. I make good money (computer programmer), I have a family to support and a finite amount of TIME to play. Discretionary income is strong enough to buy gems from time to time and as I have posted on other threads, I have spent somewhere around $700 in the last year on the game.

For myself, who is not a kid and is not irresponsible with my finances, it makes a whole lot of sense to use my game time as efficiently as possible so I have more time with my family and other responsibilities. For those that are cash poor and time rich, maybe it makes more sense to farm but for me and many others like me, it simply doesn’t make sense.

The thing that kind of irks me is that people take an attitude towards those that can afford to buy gems (or choose to should that be the delimiter in deciding to buy or grind), no one HAS to buy gems. ANet has a vested interest in making money so the exchange rate favors the conversion FROM gems, not to gems. This is a simple thing, it’s about profit and nothing to do with game play.

This is exceptional work Samuirai. Thank you, +1 and bookmarked. Wanze, you always provide great feedback, thanks for your input as well.

Thief: So Much Guile, Infamy, Dishonor, Sleaze
Ele: So Much Weather, Power, Style
Necro: So Much Famine, Disease, Pestilence

Um…better yet….think about items that hold value and those that might (such as commodities like metals and cloth)….for every 20 greatswords you will get 4 rares and maybe 1 exotic. So, take 80% of the gold you would spend and send it to me instead!

Zaoda.1653:

I <3 the lovestruck weapons. In particular the shield and greatsword.

Here’s my charr wielding the gs. Fits him perfectly I reckon and I’ve had 3 compliments via private message about my charr’s look so I guess people seem to like it.

This is a good blend of your Charr’s armor palette and the love struck weapon, nice job

MAGpie.7962:

You might get a kick out of my newest family member, more “samurai’ey” then ole bully:D

Betty Boon:

This is excellent, very samurai indeed…..redux of Ponce:

With your Charr’s fur being so light, I think I would stay away from the gold you are using as your main color and instead use it for accents. Midnight blue or a deep aqua would complement the fur and the gold. Personally I would hide the helm, it takes away from your Charr-ness. My latest palette:

2000 ore only equals four ascended weapons so having stacks of the ore is fine until you start making things with it. I have completed 4 ascended weapons but am 40 dragonite short of a fifth (not a big deal, I don’t need it).

For players who are at 500 in their respective disciplines and have multiple alts/main toons, dragonite can and will evaporate very quickly. I don’t think the drop rates should be adjusted up or down, I think they got it right when they buffed WvW lords a little a couple patches ago.

Bloodstone and Empyreal, however, drop too much. I have 50 bricks of bloodstone and another 3500 that I don’t want to convert because of the cost of thermo-whatchacallit. Same with Empyreal, I have enough stars for 10 weapons but am tired of wasting 14+ silver to make room so I shifted all of my inventory to a toon I am using as a bank.

They really need a converter…I would pay 1200 gems for a converter…..

DaShi.1368:

I wanted a heart great sword, and I got one. It looks great on my mesmer.

I didn’t mean any disrespect, just that the staff would have a broader appeal the farther away from Valentine’s Day we got….sorry about that.

Vol.7601:

These skins are at the extreme end at ‘seasonal’ status, so you can expect they will come out with them in 2015.

I’m extremely biased because I think seasonal items are ugly when worn out of season and the hearts do not do any justice. Or maybe I just hate these ‘lovey-dovey’ skins and I prefer more regal and dignifying skins.

But putting aside my bias, the fact that ticket requirements will go up and that the risk of re-introduction under a year is small, it would seem to be a good investment. The only problem is the demand side – will people actually continue to buy these type of skins, say, 6 months down the line? Also keep in mind that anyone and everyone knows about investing in these skins and you will be competing with a lot of people who want their share

Thanks Vol and Flissy. I picked the staff skin as it seemed to have the best chance at prolonged interest. Who wants a heart great sword? No one but the staff is a little less obtrusive in the stylings so it might have a little life. The investment was tiny in that it would already pay for itself but we’ll see, it could go the way of the scelerite and never get above 100 gold after the initial push.

So, I bought enough BLTP chest keys to finish the scraps I already had (because they nerfed the chests, I won’t be unlocking unless I get a drop of a key, I always just used them as scratch tickets but now it’s not worth it, IMO).

It only took 10 to get a 3 scraps to finish 1 ticket to buy the sweetheart staff skin. Having just reached a year in game, almost (another 3 days), I wasn’t around for last Valentine’s Day so I have no idea if these are at peak now or if they were offered last year.

What are people’s thoughts and thanks,

mtpelion.4562:

Lishtenbird.2814:

Ascended materials conversion has been suggested many-many times because different people prefer doing different content and would be happy to convert them even at a discriminating exchange rate. I for one am drowning in dragonite but have very little empyreal.

Trick for Empyreal:

Take your alts and park them at the Morgan’s Spiral Jumping Puzzle chest. Every day, log into each alt and open the chest.

You’ll be rolling in fragments with no effort.

Evil but brilliant….

Nike.2631:

I tend to think of Charr culture as “non-absurd Klingons” rather than “samurai”. Basically a warrior/military-oriented culture with a strong honor code that skips the utter stupidity of most Klingon stories by recognizing the importance of logistics – Ranchers aren’t as awesome as a line troops, but the culture doesn’t squat over them and take a big dump, mostly because an army deprived of its food supply is no longer an army. Its a pack of starving bandits. Seeing non-warriors treated in terms of the value they contribute to overall military readiness is actually quite refreshing.

The other defining characteristic of the charr is summed up by some dialogue in the back corner of their starter zone discussing what to do with the local skelk population… “We’re going to do what Charr always do with a bunch of fresh meat: train it to fight as a unit.” You see it time and again in their zones – Charr will attempt to train just about anything as a fighting auxiliary. Battle cattle for the win.

Oh… you mean visually. Sure, You can make them pretty samurai. Browse the “ceremonial” weapons in the TP. The swords have a nice curve to them.

This….is an awesome post. (BTW, I have a Naga Fang for his great sword)

Latest look, losing some of the Samurai….especially when wielding a hammer,

I’ve read outside these forums that it was a distributed denial of service. I tried pinging the main site and half of the packets were lost, everything else was more than 200 ms.

Apathetic.2904:

Alright, thanks ya’ll. Perhaps it’s best I just save up and level up without crafting. I rather save my money to buy gear at 80 or craft stuff I need at 80. Thanks again.

I am not I sure I would approach it this way. Gathering mats is a grind for some, I don’t mind it but that’s just me. If you’ve been playing sPvP than you likely aren’t getting dailies done (tasks to be completed every day, look under achievement points in your hero tab) and therefore, not getting laurels which are yet another form of currency.

Farming material nodes provides experience as well as giving you the chance to craft which you will need eventually IF you decide to go after ascended weapons or armor. I bypassed the armor (though I have leathersmith to 500) but have built 4 ascended weapons. Ascended items are account bound and cannot be purchased on the trading post. You either craft for ascended or, for trinkets (rings, amulets, etc) you can use laurels. You can also pray to the RNG (random number generator) loot gods and hope that you land drops that are exotic or ascended.

A D/D staff Alt ’zerker necromancer….tons of AoE, condi dmg, 2 health bars when in the thick of it and plenty of minions to draw agro. Necros can be squishy if over powered by multiple opponents but are excellent toons.

sorudo.9054:

Cassocaster.4576:

sorudo.9054:

Cassocaster.4576:

Just a quick note, at $15US you can convert for 6.40 gold per 100 gems, 1200 gems, about 77 gold. (76.8 to be exact) ($)15 (cost) into 77 gold is approximately 5.12 gold per dollar spent. About 19 cents of real currency per gold in game. This is incredibly cheap when you consider the time necessary to earn a gold by farming or doing champ/dungeons. If folks have gems, it seems like the ratio is at peak, I converted 3700 gems last night when the rate was just a touch higher but personally I don’t think it can sustain this level of exchange since gem prices haven’t increased. This is, of course, theoretical but I think it has maxxed out….

i bolded a part of this to show the flaw, try and think about regular play without any of that.
no dungeons, no champs and no farming, let’s see how far you get.

Not sure of your point….I just selected what the majority of people do to earn gold and compared it to the time cost, not potential earnings. If you aren’t doing any of what I outlined as common routines by players, what exactly are you doing? WvW? Just slaying monsters? What is the flaw?

hahaha, you don’t even realize it and you made another.
the term “majority of players” on a forum is as empty as space, what you think is majority doesn’t have to be the majority, it is just the part that screams the loudest.

in case you’re wondering, i do exploration, play the LS, do DE’s, RP at times.
i don’t need a 30+ group to enjoy a game or max gear to show how great i am, just my skill in playing a game and taking my sweet time is all i need as long as i don’t get trains ruining it.

Okay, there seems to be an issue with you picking apart what I say like I am talking to you so slow your roll, I wasn’t saying you do what lots of people do, not that there’s any way to prove either of us correct. I am stating that gold bought and paid for with gems is the most efficient method and taking advantage of the exchange rate right now is in MOST player’s best interest….this quote however:

“i don’t need a 30+ group to enjoy a game or max gear to show how great i am”

speaks very directly at how you view yourself. I don’t run champ trains though I will if I need dragonite but you put words in my mouth and I honestly don’t care for it. A ton of people like to find flaw with anything a person says, I bet I get an infraction for this but arrogant people who make assumptions can take a kittening walk for all I care.

Tell me how many times I kittened up this time dipkitten.

sorudo.9054:

Cassocaster.4576:

Just a quick note, at $15US you can convert for 6.40 gold per 100 gems, 1200 gems, about 77 gold. (76.8 to be exact) ($)15 (cost) into 77 gold is approximately 5.12 gold per dollar spent. About 19 cents of real currency per gold in game. This is incredibly cheap when you consider the time necessary to earn a gold by farming or doing champ/dungeons. If folks have gems, it seems like the ratio is at peak, I converted 3700 gems last night when the rate was just a touch higher but personally I don’t think it can sustain this level of exchange since gem prices haven’t increased. This is, of course, theoretical but I think it has maxxed out….

i bolded a part of this to show the flaw, try and think about regular play without any of that.
no dungeons, no champs and no farming, let’s see how far you get.

Not sure of your point….I just selected what the majority of people do to earn gold and compared it to the time cost, not potential earnings. If you aren’t doing any of what I outlined as common routines by players, what exactly are you doing? WvW? Just slaying monsters? What is the flaw?

Having built a Charr necro, light armor always looked pinched on him. Charrs were meant for heavy armor, IMO but I have seen some nice examples of well done medium armor.