Guild Wars 2

I remember it almost daily when launching the game. The pristine white launch screen, red dragon-2, and a beautiful yellow-yellow-purple chromohash…

I’ll also fondly remember the campfire.

EDIT: can anyone explain why all the games come with launchers nowadays? Feels so redundant.

If you add in a geared guild in ascended that’s “only 8%” stronger doing 25% more damage, vs a zerg of ungeared people… it’ll be a massacre. Guilds that focus on gaining gear first will have a massive advantage.

Already my guild can break an regular zerg with a 5man team but adding in 25% more damage would be devastating to anything but other organized guilds. Huge Guild vs Guild warfare will be decided by the amount of ascended armor in slot because there’s only so much you can cover with tactics when there’s a gear gap.

It’s fun. It’s also annoying. None of the fights are too difficult because the water alone entices plenty of rage.

It is the horadric cube. For the majority of players the crafting recipes will suffice. In the cube you’ll just throw left overs and gamble. Only the extremely rich can make the extremely expensive items as intended.

The cube worked the same way. Everyone knew how to upgrade runes and gems, just like everyone knows how to gamble gear. Everyone also knew the extremely good craftable sets but those were out of reach for most.

Good luck. I really feel for you. I’d recommend unlinking your phone while you can. If you have the google authenticator you can make 10 one-time use auth codes.

Armor 4/6 exotic
Trinkets 1/5 exotic + guild back
Weapons all exotic

As a casual, I took my time because I knew gear wouldn’t increase. Apparently it will…

How’s your exotic status?

impoc.1795:

marnick.4305:

impoc.1795:

JJGlyph.9746:

You don’t need to “try it before you knock it”. We’ve all seen gear treadmills in other MMOs & they showed the exact details in the Lindsey Murdock post. No thanks.

based solely on the blog post, please explain how this is exactly like other gear treadmills in other MMO’s

The problem being that they are stepping on the edge of a very slippery slope. Right now it’s just one tier. As soon as they add a second tier, it’ll be exactly like other gear threadmills. That’s why I want a clear statement that this is the ONLY time they’ll be increasing general stats. If A.net can make a solid promise that this is the one and only time another gear level is included (because we all knew “something” was coming for armor), I’m okay with it. The problem however is in the elitist no-life raiders who will be demanding a new tier in a few weeks. And that’s the moment this slippery slope can make or break the game.

I agree with this, they were very good about gear in GW1 and many people were expecting a legendary tier of armor, so I don’t believe that from everything we definitely know right now, that any of it is cause for concern

That’s ignorance from your part. The parts we don’t know yet are very much cause for concern. Ignoring the potential bad effects until after they happened isn’t golden rule, it’s stupidity.

These posts are a form of “until here and not further”.

impoc.1795:

JJGlyph.9746:

You don’t need to “try it before you knock it”. We’ve all seen gear treadmills in other MMOs & they showed the exact details in the Lindsey Murdock post. No thanks.

based solely on the blog post, please explain how this is exactly like other gear treadmills in other MMO’s

The problem being that they are stepping on the edge of a very slippery slope. Right now it’s just one tier. As soon as they add a second tier, it’ll be exactly like other gear threadmills. That’s why I want a clear statement that this is the ONLY time they’ll be increasing general stats. If A.net can make a solid promise that this is the one and only time another gear level is included (because we all knew “something” was coming for armor), I’m okay with it. The problem however is in the elitist no-life raiders who will be demanding a new tier in a few weeks. And that’s the moment this slippery slope can make or break the game.

Not the end of the world, but it sure is the start of a slippery slope

I’m extremely angry about Arena.net insulting their core public like this with ascended items, but since I’m an intelligent being (or at least pretend to be) I’ll try some constructive criticism. My job is to solve impossible problems so let’s try it here. There will be 3 important things to ascended items to make them work as currently presented.

1/ This is final. There is no stat increase after this one. This has to be firmly stated by the development team. We all knew something was coming for armor so this better not be tiered. This is the final stat increase for gear. This is muddy since they imply another progression to legendary? I’m okay with that if and only if there’s no stat increase from ascended to legendary.

2/ The current implementation you give up flexibility for stats. Because you don’t have a rune slot, it might make you weaker against people who slotted more relevant stats even though overall you have a higher “gearscore” (I hate that word). I agree with that on the notion that infusions don’t carry stats for themselves that influence regular pve or WvW. Any +9 against ogres I’m okay with, I’m not okay with +9 power on infusions.

3/ In the same vein, the level cap has to be affirmed once and for all. A.net is deliberately vague about this, but they should come out of the closet and state whether an expansion will go up to eleven or the cap will remain 80 for the lifetime of the game. For the core public of this game, the GW1 fans and people with a life who aim extremely long term, that’s a dealbreaker.

I love this game. I love it primarily because of the GW1 philosophy where I happily grinded for Obsidian armor that didn’t have a single point of higher stats. If the core philosophy of the game is thrown out……. I guess I will keep playing the game for some more time. I’m not leaving just yet. I expected to play this game for years like I did with GW1, but when the manifesto is abandoned, I will leave a bit sooner and not return. And that doesn’t make me happy.

I tried it in other MMOs. I’M NOT INTERESTED in gear progression. That’s the primary reason I play GW2. I’m not interested in trying broken mechanics AGAIN.

Trickyg.8752:

Totally fine with it. They’re just bridging the gap between the exotic and legendary tiers. If you guys would have read the blog post you would understand that Legendary was always meant to be the highest tier and the ascension tier was only introduced so that people didn’t hit a legendary wall. They stated this would be a one time change only. There is no treadmill…

You know how this goes. In 2 weeks the lifeless will have all top gear again and start yearning for a tier2 ascended.

Plague.5329:

marnick.4305:

Nay for stat-based gear progression.

Linsey

Original Guild Wars fans may recognize that we took a familiar approach to our new progression.

NAY this ain’t familiar. It’s an insult to fans of the original Guild Wars.

It actually made me physically angry that they invoked GW1’s name to support something that flies in the face of everything that made that game great. It’s like seeing someone invoke George Washington as they burn the American flag.

Penn and Teller did so in a good way check youtube. But apart from that you’re right. It’d be more like invoking George Washington to eliminate the bill of rights.

Except greens didn’t have higher stats. Crybabies wanted higher stats and back then a.net did the right thing and left the stat cap as it was.

Also the sky wasn’t falling back then. No idea where you got that from. Evidently you weren’t there.

Nay for stat-based gear progression.

Linsey

Original Guild Wars fans may recognize that we took a familiar approach to our new progression.

NAY this ain’t familiar. It’s an insult to fans of the original Guild Wars.

Alice.8694:

Talloc.6835:

Ah, the same response you gave me from earlier. Care to explain why they’re adding one set of armor with a new mechanic on it and it’s only happening this one time?

Or I guess you could just link your slippery slope argument website again.

Being an kitten won’t make your arguments any less fallacious, you realise this right?

You’re the one claiming they are going to add additional armour tiers after this one, therefore the burden of proof is on you. And as I already pointed out to you “Because they just added one” isn’t a sufficient answer.

They are pretty clear in the blog post why exactly they are adding an additional item rarity. Perhaps you should read it. :P

The added rarity should have been a reward in and of itself. The ascended slot was nice if and only if it’s pve only for specific dungeons. The increased base stats are the actual insult, the added rarity and new slots I’m totally okay with.

I’m wasn’t going to schedule to get to the event but indeed this absolute worst thing that could happen to GW2 is turning me away from the event full turn. I’ll definitely not be there if it can help the game.

Slippery slopes makes me unhappy. It might make me leave the game if it gets out of hand and I love this game As long as it’s 3 stats points but next time the elitists cry for higher and higher stats while the real normal people can’t compete anymore in WvW with their exotics vs tier 100 ascended with “only” +200 on every stat.

No … big no. Time to rethink this arena.net. You’re attacking your core public. Especially:

Original Guild Wars fans may recognize that we took a familiar approach to our new progression.

With respect, but this is anything BUT familiar. The stat cap was set on release day and never changed in GW1. Slapping on a familiar mechanic to kitten the game’s core philosophy is NOT familiar. It’s an insult.

I support this. Should have been there in GW1 already but in GW2 it is much more needed.

I’m not talking for a.net here but more generally from an industry point of perspective. I work for a 2000 people industrial automation company and have a few Linux customers every month.

- The company I work for has a pretty big software environment which only works under Windows. There are very good reasons for that. First of, with Windows, you know what you work with. As bad as Windows is out of the box, you never now how bad someone kittened up his Linux distribution.
Be honest, would you be willing to help anyone with his homebrew Archlinux, Gentoo or LFS??? How much would you charge for that? On the other hand, Microsoft actually gives pretty good support to it’s industrial customers. In case of emergency, our in-house developers are 2 phone calls away from any Microsoft developer.

- For Linux, such support does not exist. Whenever a company develops for Linux, they also have to hire someone to develop Linux for the simple reason that lots of stuff is in beta and for serious use that’s not an option. Most big Linux software packages are a joke by industrial standards, not because they’re bad but because lack of serious support.

- Also, you never know when a Linux branch is going to die. If, for example, you base your software kit on emacs, it may just die tomorrow unless you support emacs financially. However, emacs is open source so all your money is down the litter bin and you have no rights to any code you paid for. If you base it on Visual Studio, you almost certainly know Microsoft and VS support will still be there in 10 years.

- Windows is actually very flexible, and if something isn’t possible yet, it’s usually possible to make it. The company I work for has a real time kernel that runs completely parallel to Windows. There’s nothing you can do with Linux which you can’t with Windows.

For companies who have to pay salaries and share holders, going with open source partners is simply unfeasible and corporate suicide. Valve is big enough to start a joke project they know will cost more than it’ll earn, but I don’t think a.net has that luxury position.
When I have customers calling me with Linux problems I invariably say I can’t and won’t help them. It makes no sense to devote 90% of resources to a minority of users, because frankly, solving a single Linux problem takes more time than 100 Windows problems. We allow customers to use Linux but don’t give any form of official support on it.

So while I support this thread in that a.net could one day allow a dev write an unsupported Linux client in his spare time, I would not expect such a thing to happen anytime soon. Unsupported and spare time being the key words here.

The quest for power in traditional MMOs is a problematic one because “power” can exist through different means. In classic Rome two concepts could give “power”:
- Potestas: The power you wield through holding office. A judge can decide trials. A tribune could veto laws. A Pontifex was sancrosanct (could enact capital judgement). One way to get power was by accumulating offices which is how Sulla and Caesar became the undisputed leader of Rome.

- Auctoritas/Dignitas: The power you wield through respect people show towards you. At first Emperor August accumulated offices but it was only when he gave up all his offices that he became what we now call an “emperor”. The absolute respect the nation had for him meant that he effectively had all power even though he had none by law. The power of Auctoritas is so big that the establishment of the Roman Empire is usually dated the year August gave up his offices.

In traditional MMO games you accumulate power by raising your numbers. This is a matter of Potestas where you pwn the other player because the odds are against his by game design.
On the other hand, a legendary item shows Auctoritas. You had the power and perseverance to explore, earn money, earn karma, be a master crafter and get a guild on dungeon and WvW runs. Legendaries show a mastery of all areas of the game, and because of that demand respect, even though it doesn’t increase your absolute power in numbers.

Illiander.8049:

marnick.4305:

I’m with Illiander. Don’t get hacked. That’s YOUR responsibility, although A.net is cool enough to help you out when you kitten up. I wouldn’t go as far as to recommend using Gentoo, your common sense should suffice by not going to particular websites based on goldselling, stealing software and female body parts.

I’m not sure I’d go as far as recommending uning Gentoo to someone who isn’t technically minded. Though I would suggest Ubuntu or Fedora. I’ll skip the list of reasons why for now though, and just link the Linux thread.

There’s plenty of reasons for people who aren’t technically minded to avoid Linux for gaming at all costs. I’m quite technically minded, I work with computers on a daily basis for industrial applications. When customers want Linux they are out of luck. We don’t support that. I’ve used Linux in my spare time but it’s simply not worth the hassle. Very limited gains for far too much trouble.

Killing Trahearne and making the player marshall with Tybald as his second-in-command would have done a lot for the story mode.

I know they wrote around a character but the second-in-command should be the narrator like Watson or Hastings. This would add a name to spin the story around yet the main guy could remain nameless as the player.

It’s not a.net who’ll change the price but the players. The player base decided dawn is worth around 360g at the moment. This could change depending on patches but still… 260g is a good price! I doubt dawn will go under 200g.

On the other hand… Dawn is flatlining already and almost all other precursors are trending down. The price drop is happening right now so do what you want. You can easily sell it for 300g right now, collect the 40g profit and wait until it eventually drops under 200g for a full 100g. That would mean delaying your legendary for potentially 3-4 months. Your choice. Early = expensive, late = cheap

paelen.3821:

I feel the Diminishing Returns affects higher level players hitting the lower level areas more so than a proper level player in the same area. No, I haven’t actually checked into this but wearing the same gear and leveling to 20 say, Hitting a 1-15 area appears to be a bit more of a challenge than someone in the same gear at 15.

Running a 40-44 warrior in a 1-15 zone with gear around 35+ level. I can say sometimes its tough and a challenge and even to where you need assistance. The more stats you have on your gear, the easier it is. (precision, Crit, Vital, etc..)

Just about every 5 levels or so, You can upgrade. The task is that you may not want the stats available for that level of gear. Therefore you have to wait until those stats become available. Check out the crafted Vitality and Toughness gear. The prices have escalated at least 5x if not more and going up!

While levelling the story mode and dropped gear should suffice for most players (apart for maybe the weapons). Make a balanced choice between surviving and damaging and you’ll be fine. Min-max is not the optimal way to play in this game. I find having a balanced range of stats with a focus on your main stat to be far better.

Some people blame a.net for implementing grind in the form of legendaries. These people didn’t read the promises correctly. No grind should be forced is what the philosophy is based around. So let’s break this down:

- levelling to 80 is no grind at all, you can do it without repeating any content, nor is any content particularly grindy. As soon as you’re bored of a particular xp generating method there’s always others.
- gearing up at 80 isn’t that difficult. By 80 you should have about 5g or even more if you didn’t spend it all on useless stuff. For 1g you can have full yellow which should get you trough almost all content:
—- Gearing up to orange. Do the 3 explorables of several dungeons and you’ll have at least orange boots, gloves, shoulders and head.
—- By this time you more than likely have plenty of Karma to buy max damage orange weapons.
—- By spending 20g (which you could have by not spending too much) you can upgrade your jewelry to orange
—- Which only leaves chest and boots, which can be done through Karma, gold or tokens depending on what you have left.

This will give you a completely orange geared character without repeating any content and without grinding either gold, karma or dungeons, just by using whatever you have at your disposal.

Yes, a legendary takes time in the form of completion, pvp, dungeons, levelling up crafts and farming gold for the precursor. That shouldn’t be a problem because legendary weapons are entirely optional. They are just as good as the orange weapon you’re wielding after my tips, but they also form the carrot of a stick that will keep you playing. As a casual, getting my legendary is a goal that’ll keep me occupied for quite a while.

Good luck and have fun.

Tosha Daydreamer.9251:

The devs said in an interview a few months back that they wanted to implement fishing, “but could not get it right” and that they’ll try to implement it in a future update or expansion.

But of couse, I can’t find the source anymore :/

I’ll take you as the source of a rumour I’m happy with over no source at all I promise I won’t blame a.net until I find a first hand source.

I’ve been playing on win8 since the first beta weekend (company msdn wootwoot), and I’ve bought myself an SSD few days before release (law of Moore wootwoot). I can comment that GW2 works under win8 without any problems (a.net wootwoot)

As for touch… no idea.

Tablets…. only when based on Intel CPU. GW2 won’t work on ARM-based Win8-RT tablets.

Yes yes YES!!!! absolutely! It’s the only thing I really miss in GW2.

The only thing I miss from WoW is fishing, late at night 3 am GMT or so, sitting somewhere at a lake with 2 or 3 people, 1 horde, 2 alliance. Each just quietly sitting there enjoying the relaxing atmosphere of Azeroth at night. Unfortunately Blizzard killed that by making fishing available in Dalaran at lvl 1 or I might still be paying for my fishing license, ahum, subsciption.

Fishing is such a relaxing thing to do in video games just as much as in real life.

You told your buddy a lie that’ll hurt his enjoyment of the game. Actually, I don’t think this is about your buddy but about yourself but let’s not go there. Let’s quickly go over the options for world completion in WvWvW:

1/ Wait for it. In time, everyone gets every color. The completion is virtually guaranteed over time.
2/ Organize groups.
3/ Hop servers.

All three are just as valid as the others. All three work depending on the resources available (guild, skilled server, bit of color luck).

I used a combination or all. My guild conquered a few things I needed, a color change did most of the rest and I realized all I needed was within 1 server’s control so I hopped for the remaining 3 PoI’s.

Do not forget that 100% exploration is an end-game achievement and NOT intended to be easy. It’s also a required part of a legendary weapon, you should not take 100% for granted without at least some effort.

1/ ele’s have the lowest hp and lowest armor which makes them extremely squishy. On the other hand they’re the most versatile class by default due to attunements. Such is called balanced.

2/ dodge. Learn it, love it. It will make your life considerably more happy. This is not a stand still and nuke type of game, you really should be moving at all times. That goes for an ele just as much as the most tanky warrior.

3/ check what stats you’ve geared/traited into. If you feel you die too easy, try to move some stats around to toughness or vitality. Try to slot some defensive traits and utilities.

Well let’s burst a few bubbles:
1/ Every single mmo is not ready by release date. Do not fret over this. GW2 was already leaps and beyond every other release which is more than could be expected.

2/ I’d much rather have this token system than any form of RNG in the chest. The current system at least respects my time.

3/ I run dungeons because I like running dungeons. It was only after I got tons of tokens in several dungeons that I first took a look about what to get for them. Even without loot I would do them over and over because they’re usually fun.

4/ the fun factor is enhanced because skill and tactics, not gear, is required. You see this as an emphasis on dodge, which is indeed what makes the better player run dungeons faster. A naked untraited player could beat a dungeon if he had a decent level of skill and imho that proves GOOD dungeon design instead of the opposite. An enrage timer in other games is just a gear check which takes all skill out of it.

I think that page isn’t used anymore and should be removed from the front page. It was mostly for short term issues during launch.

I have the idea, from your post, that you’d rather be playing Rohan. If so, feel free to do so. If you don’t want to play Rohan, I don’t think making GW2 more like Rohan would be a good idea?

You are playing this game because GW2 has a drastically different philosophy. I do not support your suggestions.

Ah a class struggle type of pvp. Okay. So on one side you have the rich 1% with 99% of the money, and on the other hand the 99% with scraps. The battle would be about forcing the rich people to share the money the legitimately earned by proclaiming WE’RE THE 99% which for some magical reason should result in other people giving up what’s theirs.

Oh sorry reread OP maybe my idea isn’t such a good one, it also didn’t work in real life. I support OP’s suggestion though, seems like good fun although impossible to balance. As an event thing it would be cool.

Engi here: Between pistol and rifle I couldn’t care less but my shield is soooo awesome. 2 skills with big versatility, just can’t live without them. Actually the only times I come out of a kit is to use my shield skills.

So the answer is NO, at least for engi.

I always start in Orr and ride a chain. You can easily find events by going to the front lines (furthest uncontested WP). At the same time I gather whatever I find for money.
That way I just need 14 more mobs (only undead in Orr….) so I port to Queensdale. There’s very nice variation there.

All in all, I need less than an hour to complete them all. I get home at 5, dinner’s ready at 6.

If you want an actual bank, you have to build one. Gather money, play the TP with said money and pay out interests to people who deposit money with you. Furthermore, the owner of the bank would be responsible for all the money entrusted to him, and as such he is the one who has to do the following:
- properly protect your account, because “hacked” account are almost always the player’s fault
- design a proper pin system so people can get money from him

Or you could just use the bank the way it works in every other MMO…. as a storage locker.

I’m with Illiander. Don’t get hacked. That’s YOUR responsibility, although A.net is cool enough to help you out when you kitten up. I wouldn’t go as far as to recommend using Gentoo, your common sense should suffice by not going to particular websites based on goldselling, stealing software and female body parts. If you must, use a virtual machine for such things, you get one for free with Windows 7 Ultimate if you paid for it.

Whether I was the warrior or not, I would have started a vote to kick you too. I’d much rather have a 75 casual than 80++ elitist in my team.

Colonel Kernel.7506:

marnick.4305:

Basically the system is the same as in GW1 for traders. In GW1 it took some time but in the end prices stabilized. Some events seriously shaked the economy and could influence prices but on average ecto was extremely stable in the long run.

That’s not the way I understand the GW1 economy. From what I understand (didn’t play long enough to know personally) Glittering Dust (or maybe it was another commodity) became the de facto currency of GW1

The de facto currency was ecto, just the way I said…. the value of ecto was based on extremely stable trader prices.

Can I “change” to the same password? I’m pretty sure the 3 sentence french paragraph nonsense with punctuation and deliberate spelling mistakes I personally wrote isn’t a known password. As such I’d rather not change it (yet) but I’d rather still get rid of the message.

When I get home I find a to do list:
- carrots
- salad
- pasta
- chicken
- oil
- vinegar
- eggs
- bread

As soon as I finish that list I get behind my pc and DONT want such a list again. I want to get lost in Tyria and stumble upon these events rather than being spoonfed what to do. Kill 20 rats type of quests are an insult to my intelligence, and I’m not even that smart.

As far as traits go I don’t try to optimize my toon rather than optimize myself. I play a particular support-through-conditions style and in other games there wouldn’t be a single talent or what-have-you. Instead I was always forced into warlock or summoner type classes which were cool but also often underpowered or mechanically kittened. My style however works with every profession in gw2 as long as I pick the right traits and weapons. That’s good because I tend to prefer engineer-style professions because of the way they parody my real job.

I’m running the dungeons I like, I play WvW when I want, I do events in Orr when I feel like it and have fun overall. As far as end-game goes, I love it. I’m happy it’s not raid grinding.

I don’t know what’s wrong with having fun, but as far as end-game goes I do like it.

The idea behind elites is indeed they’re situational and on long cooldown. I also do think most of them could use a nice buff + all professions should have more to choose from. As of now the problem is more in the lack of choice than in lack of power. Elites are game changing when you use them properly. In GW1 they defined your build, in GW2 they feel …. redundant. More variation needed direly.

BTW if you marathon it, every campaign can be done in about a single day. I know this because I did so with friends on a lanparty. A week should suffice for the story mode including War in Kryta, Winds of Change and the love story arc.

GW2 is full of references, hidden in clever ways so non-GW1 players don’t realize it. You’ll never look at Tyria in the same way again.

In AC you actually need raw damage on certain encounters on stuff that doesn’t get conditions. So if you kitten damage for conditions, which don’t work, you kitten the group overall.

Yes, dungeons need specific build ideas and in the case of AC that’s raw damage. In TA you’ll want some form of reflection while CM and SE would do just fine with mass conditions.

Do report verbal abuse when it happens! Don’t brush it off.

Hope that helps.

Skar Hand.5037:

marnick.4305:

anathemawhite.6879:

You can give it to me
I need only 5 gold to buy abyss dye and I am frustrated that my wealth never even pass 2 golds.
How do you people gather those much golds anyway? (no, I already know the answer – playing TP – selling mats – farming orr – etc etc, none of them works for me)

For what it’s worth, farming copper in queensdale and selling to highest buy order should easily earn you those 5g in a few hours. I earned my 30g without playing TP, without farming anything and by simply enjoying the game while not buying useless stuff. I play around 2 hours a day and easily make 2g in that time.

All the gold I spent currently was on:
- 80s on yellow gear
- 5g on orange weapons
- 2g or so on crafting
- upkeep: repairs, wp, …..

Earning gold while playing to enjoy the game:
- focus on the daily
- do events when possible
- harvest whatever you find and just sell it if you don’t have a use for it. Even the copper from copper ore adds up quickly.
- salvage salvage items with basic salvage kit, not higher. It doesn’t give better drops so that’s wasted money!
- sell anything that’s not yellow to the vendor
- check price for exotics and rares on TP and sell to highest bidder if the price is good
- do not die lol so you don’t need to repair
- drop of all gold except 30s in the bank at the end of the day and don’t pick up money from TP unless you bought an item. Money you don’t see is money you don’t spend.
- whatever you need, check whether it can be bought for karma instead of gold

While those won’t make you rich fast, these tips will add up over time and you’ll have the money to buy yourself something cool every few hours.

All very good advice. Also be careful with your WP costs. It is possible to get anywhere in the game from anywhere for just a little over 2s. Mapping from Cursed Shore to Frostgorge Sound will cost you 4s+, but if you travel thru the mists and go from there you cut the price in half. It is over 3s to go to CS from LA, but if you use the asura gate to The Grove, the cost become 2s 6c. Doesn’t seem like a ton, but if you save 1-2s per WP and you WP 4-6 times per day you could save as much as 1.2 to 3.6 gold per month. Money not spent is money in the bank. Like marnick said…these things will not make you uber wealthy or buy you a precursor next Tuesday, but for a casual player saving money here and there will add up fast.

Indeed I forgot that crazy simple tip. For this I suggest an SSD drive though or you’ll pull your hair out in loading screens. Cheap upgrade that’ll give lots of money.

For casuals this will give the money for precursors in about 2 or 3 months. By that time you should also have full map completion and the right crafting professions.

The craziest tip is also to check what you earn per hour in your job and whether making extra hours is feasible. I can make the equivalent of 30g in 2 extra hours, and since I love my job I don’t see that as a bad thing. It beats farming so the time spent in game is actually time spent in a fun way.

anathemawhite.6879:

You can give it to me
I need only 5 gold to buy abyss dye and I am frustrated that my wealth never even pass 2 golds.
How do you people gather those much golds anyway? (no, I already know the answer – playing TP – selling mats – farming orr – etc etc, none of them works for me)

For what it’s worth, farming copper in queensdale and selling to highest buy order should easily earn you those 5g in a few hours. I earned my 30g without playing TP, without farming anything and by simply enjoying the game while not buying useless stuff. I play around 2 hours a day and easily make 2g in that time.

All the gold I spent currently was on:
- 80s on yellow gear
- 5g on orange weapons
- 2g or so on crafting
- upkeep: repairs, wp, …..

Earning gold while playing to enjoy the game:
- focus on the daily
- do events when possible
- harvest whatever you find and just sell it if you don’t have a use for it. Even the copper from copper ore adds up quickly.
- salvage salvage items with basic salvage kit, not higher. It doesn’t give better drops so that’s wasted money!
- sell anything that’s not yellow to the vendor
- check price for exotics and rares on TP and sell to highest bidder if the price is good
- do not die lol so you don’t need to repair
- drop of all gold except 30s in the bank at the end of the day and don’t pick up money from TP unless you bought an item. Money you don’t see is money you don’t spend.
- whatever you need, check whether it can be bought for karma instead of gold

While those won’t make you rich fast, these tips will add up over time and you’ll have the money to buy yourself something cool every few hours.

1/ the deadline actually expired months ago.
2/ you have to buy gems with credit cards. Credit cards expire monthy so with your 14days paycheck it should work out. Even so you can acquire debt on your credit card if you’re willing to pay the interests WHICH I DON’T RECOMMEND!
3/ you could risk losing the names if they’re not so common like Uzumaki Naruto, Justin Bieber or equally lame pop culture rip offs.
4/ PM me a name, I’m willing to store one of your best names for the next month because I have a free slot. When I delete it, 24 hours later you’d be able to make a char with the name. This is a trust issue, I know but I promise I won’t hold your awesome name hostage nor spoil it’s reputation.