Your first rule makes no sense. By that logic you shouldn't farm at all. You could just go to work, pay for gems, exchange for gold and get whatever item you needed in the game. Sure I could buy that glider with the money I earned but I sure as hell can't buy food, water and electricity with fake hobby money. So why would I do it?
You shouldn't "farm." You should play the game in the way you enjoy most. "Farm" implies you're doing something boring or unfun just to grind gold. Some people enjoying killing Karkas for t6 blood all day and for them that isn't "farming" but for me it would be unbearable. I would never farm in game gold to convert for gems. Thats doing something unfun for hours on end to afford something I could buy for a few real world dollars with no effort at all.
That's a bit subjective. "Farm" just means doing the same thing to get gold/mats. It doesn't mean it's not fun. I find champ bag trains pretty relaxing. Mindless, sure, but still enjoyable. And, again, you can still just play what you want and gather up enough money to use it on gems. I really don't understand your problem with converting currencies. It's not different than any other currency, the items are simply more expensive. You can pretty much buy everything in the game with a few real world dollars. You say "if you don't need something badly enough to buy it with cash, you don't need it at all" Well that means I don't need anything at all cuz I'm not willing to buy it with gems. You can buy everything with gems... I just think this guide would be better off without this "rule". A suggestion to spend gold wisely, sure. Set up a goal and dont' waste money on other things you don't really "need", untill you reach your goal. But if your goal is to earn a glider skin with ingame gold, go for it. Anyway, this is just my opinion. I actually enjoyed the rest of the guide. Keep up the good work!
I am not a fan of how you earn gold in Guild Wars 2. It's almost like the game is designed to be slow for farming gold no matter the method, so that you will call it quits and spend money on gems just to convert them at an abysmal exchange rate. I have a friend who works as an Engineer IRL and has a little over 14,000 gold all from converting gems, because, as an Engineer, he can afford to buy 8,000 gems (1,700-ish gold) per week due to his massive salary. However, he has no time to actually play the game besides weekends lol. Let's say I used a method that nets me 20 gold per hour and farm it for 3 hours a day for 7 days, that would net me 420 gold for 21 hours of farming. Meanwhile, my friend can earn almost 2,000 gold per week in the time it takes him to whip out his debit card and punch in the numbers. He can then use that gold to purchase whatever he wants, he can almost afford to buy a Legendary every week, but it would take me almost 5 weeks and around 100+ hours of farming to afford a single legendary. By the time I get 1, he could have bought 5. Isn't this the definition of pay to win? in this game the rich succeed, while the poor cannot even grind their way to success because Arena Net patch any method that they consider a little too good.
I have never converted gold to buy gems either for the sake of the gem store. However, I did do a conversion back in 2014 as a speculation to see if it would be profitable to buy a certain amount of gems. And then sell them back for gold at a later date. Well, it's 2016, and I can see how much the gems I bought are worth if sold back for gold. However, I forgot how much gold I paid for them back in 2014.
Jusz checked it, 100 gems was 15g - so the Phantom's Hodd must've been like 60g, outfit if not discounted 120, EDIT: seems like it wasn't 400 gem but only 200, so around 30g+.
Teddy Kozub Spend all my gold for gems in the early days of 2013. I abandoned the game than for quiet a while(school an stuff) and when i started again earlier this year i was able to buy a legendary.
A few of the things you've said are probably obsolete now but I like that you had advice for mentality rather than "Look at this neat trick with rings/armour/SW/pvp" Your rationality with the gem store (work time vs grind time) makes sense, I do need character slots and bank slots but I was going to grind for them. Realising that the grind would take a month or more for me to make the necessary gold that I can buy with 30 minutes of real money is going to go a long way. Cheers for that.
Alright, and how much fun do you have while doing all of this? How many hours do you play per week? This sounds like you're playing well over 20 hrs/week... I remember when going for my first or second legendary and farming the dungeons, doing Orr event farming (back when server switching was possible) and daily gather of Orichalcum and Ancient Wood. God, that shit burns you out from the game so fast that I couldn't touch it for over a year...
thanks for sharing! i always wondered how elitists do their gold. i love to do the 40 farm, i just love farming in general, and i also always do t4 fracs + normal daily. and maybe 2-3 dungeon runs. + gambling here and then, since im pretty lucky. (~30 pres since release from the forge, but zero drops lol)
I get so disheartened for making gold because I'm a solo player. It wasn't like this in the past where I could make like ~100g a day doing dungeon/fractal runs, gathering, etc. No one runs dungeons anymore which cut out a huge everyday task I did, all I do now is just log in, grab my daily login chest, and exit to desktop and play something else.
joshwilkinson99 I find that very hard to believe, every time I open lfg, the only posts I see are for Arah story mode, haven't seen a proper dungeon path run in months.
i pug dungeons nearly every day and get groups pretty fast, when was the last time you checked? since they changed the rewards again, theres quite a few people doing them
The rewards aren't really "fixed", you are instead forced to do a series of individual different paths to get a single good reward at the end as opposed to doing however many paths you wanted to do and collect the rewards from those ones individually.
And now here you are.. 10k gold on your account.. now what? Still not spend it? Still spend endless hours grinding new ascended sets, etc? Makes no sense to me. Play a game for fun. Buy items you want / are fun for you. Spend your gold on things you want to.. Sitting on all your gold as if you're waiting for your retirement in a game seems extremely pointless.
This a pretty late reply, but if he enjoys doing meta events, and raids and fractals frequently, does it matter if he is spending the gold he makes? As he said the most "farming" he does is 15 min of gathering that is as casual as you could go in terms of material farming. His reward is to play the game, and if he gets to save up a bunch of gold for when something new comes out, why not go for it? To spend your money for no reason just because you have it in large quantities is exactly what he is arguing against, if he had those spending habits he would have never gotten up to 10k gold saved up.
Perfect advice overall. However, I think you should take into account that not everyone is employed or at least economically "comfortable" to spend even $1 for gems (excluding the HoT purchase obviously).
At the end of the day, you gotta do what works for you. If real world money for gems to buy bag slots is impossible then by all means convert gold to gems.
I was listening this video line no big deal, then around 1 min mark, my gaze landed on gold in his inventory. I felt sharp pain in my chest, followed by sudden urge to puke.
I just want bank tabs, character slots, maybe some shared slots for salvage kit--more quality of life--and enough gold to get a precursor for twilight and maybe go for eternity because I have a lot of the mats needed, it's just gold is holding me back. I worked it out, if I was going to buy the gold and just straight up get an eternity it would work out better. ~$200, it unlocks all the skins, just don't eat out for a week or 2 and you're fine. For me to convert hours in the game to make $200 well it basically would be saying I have 2 jobs.
Thank you for the video. This was very informative and I should learn a thing or two from you. I am going to be spending $40 for Monster Hunters: Generations, for the 3DS, even though I barely play it, while still playing Guild Wars 2 and doing other stuff. So, basically, I have pretty terrible spending habits. Your resistance to many temptations is something I need to learn.
Determining what is to be part of the meta and making it public certainly has its merits as well, especially with a brand name like yours. Just figured I'd mention this as you've left it out and since most people think guides are solely created to help others. Delusions are commonplace within this game's community after all.
Your conspiratorial thinking is well advanced. What sort of speculation do you think I took part in? Berserker gear and scholar runes arent some great investment idea. The one case I can think of is before raids I told everyone who watched my stream that the meta sigils would be Force and Air and I bought 16 air sigils so I would have enough for my own characters. Ofcourse air sigils spiked. I didnt make a secret of it and I didn't buy 100s of them to take advantage. Maybe you have some evidence of me profiting from that kind of speculation?
I earned most of my gold with the tp and pvp, one point hardened leather went down in price so I flipped it for 2 days, selling over 10k and getting 2k gold profit,I idle flip runes and minis for my everyday income, while doing pvp got a bunch of ascended gear and rare dyes over 100g each, also converting spirit shards to gold by making mystic forge weps, right now I'm investing in weapon skins, I earned far more money afk and playing pvp than farming fractals etc, just watch the market.
Hey man I've just started playing again and my current routine is selling all blue items and mystic forging everything else. I've gotten a few good items this way but it's pretty much just luck. I'm wondering, whats the benefit of salvaging all of it instead? I also don't have an endless salvage kit so maybe I need to invest in one?
I dont think I would mystic forge anything. It's designed to be a gold sink. I would salvage basically everything except some rares (greatswords, stalves) and exotics. Everything else is worth salvaging.
Terrific guide Nike thanks for the time, passion and intelligence. Now if only you would do guides on other classes other then warrior :). Have a good week
People say t4 dailys.. but how do I get enough ascended gear to start t4 dailies... I have full ascended weps and trinkets with all +5 agony resistance... but this is only enough for fractals level 40 and no higher. How do I get enough money to get my AR higher and start t4 daily.??
Make sure you have your mastery leveled up so you can get the +7 AR infusions. Once you have that you should be able get pretty high up there with AR. Then work towards armor and get +7 in those too.
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When do you start getting Ascended stuff from fractals? I am only running up to about 30 due to not having enough AR to go much further, but I am not getting any ascended items, which is becoming a choke point.
What about the Auric Basin farming? as a complete noob I noticed I actually made 100 gold after grinding out glider xp for a couple of days. I'm sure you could easily make a lot more gold per day there farming keys and looting chests if you know what you are doing.
What is gold good for in GW2 if not converting it to Gems? There is literelly nothing you can spend on, if you are playing the game you'll most likely craft all of the other things.
2:35 "...you hit a point where you do not need to craft Ascended Gear." Yeah, this was on release day at level 1 for me. I have been using Exotic, and only exotic, for weapons and armor. I use Laurels I've saved up from daily login rewards to get the free ascended accessories. That's it. I've crafted exactly zero (0) ascended items. And before anyone asks, no, I feel no disadvantages whatsoever in WvW or PvE. You can offset the performance difference with pretty much one well timed dodge.
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While this advice may be good for other mmos, there is nothing big worth saving for in this game. It feels like a huge waste to have more than 200g at a time. There are maybe 1 or 2 legendaries that are pretty cool, but they don't fit for any of my characters I currently play and are definitely not worth all the gem stuff I could get instead.
I could farm fractals or raid bosses if i had ascended equipment, but to have ascended gear i need to do fractals and raid bosses. How does that work? :D
I would say base it on what alts you play most. You can share ascended with your alts so if you play warrior and guardian a lot too, go Rev. If you play mesmer and necro a lot, do ele.
Is it worth your actual money to buy a gem store gathering tool or is it ok to spend some silver on ori gathering tools when you run out? I know that silver spent will add up as time goes by but how worth is it? How many of you guys have gem tools?
Personally I bought the cosmic mining tool just because I got tired of always running out of pickaxes while roaming and then having to port to a merchant to buy more. I'm terrible at keeping track of my tools. xD It's really just a convenience purchase.
bought permanent vendor, I dont have any tools but when i do run out of normal ones i can spawn my vendor to buy me new ones while also being able to sell my shit kek
+Nike! I must turn on notifications for your stream then, so i can catch you, cuz i haven't seeb you online streaming while i've been on twitch for a while
the best way to have lots of gold is by not spending it. thats how my money racks up and im not really playing much at all. but i did get a dusk for 150g and grinded till i had twilight in 2 weeks total
Well he's kinda right. Have basically everything you could ever want = don't have to spend resources to get stuff = resources just accumulate. I'd have made ~500g in the last month, too, if I didn't have to spend it on finally gearing characters in ascende and building a legendary as a side project.
Thanks! Appreciate the feedback. One follow up question if you have the time. So last night I set up all my characters. Tried it tonight after reset and it works, however some of my characters the first node in Wildlands and Tfalls are empty. Second rich node in Tfalls works though. Why is that?
Well it may not be really a bad idea about buying gems with real money :v What do you think is important to buy with gems tho? bank tabs? More bag tabs ? Or smthing :V
I did. Something something something I didn't buy and exchange something something....and I didn't comment on this video. this is just 1 way this guy made gold in GW2. I know how he got most of his gold. and I aint telling how i know either. cuz im a dick like that. Guildy.
I thought this was going to be a troll :p good stuff, I do many of these myself but find I'm to impatient to place buy orders for things and waste gold that way :z
Just don´t gamble in this game or in general. :) Telling that by experience. Won around 2300 Gold from the Skritt ectoplasme gambling. Well i should have stopped, lost 2000 afterwards snif. Won´t even talk about the mystic toilet. There are many ways these days to make consistent money in GW2, gathering is one of those, the more you play the most likely you will have time to make as much as possible per day. In the end it´s about self discipline. I have to agree on gem, it´s not worth to convert gold to gem since gold takes much more time and investment than what you will just get from any job anyways
neokemieze I feel you. That the problem with gambling =D I gambled also because i have nothing to do with that gold, so well if you are ready to lose everything why not :D but losing 8k Gold haha nice and sad.
Then why not just buy tons of gems and convert them to gold? The thing is that I try to avoid purchasing in game items in any game with real moeny, hence farming gold to buy gem store Items seems as legitimate to me as farming for Legendary materials...
I dont buy a bunch of gems and convert to gold because I'm going to play the game anyway and earn my own gold so I dont really have a need to spend cash on gold.
Really not worth it, hope you have better to do with your money than converting overpriced gem to some gold...Can understand the temptation because of the big grind asked for any expensive item.
Kyvrn Copypasted comment from Dulfy dulfy.net/2016/01/12/gw2-jan-12-game-update-patch-notes/ Martin Too late • 8 months ago Just ask for a refund on the double items. I have 12 toons and my 3 main characters all have a home portal stone and a copper fed salvage o matic. I wrote a support ticket and they said they would refund the double items. I am now waiting for the confirmation from Anet support. 1 • Reply•Share › Avatar Martin Martin • 8 months ago Update: Anet just gave me a full gem refund for the double items that I had (3 x copper salvage and 1 home portal stone). The E-mail was signed by GM Zippy the Wonder Squirrel, made my day.
only 2-3 hours a day for 8-9 months.. lets say 2.5 hours x 265 days'ish.. only 600 hours... (imagine if you actually worked for 600 hours; would be much more money :P )
En lo que más insiste en el vídeo es en que nunca compra gemas con oro del juego. Por ejemplo, no le conviene gastar 10 horas en farmear en el juego para conseguir gemas cuando puede comprarlas con dinero real que ganaría en 10 minutos de trabajo. Y aún así, no compra objetos de la tienda de gemas que realmente no necesite. Otro consejo es conocerse bien rutas de recolección de recursos (menciona las semillas de lino, el hierro y el platino) para hacerlas de forma casi automática, sin prestar demasiada atención. Dice que gasta 50 minutos al día en hacer eso mientras desayuna o ve las noticias antes de ir al trabajo. También recomienda hacer los fractales diarios ya que es una de las formas más eficientes de conseguir oro, así como equipo ascendido. Es por eso que no recomienda gastar tanto dinero en fabricarlo, a no ser que lo necesites para tu personaje principal.
I refuse to pay more real money to Anet for gemstore items. No thanks. Not even if i had to work only 2 or 5 minutes for it to get the cash. I paid 60 euros + the price for standard HoT, and that is more than enough. Paying any more cash on the store is insane to me and no-one should spend real money on it.
I do not know about you but I personally prefer to spend a little money than to sit all day in front of the monitor. At least that was until it was as what to do in this game I currently have 90% of the achievements and wait for a new extension.
Nike! I'd wager more on the opposite. Being capable of saving money properly and investing time into making sure that money does get saved properly is a safer way to prevent becoming poor, than investing money in tools that will become useless in the short to mid term.
I value my free time quite highly. I won't sell it cheaply. Also part of saving money is not paying useless fees and taxes. Everytime you conver gems to gold or gold to gems you pay a 30% tax. That's absolutely stupid. No one who values their time OR their money should really do that unless absolutely avoidable. It would be like driving all over town to find the ATM with the highest fee for pulling out $20.
Nike! More reason as to why i do not even touch the converter in the first place, and confirmation that Anet shouldn't get more than the money i already paid for the base and expansion.
The real key to this is to actualy enjoy the game. Why on earth whould you be playing something as a job when you're not getting paid?
Very true. Thats why I dont farm fotm 40 or whatever. Its a good way to make gold but not fun so I dont bother.
I actually find farming fotm 40 enjoyable, compared to sw cf or gathering farming... So It doesn't feel like a burden.
I only ever play for fun lel i never farmed but im smart enough to make gold with gold without camping the TP or anything as boring, so theres that
+bertvb1 you can make gold in plenty of ways, the thing farmers worry about is how fast you make it.
I see, well i make about 3k gold per month without working for it at all so i guess thats not bad, im not sure since i never farmed gold/hour
So in other words I actually have to log in and play? I'm out.
awful isn´t it :D
Your first rule makes no sense. By that logic you shouldn't farm at all. You could just go to work, pay for gems, exchange for gold and get whatever item you needed in the game. Sure I could buy that glider with the money I earned but I sure as hell can't buy food, water and electricity with fake hobby money. So why would I do it?
You shouldn't "farm." You should play the game in the way you enjoy most. "Farm" implies you're doing something boring or unfun just to grind gold. Some people enjoying killing Karkas for t6 blood all day and for them that isn't "farming" but for me it would be unbearable. I would never farm in game gold to convert for gems. Thats doing something unfun for hours on end to afford something I could buy for a few real world dollars with no effort at all.
That's a bit subjective. "Farm" just means doing the same thing to get gold/mats. It doesn't mean it's not fun. I find champ bag trains pretty relaxing. Mindless, sure, but still enjoyable.
And, again, you can still just play what you want and gather up enough money to use it on gems. I really don't understand your problem with converting currencies. It's not different than any other currency, the items are simply more expensive. You can pretty much buy everything in the game with a few real world dollars. You say "if you don't need something badly enough to buy it with cash, you don't need it at all" Well that means I don't need anything at all cuz I'm not willing to buy it with gems. You can buy everything with gems...
I just think this guide would be better off without this "rule". A suggestion to spend gold wisely, sure. Set up a goal and dont' waste money on other things you don't really "need", untill you reach your goal. But if your goal is to earn a glider skin with ingame gold, go for it.
Anyway, this is just my opinion. I actually enjoyed the rest of the guide. Keep up the good work!
A little thing I like to do since I don't use laurels that often is to use them to get heavy crafting items and then sell those in AH
I am not a fan of how you earn gold in Guild Wars 2. It's almost like the game is designed to be slow for farming gold no matter the method, so that you will call it quits and spend money on gems just to convert them at an abysmal exchange rate. I have a friend who works as an Engineer IRL and has a little over 14,000 gold all from converting gems, because, as an Engineer, he can afford to buy 8,000 gems (1,700-ish gold) per week due to his massive salary. However, he has no time to actually play the game besides weekends lol. Let's say I used a method that nets me 20 gold per hour and farm it for 3 hours a day for 7 days, that would net me 420 gold for 21 hours of farming. Meanwhile, my friend can earn almost 2,000 gold per week in the time it takes him to whip out his debit card and punch in the numbers. He can then use that gold to purchase whatever he wants, he can almost afford to buy a Legendary every week, but it would take me almost 5 weeks and around 100+ hours of farming to afford a single legendary. By the time I get 1, he could have bought 5. Isn't this the definition of pay to win? in this game the rich succeed, while the poor cannot even grind their way to success because Arena Net patch any method that they consider a little too good.
I have never converted gold to buy gems either for the sake of the gem store. However, I did do a conversion back in 2014 as a speculation to see if it would be profitable to buy a certain amount of gems. And then sell them back for gold at a later date. Well, it's 2016, and I can see how much the gems I bought are worth if sold back for gold. However, I forgot how much gold I paid for them back in 2014.
Halloween 2014 7 gold was worth a full outfit
TheJackCoffee certainly not. I remember buying Phantom's hood for like 40+g at least. 2012 maybe
Jusz checked it, 100 gems was 15g - so the Phantom's Hodd must've been like 60g, outfit if not discounted 120, EDIT: seems like it wasn't 400 gem but only 200, so around 30g+.
Teddy Kozub Spend all my gold for gems in the early days of 2013. I abandoned the game than for quiet a while(school an stuff) and when i started again earlier this year i was able to buy a legendary.
A few of the things you've said are probably obsolete now but I like that you had advice for mentality rather than "Look at this neat trick with rings/armour/SW/pvp"
Your rationality with the gem store (work time vs grind time) makes sense, I do need character slots and bank slots but I was going to grind for them. Realising that the grind would take a month or more for me to make the necessary gold that I can buy with 30 minutes of real money is going to go a long way. Cheers for that.
Alright, and how much fun do you have while doing all of this? How many hours do you play per week? This sounds like you're playing well over 20 hrs/week...
I remember when going for my first or second legendary and farming the dungeons, doing Orr event farming (back when server switching was possible) and daily gather of Orichalcum and Ancient Wood. God, that shit burns you out from the game so fast that I couldn't touch it for over a year...
thanks for sharing! i always wondered how elitists do their gold. i love to do the 40 farm, i just love farming in general, and i also always do t4 fracs + normal daily. and maybe 2-3 dungeon runs. + gambling here and then, since im pretty lucky. (~30 pres since release from the forge, but zero drops lol)
I just love the comment you made on the beginning about spending habits, Well said sir, well said.
i used to play guild wars 2 in my cousin's house and i loved the fire skills
(i forgot all about guild wars 2)
I get so disheartened for making gold because I'm a solo player.
It wasn't like this in the past where I could make like ~100g a day doing dungeon/fractal runs, gathering, etc.
No one runs dungeons anymore which cut out a huge everyday task I did, all I do now is just log in, grab my daily login chest, and exit to desktop and play something else.
alot of people run dungeons
joshwilkinson99 I find that very hard to believe, every time I open lfg, the only posts I see are for Arah story mode, haven't seen a proper dungeon path run in months.
i pug dungeons nearly every day and get groups pretty fast, when was the last time you checked? since they changed the rewards again, theres quite a few people doing them
about over 3 weeks ago since I last logged in? When did they "fix" the rewards?
The rewards aren't really "fixed", you are instead forced to do a series of individual different paths to get a single good reward at the end as opposed to doing however many paths you wanted to do and collect the rewards from those ones individually.
And now here you are.. 10k gold on your account.. now what? Still not spend it? Still spend endless hours grinding new ascended sets, etc? Makes no sense to me.
Play a game for fun.
Buy items you want / are fun for you.
Spend your gold on things you want to..
Sitting on all your gold as if you're waiting for your retirement in a game seems extremely pointless.
This a pretty late reply, but if he enjoys doing meta events, and raids and fractals frequently, does it matter if he is spending the gold he makes? As he said the most "farming" he does is 15 min of gathering that is as casual as you could go in terms of material farming. His reward is to play the game, and if he gets to save up a bunch of gold for when something new comes out, why not go for it? To spend your money for no reason just because you have it in large quantities is exactly what he is arguing against, if he had those spending habits he would have never gotten up to 10k gold saved up.
crafting ectoplasm refinements and selling them will also get you some gold ,like deldrimor steel
Perfect advice overall. However, I think you should take into account that not everyone is employed or at least economically "comfortable" to spend even $1 for gems (excluding the HoT purchase obviously).
I bought the original game, but don't have enough for HoTs now :(
At the end of the day, you gotta do what works for you. If real world money for gems to buy bag slots is impossible then by all means convert gold to gems.
I was listening this video line no big deal, then around 1 min mark, my gaze landed on gold in his inventory. I felt sharp pain in my chest, followed by sudden urge to puke.
I just want bank tabs, character slots, maybe some shared slots for salvage kit--more quality of life--and enough gold to get a precursor for twilight and maybe go for eternity because I have a lot of the mats needed, it's just gold is holding me back. I worked it out, if I was going to buy the gold and just straight up get an eternity it would work out better. ~$200, it unlocks all the skins, just don't eat out for a week or 2 and you're fine. For me to convert hours in the game to make $200 well it basically would be saying I have 2 jobs.
Thank you for the video. This was very informative and I should learn a thing or two from you. I am going to be spending $40 for Monster Hunters: Generations, for the 3DS, even though I barely play it, while still playing Guild Wars 2 and doing other stuff. So, basically, I have pretty terrible spending habits.
Your resistance to many temptations is something I need to learn.
Determining what is to be part of the meta and making it public certainly has its merits as well, especially with a brand name like yours.
Just figured I'd mention this as you've left it out and since most people think guides are solely created to help others. Delusions are commonplace within this game's community after all.
Your conspiratorial thinking is well advanced. What sort of speculation do you think I took part in? Berserker gear and scholar runes arent some great investment idea. The one case I can think of is before raids I told everyone who watched my stream that the meta sigils would be Force and Air and I bought 16 air sigils so I would have enough for my own characters. Ofcourse air sigils spiked. I didnt make a secret of it and I didn't buy 100s of them to take advantage. Maybe you have some evidence of me profiting from that kind of speculation?
I earned most of my gold with the tp and pvp, one point hardened leather went down in price so I flipped it for 2 days, selling over 10k and getting 2k gold profit,I idle flip runes and minis for my everyday income, while doing pvp got a bunch of ascended gear and rare dyes over 100g each, also converting spirit shards to gold by making mystic forge weps, right now I'm investing in weapon skins, I earned far more money afk and playing pvp than farming fractals etc, just watch the market.
Hey man I've just started playing again and my current routine is selling all blue items and mystic forging everything else. I've gotten a few good items this way but it's pretty much just luck. I'm wondering, whats the benefit of salvaging all of it instead? I also don't have an endless salvage kit so maybe I need to invest in one?
I dont think I would mystic forge anything. It's designed to be a gold sink. I would salvage basically everything except some rares (greatswords, stalves) and exotics. Everything else is worth salvaging.
I absolutely refuse to pay real money for in game items in any game. Even pay for WoW with gold to only play it twice a month
Terrific guide Nike thanks for the time, passion and intelligence. Now if only you would do guides on other classes other then warrior :). Have a good week
I think like you say a lot of it comes down to self-discipline and not spending on things you don't need, this I am terrible at doing :P
People say t4 dailys.. but how do I get enough ascended gear to start t4 dailies... I have full ascended weps and trinkets with all +5 agony resistance... but this is only enough for fractals level 40 and no higher. How do I get enough money to get my AR higher and start t4 daily.??
Make sure you have your mastery leveled up so you can get the +7 AR infusions. Once you have that you should be able get pretty high up there with AR. Then work towards armor and get +7 in those too.
For a gathering route.. you can paste this into your personal guild's MOTD and then rep the guild for it to spam links in chat for you. It takes about 20 minutes per character each run. Can't remember where I got this.
[&BKgAAAA=] E
[&BLIAAAA=] E>HP>Camp
[&BGICAAA=] SE To WP
[&BFoCAAA=] N(Iron) S(Wood)
[&BFwCAAA=] SE to POI
[&BEwCAAA=] N>NE>E to WP
[&BMwBAAA=] SW>S>S to WP
[&BMQBAAA=] S
[&BMgCAAA=] S
[&BNQCAAA=] NW
nice thanks
Is it outdated or something? Casue I don't seem to find most of the nodes.
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Was watching this video and got my first precursor from an AB meta chest.. I'd say this is a good guide.
When do you start getting Ascended stuff from fractals? I am only running up to about 30 due to not having enough AR to go much further, but I am not getting any ascended items, which is becoming a choke point.
mostly ascended drops from T4 fractals , i have 2- 3 boxes per week now , doing only T4 Daily evry day
At some point you might have to break down and craft the armor weapons you need to speed up your progression
I have been trying but I don't have the materials to get all the way to 500 on any crafting yet. Always short on elder wood.
What was that third wp for Platinum?
What about the Auric Basin farming? as a complete noob I noticed I actually made 100 gold after grinding out glider xp for a couple of days. I'm sure you could easily make a lot more gold per day there farming keys and looting chests if you know what you are doing.
I was doing the AB multi loot pretty hard core for a few weeks but im taking a break now.
What is gold good for in GW2 if not converting it to Gems? There is literelly nothing you can spend on, if you are playing the game you'll most likely craft all of the other things.
Do you have +5 stat infusions in every character?
Do you have new tips for 2018 ?
2:35 "...you hit a point where you do not need to craft Ascended Gear." Yeah, this was on release day at level 1 for me. I have been using Exotic, and only exotic, for weapons and armor. I use Laurels I've saved up from daily login rewards to get the free ascended accessories. That's it. I've crafted exactly zero (0) ascended items. And before anyone asks, no, I feel no disadvantages whatsoever in WvW or PvE. You can offset the performance difference with pretty much one well timed dodge.
Ascended armor isn't a huge deal at all, but ascended weapons are a noticeable performance increase.
Some are, but not by much. But I run condis, so most of my damage comes from my stats, not my gear.
I'm an extremely casual player so I never gave a crap about ascended gear until I saw the bifrost spews RAINBOWS. RAINBOWS?? ARE YOU KIDDING ME SIGN ME THE FUCK UP FOR THAT. So now here I am on youtube trying to find out how to make the money for it haha
Hey Nike! Just an idea for some of your future videos, why not have some low volumed in-game/background music? I just feel that it get's a tiny bit boring watching your videos sometimes and I thought maybe havinng some background music (from the game) would be cool and make it more.. interesting to watch I guess hahah :P
I usually do
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While this advice may be good for other mmos, there is nothing big worth saving for in this game. It feels like a huge waste to have more than 200g at a time.
There are maybe 1 or 2 legendaries that are pretty cool, but they don't fit for any of my characters I currently play and are definitely not worth all the gem stuff I could get instead.
Spoiler: play the game
Do you think multiloot AB or node farming has higher gold rate?
I think that AB is way ahead for the 30min it's on, if done well (50 rares or more as a bar on "well").
Could you list all the items you have in shared slots please? Thanks.
royal terrace pass, perma merch, bank, tp, mystic forge, repair kit. BLSK, mystic salvage kit, ascended salvage kit, wvw provisioner box, Executioner axe toy
Nice! But I'm always wondering what is your intro song tho haha
Can you share those waypoint links here?
So crafting ascended gear for your main for the first time actually makes sense. Am i right ?
Definitely, especially if you make Heavy armor since the mats I recommend daily gathering are needed for deldrimor ingots.
Best intro song ever! Useful video ty for sharing 😃
what is the best way to spend 8k gems?
I could farm fractals or raid bosses if i had ascended equipment, but to have ascended gear i need to do fractals and raid bosses. How does that work? :D
You can get ascended trinkets from Living World Season 3 maps. That will give enough to start fractals, and then you go from there.
If I should make only 1 full ascended stuff, should I do it for my revenant or my elementalist then? Which one will allow me to do most things?
I would say base it on what alts you play most. You can share ascended with your alts so if you play warrior and guardian a lot too, go Rev. If you play mesmer and necro a lot, do ele.
So between Revenant and Elem (just the two of them), there isn't one which is more useful in some PvE contents, both can do everything?
Just themselves I'd say Ele is more universally useful
And here is me over 3 years i have bought over 14k gems just with gold :)
I dont get something, you say you do all that with each character? and you have a job? when you sit down to play how much time consuming is this for?
tbh i actually like farmimg... Im on a private school and I farm or maybe pvp on guild wars 2 when i have time. just somehow relaxing to farm
Where is the Platinum ore mining location? I couldn't translate what he said to text :3
Thistlereed Waypoint in Timberline Falls
What is the item in your rightmost shared inventory slot?
WvW provisioner item for cheap level 70 food
Alright, thanks :)
Is it worth your actual money to buy a gem store gathering tool or is it ok to spend some silver on ori gathering tools when you run out? I know that silver spent will add up as time goes by but how worth is it? How many of you guys have gem tools?
Personally I bought the cosmic mining tool just because I got tired of always running out of pickaxes while roaming and then having to port to a merchant to buy more. I'm terrible at keeping track of my tools. xD It's really just a convenience purchase.
gathering is a waste of time. do it with a bot or not at all.
bought permanent vendor, I dont have any tools but when i do run out of normal ones i can spawn my vendor to buy me new ones while also being able to sell my shit kek
I want the black feather wings so badly... so you think they'll bring them back this halloween?
Can i sell you mine? I'm so bored of them... Trust me they're not that cool...
No. I changed my mind.
i only have one type of class on my account i have all classes. you said your second eng why would you have 2 of the same class ? ..
I had a spare slot so I made an asura engie to PvP on
oh i c a pvp slot cool
Did you purchase any of your legendary weapon off the TP?
Yes, I couldn't do that many world completions and stay sane
I wish i haven't had to work 2 days to afford 2k gems. It sounds so easy for people from well developed countries that have large income.
What does typing "eq" into the inventory do
It will only show the "eq"-uipment that you have on your inventory.
displays only "equipment" to help with salvaging items quicker
Kolsakify DeathGod Dan Ah ok. thanks! :D
could you do an Update for 1st Quarter/2017, thx. keep rockin'
Here in brazil the gems price are high and our salvation is converting gold to gem :(
I agree spending a couple of dollars every week saves hours of farming. I mean who wants to sit in sw all day
Thank god you can now just right click and "salvage all fine and masterwork blabla"
How come you dont stream no more?
I still stream. only three times per week though.
+Nike! I must turn on notifications for your stream then, so i can catch you, cuz i haven't seeb you online streaming while i've been on twitch for a while
he means he flips different items mainly mystic coins
the best way to have lots of gold is by not spending it. thats how my money racks up and im not really playing much at all.
but i did get a dusk for 150g and grinded till i had twilight in 2 weeks total
How did you get Dusk for 150g? It's selling for 1k+ gold in my server >.>
There was a time in our character lives that things were simpler.. cheaper even
I remember when Dusk was 20g in the first week of GW2 :( (Although that was a very lot of money back then)
Agreed Nolan. Everyone dressed like paupers too.
i meant that money i put into the mf :D
u mean doing daily gatherring on instance?.... u do it 9x for 9 chaR?..i tried but i cant idk why,...i can do only 1 lolz
No there are rich nodes next to some waypoints. He even says the watpoints names
No. On rich nodes, iron and platinum, some have specific fixed locations around tyria.
ow dam i didnt ahahah can u plz link the wp's plz?
and places maybe so nextime i will knew it hahaa
Lol. It i should do that and i guess i am not the only one, i am missing time to do achievement stuff and Mp farming
good advice Iam saving up to make legendary armor thanks for the video
Do you need hots for this?
Only for gathering the flax. but iron and platinum works. YOu can also gather wood instead.
I think they're right and you should be working in Mc Donald and serve me some Mc Fish because I'm starting to be hungry...
i convert my gold to gem because this is part of my gold and spedning real money on it is for me like buying gold
i still dont get how you make 500g per week. its mind blowing. really is
I enjoy turning in game gold into gems..each to their own.
Do you open the encryptions?
Yeah. It's RNG but I'm ok with it.
Nike! All of them even after the 30 discounted keys? I'm ok with RNG aswell just want to make sure :D
Dam, I also make around 500 per week, but spend a good 1000, #1%problems
How do you get that much karma to make all your legendary weapons?
You dont need karma for legendaries
At least old ones
You can buy obsidian shards for karma.
I have a ton of karma saved up from the old days when dungeons gave like 2k karma per path. I haven't had to try to get more in ages.
+Daran easier to farm on sw
How Do u get the bag of gear?
Raids and Silverwastes
And the axe You are using to get around with?
And the axe You are using to get around with?
the rich get richer smh /s
are you fucking dumb ?
I can't help but chuckle at the irony of your comment.
Well he's kinda right. Have basically everything you could ever want = don't have to spend resources to get stuff = resources just accumulate.
I'd have made ~500g in the last month, too, if I didn't have to spend it on finally gearing characters in ascende and building a legendary as a side project.
koen I'm
Just don't ectogamble and you're fine.
Trust me, I got tarkkus portal and I regret it.. ;_;
never forget the ascpect of time. i only have two hours of time everyday. u cant do much next to fractal a few dailies.
If all you do every day is fractal dailies and gathering you will make plenty of gold.
i prefer tarir to make gold. i make 50 gold per event usually. but ofc i do some gathering.
NEVER PAY CASH FOR PIXLES !
I see you in Brisban a lot, Nike :3
can confirm
And here I am thinking that 50g is rich for me.
Right Click on Salvage Kit, Salvage All.
What about the best ori node? :D
I don't have any idea, I get all my ori from opening champ bags and salvaging
Thanks! Appreciate the feedback. One follow up question if you have the time. So last night I set up all my characters. Tried it tonight after reset and it works, however some of my characters the first node in Wildlands and Tfalls are empty. Second rich node in Tfalls works though. Why is that?
they have a reset time that is not tied to daily reset. It is when you minded them. Rich nodes are 23-25 hours on mining.
Well it may not be really a bad idea about buying gems with real money :v
What do you think is important to buy with gems tho? bank tabs? More bag tabs ? Or smthing :V
Bank tabs. bag slots. copper fed. executioners axe. phalanx heavy armor.
I got copper fed, and i play druid nowadays ^^
Well Executioner's Axe can be still bought?
+Arahmitz it will be back on gem store this halloween
So propably executioners outfit + shared slot for meh :P
Gotta really consider who to pick as a main then :v
1 hour of work = 400 gold via the rip off gem store so working in rl = best farm.
looking at his bank tabs tells me that he buys gems and trades them for gold.
Watch the video instead of guessing.
I did. Something something something I didn't buy and exchange something something....and I didn't comment on this video.
this is just 1 way this guy made gold in GW2. I know how he got most of his gold. and I aint telling how i know either. cuz im a dick like that. Guildy.
Erik Pearson Alright. Since I can't understand whatever language that is I'll take your word for it.
u would make alot more if u know how to sell ur stuff correct on the tp
I thought this was going to be a troll :p good stuff, I do many of these myself but find I'm to impatient to place buy orders for things and waste gold that way :z
Just don´t gamble in this game or in general. :) Telling that by experience. Won around 2300 Gold from the Skritt ectoplasme gambling. Well i should have stopped, lost 2000 afterwards snif. Won´t even talk about the mystic toilet.
There are many ways these days to make consistent money in GW2, gathering is one of those, the more you play the most likely you will have time to make as much as possible per day. In the end it´s about self discipline.
I have to agree on gem, it´s not worth to convert gold to gem since gold takes much more time and investment than what you will just get from any job anyways
neokemieze I feel you. That the problem with gambling =D I gambled also because i have nothing to do with that gold, so well if you are ready to lose everything why not :D but losing 8k Gold haha nice and sad.
Then why not just buy tons of gems and convert them to gold?
The thing is that I try to avoid purchasing in game items in any game with real moeny, hence farming gold to buy gem store Items seems as legitimate to me as farming for Legendary materials...
I dont buy a bunch of gems and convert to gold because I'm going to play the game anyway and earn my own gold so I dont really have a need to spend cash on gold.
Really not worth it, hope you have better to do with your money than converting overpriced gem to some gold...Can understand the temptation because of the big grind asked for any expensive item.
You must really like salvage-o-matics :D
Probably did, but they made account slots and theyre usless now xD
they offered refunds after introducing account slots
+Anakin1b no they didn't
Kyvrn Copypasted comment from Dulfy
dulfy.net/2016/01/12/gw2-jan-12-game-update-patch-notes/
Martin Too late • 8 months ago
Just ask for a refund on the double items. I have 12 toons and my 3 main characters all have a home portal stone and a copper fed salvage o matic. I wrote a support ticket and they said they would refund the double items. I am now waiting for the confirmation from Anet support.
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Martin Martin • 8 months ago
Update: Anet just gave me a full gem refund for the double items that I had (3 x copper salvage and 1 home portal stone). The E-mail was signed by GM Zippy the Wonder Squirrel, made my day.
Anakin1b
I am so doing this
10000 coins wtff
You can reach that in like 8-9months with only 2-3hrs of daily farming even less if you're a hard worker
only 2-3 hours a day for 8-9 months..
lets say 2.5 hours x 265 days'ish.. only 600 hours... (imagine if you actually worked for 600 hours; would be much more money :P )
axiom im a bit late but does someone wanna join me in 2-3 hours of playing game for 8 months XD? i have a lot of free time by the way.
mihajlo Nedeljkovic rekt
1 hr work = 1600g, i think i'll just buy the gold
Me : oh lets see how to earn gold so i can buy gems and buy a extra char slots .
Nike!: Do not spend gold on gems.
Me: oh..
a real catch 22
im afraid i dont understand
alguien que me diga todo lo que dijo en resumen pero en español DDDD:
En lo que más insiste en el vídeo es en que nunca compra gemas con oro del juego. Por ejemplo, no le conviene gastar 10 horas en farmear en el juego para conseguir gemas cuando puede comprarlas con dinero real que ganaría en 10 minutos de trabajo. Y aún así, no compra objetos de la tienda de gemas que realmente no necesite.
Otro consejo es conocerse bien rutas de recolección de recursos (menciona las semillas de lino, el hierro y el platino) para hacerlas de forma casi automática, sin prestar demasiada atención. Dice que gasta 50 minutos al día en hacer eso mientras desayuna o ve las noticias antes de ir al trabajo.
También recomienda hacer los fractales diarios ya que es una de las formas más eficientes de conseguir oro, así como equipo ascendido. Es por eso que no recomienda gastar tanto dinero en fabricarlo, a no ser que lo necesites para tu personaje principal.
2:46 : *unsubscribes*
I'll miss u
does it upset u that what u call insane gold making ability (1k/week) is roughly what i make a day with only about an hour and a half time invest....
Why would it upset me? I enjoy playing the game the way I play it. Whatever you do is fine for you.
I refuse to pay more real money to Anet for gemstore items. No thanks. Not even if i had to work only 2 or 5 minutes for it to get the cash. I paid 60 euros + the price for standard HoT, and that is more than enough. Paying any more cash on the store is insane to me and no-one should spend real money on it.
People who value money more than time are doomed to be poor forever.
I do not know about you but I personally prefer to spend a little money than to sit all day in front of the monitor. At least that was until it was as what to do in this game I currently have 90% of the achievements and wait for a new extension.
Nike!
I'd wager more on the opposite. Being capable of saving money properly and investing time into making sure that money does get saved properly is a safer way to prevent becoming poor, than investing money in tools that will become useless in the short to mid term.
I value my free time quite highly. I won't sell it cheaply.
Also part of saving money is not paying useless fees and taxes. Everytime you conver gems to gold or gold to gems you pay a 30% tax. That's absolutely stupid. No one who values their time OR their money should really do that unless absolutely avoidable. It would be like driving all over town to find the ATM with the highest fee for pulling out $20.
Nike!
More reason as to why i do not even touch the converter in the first place, and confirmation that Anet shouldn't get more than the money i already paid for the base and expansion.
i made 12k gold from pvp
sell dat body, make dat gold
500g a week easyly without putting in effort fk man i make about 100g xd i spent it all too