Give me your best Tips & Tricks

[Astral Teacup]

Hello,

I'm kindly asking for any tips and tricks to make my experience making money, gathering or crafting a little more friendly.

Are there websites, overlays or other bits I could use to help?

I'd really like to know anything you use to make the experience better.

[Xylion]

There most definitely are! I suggest either Tac0 or even better - BLISH Overlay. You can modify blish to some crazy extend, helping you with jp tracks, achievements, collections, farming routes, world boss timers, event timers, and more.

For the current best farms you can ask the players in mapchat and they will gladly tell you where to go.
Here's a quick tutorial on how to maximize your gold production:
https://metabattle.com/wiki/Guide:Ways_to_Earn_Gold

[Mr.Person]

Overlays are nice, but don't feel that you have to use one. I've never seen the need for an overlay in all my hours of playing

[CyberDown]

One of the few games you can go in blind, do what feels fun, and come out in a competitive position at endgame.

My advise, do whatever content you love doing and just keep doing it. Most of this games content is designed to replace whatever you are not doing. This means if you want to do WvW early and end up Lv80, youll have paths to collect gear from PVE and resources from PVE since you skipped the PVE game world, same is true for battleground sPVP (structured PVP). If you like exploring the world for vistas ect, just do that, if you like questing, go pick a random spot in the world and start enjoying it. Or just stick to PVP.

Some people get hung up on following that single player story line chain, and it bores them, but they feel the need to do it first to level. Same with heart quests. Filling that heart getting boring? Go do other content and just skip it.

Its very easy to weave in and out of game content in Gw2 without putting youself at a disadvantage by skipping content. You never fall behind on gear, so its super easy to jump in after a year off and go right back to what you liked doing with no catch up or downside for missing time played.

[Hefutoxin]

https://gw2efficiency.com/

Do what you like and the gold will flow. Some things will have better gold returns, but doing things you don't like will leave you bored and quitting.

[SeaDog]

Blishud overlay. Is excellent for more than just pathing. It is one of the easiest ways to load dll modules.

https://gw2crafts.net/ for the simplest crafter leveling.

Both use the API generated on the Arenanet site. Not sure if you can get one using Steam. Many other websites and mods use this.

[Mr.Person]

Salvage everything you don't want to use, use the basic salvage kits on anything below yellow gear, and the yellow salvage kits on yellow or orange gear, this is the most cost effective of the buyable salvage kits.

You can deposit crafting ingredients at any time by clicking the button at the top of the inventory screen. If you get full on a single resource either sell the unsalavged gear directly, or salvage the gear and sell the raw materials.

This way you'll have enough ingredients to do your own crafting and also make some side money

[Randver]

Originally posted by SeaDog:

Blishud overlay. Is excellent for more than just pathing. It is one of the easiest ways to load dll modules.

https://gw2crafts.net/ for the simplest crafter leveling.

Both use the API generated on the Arenanet site. Not sure if you can get one using Steam. Many other websites and mods use this.

You can get the API with the Steam version, I just did it.

Just make sure your using the Steam login option on the Arenanet site. I have an old account so that comes up by default but the Steam login option is directly below it.

[J4]

I heard fishing gives 40g per hour. Otherwise just doing 3 out of 3 daily reward challenges between PVE PVP modes will give 60g per month for a few minutes a day.

[Septimus Prime]

I strongly suggest Blish HUD onscreen overaly also!
Wrote about it here:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1284210/discussions/0/3321988498671905020/

[Mr.Person]

Originally posted by J4:

I heard fishing gives 40g per hour. Otherwise just doing 3 out of 3 daily reward challenges between PVE PVP modes will give 60g per month for a few minutes a day.

Really? I want to know where and what they're fishing to get 40g an hour lol

[SinisterSlay]

Make money fast? Be at the forefront of every expansion and sell everything it drops. Buy it later when it's all cheap.
I think I made 1000+gold on skyscale food alone. And those antique summoning stones were super profitable for awhile.
Grothmor Valley was super profitable as well.

[tlex]

A lot of activity happens on discord. There are Discord servers for trading ("The Overflow Trading Company"), for guilds organizing a particular event every day ("Triple Trouble Wurm"), for general events ("Hardstuck" - my favorite, "The Benevolent Turn") or for raids ("The Crossroads Inn"). You can find them all by searching for them on google (just add "gw2" after the name). Please note, some of these exist in the EU only, but there is an equivalent for US as well.

Another tip: join a guild - they usually advertise in map chats, especially in starter areas. The guild hall nodes can be gathered daily. If anyone offers "Home Instance", join them in the major city they are calling out. The nodes in the home instance can also be gathered daily. Just make sure to have the best gathering tools[wiki.guildwars2.com] your level allows.

Last but not least: The guild "[fast] Farming Community" has an excellent website[fast.farming-community.eu] with a lot of resources on how to make gold and what's more profitable. Obviously, it will all make sense more at level 80.

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/wiki then type anything or shift+click any item.

[Teacup]

Hi, welcome to Guild Wars 2! Others mentioned it but definitely try out the TacO overlay. It WILL take some getting used to as it's not easy to navigate at first, but once you know what it can do, it's amazing. I personally use it to mark out paths to take to farm chests and gathering nodes on most maps.

Also please don't be afraid to ask questions on Map chat. We older players love meeting and helping new people like yourself.

[Tiberius]

Most of this:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Category:Time_gated_recipes

I personally made my fortune from flipping seasonal rewards. I crafted 28 legendary wpns from that process alone