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As for gold farming? Way.... way too many ways. There are a lot of farming guilds that help with this sort of thing and are typically running Meta Trains that also reward you extra gold upon completing. I think you can just google what they do and essentially try to find them yourself if you know what path they take. I run into those groups often without intending to as they often try to recruit people into their squad via map chat.
Some good ones in particular:
-Silverwastes (better if you can find a long RIBA train!)
-Auric Basin (has a chance for an infusion worth a lot of gold!)
-Dragon's Stand (make sure to hit the Treasure Mushrooms after the meta if you have the Nuhoch Stealth Detection mastery!)
Tequiatl world boss kill will give you 1 gold per day if you participate. Also triple trouble world boss will give 2 gold per day. Type "/wiki et" in game to see the world boss timer.
Meta event
• Silverwastes meta, core/vanilla content (doesn't need expansion), runs all the time. Hop into squad via LFG, run around the map doing event (or just tag them) until the final boss. Kill final boss, loot boxes, follow everyone to open more boxes scattered around map. Bring your keys (can be bought from NPC at camp)
• Auric Basin (octovine). Need Heart of Thorn. Every 2 hours (check "/wiki et" for timer
Hop into LFG, pick your lane, kill everything that can be killed. Kill 4 bosses at the same time. Loot their basement. Have a chance to get you Infusion that can be sold for thousands of gold.
• Tangled Depth (chak gerent).Need Heart of Thorn. Every 2 hours (check "/wiki et" for timer)
The basic is same with Auric Basin, just different map. Infusion from this meta can be sold up to 20k. (if you're lucky).
There's also meta event from another expansion/living world that can be done for money making.
• Dragonfall from living world 4
• Drizzlewood Coast, Drakkar and Winterstorm, Dragonstorm meta from Icebrood Saga.
• Aetherblade Hideout, Blackout, Gang War, Aspenwood, Dragon's End meta from End of Dragon.
If you're really strict about story and don't want spoiler, stick with Heart of Thorn and Silverwaste meta for now.
Doing meta will get you unidentifed gear.
Unidentified gear must be Indentifed first and then Salvage them for raw material and sell the material for more profit. Especially rare unidentifed gear as you have chance for Ectoplasm and can make fortune from selling them.
There's also Fractal of the Mist. Dungeon style content. Can be cleared between 10-15 minutes. Just do the dailies and recomendation. Tier 1 doesn't need Agony Resistance, thus making it not necessary to have ascended gear. Grab some cheap exotic armor and weapon from Trading Post and join group via LFG or create 1 yourself and play with friend. From fractal you will get Fractal Encryption box that can be opened using key that can be bought from NPC inside fractal. Opening them will give you gray item and if you sold them to NPC, you will get more gold. (Or just sell the Fractal box to Trading Post, some people will buy them)
Won't make money as fast as the other options, but it's lazy, always available, and you can AFK at any point with no issue.
Lazy way: Woodcutting and Mining = Noted
More reading here
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Meta_event
Don't sell gear. Identify unidentified gear, salvage then if you want to sell, sell the materials. There will be occasional exotics that sell well but lower rarity you typically do better salvaging. Also pay attention to what you use to salvage. A basic, fine, journymans or copper fed is fine for blue or green but use master, mystic or silver fed on yellow to get better results.
If you are trying to farm gold fast with gathering there are ways to be more efficient. I've made most of my gold this way. Your tools can make a difference. If you have unbreakable tools glyphs to put on them are better for the long run but also cost a lot of gold up front. You can also buy tools from a vendor in the home cities for karma that do all the same things. Hitting an iron node with regular tools gives several iron & sometimes another resource but if you use a watchnight tool you also get watchwork sprockets that sell better than the iron. For certain maps like iron marches a tailor or leather tool will give valuable cloth or leather on top of resources gathered. Some maps are better for this also. The gallowfields in Brisban wildlands has a rich iron node as well as a lot of regular nodes all in the same spot. There is about half of a gold there in iron alone. The map east of that Kessex hills usually has 2 rich iron, toxic seedlings & a strawberry patch that sell well. Iron marches is good for platinum & hard wood. It often has 2-3 rich platinum nodes and the wood spawns in an easy farm pattern. Blazeridge stepps has a lot of iron, seasoned wood & some kale. I run that map down one side, kill my way up through the purple (branded) area for dust then down the other side for wood & iron. Over the years I developed a path through the base game to hit all the rich nodes. It was harder before mounts & alternative tools but now I can get over 20 gold worth running the path in about 2hrs.
Here is a list of all the rich nodes with game links
Maguuma Jungle
The Gallowfields A [&BGMAAAA=]
Kryta
Halacon Waypoint A [&BAYAAAA=]
Cereboth Canyon S [&BBIAAAA=]
Ruins of Holy Demetra A [&BKsAAAA=]
Overlook Caverns A [&BJMBAAA=]
Shiverpeak Mountains
Icedevil's Needle A [&BFEGAAA=]
Reaver's S Dale[&BMAAAAA=]
Kolkorensburg A [&BGUCAAA=]
Stonescatter Wash S [&BJcBAAA=]
Thistlereed Waypoint A [&BFECAAA=]
Ascalon
Ruins of Oldgate S [&BF4BAAA=]
Breaktooth's Waypoint — [&BBoCAAA=]
Gladefall Run A R [&BO4BAAA=]
Kraal Waypoint S [&BO8BAAA=]
Blazeridge Steppes R [&BAMCAAA=]
Behem Gauntlet S [&BP0BAAA=]
Dragonrot Domains A [&BEsBAAA=]
Axedrag Cut S [&BEwBAAA=]
Not sure how the wiki describs them but typically when talking about meta events the community is referring to the big bosses &/or pre events. Dynamic events happen all the time but the metas are on a timer. https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Event_timers
If you are going to do meta you will be more successful getting there roughly 10m early & some are better than others. It's not a bad idea to check lfg for certain events like the Octovine & Chak to make sure the map won't fail. Those are better to run after playing the map a bit because the chests require a specific key acquired from doing events on that map. The core game bosses should be fine just getting there 5-10m early.
If you have living world seasons I do pretty well running bitterfrost from season 3. Rewards are decent & there are non stop events but you will also gain karma reasonably fast. Season 4 has vendors that sell boxes for volatile magic & gold. The leather & trophy boxes typically sell higher than purchased. If you don't have the lw & hit full home instances daily the season 3 mats sell for a decent price to vendors.
There is also something called Triple Trouble, but that one is quite tricky and requires a quite good team and very good communication to beat, so it's more difficult to find a group who can actually do it, whereas Tequatl nearly always dies very easily when the map is full. But reward wise it would also be nice.
If you own Heart of Thorns, the first expansion, basically every of the 4 maps has a big meta event that's usually worth doing. Though they're also all on a timer.
If you want to know when something interesting happens anywhere you can just check this page: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Event_timers
It includes all world bosses and all important meta events and I guess even a bit more.
After you get more mats then your bank storage can handle sell any thats spilling over .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trYozMR2nJg
https://youtu.be/u2-LeHtC4T4
https://youtu.be/OtxFKgUUGFg
If you are looking for ways to make gold as a new player .
Here are some that I used to get a nice amount even with just a core alt I made .
1. Daily 2g most of the days it does not take long to do.
2. Gather guild hall loot each day.
3. log in rewards add up to ~40g each month.
4. Guild missions trecks for instance give you a rare and 0.7g and are easy to solo even on a brand new account .
5. Dungeons 0.5-1.5g perh dungeon path + mats + rare + dungeon tokens . After 8 paths you get 5g and 150 dungeon tokens .
6. Tequatl the Sunless, Triple trouble and The Twisted Marionette are each 2g for the first kill each day . For Tequatl and Triple t try to find a ok map in lfg and show up few min early . Timers are at wiki event timer [wiki.guildwars2.com]
7. World bosses drop ok loot and you can jump into most of them fast even as a brand new player.
8 Metas : Octovines , Legendary Chak Gerent, The Path to Ascension , Aetherblade Assault and many others maps all give a lot of loot that you can salvage for your own needs or sell on trade post for gold .
9. Fractals t4 + recommended fractals are ~20g each day . It does take some time investment to learn the mechanics and get the gear you need to bear t4s but is worth it.
While you cant beat t4 fractals as a brand new player there are 3 more tears of it that you can progress through and still get nice rewards each day .
10. Strikes Ice brood stikes are fast enough , you can do them each day for rewards and you can make progress towards ascended gear .
Eod strikes are 2-4 g each 1x a week and give you one of the resources to make extra ~25-30g weekly from trade post sales.
11. Raids you get 2g per each boss killed . Atm there are 7 wings with at least 3 bosses in each . Each boss also has a chance to drop ascended gear . While not something a brand new person would venture as fast into it does provide fun for a lot of pve oriented people .
1. How many can I have active at a time? I notice there are slot increases for sale so it made me wonder.
2. How to I refine anything? I have a few stacks of Bloodstone or something just camping in my inventory because material storage is already 250/250. I checked out work stations and was met with an empty UI, or any real option to drag anything there TO refine. (I could have been at the wrong station, however.)
I, too, would like to make gold because I'm overflowing with materials.
Also, as far as crafting, which profession has a pretty good steady income, and through what items? I've noticed some of the bags tend to hold steady at ~12-15g each, and some of the.. sigils? or whatever they are (Infusions?) are horridly expensive.
1: I assume you mean crafting, so you can have a maximum of 4 crafting disciplines at any given time.
2: Refining things like Bloodstone requires a pretty high crafting level (400-450 for most disciplines, but Chef has it at 300)
Bags are that expensive because they need a special rune to be able to craft them (and they too are quite expensive).
You also can't craft infusions (well, you CAN craft one, but it's random chance and requires an Ectoplasmic Stone (also costly) and three rare or exotic armor/weapons)
2) Google gw2 gobblers. There are items you get through achievements for surplus bloodstone dust, dragonite & imperial fragments. Refining takes a lot of the base material & obsidian shards. You can get the ley energy converter by completing dragon stand in under 20m which is fairly easy with a good map. There is also a few places they can be bought. You can refine it on most professions over 400 iirc. You have to speak to the maser crafter by the table to start that profession. I highly recommend using a guide to level crafting or it can be expensive & time consuming.
I never had much luck making gold with crafting other than a few recipes & some are a bit hard to get.
Tailoring = Light Armor
Leatherworking = Medium Armor
Armorsmithing = Heavy Armor
Huntsman = Ranged weapons (Bow, Torch, Rifle, Pistols, etc)
Weaponsmithing = Melee weapons
Artificing = Magical weapons (Staff, Scepter, Focus, etc)
Jewelry = Trinkets (Accessories, Amulets, etc)
Chef = Food
You'll notice when you highlight a material, it will say which crafting station can use the material and at what level. When you first approach a crafting station, it will appear with an empty UI because you do not have an active License. Talk to the merchant next to it to active it and the UI will no longer be empty.
As for bloodstone specifically? You will get a ton of those. However, it is a high tier crafting material to refine and would require you to level up your crafting to around 400. Max lvl for crafting is 500. May sound a lot, but leveling up crafting is a lot easier than you may think.
As for which materials sell more? Best to spread your net and not have all your eggs in one basket. You'll earn a lot more that way and when one material goes cheaper, you won't lose out too much. However, for specifics, it may take some more research to find your answer.
If you put an armor type profession & weapon type on the same character you can do it all on one character. I didn't do this so to do the daily crafting I have to get 2 characters to a station.