How to quickly make money?

[对不起我只会说英语]

I've just started Path of Fire and want to start collecting the mounts. I've notice that Jackal costs 10 gold which I don't have. I usually just sell all of the gear I find but I don't think I'm making that much money as gears usually just gives me 1-2 silver and sometimes >1 silver even.

I'm lost ._. how do people make money in this game?

[对不起我只会说英语]

I need to start reading these guides again on Meta Events and such. I heard the Jackal costs 20 gold and I only have 2 gold. Lol.

[Nico]

Messaggio originale di A.:

I need to start reading these guides again on Meta Events and such. I heard the Jackal costs 20 gold and I only have 2 gold. Lol.

Just do 3 dailies every day for 2 free gold every day, and selling crafting materials you get from harvesting or salvaging equipment can also give you lots of gold.Especially if you decide to sell some crafting materials from your storage you can make some pretty quick money.

[SinisterSlay]

If you have made it to PoF and don't have 10 gold, something is off. You should be sitting on 100 gold by that point.
Are you doing your dailies each day? They reward 2 gold a day alone.
Have you gone through and sold your excess materials? That's a quick way to earn quick money, sell stuff your not using. Game economy means stuff keeps getting cheaper every year. So you can make a profit by selling now and buying back later.
For example, Mystic coins just recently were worth 2 gold each, now they are 70 silver. If you sold at 2 gold and waited until you actually needed them, you would save a lot of money.

[Zethell]

Farm unidentified gear (blue, green and yellow ones) then sell them on trading post for easy gold.

Any LWS map meta will do as long as there are enough players to scale things up, just make sure to tag (hit) as many enemies as you can before they die.

You could easily make 10g from an hour of farming meta.

[对不起我只会说英语]

Messaggio originale di Nico:

Just do 3 dailies every day for 2 free gold every day, and selling crafting materials you get from harvesting or salvaging equipment can also give you lots of gold.Especially if you decide to sell some crafting materials from your storage you can make some pretty quick money.

What "dailies"? Do you man the renown hearts? And I don't know which crafting material to sell. If you mean the salvaged materials then I'm screwed as I don't salvage and just sell the items to merchants, lol.

Messaggio originale di SinisterSlay:

If you have made it to PoF and don't have 10 gold, something is off. You should be sitting on 100 gold by that point.
Are you doing your dailies each day? They reward 2 gold a day alone.
Have you gone through and sold your excess materials? That's a quick way to earn quick money, sell stuff your not using. Game economy means stuff keeps getting cheaper every year. So you can make a profit by selling now and buying back later.
For example, Mystic coins just recently were worth 2 gold each, now they are 70 silver. If you sold at 2 gold and waited until you actually needed them, you would save a lot of money.

I never had that much gold (I forgot how much I got). I remember spending some gold though on crafting for a bit for the achievement diary just to get to level 80. I also spent some gold on a backpack, and then some for the Springer and Skimmer.

Also the things that I do sell are unusable gear from Unidentified Gear (I open them to see if there's anything I could use for my character). I sell them on NPC merchants (I'm not sure if this is the correct play. And I don't know what you guys mean by dailies 😅Forgive me I am very noob at this game. I usually only play when my RL friends are off duty.

Messaggio originale di Letozeth:

Farm unidentified gear (blue, green and yellow ones) then sell them on trading post for easy gold.

Any LWS map meta will do as long as there are enough players to scale things up, just make sure to tag (hit) as many enemies as you can before they die.

You could easily make 10g from an hour of farming meta.

Just to be clear.. those Unidentified Gear should be sold to the Trading Post and not to the NPC merchant? Do I need to salvage them and sell the mats or something?

Once again, I apologize for the very "basic" questions. I admit that I am very new to the game and is not that invested. I mostly only play when my RL friends are playing but I couldn't bother to ask them all the time.

PS: I only have the Heart of Thorns + Path of Fire expansion. No End of Dragons.

[Ashtrails]

Every day when you open your daily reward chest, a popup will tell you what the daily tasks / quests etc are.

Otherwise press H, go to achievements -> daily and check the list there. do 3 of those and you will earn 2 gold. easy money.

And yes, salvage things from your unidentified gear and sell what you don't want or need at the trading post.
Never sell anything but junk to the npc vendors, or items you can't sell or salvage otherwise.

Check if orange or yellow sells better unsalvaged.
Use the cheap basic kits for greens and below, better ones for yellow, basically : )

If you moved around a bit in the game, you probably visited Sparkfly Fen.
Try doing the worldboss there once a day, Tequatl, the Sunless.
It's a fun dragon fight and gives you a bunch of chests and a flat 1 Gold as reward.

[Tiberius]

meta events suck. It requires many extra steps to optimize the profit. Do quick dungeon and fractal run for more reliable gold

[TheTool]

Get to T3+ Fractals. Fractal 42 is a gold farm/fractal relic farm.
Always use the blue robot in the Mists to buy 30 Deeply discounted fractal keys every day.
Run fractals, open boxes with keys, get new boxes and open them, sell contents as junk to vendor.
I made 11 gold last night 20 minutes and got a really good ascended boots drop.
Fractals.

[对不起我只会说英语]

Messaggio originale di Ashtrails:

Every day when you open your daily reward chest, a popup will tell you what the daily tasks / quests etc are.

Otherwise press H, go to achievements -> daily and check the list there. do 3 of those and you will earn 2 gold. easy money.

And yes, salvage things from your unidentified gear and sell what you don't want or need at the trading post.
Never sell anything but junk to the npc vendors, or items you can't sell or salvage otherwise.

Check if orange or yellow sells better unsalvaged.
Use the cheap basic kits for greens and below, better ones for yellow, basically : )

If you moved around a bit in the game, you probably visited Sparkfly Fen.
Try doing the worldboss there once a day, Tequatl, the Sunless.
It's a fun dragon fight and gives you a bunch of chests and a flat 1 Gold as reward.

Oh, I've been claiming those chests but didn't really pay enough attention to notice that I have daily tasks which I could do. I'll check it out now when I open my game.

And I guess I'll take note of salvaging gears. Which salvage kit should I get? As for the World Boss I'm at least familiar with them since me and my friends have been doing them when we started playing the game, lol.

[Ashtrails]

Messaggio originale di A.:

And I guess I'll take note of salvaging gears. Which salvage kit should I get?

If you want a very hassle free experience, get the Copper Salvage-o-matic from the gemstore, if you have disposable real money.

otherwise, 'Basic Salvage Kit' for everything that's green and below, and for the 'good stuff', i.e. yellow (orange usually sells better as unsalvaged gear and purple is a whole different beast), use one of the green or better kits, or do this:
Buy a blue, green and yellow salvage kit.
Go to the 'Mystic Forge' right next to the Trade Forum Waypoint in Lion's Arch.

By now, you should have a couple of Mystic Forge Stones.

Throw the stones (whole stack, it will auto grab what it needs), and the 3 colored salvage kits in there, press 'forge'
You now have a 250 stack of 'best' quality salvage kits for your yellows.
Enjoy.

Also, sidenote, you don't _have_ to identify gear stacks, though there is a small chance that you get better quality than the stack indicated upon identifying. If you don't want to optimize too much and individually salvage _hundreds_ of items, you can always choose ' salvage stack' when right-clicking a salvage kit, and clicking the stack of gear.
It will then auto-shredder as many unidentified items as uses are left in your salvage kit stack.

Would only recommend this with blue stacks, however, as green stacks churn out yellow and orange gear in a fair frequency.

[__]

Messaggio originale di Letozeth:

Farm unidentified gear (blue, green and yellow ones) then sell them on trading post for easy gold.

Any LWS map meta will do as long as there are enough players to scale things up, just make sure to tag (hit) as many enemies as you can before they die.

You could easily make 10g from an hour of farming meta.

You make more identifying it, salvaging it then selling materials.

[__]

Messaggio originale di Ashtrails:

Also, sidenote, you don't _have_ to identify gear stacks, though there is a small chance that you get better quality than the stack indicated upon identifying. If you don't want to optimize too much and individually salvage _hundreds_ of items, you can always choose ' salvage stack' when right-clicking a salvage kit, and clicking the stack of gear.
It will then auto-shredder as many unidentified items as uses are left in your salvage kit stack.

Would only recommend this with blue stacks, however, as green stacks churn out yellow and orange gear in a fair frequency.

You don't have to identify but if you buy 2 stacks of blue unidentified gear, identify it, salvage then sell mats you make between 1-2 gold.

[对不起我只会说英语]

This is quite annoying. My dailies are in locations I've never visited, like I don't know how to get to Maguuma Vista or where the Forsaken Minidungeon is.. Ugh.

Messaggio originale di Ashtrails:

Messaggio originale di A.:

And I guess I'll take note of salvaging gears. Which salvage kit should I get?

If you want a very hassle free experience, get the Copper Salvage-o-matic from the gemstore, if you have disposable real money.

otherwise, 'Basic Salvage Kit' for everything that's green and below, and for the 'good stuff', i.e. yellow (orange usually sells better as unsalvaged gear and purple is a whole different beast), use one of the green or better kits, or do this:
Buy a blue, green and yellow salvage kit.
Go to the 'Mystic Forge' right next to the Trade Forum Waypoint in Lion's Arch.

By now, you should have a couple of Mystic Forge Stones.

Throw the stones (whole stack, it will auto grab what it needs), and the 3 colored salvage kits in there, press 'forge'
You now have a 250 stack of 'best' quality salvage kits for your yellows.
Enjoy.

Also, sidenote, you don't _have_ to identify gear stacks, though there is a small chance that you get better quality than the stack indicated upon identifying. If you don't want to optimize too much and individually salvage _hundreds_ of items, you can always choose ' salvage stack' when right-clicking a salvage kit, and clicking the stack of gear.
It will then auto-shredder as many unidentified items as uses are left in your salvage kit stack.

Would only recommend this with blue stacks, however, as green stacks churn out yellow and orange gear in a fair frequency.

So basically Basic Salvage kit for everything that's Green and below, and Fine Salvage kits for thee rest. Alright 🙂I'm doing this now. Salvaging some World Boss drops.

[Nico]

The general rule is to always first try to sell stuff via the trading post before even considering to sel it to NPC merchants. especially equipment would always be worth a lot more, though it's way simpler to just salvage equipment with the cheapest salvage kit and sell the materials instead. btw, in the top right of your inventory is a button to quickly storage all your crafting materials into your crafting materials storage, just in case you didn't notice it yet, really handy to clean up your inventory a bit.

And like others already said, for yellow, aka rare equipment above lvl 60 or so you want to use yellow salvage kits, since they can drop ectoplasma, which is worth quite a bit, and better salvage kits have a higher chance to get ectoplasma. Oh, and pls don't sell crafting materials to merchants, including ectoplasma ... Also, you can right click a salvage kit to salvage lots of stuff at once. Though in general it's more rewarding to open the unidentified gear before salvaging it, since it could contain more rare equipment, which might mean more ectoplasma.

For dailies, there are a total of 12 dailies every day, 4 for WvW, PvP and PvE each, while you have to do any 3 of these 12 to get the daily chest with 2 gold. The PvE dailies are usually always harvesting materials in an area, some panorama, 4 dynamic events in an area and one which is less specific, like a JP, a mini dungeon, or somethign else, I usually always do all but the 4 events since that one takes too long for my taste.

Btw, no need to apologise for asking questions. Everyone once was a new players and had no idea about how the game works and the GW2 community in general is really nice and loves to answer those questions.

[Nico]

Messaggio originale di A.:

This is quite annoying. My dailies are in locations I've never visited, like I don't know how to get to Maguuma Vista or where the Forsaken Minidungeon is.. Ugh.

Every character always has access to the first waypoint of each races starting region, which are located in all 4 different basic regions. then just the 2 deeper maguuma regions should be a problem, though idk if you even can get dailies in them before you visited the regions at least once. And for the vistas it should tell you which areas are in the needed region, like for the maguuma forest it would mention the caledon forest, the starting area of the Sylvari, for which you have a waypoint.

Also, for stuff like mini dungeons, when you click on the daily it should show a button below its description which just says in which region you can do it. If you click that button it opens the map and zooms to the closest point to that mini dungeon (or JP or whatever) Even when you might not yet have a waypoitn nearby you then roughly know where it is, and once you are on the map there usually always is a mentor or commander at the spot where you need to go, since everyone has this daily, for JP's they even regularly offer a good old mesmer portal to the point. Though sometimes past the point where it triggers the achievement, so you might have to walk a bit back.