Is There a Way for Me to Farm Gold for Purchasing Living World Season 2 Chapters Without Skipping the Story Order?

[Darth Recluse]

Hello. I want to buy the discounted HoT+PoF and End of Dragons for $22. But I don't want the full version. My question is, can I unlock the living season 2 without starting the living season 2 story, farming gold without going through the story and playing before Hot+PoF? I want to farm the living world to open the game, but I don't want to skip the second season.

[SinisterSlay]

You probably could farming fractals and silverwastes. Sounds really boring though. It's when you have to weight your time against money.

[beats]

just wait for sale, it is soon.

[Darth Recluse]

I can afford it. I live in Turkey, a country with poor economic conditions.

[Darth Recluse]

Originally posted by beats:

just wait for sale, it is soon.

I'm not sure you understood my whole question correctly and answered it accordingly. I'm not talking about buying the $50 package.

[Dr. Electrocutioner]

I find the easiest way to farm gold in game is doing the wizard vault stuff.

It resets in a few days so now is a great time if you haven't been doing it.

You can get 90 gold for 6 AA each and then do that again when it refreshes (which is quarterly).

Essentially make 180 gold for maybe 8 - 10 hours of doing stuff in game.

After that you can get it for 1 gold per 35 AA.

[Nibbie]

Either high tier fractals or Silverwastes farming are probably the best money you can make in the base game. Fractals you will have to build up to, and take some actual effort and build prep, but long term gives you a lot of useful things in return, like ascended equipment and even a legendary backpack. Silverwastes is super easy, you don't need anything but a decent size squad to run it, but it doesn't have many good exclusive rewards.

[Darth Recluse]

Thank you all individually. But I doubt you understand my question. I want to farm money without skipping the story, just the main game and living world 1. Until I get living world 2.

[Q]

silverwastes meta, buried treasure etc since you are doing the main, initial story and living world 2 then world bosses, salvage yellow gear with mystic salvage kit, sell the ectoplasms.

[Hefutoxin]

Originally posted by Darth Recluse:

Thank you all individually. But I doubt you understand my question. I want to farm money without skipping the story, just the main game and living world 1. Until I get living world 2.

You can do that.

If you want to avoid Season 2 areas and Fractals, you can still farm money in other ways.

[Aggrogoat]

Originally posted by Darth Recluse:

Thank you all individually. But I doubt you understand my question. I want to farm money without skipping the story, just the main game and living world 1. Until I get living world 2.

Possible, but it will take a bit... Here are some options you can do over time- please don't burn out doing these.

Silverwastes: A level 80 zone, in a group, doing "RIBA." Look it up- you will make people happier knowing how to work the zone for profit. You can earn 15-20G hourly, which isn't an amazing pace, but it's pretty easy.

Hard world bosses: Tequatl the Sunless gives 2 gold daily upon defeat. Must be done in a squad.

Wizard's Vault: Every 'season' which is quarterly, you can purchase gold pieces at a cheaper rate than the infinitely purchasable money bag which grants the same amount of gold. Doing dailies and weeklies unlocked at level 80 earns you acclaim which you can spend on items in the vault.

Tier 1 fractals: I will not be recommending fractals despite the potential for money for you, as players will expect you to be geared and have an elite specialization unlocked most of the time, which would require you to skip LW2 and go to Heart of Thorns / Path of Fire / End of Dragons to unlock them.

[Darth Recluse]

Originally posted by Aggressive Goat:

Originally posted by Darth Recluse:

Thank you all individually. But I doubt you understand my question. I want to farm money without skipping the story, just the main game and living world 1. Until I get living world 2.

Possible, but it will take a bit... Here are some options you can do over time- please don't burn out doing these.

Silverwastes: A level 80 zone, in a group, doing "RIBA." Look it up- you will make people happier knowing how to work the zone for profit. You can earn 15-20G hourly, which isn't an amazing pace, but it's pretty easy.

Hard world bosses: Tequatl the Sunless gives 2 gold daily upon defeat. Must be done in a squad.

Wizard's Vault: Every 'season' which is quarterly, you can purchase gold pieces at a cheaper rate than the infinitely purchasable money bag which grants the same amount of gold. Doing dailies and weeklies unlocked at level 80 earns you acclaim which you can spend on items in the vault.

Tier 1 fractals: I will not be recommending fractals despite the potential for money for you, as players will expect you to be geared and have an elite specialization unlocked most of the time, which would require you to skip LW2 and go to Heart of Thorns / Path of Fire / End of Dragons to unlock them.

Riba looks like a good alternative. After all, I'm playing MMO and if I'm going to get bored of farming a bit, I shouldn't start. :P

[nazeer28]

If you haven't got any of the other Living World Season and money is tight Season 2 is mainly story, where the others offer new locations and stuff.

[Darth Recluse]

Originally posted by nazeer28:

If you haven't got any of the other Living World Season and money is tight Season 2 is mainly story, where the others offer new locations and stuff.

Problem is: The Steam Colection edition, which is currently $100, is dropping to $50. I want to buy the 3 DLCs with 22 dollars (at the lowest discount price) and get the living world chapters from the game. But I don't want to skip the story queue. I want to farm gold for living world 2 without going to HoT&PoF.

[Yvan]

Silverwastes meta will be a mild spoiler of LW2 since it happens there, iirc. Do the wizards vault thing, can be done quite fast if you play spvp, or even in pve but beware of pve missions, it will send you to areas of expansions as soon as you buy them, no matter if you have reached them in the story or not.
If you care about story and lore, you should do dungeons apart form the other stuff suggested (if you can find a group, or create your own). Not super profitable, but it gives some gold and their story runs in paralell to the core one. Also a decent way to start gearing up.
Also, if you are so presured for in-game cash you should consider selling materials in the Black Lion thing, I usually prefer to hoard a basic quantity, but in your case it may be worth selling.
Be aware the the price of gems fluctuate (usually they tend to go up) and there are rare sales of Living world seasons in the gamestore.

[Prof_Llama]

So two things from the wizard's vault, not only the straight gold but the mystic coins there can be sold and acquired fairly easily. Check fast.farming for best prices on the wizard's vault.
Beyond that, waiting for a sale is highly recommended. I'm not talking about a real money sale, but waiting until the living worlds are discounted (expect 20%, probably in the next week) will affect how much gold you would need to get.

I'm not sure how interested you are in the story, but Living World Season (LWS) 4 offers both mounts and a fairly lucrative option with volatile magic. 5/6 of the home nodes from LWS4 repay themselves in 150 days or less. Icebrood Saga (IBS) would be LWS5 and at least gives access to very lucrative strikes. If you like Tequatl, this is probably useful. It also has several chests that fast farming lists as highly lucrative parking spots.

LWS4 gives access to mounts as well, but again if you just want to play the story in order, it is totally understandable. As you get more parts of the game, you should be able to choose what you want to do with your time based on what you enjoy. It's an MMO, but it's more about daily/weekly/seasonal timegates than grinding.