Act like a girl. Beg on the forums for money. Works 100%!

For real: Search in guild stores for cheap items that sell well and resell them. That's a very easy way, even for players who can't play much. But people don't like to work for their gold nowadays.

Crafting is a very bad way to make gold. In fact, for me, it's a gold sink (just think of all the motif chapters...).

Stealing and laundering works well, and if you have a CP character, doing the daily writs is a quick way to make some money every day. The best way to make a ton of money fast is with guild traders (reselling for profit) but there's some risk involved, and you need to have a good trader and the initial gold to buy stuff.

If you are just questing, collect all harvestable nodes and sell the raw materials to other players.

Mady wrote: »

Act like a girl. Beg on the forums for money. Works 100%!

For real: Search in guild stores for cheap items that sell well and resell them. That's a very easy way, even for players who can't play much. But people don't like to work for their gold nowadays.

Someone actually did, and got 1 mil to buy a house with...

Just sold sharp sword of agility for 400k. Weapons pay well if it's the right one.

I collect every single mat, refine it, get unlucky with the rosins and stuff, and then sell whatever wax etc I have in a guild trader, get like 100.000 gold after a few weeks, feel like a beast for 1 minute, then give it to my other even more unfortunate in game friend because he is the sweetest and then repeat. Works 100% =D!

PvP

Made 5M yesterday selling Necropotence pieces, totally worthy

The only way to make money with this game is to sell it on Craigslist.

Merlin13KAGL wrote: »

Kay1 wrote: »

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Made 5M yesterday selling Necropotence pieces, totally worthy

@Kay1 , like a 5...followed by 6 zeroes??

Holy crap!

15 entire sets in impen were waiting for 6th June

I knew the new meta due to the Private PTS so I kinda made some profit hahaha

One way to make gold without selling items/materials to other players is to farm. You probably won't make money as fast but you will make a fair amount of gold. Find somewhere that has a large amount of creatures/NPCs in a smaller area (Vivec's Antlers in Stonefalls is fairly popular right now) and kill everything. Sell the weapons dropped to a merchant unless they are set pieces. Typically, I can spend about 30 minutes killing and selling 75-80% of what I pick up to a merchant and have about 10k, give or take. There are also farming groups you can try to join that may increase in the amount of drops you can collect.

There are several different ways to make gold whether it's selling unrefined materials, set pieces, motifs, Skywatch runs, begging like a chump in zone chat, etc. I don't know which one is the most effective. I do know that when I really don't feel like dealing with other people to make my gold I will go to Vivec's Antlers, turn on a good playlist, and just start killing.

One thing I will say is that if you get set pieces you may want to try and NOT deconstruct them immediately. While I don't know what set pieces are currently in demand it may be worth your time to keep them and ask a friend if they are worth selling. I've deconstructed several pieces that I really should not have because I simply didn't know what they were or how much they were worth.

Trading guilds are a good option depending on the kind of player you are. I would much prefer to avoid zone chat at all costs so it's worth the guild fee to me to avoid that. Also, some items appear to sell more in guild stores than in zone chat. For example, I sold Aetherial Dust in one of my traders for 85k. When I offered to sell it in zone chat the most I could get someone to agree to paying was 60k. I'm not suggesting that's the norm but after speaking with several guildmates the general consensus is that it may take longer for your item to sell in the trader but it will sell for more. There are downsides to being part of trade guilds. You do have a weekly fee, typically. While this helps secure a trader it doesn't guarantee a trader so you may have more than one week where your guild doesn't have a trader even though you paid your weekly fee. Also, some guildmates may undercut items you are selling and that can be frustrating. For example, if you were to post one Mastic for 1500g someone in the guild may come along and list their one Mastic for 1499g. Why? Because their Mastic will show up in line before yours. Plus, many buyers (myself included) will just buy whatever shows up as less expensive...even it it's just 1g difference. Generally, undercutting is frowned upon in most guilds and may earn you a ton of grief and even the boot from the guild if you're caught doing it too often. Undercutting is a sensitive subject and has caused many a debate/argument in more than one of my trading guilds. Guildmates have argued that it's a slippery slope type scenario. If you start telling people they can't post item for 1g less than identical items then it's only a matter of time before the guild starts trying to dictate what you sell everything for just to keep things "fair". For example, if I think my stack of Insect Parts is only really worth 2000g but everyone in the guild has them listed for 5000g am I wrong in listing my items for what I think they are worth? Or if I find it almost impossible to sell stacks for provisioning materials for anything more than 3000g a stack but everyone else is okay to let stacks collect dust at 10,000g am I wrong for listing the item at what I know will sell instead of what I know probably won't? Those situations, conflicts, etc are some downsides to being part of a trading guild.

I prefer not to join a trade guild and not deal with the issues it comes with. I'm fine with making less money if it came down it.