I used a bit of mine to get dwarven construct repair parts so I could finally build my dwarven centurion garden gnome.

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Sophocles1 wrote: »

I’m sure this has been discussed To death, but I can’t find the threads. As somebody who is only just a couple months into the game, with my first toon About a day away from 160 CP, I’m Starting to wonder what gold is for. I use it here in there for materials, but nothing is terribly expensive so far. For people further along in the game, what do you tend to spend money on? What do you save up for? What is worth it? How does your personal economy work?

"nothing is terribly expensive so far" hahahaha ok...

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

Writs, writs, writs!

Sound like fun, I love coming home from work to go to work again.

As I said, I know you can farm everything and dont have to buy it. But, since my time is very limited, I much rather actually play the game than farm mats or run around billboards and vendors doing Writs. I tried it, it quite literally cost me most of my playtime (which is about 20 minutes to half an hour a day).

My partner and I pool our gold. We tend to use it for achievement furnishing, armour repair, and riding training.

motifs, recipes, house (in that order).

Cpt_Teemo wrote: »

Spent about 17m leveling all my 15 characters to max JC the first week of launch, most I've ever spent in the past year I believe

Was it worth it? I noticed that the rewards for doing tier 5 jewelry writs aren't much better than tier 1, and the latter are almost self sustaining. I've been doing them for 2 weeks on 14 characters, 1 high 13 low, and only consumed about 40-50 pewrter since the cost is almost fully refunded by pewter jewels to deconstruct and pewter ounces given whenever a writ is not rewarded.

Each time I decide to spend on anything I first ask myself if I'll recoup the investment, even more so it it's about alts. That's why I scarcely learned any motifs save the dirt cheap ones, but researched clothier, woodworker and blacksmith traits on 5 of my alts. Nevertheless this ensured a steady flow of master writs. I doubt that investing a few more millions per character would have been worth it, since the drop rate on my character that knows all of them, and characters that know less than 20 is at most 10%. Since I get about 200 vouchers per crafter per month on average, that would only be something like 20 extra vouchers. With a voucher price of 500 gold, that would only be 10K worth of vouchers per month per character. Learning all motifs cost 8-10M. Thus it will take me about 1000 months, or about 80 years IRL to break even; in fact I will never break even since motifs are being added in game.

Now let's compare with jewelry crafting. Considering you spent about 1.1M per character to power level them from 1 to 50, and recouped maybe ~200K in materials, and I'm being generous here, since prices have been dropping rapidly for those, that still leaves a residual cost of about 900K. Will you recoup those 900K in a year, or less for those characters, versus the situation where you would have leveled them slowly, by deconstructing whatever happens to drop? By this method it has taken me about 2 weeks for my first character, and slightly more for my 2nd since I only deconstructed white, green and blue, saving the purple and gold ones for the first one, that had all the passives, so I got a bit less inspiration. Considering 3 weeks, give or take, it will take me 35 weeks, or slightly under 9 months to do the other 12 characters. So in fact it's not even a year, but less.

Let's see... all horses bought. All bags updated on all chars except one but it's not even a mule so why bother for now. Bank upgraded. All traits on one character except for the new jewelry ones but I'm in no rush. Most motifs learned and not by buying them, mostly pure farm.

All houses in my alliance bought. Now I'm working on getting all furnishing plans for the three races of said alliance because I can. Next up.... who knows. Will probably do the same for the next alliance.

bellatrixed wrote: »

If you have addons it takes about 2-3 minutes per character to do writs and even if you only do it on one character it's still a minimum of 4k a day, plus the potential for gold mats/master surveys which can sell for a lot.

If you only play for 20 minutes a day and hate housing, chances are you don't need a lot of gold anyway, so I'm not sure what your complaint is.

I never complained, its all good, I like that you can buy upgrademats with gold.
Oh, and in Loading Screen Online, 2-3 minutes is the time you need to relogg.
I timed it, with 2 chars, logging, running around taking the writs, getting to the craftingstations and delivering the writs takes about 20 minutes (with Dulgons Lazy Writ Crafter). not factoring in the time it takes to buy raw mats if you run out, plus the additional relogg because the Mail still doesnt work properly.

Again, not complaining, I get why it takes this time. I just dont have it.

Uviryth wrote: »

Upgrading a new Set to Gold tier costs roughly 250k in materials.
How anyone could have any money in this game is beyond me (if he doesnt have the time to do the farming. Which pretty much no one over 30 has )

And what a silly assumption... age has no bearing on free time whatsoever. I know 18 year olds that are busier than 50 year olds and this game attracts all ages. But you have to love the high and mighty players who feel the need to justify their playtime by making sure everyone knows they aren't one of those losers with free time.

<sigh> Allright, my bad, I should have phrased differently. "The older you get the more responsibility you have in Real Life, the less time there is to do the chores in mmo`s in addition to the normal gameplay".
But, with 18, I could do things like 8 hours of gaming in one sitting. Now, with 37, I am happy to make it through half an hour of uninterrupted gaming

Theorycrafting (as in, gold weapons out then don't use them).