Thanks so much for taking the time and effort to make this! I went from ~100 gold max to regularly sitting in the 1000 - 2000 gold range, which feels especially satisfying considering how little time I have to dedicate to the game. Your channel as a whole has been so incredibly helpful, and I truly hope at you're receiving the audience appreciation you deserve.
I think ore farming is a pretty consistent way of getting a bit of gold without thinking about it too much. Especially with the release with mount it became quite enjoyable too!
This is a very solid guide that answers a whole bunch of questions which occurred to me while I was leveling professions. I've spent so much gold on it, I began to wonder how I can use them to make something back. And despite being solid, this guide isn't too in-depth, it's no economics lecture. Thank you!
Just came back after last playing on launch. Started fresh on a new account and man your channel has helped me a ton only lvl 51 and have 18G in my bag 💪🏽
Just started playing around with Profits and Efficiency when searching for finding the best profits in a list. I recently realized the CraftGold only does the cost for the recipe and not the whole recipe "tree" (ie. buying the intermediate components and not the cost if you craft them). -> Love Effi's layouts for when I'm doing a search that includes part of the name (like Abree did with "silk insignia"). -> Profits seems to be the only site that you can search a raw mat or an intermediate component and it give you a list of items that you can see the cost of "tree"? -> Profits also seems to be the only site that you can search recipes from a crafting discipline and it give you a more accurate cost for a recipe tree that includes account bound intermediate components?
WTF , why do you have thousands of gold , hahahaha , I cap at 50 . Thank you for taking the time to make this , not a lot of gold making videos on GW2 . Great work , didn't know half of the sites you mentioned .
@@thecrestfallen8140 Teq is 2g before you even consider drops. Ley line anomaly is 50s plus a Mystic Coin. Silverwastes RIBA plus chest train ballparks at ~20g/hr. If any boss is the daily quest it's worth popping into also. Mind you, you said core Tyria, so options are limited. But if you expand to expac zones almost everything is worth doing once a day. Notable winners are Dragon's End, Dragonstorm, Marionette, and Seitung meta, each easily worth over 2g and the first worth roughly 10g.
Good vid. I havw trouble of getting around all the info that is awalible and cause becoming overwelmed of it all, end up just trying but not being consistant. Just wondering r there groups that have mentors to help one around with farming and crafting for gold? As more or less what I enjoy most in game is gathering stuff, crafting and roaming around the world.
I've been looking to start crafting legendary weapons to sell. Can I craft the same legendary weapon multiple times? I know you can only each craft precursor once, but I'll probably just buy those off the TP.
Nice video sir! I got a question about the part where you say it's more profitable to farm ores to craft things rather than buying them directly in TP : when you buy the ores from the TP, you only got 5% taxes when you buy them in an order right? But the time to make an order is way less than farming the same amount in order to save 5% of the prices (if you can craft more items for the same time, you earn more gold), so I wonder why you say it's more profitable to farm them. Thanks 😃
Buying items does not have a tax. The comparison is of the opportunity cost basically. Margins on individual items will be larger with your own materials. You're correct that scaling up can be more profitable if you can move enough volume. A lot of players don't have the gold to toss around to do that though. You also get plenty of materials from your regular gameplay and that point was largely made to illustrate that using those materials is important for getting the gold value out of your normal gameplay. It is a game after all and sitting in a lounge placing orders and crafting forever isn't fun for most players.
Appreciate the video, but I have to correct one part. There is no yield difference between using self-resourced materials or purchased materials when trying to profit on a crafted item. You still pay the same fee on the crafted item and that evens it out. Unless you want to invest the time to make some extra buck through the added value of whatever you craft, you can just go ahead and list the mats. Whatever extra money you get through crafting is from the added value of the crafted item only. Here is an example: Materials Required Material Listing Price Per Unit Fee Crafted Item Value 10 Pieces 1 Silver 15% 11 Silver
Initial investment in silvers using bought materials 10 Profit in silvers after crafting the item and selling it 0.85
Initial investment in silvers using owned materials 0 Profit in silvers after crafting the item and selling it 9.35
Your profit in the case of buying those items at 10s and listing it at 11s would give you a net profit of -0.65s after the tax, not +0.85. It does actually end up netting you more. In your example, the item is actually ONLY worth crafting if you're using your own materials. Such situations can actually be really important to recognize if you're trying to liquidate materials you have and all of the recipes look "bad" on a crafting calculator. Some of the most efficient gold-makers make use of this and chain processes together to propagate their profit as much as possible. People who process unidentified gear can use their raw materials to craft stuff at break even or profit that would otherwise be a loss for everyone else that has to buy those materials. This effect is obviously most extreme in instances like your example, where the margin between the buy order and sell listing is 0 (functionally, it would only be possible for it to be 1c). On the other end, this effect disappears as soon as the margin between the buy order and sell listing reaches 15%. Any higher than that, and you'll be better off just selling the materials. Conceptually, this makes sense, because at that point it would be profitable to just flip the materials on the trading post. I could have probably included an example like this in the video, but you've illustrated the point I was trying to make quite nicely!
@@Goblexter No shame in it. When you do that kind of math in your head or even with a calculator, but don't write it down, there's going to be something you miss like that. Even looking at that, I was like, "I know they're wrong, but I can't figure out where the mistake is" and it took about 3 minutes of staring before I finally figured it out. It happens. All hail mighty Excel.
Ranger was my OG class on launch, which I still use for open world stuff. I'd definitely say I'm a guardian main though and am hopeful that DH will see a resuscitation with the coming balance changes.
@@LegeFles DH is my main class. Needless to say, I've been having an EXCELLENT time the past couple weeks since coming back to the game. CFB can rot in hell.
For me it was not very clear, sorry to say it, I see lots of people loved it. Thank you for explaining but as feedback maybe if you could take an example and do it over so it can be explained by itself kind of from A to Z. I know this comment may not be well received but it is honestly a suggestion. Thanks again!
Now I tried to craft the Heat Stone and I realize first I need to get the recipe from Dry Top meta events. Farming Favor of the Zephyrites to gain tiers and then buying the recipe.
Apologies. Unfortunately, if I go too in depth most people seem to not like that and very few will watch a video past 10 minutes. This video was meant to be more about the recipe searching options than it was about everything else. Perhaps you could tell me what part of the process you felt was missing from the examples/footage used? Lumps of mithrillium can be crafted into electrum or deldrimor steel ingots, which can then be sold for a modest profit or used for further crafting. Unfortunately, a couple of decent recipes may require unlocking. Something I probably should have included is if you're trying to craft something and can't, using the /wiki command to look the item up can be a great way to see if there's a recipe you're missing or if you're accidentally using the wrong crafting discipline (which DEFINITELY doesn't happen to me on a near daily basis). Some items are honestly profitable only because unlocking their recipe is more difficult than other items, so people avoid doing it. You kind of need to decide for yourself if it will be worth the trouble or not.
Swiping your credit card just invalidates this entire video... :( Grind for weeks for get a little bit of gold. or go work for 1 hour and use that money to get the same value. So if you value your personal time, any gold making in this game makes no sense. hence this game is p2w. I RLY wish they would remove the gem -> gold conversion
Gold is largely for cosmetics and quality of life. The people who push the limits of in-game gold making can reach over 200g/hr with methods like this, which is pretty competitive for some people. You have to remember, not everyone has it well enough to swipe where they are. There's also plenty of people who enjoy playing GW2 more than working. They'd rather spend 3 hours enjoying themselves than 1 hour working somewhere they hate. It's just an option.
I dont know bro,if you say this game is p2w,ascended trinket can be buy by gathering nodes all you have to do is running around map ,ascended armor by doing strike mission,ascended weapon by achievement,i dont have much time to online either,most of the time i just choose which one i wanna do but i always prioritize dailies,go to sleep and doing ok,higher ive i ver got is 600g and i dont even know what to do with that gold and end up gambling it on ecto,now please tell us where is the part of this game that is p2w again?
But why? They always nerf the game. They don't respect your crafting. Not worth the crafting not worth your time. They nerf everything and they don't care haw much u spending crafting. Not good to support a game that nerf everything all the time. Free to play ok. Don't spend anymore $$$. This game is nerf war2. Don't invest to much time and $$$$ in game. Not worth your time.
If you're upset that your firebrand is getting nerfed, then that has no effect on making gold with crafting. Also as a whole, the game has power crept slightly over time so it's "buff wars 2". If you're upset by something else, then I honestly have no clue what you're on about. You don't spend money crafting, you spend gold. There's no "nerfing" an orichalcum plated dowel. It's still used in the same recipes it has always been. In any case, if you don't enjoy playing the game, maybe consider not playing anymore and stop watching UA-cam content for it?
Could be a firebrand player, but firebrand is still very good so I wouldn't understand that being it... maybe an ele player? But they just got buffs, so idk
@@gagegang6421 yes I know balance is good. But why do they do this to players? Players need to know why they punished for making good build? Players spending good time in game. Players are doneting real $$$. And time. Expensive nerfing
Thanks so much for taking the time and effort to make this! I went from ~100 gold max to regularly sitting in the 1000 - 2000 gold range, which feels especially satisfying considering how little time I have to dedicate to the game. Your channel as a whole has been so incredibly helpful, and I truly hope at you're receiving the audience appreciation you deserve.
I think ore farming is a pretty consistent way of getting a bit of gold without thinking about it too much. Especially with the release with mount it became quite enjoyable too!
This is a very solid guide that answers a whole bunch of questions which occurred to me while I was leveling professions. I've spent so much gold on it, I began to wonder how I can use them to make something back. And despite being solid, this guide isn't too in-depth, it's no economics lecture. Thank you!
Just came back after last playing on launch. Started fresh on a new account and man your channel has helped me a ton only lvl 51 and have 18G in my bag 💪🏽
Just started playing around with Profits and Efficiency when searching for finding the best profits in a list. I recently realized the CraftGold only does the cost for the recipe and not the whole recipe "tree" (ie. buying the intermediate components and not the cost if you craft them).
-> Love Effi's layouts for when I'm doing a search that includes part of the name (like Abree did with "silk insignia").
-> Profits seems to be the only site that you can search a raw mat or an intermediate component and it give you a list of items that you can see the cost of "tree"?
-> Profits also seems to be the only site that you can search recipes from a crafting discipline and it give you a more accurate cost for a recipe tree that includes account bound intermediate components?
Thanks for this one
Love your content and help as always Abree 💖
WTF , why do you have thousands of gold , hahahaha , I cap at 50 . Thank you for taking the time to make this , not a lot of gold making videos on GW2 . Great work , didn't know half of the sites you mentioned .
Same here. I spend gold faster than I earn it because I'm too lazy to farm.
Idk about thousands, but I hover around 150-350 usually. When I dip below 200 I usually spend some time hitting world bosses in CT and Maguma
@@Toshiro4619 how do you make gold on CT world bosses ? I get like 9-10 green drops per boss and thsts it .
@@thecrestfallen8140 Teq is 2g before you even consider drops. Ley line anomaly is 50s plus a Mystic Coin. Silverwastes RIBA plus chest train ballparks at ~20g/hr. If any boss is the daily quest it's worth popping into also.
Mind you, you said core Tyria, so options are limited. But if you expand to expac zones almost everything is worth doing once a day. Notable winners are Dragon's End, Dragonstorm, Marionette, and Seitung meta, each easily worth over 2g and the first worth roughly 10g.
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Good vid. I havw trouble of getting around all the info that is awalible and cause becoming overwelmed of it all, end up just trying but not being consistant. Just wondering r there groups that have mentors to help one around with farming and crafting for gold? As more or less what I enjoy most in game is gathering stuff, crafting and roaming around the world.
The Overflow Trading Company Discord is decent for that, although a lot of people in that server do tunnel vision onto legendaries quite a bit.
@@abree107 ive been checkin in on overflow discord for a while now but what I see there is most a market place... do they have mentors there?
i always do what you said
bcs your golds prove your words 😂
Credit card and a decade of inefficient playing can get you the same, always be skeptical.
I've been looking to start crafting legendary weapons to sell. Can I craft the same legendary weapon multiple times? I know you can only each craft precursor once, but I'll probably just buy those off the TP.
U can craft them as often as you like
Buyings pres is usually cheaper than crafting
^ Correct
Nice video sir! I got a question about the part where you say it's more profitable to farm ores to craft things rather than buying them directly in TP : when you buy the ores from the TP, you only got 5% taxes when you buy them in an order right? But the time to make an order is way less than farming the same amount in order to save 5% of the prices (if you can craft more items for the same time, you earn more gold), so I wonder why you say it's more profitable to farm them.
Thanks 😃
Buying items does not have a tax. The comparison is of the opportunity cost basically. Margins on individual items will be larger with your own materials. You're correct that scaling up can be more profitable if you can move enough volume. A lot of players don't have the gold to toss around to do that though. You also get plenty of materials from your regular gameplay and that point was largely made to illustrate that using those materials is important for getting the gold value out of your normal gameplay. It is a game after all and sitting in a lounge placing orders and crafting forever isn't fun for most players.
@@abree107 Thanks for the answer, now I got your point 😃
Appreciate the video, but I have to correct one part. There is no yield difference between using self-resourced materials or purchased materials when trying to profit on a crafted item. You still pay the same fee on the crafted item and that evens it out. Unless you want to invest the time to make some extra buck through the added value of whatever you craft, you can just go ahead and list the mats. Whatever extra money you get through crafting is from the added value of the crafted item only.
Here is an example:
Materials Required Material Listing Price Per Unit Fee Crafted Item Value
10 Pieces 1 Silver 15% 11 Silver
Initial investment in silvers using bought materials 10
Profit in silvers after crafting the item and selling it 0.85
Initial investment in silvers using owned materials 0
Profit in silvers after crafting the item and selling it 9.35
Profit selling already owned materials directly 8.5
Profit diff crafting and selling over selling owned mats 0.85 ( = added value of the crafted item, as in the first example )
Your profit in the case of buying those items at 10s and listing it at 11s would give you a net profit of -0.65s after the tax, not +0.85. It does actually end up netting you more. In your example, the item is actually ONLY worth crafting if you're using your own materials. Such situations can actually be really important to recognize if you're trying to liquidate materials you have and all of the recipes look "bad" on a crafting calculator.
Some of the most efficient gold-makers make use of this and chain processes together to propagate their profit as much as possible. People who process unidentified gear can use their raw materials to craft stuff at break even or profit that would otherwise be a loss for everyone else that has to buy those materials.
This effect is obviously most extreme in instances like your example, where the margin between the buy order and sell listing is 0 (functionally, it would only be possible for it to be 1c). On the other end, this effect disappears as soon as the margin between the buy order and sell listing reaches 15%. Any higher than that, and you'll be better off just selling the materials. Conceptually, this makes sense, because at that point it would be profitable to just flip the materials on the trading post.
I could have probably included an example like this in the video, but you've illustrated the point I was trying to make quite nicely!
@@abree107 Ah, quite right 😄I will leave my "F"-worthy math up in shame and marinate in it while crafting with materials gathered entirely by meself 🙃
@@Goblexter No shame in it. When you do that kind of math in your head or even with a calculator, but don't write it down, there's going to be something you miss like that. Even looking at that, I was like, "I know they're wrong, but I can't figure out where the mistake is" and it took about 3 minutes of staring before I finally figured it out. It happens. All hail mighty Excel.
And before you know it you becomes addicted to gold farming and becomes an Elder Dragon yourself.
ranger main sir? :) Awesome vid as always
Ranger was my OG class on launch, which I still use for open world stuff. I'd definitely say I'm a guardian main though and am hopeful that DH will see a resuscitation with the coming balance changes.
You can't buy legendary anything on the TP.
Make the Fractal Gold one pls...keep it up pls
I've been trying to get footage for that one. I'll probably end up doing that soon with the balance patch giving me the DH buffs I was looking for.
@@abree107 fellow dragonhunter enjoyer?!
@@LegeFles DH is my main class. Needless to say, I've been having an EXCELLENT time the past couple weeks since coming back to the game. CFB can rot in hell.
For me it was not very clear, sorry to say it, I see lots of people loved it. Thank you for explaining but as feedback maybe if you could take an example and do it over so it can be explained by itself kind of from A to Z. I know this comment may not be well received but it is honestly a suggestion. Thanks again!
I went straight to lump of mithrillum and realize you cannot sell those over the TP for example. And the clay pot I guess I need artificer.
Now I tried to craft the Heat Stone and I realize first I need to get the recipe from Dry Top meta events. Farming Favor of the Zephyrites to gain tiers and then buying the recipe.
Apologies. Unfortunately, if I go too in depth most people seem to not like that and very few will watch a video past 10 minutes. This video was meant to be more about the recipe searching options than it was about everything else. Perhaps you could tell me what part of the process you felt was missing from the examples/footage used?
Lumps of mithrillium can be crafted into electrum or deldrimor steel ingots, which can then be sold for a modest profit or used for further crafting.
Unfortunately, a couple of decent recipes may require unlocking. Something I probably should have included is if you're trying to craft something and can't, using the /wiki command to look the item up can be a great way to see if there's a recipe you're missing or if you're accidentally using the wrong crafting discipline (which DEFINITELY doesn't happen to me on a near daily basis). Some items are honestly profitable only because unlocking their recipe is more difficult than other items, so people avoid doing it. You kind of need to decide for yourself if it will be worth the trouble or not.
How can you have so many golg?
I struggle to get 1k.
Just want a legendary weapon but it's so expensive
If you craft it yourself, it can actually be relatively cheap.
no way vro has hundreds of thousands of liquid gold t.t i bet vro has 1 milion + in his lifetime.
157k gold?🤤🤤🤤
All I see is your 150k gold.
Swiping your credit card just invalidates this entire video... :(
Grind for weeks for get a little bit of gold. or go work for 1 hour and use that money to get the same value. So if you value your personal time, any gold making in this game makes no sense. hence this game is p2w. I RLY wish they would remove the gem -> gold conversion
Gold is largely for cosmetics and quality of life. The people who push the limits of in-game gold making can reach over 200g/hr with methods like this, which is pretty competitive for some people. You have to remember, not everyone has it well enough to swipe where they are. There's also plenty of people who enjoy playing GW2 more than working. They'd rather spend 3 hours enjoying themselves than 1 hour working somewhere they hate. It's just an option.
I dont know bro,if you say this game is p2w,ascended trinket can be buy by gathering nodes all you have to do is running around map ,ascended armor by doing strike mission,ascended weapon by achievement,i dont have much time to online either,most of the time i just choose which one i wanna do but i always prioritize dailies,go to sleep and doing ok,higher ive i ver got is 600g and i dont even know what to do with that gold and end up gambling it on ecto,now please tell us where is the part of this game that is p2w again?
bro you are rich send me 100 gold to finish my nevermore
can i have gold please for my griffon quest :) Clark.7892
Get your own gold like everyone else and stop begging :)
Shameless beggar
Wtf
Of course you can! just follow the advice given in the video and you'll get the gold
hahahahahah
@@Cp2n hahahaha
But why? They always nerf the game. They don't respect your crafting. Not worth the crafting not worth your time. They nerf everything and they don't care haw much u spending crafting. Not good to support a game that nerf everything all the time. Free to play ok. Don't spend anymore $$$. This game is nerf war2. Don't invest to much time and $$$$ in game. Not worth your time.
If you're upset that your firebrand is getting nerfed, then that has no effect on making gold with crafting. Also as a whole, the game has power crept slightly over time so it's "buff wars 2".
If you're upset by something else, then I honestly have no clue what you're on about. You don't spend money crafting, you spend gold. There's no "nerfing" an orichalcum plated dowel. It's still used in the same recipes it has always been.
In any case, if you don't enjoy playing the game, maybe consider not playing anymore and stop watching UA-cam content for it?
@@abree107 you are right 👍.
Could be a firebrand player, but firebrand is still very good so I wouldn't understand that being it... maybe an ele player? But they just got buffs, so idk
@@gagegang6421 yes I know balance is good. But why do they do this to players? Players need to know why they punished for making good build? Players spending good time in game. Players are doneting real $$$. And time. Expensive nerfing
@@darwinmabazza6314 I'm losing intelligence by reading your comments.