official Guild Wars 2

[Nagisan]

can join or create any number of guilds,

create guild, represent till 500, purchase arcatecture, guild Stash, Vault

cost is 1 silver and its easy as sin to get guild rep

Not sure I understand, how exactly does that earn you more money?

[Slane]

Not sure I understand, how exactly does that earn you more money?

I believe he's referring to getting more storage space, not money making.

[trag3dy]

Anyone know any better methods?

Two ways. Farming Orichalcum ore, and farming potent bloods and upgrading them to powerful bloods. The minotaurs in southeast frostgorge sound are a good place for blood farming. And Orichalcum is a little harder to get so it can hardly be considered efficient to farm them. However, you can also upgrade Mithril ore to orichalcum. So if you farm mithril and get the orichalcum as you as find them..

Powerful bloods go for about 17- 20s per 1 while orichalcum go for about 3s per 1.

can join or create any number of guilds,

create guild, represent till 500, purchase arcatecture, guild Stash, Vault

cost is 1 silver and its easy as sin to get guild rep

It requires something like 2500 influence to get the guild bank. You have to get architecture 1 and 2, first. Yes, you can do that, but I would not consider that an efficient way to gain extra storage space, at the very least.

[dead.cell]

In my opinion, no, it's not. But it's MY opinion.

Judging by this post you made about GW2: "Launches and the forums are filling up with more "I want a refund" threads than you can shake a stick at!. Moving on...I wonder what the next WoW killer is going to be like, so we can go ahead and hype it up too."

Something tells me you never even played the game, and are only looking at it from an outsider's perspective. Maybe I'm wrong in thinking this, but I personally believe your opinion to be based on zero experience and thus, completely full of crap. ;)

[Blackhearted]

So how long are they going to ignore the plethora of broken events that there are just about everywhere? it's been near 2 days like this now.

[Nagisan]

Two ways. Farming Orichalcum ore, and farming potent bloods and upgrading them to powerful bloods. The minotaurs in southeast frostgorge sound are a good place for blood farming. And Orichalcum is a little harder to get so it can hardly be considered efficient to farm them. However, you can also upgrade Mithril ore to orichalcum. So if you farm mithril and get the orichalcum as you as find them..

Powerful bloods go for about 17- 20s per 1 while orichalcum go for about 3s per 1.

Those both seem like very inefficient ways at making money.......the potent to powerful blood would go something like this:

50 Potent Blood

1 Powerful Blood

5 Pile of Crystalline Dust

5 Philosopher's Stones (bought 10 at a time for 1 skill point)

Considering 50 Potent Blood is worth 76s 50c (at current price to sell instantly, more if you put your own price in or are buying it instantly). The recipe only gives you 5-10 Powerful Bloods (14s 81c to buy instantly right now, 14s 74c is highest order) at best get 9 (you need 1 to do it again) which gives you 132s 66c, but at worst you get 4 which gives you 58s 96c....and that's excluding the dust which adds 7s 45c to the crafting price bringing the cost to make 5-10 (4-9 to sell since you need to keep one) Powerful Blood up to 83s 95c. Assuming equal chances to get 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 blood to sell, average sale will be 95s 81c each time you do it, subtracting cost you end up with 11s 86c profit. Not a bad profit, but it just seems really inefficient since it relies on luck. To not lose money, you have to get 7 blood (6 to sell) on at least half of your attempts. Each craft has a 50/50 chance of earning you money, but it just doesn't sound worth it.....I tend to have bad luck with number generators, I would lose all my gold before I got over the average amount of bloods from it.

Ore is even worse, you need 250 of the ore you want to upgrade, and you only get 10-50 of the upgraded ore. With the fine crafting mats, you have a chance to get 10-20% of the input as the upgraded material (5 / 50 and 10 / 50), with the ore you can get as low as 4-20% of the input as the upgraded material....you can get just as much percentage wise, but you can also get less than half the percentage of upgraded ore as you can upgraded crafting materials.

A quick try on Mithril or Orichalcum ore, I got 11 to sell, profits: -36s 29c......second try, again 11 to sell, profits: -33s 20c

Yeah.....not gonna do that ever again unless they make the recipe more useful, two quick attempts and I ended up losing 69s 49c in the name of science......I'm sad now....

[trag3dy]

I've converted bloods 3 times. I got 12, 8, and 12. Of course I did that because I needed to use them but it's good to know it's not worth the time as far as making money goes.

Though, I've made most of my gold running dungeons. I've been told by various people that combining rares to get exotics to sell can make a lot of money, too.

[Got3n]

how do you combine rares to make exotics? Crafting in this game is so crazy i cant even keep up :-/

[MikeFu84]

how do you combine rares to make exotics? Crafting in this game is so crazy i cant even keep up :-/

I haven't tried but I think you would require 4 random or preplanned rares to combine at the Mystic Forge. If I had more bag/bank space I would hoard up rares to experiment with.

[Got3n]

i got 4 bank tabs but have been selling my rares...so i asuume they have to be the same type, like 4 rare helms or 4 rare daggers?

[MikeFu84]

i got 4 bank tabs but have been selling my rares...so i asuume they have to be the same type, like 4 rare helms or 4 rare daggers?

I don't think so. I've seen screen shots of random combinations. I haven't seen if anyone has a theory on what combo's make what yet though.

[+ir0nw0lf Subscriber²]

I was under the impression that 4 like items (ie. all daggers) results in the same item kind back. 4 items in the same class (ie. dagger+sword+mace+hammer) would result in a random weapon back and 4 items in different classes would result in a random class item back. I could be totally wrong though, it's all highly random/confusing to me.

[McCordRm]

No, that's right.

As long as the items are the same type (Armor, weapon, etc) you get that back. Also, for armor, if you

put in all Chest pieces, then you get a Chest piece back.

[MikeFu84]

Ya I haven't read into it too much or tried it myself so I wasn't sure. Good information to know though

[trag3dy]

i got 4 bank tabs but have been selling my rares...so i asuume they have to be the same type, like 4 rare helms or 4 rare daggers?

Any kind of rare level 74 or above will give you a random result, works for both armor and weapons. But if you have 4 of the same, like a dagger, you will get a dagger. I'm not certain but I don't think you'll always get an exotic. And very rarely will you get the weapon that is used in making legendaries.

[Got3n]

hmmm gonna have to find some more exotics then

[Slane]

Condition Damage. If my bleeds to 50 damge. And I have 25 stacks, does that mean it's 50x25= 1250 damage per second? Since each bleed is doing damage every second. Is that how it works?

[+ir0nw0lf Subscriber²]

I found a nice Greatsword last night around level 30-35 that has Bloodlust on it, I think that was what it was called. I "cheated" and mowed my way through a bunch of wimp stuff in the zone to get 25 stacks up. Then went up against some Champion Giant that promptly took those stacks from me. My life as well. :pinch:

[Hell-In-A-Handbasket]

as far as the mystic forge, you can put 4 of the same quality item in and get a " chance " for an upgrade quality wise, i put 4 mighty long bows (lvl 11) blue in from craft, and got a lvl 58 caer longbow blue quality out.

the stats are sometimes random

i have also put 4 random armor's and weapons and got random out. if you want specific things there is a list of currently know mystic forge recipes

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Forge/Research

I found a nice Greatsword last night around level 30-35 that has Bloodlust on it, I think that was what it was called. I "cheated" and mowed my way through a bunch of wimp stuff in the zone to get 25 stacks up. Then went up against some Champion Giant that promptly took those stacks from me. My life as well. :pinch:

i got that relic in all of my weapons, its awsome

[LittleNeutrino Veteran]

I have received 4 emails today saying someone in China is trying to sign into my account. Since release I have changed my email 3 times and have to change my password at least once a week. This has to be the worst i have ever seen in a video game. I hope they come out with a two step authentication method (the security on my computer is not in question. please do not suggest virus scans or whatnot)

Here is the info

A log-in attempt from the following location is currently awaiting your authorization.

Address: 111.162.123.116

City: Tianjin

Region: 28

Country: CN

[Argi]

I have received 4 emails today saying someone in China is trying to sign into my account. Since release I have changed my email 3 times and have to change my password at least once a week. This has to be the worst i have ever seen in a video game. I hope they come out with a two step authentication method (the security on my computer is not in question. please do not suggest virus scans or whatnot)

Here is the info

Do you only get those emails when the username and password they're using is valid? If so, are you not concerned?

[Hell-In-A-Handbasket]

I have received 4 emails today saying someone in China is trying to sign into my account. Since release I have changed my email 3 times and have to change my password at least once a week. This has to be the worst i have ever seen in a video game. I hope they come out with a two step authentication method (the security on my computer is not in question. please do not suggest virus scans or whatnot)

Here is the info

if they keep getting the password and email every time, the security of the computer is the only option left

why is it not in question ? you running a Live CD of linux or something

[Blackhearted]

I have received 4 emails today saying someone in China is trying to sign into my account. Since release I have changed my email 3 times and have to change my password at least once a week. This has to be the worst i have ever seen in a video game. I hope they come out with a two step authentication method (the security on my computer is not in question. please do not suggest virus scans or whatnot)

Here is the info

Really? If your computer really isn't bugged(which i DO question), then maybe you should try out making decent passwords. It's not the games fault that you apparently can't come up with a decent one(or reuse the same password from something else) if it's happening this much.

[LittleNeutrino Veteran]

The reason is they do not have the password, they are just trying to sign in also i know my computer is clean because i do not do anything stupid and i run a VERY clean computer, i reformat frequently (most recently just 2 weeks ago) I dont look at porn, i dont look for pirated media, I run all sorts of protection while on the web. Its not an issue because i am paranoid about it and keep it clean.

[Beyond Godlike]

The reason is they do not have the password, they are just trying to sign in also i know my computer is clean because i do not do anything stupid and i run a VERY clean computer, i reformat frequently (most recently just 2 weeks ago) I dont look at porn, i dont look for pirated media, I run all sorts of protection while on the web. Its not an issue because i am paranoid about it and keep it clean.

Ive gotten so paranoid that i surf the web in a VM using Unity. With how fast PC's are you dont even feel a speed difference anyways. But since i NEED java, and every version is vul..well..