This is a list of useful tips for those people asking the ever-so-popular question: "How Do I Make Money In Guild Wars?"
As a general rule of thumb, don't buy anything you don't need. Just playing through the campaigns makes enough money to ...play through the campaigns!
- Pick up and sell everything.
- Identify all items (including whites with a value of at least 50g) before selling.
- Use collectors for weapons and armor as much as possible - no need for expensive armors/weapons.
- Farm popular common materials and sell in bulk.
- Trade all quest reward trophies for Superior Salvage Kits (not including Trade Contracts - save these for gems.)
- Don't buy skills that can be gained from quest rewards or Hero Skill Trainers.
- Always have plenty of inventory space before a long trip - or carry a mercantile summoning stone.
- Don't buy keys or lockpicks until you're ready for title hunting.
- Know the value of stuff - don't merchant something that may be worth $$.
- Check with the various traders before selling stuff to the merchant.
- Sell unidentified "worthless" golds to players working on their wisdom title.
- Farm Nicholas the Traveller collectibles.
- Sell Gifts of the Traveller rather than hoping for that one-in-a-million result.
- Browse the Guru farming builds section.
- Play through the game doing primary and secondary quests: Don't skip ahead and don't buy runs.
- Don't dabble in trading until you've really learnt the value of things.
- Learn which rewards are worth more than their necessary trophy collectibles.
- Play to your strengths - if you're good at (for example) vanquishing, sell your services.
- If you haven't claimed it already, there's a one-off reward of 50 TRP from High Priest Zhang in the Great Temple of Balthazar.
As a general rule of thumb, don't buy anything you don't need. Just playing through the campaigns makes enough money to ...play through the campaigns!
