Can you really be THAT rich?

I was filthy rich in diablo2 LOD, with over 12 accounts (8 characters each) completely filled with high runes (muted dupes that I traded for to make legit, 98% of all highrunes are dupes btw.) I had atleast one of every single high end unique item in the game with max stats and over 100 accounts of mules (8 characters each) filled with trade items like Enigma, Coh, Coa, Infinity, Phoenix and many more very high end items.

Thats was after 6 years of playing on and off. I ran so many mf runs I could watch tv while I did them and never use a potion.
The amount of effort to stay rich wore me out, I still play d2lod, but I have no desire to be rich.

After all that its made me decide one very important thing. I do not want to be rich on guildwars because I do not want to spent my entire gw career becoming rich. I'd rather play the game with satisfactory gear which IMO is the best of both worlds.

I also don't think I will ever try to become rich on any other game, It turns the game into something else. I only want to have a good enough income to buy what I need to enjoy the game, I do not need excess. I have no E-peen at all. Impressing people does not bring me enjoyment.

Here's what 'rich' means to me...

Today I blew 50k plus materials on Monument armour for my Mesmer. This is an extravagent luxury purchase for me - that 50k probably represents 10% of everything I have of worth in the game

I've never seen an ecto drop in my 3 years of playing, never farmed worth a damn, never tried DoA (and since I have too many functioning brain cells to go Ursan it doesn't look like I ever will) and the two 100k+XXe items I have I'm too attached to to sell, so I guess I have to resign myself to being poor(ish).

Just as well the game's so darned fun :P

there you explained it yourself OP.

*oops didnt see dallcingi already said the same thing earlier lol tldr*

i do believe tyrian versions of these items are still worth alot

yeah alot of players who could be extremely rich dont care about it so much. for example, there are still several r7's, tyrian 15>50 crystallines, and unconditionals out there. those owners could undoubetably unload each for several stacks of ectos. however, most of the ppl i know who have those weapons choose to customize them. why? they dont care about how many ectos they have. they play the game to play, and a bonus 20% dmg is pretty useful imo.

It is possible for anybody to get rich. Especially with the uber UW-farming builds that are out now. You just need to dedicate the time to it. (I'd prefer having a life, personally.) Nobody (except other dupers) can ever hope to compete with the armbrace hoarders.

Thing is that how rich you are doesn't matter anyway. Next year at this time nobody will care that your GW1 storage is filled with stacks of ectos, as they will all be busy trying to get rich in GW2.

You guys are forgetting Akhilleus, he used to be the shit.

getting rich is easy, spread 12 hours aday farming i can get anywhere from 120e of 140e if iwanted too but i just do about 5 solo runs for 40e a day.i like to do othjer things besides solo farm with soloing being boring and all.
in the last 4weeks i have gotton 4 stacks of ecto. and im not a serious player fo rmoney i have it spent in matter of hours

so solo farming is boring but you solofarm 40e a day....

duuuuuuppppppeeeerrrrsssss

Call me stupid, but how can you even put 4k ectos in a trade? In d2lod there was (is) something called faith concerning trades with >40 gems/runes, but I doubt that someone will sell a panda for 1750e and expect the other player to drop the rest on the ground. And armbraces go for, what, 30 ectos? You buy 80 armbraces for that?

There is your winning answer.

Ppl just WTB moar gold/ectos from gold sellers. thats probably how most of the "rich" ppl that are on GW get their ectos and cash.

Don't be stupid.

#1 To buy the amount of cash I had, you'd need to be seriously rich in real life.

#2 Money is easy to make in GW.

#3 Most of the high end scrubs bid with cash they don't have.

#4 The game has been out 3years+ now. Anyone with half a brain should have made at least a million by now.

I can go on, but you're to closed minded to be worth the hassle.

^This, ive always wondered the same.

play moar DupeWars

1. It isn't a secret tha many people duped ecto's. Anet even admitted there was a duping glich.

2. It isn't "unreal" to assume that for every 50-100 dupers banned, 1 got through the nets.

3. It is unreal to assume that powertrading can net you so much money. Sure, you can be at the right place/right spot once, but how often can that happen? Buying/Selling Ecto's always works, and I'm pretty sure you can make alot of money with it, but NO, no the ammounts were talking about here...

4. It is NOT easy to cash in GW. This is rather strange comming from someone as "experienced" as yourself in power-trading. Power-Trading (Which is the only alternative besides duping/botting/...) relies on the fact there is few people controlling trades for the masses. It's like Walmart and these other Hyper-Stores. Most of there products arn't theirs, but they can simple buy them in masses (relativly cheap), and sell them in smaller ammounts to the "little" people...
The more people you have power-trading, the lesser profit they will individually make, and the larger the factor of "Luck" (Right place, right time) will get.

5. It's all personal opinion. We could give scientific proof "God" doesn't exist, and some Christians would still say it's fake...
So there is NO point in flaming someone for something what he believes is "real". I myself believe most rich people duped ecto's in the past, and simply were the few lucky fish that got past the nets of Anet. I also believe there is/was some favoratism in the past by certain devs.

6. I won't, however, start flaming someone for having opinions different then mine (Unless he's being agressive). I will merely try and "proove" him wrong (If I know I'm right and he isn't), just like he will try and proove me wrong.

7. We can't proof anyone duped, you (General for all the super-rich people) can't proof you didn't dupe... Empty discussion.

If you are up to date on market value (mini's being the easiest), and got patience to sell your items, you can go from 1k (made off the starter quests) to 100k's-millions in mere days/weeks.
From time to time it takes luck and being at the right time at the right place, but it isn't all that hard.

Shame I don't have any patience :P

hmmmm...

I've made friends in GW that PM me just to chat even if they have moved to other guilds and alliances just to see how i'm doing.

If i ask for help in AC there's always a couple of ppl answering and willing to help

Whenever i can i always help allies/friends/guildies in the best way i can.

Now, for all this i consider myself rich.


Those ppl you re talking about are wealthy, and having a Gazillion armbrace has nothing to do with being rich.

Friendship, fun in missions, in ally/guild chat, helping a new player with the basic of the game; none of this can be bought with armbrace but the are the most valuable things you can have in this game.

I agree - its amazingly easy to get all the money you need in this game. I set a goal two weeks ago to max out my storage chest gold. In 10 days (just a couple hours each day) I make over 850k and maxed storage. Just think of what you could make given the length of time this game has been out and all the different ways of making money (legitimate ways).

Did you seriously just subject Riverside to some Chicken Soup for the Hopeless Loser soul?

Let me be more direct if you will. Lots of players dont care shit about armbraces and i'm one of them.

Seriously are you giving some real value to some pixels???