Ways to Make Profit?

Erigore

Well i am thinking about playing this game cause im not hardcore anymore ( with classes starting back up its time to say goodbye to eve    stupid dual enrollment....

Anyway i was thinking about guild wars but is the pvp profitable? can you loot or collect money after pvp fights with other people?  i mean i dont think you can in GvG but...

Also how do you make money get better items and skills ect. ect.

And if ur just gonna flame gw dont bother posting

Bent

The closest thing you get from PvP that is worth something is faction... which you can spend to by skills and upgrades... However, these can also be obtained from the normal RPG part of the game. You also get Experience for PvP but at lvl 20 it doesn't add up to much.

Certain PvP will also give you fame... which is worth pretty much nothing.

So, in an attempt to anwser the question I think you were getting at....
There is no "real" reason to PvP other then for the simple enjoyment of it. As it is typically faster to progress you char through the RPG part of the game.

Guild Wars is about thinking of a build, hunting the items and skills to pull if off... then going to PvP with it.

Cr7pt0r

I disagree with the "Elite Member" that replyed to you. There's alot of excelent reason to only PVP in GuildWars. If you dont PvP mostly you wont get all the things unlock in game for you. Fame means alot ing GW, means you're a powerfull player, so alot of players will fear you. There're dozens of ways to PvP in GW and all of em give excelent amusement ! Now to answer your question, you cant loot players, because the existent PvP in GW is prepared to give you different rewards (like stated before). Maybe in the Second Chapter they put the ability to loot players corpse. But the way things are now no one can wear use your armor cus its customized only for you. Only fits your body and that makes sense for me ! Good luck

Bent

He asked if the PvP was profitable... The means, that if you PvP you Char becomes worth more. Well it does, but PvE is more profitable. Would you rather have a persons account that PvPed for 300hours or did the PvE game for 300 hours?

It's easier just to save some gold to buy the equipment/runes you want... Or start a new char and get them rushed to the area with skills you want to buy...

He played Eve... where PvP means you risk big, but can win big.

Since IWAY came to tombs fame means nothing as anyone could hit a reasonable rank in a weekend.

Faction is nice... mostly because it lets you unlock upgrades... But how many upgrades do you need? I find myself using the same ones 90% of the time. Skills are unlocked more efficantly in PvE... save your points and get rushed to buy what you want.

People wouldn't endlessly complain about "having" to grind PvE... if PvP was equally profitable.
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One of the problems compared to Eve is there is no constant money sinks or such... Once you get everything you want... you will Always have everything you want. At which point profit becomes meaningless.
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I think the PvP is enjoyable enough... before faction I found it enjoyable... with faction it's just better because now I don't "lose" much progress by PvPing instead of PvEing.  If I was going to try to make my account stronger I would PvE... But I love being able to PvP and buy a skill or upgrade now and again... Sucks that faction is capped at 10k though...

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And most people don't pay "elite members" any more head then anyone else... All it means is I log once a day for 2weeks... and post once every few days.

8hammer8

As said before there is no looting in PvP right now, and I think that is something that will not be placed into the game. If it was, that would drive an even bigger wedge into the gap between those who PvP and those who spend more time PvEing. People on both sides already cry foul over every little skill tweak, I think looting would make the game implode.

I myself PvE about 75% of the time, during that time I have garnered many of the weapons I enjoy, many upgrades, so on and so forth. I take my PvE players into the different arenas and GvG. How upset do you think a PvEer would be who spent 100's of hours getting their items be if a PvP player who just made their character 3 minuntes ago and received all of their max stuff free, looted them? I know I would be pissed, probably mostly at myself for losing in the first place, but also because a lot of clever trading and farming.............down the drain.

Also on the lower end arena's (Ascalon and Yaks) peoples PvP experience is already being trashed by idiots who get rushed through the game to get high end armor and weapons. Then they come back to those lower end arenas and begin their runs. They must feel like "The Man" as they win their 30th match in a row against people who have no chance of being thier equal. Having the ability to take from what little these early players already have (or dont for that matter) would slowly start killing upper lvl PvP....less and less new blood being brought in. And you can not tell me they would not take the opportunity to loot from someone else because they already showed a blatant disregard for others just by fighting there in the first place.

Anyways.....I enjoy PvP, I like how the system is set up at the moment. Even though there are things that can be done to make the game more interesting, looting people in PvP should not be one of them.

Play your favorite game and remember.... its only a game.

Erigore

man that stinks... they should at least have a pvp area where you can die and lose some items or whoever kills you should at least get some gold or something....  thats a pretty big turn off for me....  im so used to be able to "get rich or die trying" pvp....  

Well off to BF2 i go!

 

P.S.  GW would probably sell better if you could get some good stuff out of pvp.  i will buy gw when the expansion comes out if i can get some higher lvls or higher armour and weapons instead of everyone being the same... its kinda like TPS (third person shotter)  medieval style...

_Shadowmage

Well unfortunately for you the game is designed to be balanced with everyone starting equal so that winning in PvP is based on skill not having a higher level character or better equipment than other people.

That said you can play in the pvp arenas in the PvE game and they have a lvl range (eg 10-15) and equipment doesnt have level requirements so you can rush through the game, get good equipment then come back and compete in the PvP arenas and have better skills / equipment than others.