One of the BEST GOLD FARMS in Guild Wars 2 | Fractal 42 Farming Guide
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
- Fractal farming is one of the most consistent and profitable types of gold farming in Guild Wars 2. This video covers the advantages and disadvantages of fractal farming when compared to other gold-making options in Guild Wars 2, then goes through all of the information you'll need to do fractal 42 farming effectively. It also includes an in-depth, realistic look at the loot output for the farm. There's even an easier option for less experienced players that still profits quite well. As always, be sure to keep what you enjoy in mind. The highest gold per hour doesn't necessarily mean it's the best farm if you don't like doing it.
This video ended up being a bit longer than I’d have liked, but it would have been doing a disservice to viewers if I cut any more out of it. Hopefully, it isn’t too bad!
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VIDEO CHAPTER TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Introduction
0:30 What is Fractal Farming?
0:53 Advantages and Disadvantages
3:02 Requirements (Classes, Consumables)
4:54 Recommendations
6:45 Doing a 42 Farm Run
9:41 The Loot
11:56 Don’t Waste Boosters Here
12:24 How to Process Your Loot
13:30 The Easier Farm Variant
14:33 Still Do Your Dailies!
14:50 Conclusion
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Inspire by Benjamin Tissot
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Data sets for 42 and 18 farms were collected with the following conditions:
- Permanent account bonuses from 18-20k Achievement Points
- 300% Magic Find from luck
- Dragon’s Breath Buns and Scarlet Slaying Potions as the only active consumable boosts of any kind
- Permanent guild experience buff and experience from kills amulet enrichment (should be your defaults regardless, unless you’re playing WvW)
- Just to explicitly state, JADE BOT WAS NOT ADDED WHEN THIS DATA WAS COLLECTED, SO THE LOOT DOES NOT INCLUDE JADE BOT BAGS.
All of the experience boosts are borderline negligible, as they only affect xp from trash mobs in the farm. I couldn’t really remove the magic find for the data collection, so that’s the biggest potential difference between my drops and other player’s drops. It still doesn’t make a very big difference, based on testing I did while using magic find boosts.
Gold Valuations:
- Fractal Encryptions were valued based on the value of opening them using stabilizing matrices (generally slightly above 90% of the trading post sell price). The volume of these bought/sold on the trading post isn’t as high as a lot of other items and therefore their prices can be volatile. Therefore, valuing them based on loot from opening is more appropriate than the trading post prices. If you sell these to another player, that’s generally the price you’ll get for them. If you’re buying daily discounted fractal keys, you’ll be earning even more from your encryptions.
- Green (Masterwork) Gear was valued based on its vendor value. As they have no runes/sigils, it’s generally better to vendor them than to salvage. It also saves a lot of material handling too.
- Rare/Exotic Gear was salvaged with a Silver-Fed Salvage-o-Matic and valued based on the material output. Globs of ectoplasm were valued at 90% of the trading post sell price, as they’re one of the few items in the game that can be readily sold for that price and are used in many applications where >90% in value can be easily extracted from them. If you’d really like to value them at 85%, feel free to knock off 20-40 silver from the hourly numbers shown in this video. I value them at 90%.
- All other items, including raw materials from salvaging rare/exotic gear (mithril etc.), inscriptions/insignias from salvaging exotic gear, cores/lodestones from the end chest, tier 5-6 trophies from trash mobs, and materials from opening loot bags dropped by trash mobs etc. were valued at 85% of their trading post sell prices, as is standard.
- Once again, JADE BOT WAS NOT ADDED WHEN THIS DATA WAS COLLECTED, SO THE LOOT DOES NOT INCLUDE JADE BOT BAGS. It’s not much, but obviously the jade bot bags can add a little to your total loot. You can see me getting those bags in the video.
In case anyone was wondering, you get somewhere in the range of 40-50% more rares from 18 than you do from 42, at least with my magic find. You get less greens as well, which leads me to believe that there’s some kind of hidden magic find boosting mechanic with doing lower tier fractals. That might make for a fun research project in the future, but it also sounds like too much work for me to bother doing anything with at the moment.
man... 150k gold? i believe you, I believe you.
Dam talk about a flex lol xD. But respect thou.
162k it looks like x.x
He probably didn't get to so much gold only with fractals
@@Vizard465probably not, but it is indicative that they are aware of how to make gold and maybe what methods to recommend.
You are by far the EASIEST guide to follow. Your pacing is perfect and your visuals line up so nicely. Man it's amazing!
Clear, concise, and cohesive. Absolutely brilliant content. Thank you.
Exactly this ^
Amazing....
Great guide! I’m glad a few people have the patience to figure out all this stuff and then tell others, because I would never figure it out myself.
Very good video overall, in my opinion. Easy to follow structure, not too convoluted and also backed up with lots of data. Keep it up!
Just found this guide I'm getting back into the game after nine years off. This is a great guide and goal for me! Thanks for making this
What a well made video. This was a fantastic watch.
what brilliant content share! Thank you so much!
160k gold... absolute unit! I thought a couple hundred gold made me rich lol
Ty abree i needed this info
I don't want to come off as smug or condescending, so I'll say up front: Thanks for creating GW2 related content, Abree, it is appreciated.
Having said that, I've been playing Guild Wars 2 since the very beginning,. and I want to warn everyone that the secret to NOT burn yourself while playing is: DON'T farm gold like this for hours. Instead do the profitable dailies (see [fast] website), and you'll see gold accumulate without you having a secondary job in your life.
What is the website name to see what gold accumulation is required?
Burnout can be caused by very individual factors. A Runescape player trying out Guild Wars 2 might burn out if they DON'T find something a little grindy like this. For me personally, I'd absolutely burn out faster doing IBS strikes or octovine every day than I would doing an hour of this per day. For some players, feeling like they need to do a checklist every day feels more like a chore than farming does.
Most burnout cases I see involve people lacking a social aspect to playing the game. Either they had a guild environment that fizzled out or they refuse to join a voice chat. I'd never seen a "no mic text channel" before coming back to Guild Wars 2 and I've barely seen any outside Guild Wars 2 Discords since. As much as the game has a lot to do, it doesn't have nearly enough for most players to stick around for years on end without having a social aspect to it. Whenever I'm farming this sort of thing, it's basically 5 friends BSing around in Discord while half-autopiloting. If I had voice chat recorded, I may have included a blooper reel. My favorite part about Guild Wars 2 on launch was how social it was and I think people worried about burnout should consider taking a small leap and joining more voice chats if they're not already.
That said, this farm is 100% not for everyone. I hadn't intended to ever "start a RUclips channel", just to convert some other work I'd done about the game into video format. There's a reason I started with a daily gold-making guide and why that one has a text format in addition to a video. It's definitely going to be preferential for most players than something like this. That being said, you could also try every meta event that regularly has LFG groups for it and you'll get more gold than you need for most things in the game just off that. Gold doesn't NEED to be something you seek out unless you want to. The subset of people in that boat is much smaller than the subset of casual players, which is why this video was delayed so much.
It's called the [Fast] Farming website. They have a lot of anecdotal data on a lot of things, so you can get a rough idea on how much you can earn from certain activities.
I don't necessarily recommend all of their daily stuff (due to effort/time vs. reward), but I do have a daily gold-making video that references their site for a few different daily activities and provides links to specific pages on their site in the description. If you wouldn't consider yourself a "grind" enjoyer in games, I'd thoroughly recommend that video and my open-world farming video instead of this one.
@@abree107 what i am doing is personally going for Dailies to get 1 gold, then i do the world bosses especially by doing karka queen event and killing veteran karka's to sell karka shells. Aside from that i remember doing tequatl back in the days you would get good amount of gold but i think they changed that, also dungeons use to give a lot of gold as well but for some reason a lot of things have changed. For people such as me its very hard to keep up with farming especially when your goal is to craft or have AT LEAST 1 Legendary Weapon T_T. what i am asking is could you please make a update videos on dungeos world boss those who enjoy pve content to make Gold from those only. That would be highly appreicated.
@@waqasafzal8181 If you're able to clear dungeons really fast with little downtime, they're not terrible gold per hour, but realistically fractals are just better in every way. Just daily CMs + T4s alone is a lot of gold every day. At some point I may cover dungeon profit, because the rates you could get speedrunning aren't half bad, but the demand is a little low on something like that so it would honestly be a while. Fractals fill the spot dungeons once had, except you can just do the dailies, you're not obligated to farm them. Even though fractals are really insane for gold, strikes are also something that give okay rewards and can be done daily too.
World bosses... They're just bad, unfortunately. There's no way around saying that. Even if you have the timers up and run event to event, the gold per hour for those is going to be fairly low. Back in the day, they were alright, but still outpaced by things like Orr metas, champ trains, Silverwastes, dungeons, etc. Now, they're even more outpaced by a lot of newer map metas/farms you can do. They can be fun to do for nostalgia or for newer players that haven't done them a bunch already, but if gold is your goal, central tyria world bosses are sort of a trap. I do have a video on open-world maps that are good to farm. A lot of the best ones are in living world maps, but there's still stuff you can do in other maps. Even something like the octovine meta in Auric Basin will give better return for your time compared to world bosses.
In short, there's a lot more PvE options than just dungeons and world bosses, most of them being better options. I'd recommend exploring all of those and seeing if you enjoy any of them.
VERY cool video!
YES thanks abree!
Hi Abree I was wondering if the half discounted key at 25 silver are still worth it or not to buy daily for someone like me that does cm+t4+recs almost everyday I'm playing?
It all depends on market prices. The [Fast] Farming site has a page that shows the value of keys, valuing encryptions at buy order (it's the second table on that page, the first one values encryptions at 0). The data used to make that page was compiled by a few friends of mine using 1 million encryptions, so it's probably the most robust and trustworthy data set that will ever be on that site.
Essentially, the cheaper encryptions go, the more the keys are worth. Right now, encryptions are in a bit of a dip, so I'm guessing it will peg keys around 29-30s. That 4-5s profit is likely worth 1 relic for you, even if you're going for fractal god. In 2 months, the prices may be different, so it's a good idea to check occasionally.
It's a really good system if you're a regular fractal player, because even though your encryptions are worth less, you recoup that loss because your daily keys are worth an equal amount more.
@@abree107 thanks a lot for detailled answer and for awesome content as always, was a pleasure to do a season 4 meta train with you this weekend! See ya !
forgive me for not quite knowing what the balance was on classes at the time, but would you be able to do this with more, or at least different elite specs now that the balance is completely different?
Tbh I'm not fully familiar with all the changes. Condi is still just not good no matter what, and with power you're looking for stuff that's burstier than pChrono or Daredevil.
Wow, subbed. The amount of work you have done for this video is insane. Also without researching i found out too that fractals yields great profit. Dailies without effort can net you 10 gold in 30 - 40 minutes and i'm running pugs. I might do 42 farm when i am bored too. I have gen 3 legends to craft and 4 more heavy pieces for pvp legendary armor. Great work! 😊
Great guide. Still, I don't think the chrono+druid support duo is out of date. Druid just makes the entire experience incredibly smooth, and you can still burst decently well with chrono if you know what you're doing.
I don't think this matters anymore though, since 2 Bladesworns and a Soulbeast should make short work of this
I've heard that people like that combo on the EU side, but we don't really see it much on NA. The thing that makes it less preferable in my eyes is the lack of access to large amounts of stability from other options and it also requiring a bit more coordination in CC, rather than 1 person soloing the bar, which allows you to CC at a very consistent time. Chrono is also just limited when it comes to bursting in a few second. I've farmed with a couple of 95-100% bench pChronos back in the day when it was very meta and despite being exceptional players, they couldn't match up to some of the meta power classes for the farm. If you optimized with a chrono/druid support duo, you'd definitely still be able to do alright though, especially if you're running 2 bladesworns and a soulbeast. Bladesworn is just not okay.
ive heard people also farm 96, Aetherblade, do you have experience how that compares to the 42 farm? Given you have a person that can skip (ideally down to the add clear/bomb area). Asking because i honestly just dont enjoy doing Mai Trin lol.
Assuming that you also have epic gamers and a similar degree of optimization, 96 is a fair bit better for people without titles and slightly better with God. There's more things in 96 that can quietly lose you time than there are in 42, but even in a slightly scuffed group you'd probably be on par. 96 is something I've wanted to collect data for, but I was taking a break from the game to play Hades when I had an opportunity to. I'll get around to it eventually, but am currently busy working on a different fractal data project for someone else.
The biggest problems with 96 are the classes that can perform the skip consistently are more limited than the classes you'd be able to use in 42, and then finding groups for that is going to be harder than finding people that understand 42 farm.
Im new to the game and i play by myself, im looking for ways to farm around 60g to get the living world chapter for the Beetle mount... But all of the ones ive seen either require other purchases or good groups... I Wish there was a way to farm raw gold which didnt require anything crazy...
Low level fractals will still provide you with a decent amount of gold. You can enter the tier 1 LFG without any problems and it doesn't require a particularly experienced group to get through. Dailies and octovine meta are also both accessible options that don't require anything special. You could do silverwastes, although the gold per hour there is quite mediocre. Fractals really are the best bet in my opinion though. I would just ignore the farm shown in this video and do the daily ones if I were you.
Very clean clear video.
Brother, i'm on the run to get 800 gems to buy LW4, i really like fractals i'm currently t2, almost t3 but i need to spend gold to get more ascended gear and infuse them, it sucks being at this point, one day i will get to t4 fractals.
It's absolutely worth it!
damn near lost my shit when i saw 10k funds then scrolled up and saw 150k gold, i will believe any farming tips you give me.
He has no life. You will fall down exhausted after such farm. Will you do this? Or Just play for some fun? Fun is better. Do not turn game into your job.
@@user-xh4cv4ei1i this. No need to no life the game. Just play normally, have fun, and earn gold at the same time
Weird presumption about my personal life... 6k play hours across 10 years really isn't that much time to play one of your favorite games.
I don't do things I don't enjoy. We had a good time farming while recording this and hanging out in Discord. It was pretty chill with the skill level of the group and most people in our group can auto-pilot it. If you don't enjoy this sort of thing, you can simply choose not do it.
What build do you use for firebrand?
Healbrand. You can find it on snowcrows or discretize. Spirit bow is a great flex utility skill for extra healing. If you have access to all gear stats, halfish minstrels is ideal for this farm as it makes you the tankiest. Harriers is also fine. Celestial isn't really worth it because you'll be squishy and won't have time to do damage anyway.
I’d really like to see stats of aetherblade farm compared to mai trin. I always found aetherblade just as profitable and much more fun.
If you can reliably run T4 consistently, yes. Unfortunately, I never got a solid data set for it and don't have the time for it right now.
could u tell me why untamed is unviable?
Untamed has a lower burst than soulbeast does, is harder/less consistent to pull off than soulbeast, and doesn't have the added condi cleanse that you can get with soulbeast through bear stance. The condi cleanse can help to remove weakness that gets applied a LOT in this fractal, at no DPS loss to a soulbeast. Overall, soulbeast is just better. You CAN play pretty much anything here if youre not concerned about your pace. If you're hoping to get 20+ clears, then I'd advise being a little more picky.
Why you dont recommend playing condi DPS in fractals? are so bad?
It takes too long to stack condis for this farm. Condi is fine for CMs and T4s, even though power is better in most cases. But in this farm, you can't stack any condis until the shield goes down, so it's just going to result in drastically lower clear speeds if you play condi.
i will play my pdd when im on dps... most of the time im on top of the list with it so i dont understand why scaring ppl from classes which are used so rarely. It's boring only seeing the few same classes over and over again. This is no hate btw just my opinion.
Still a good Video and ty for the info with dragons breath buns, was looking for a cheap good bufffood :)
There's really no intention sway people to less/more popular classes, it's really just about getting the fast clears. You'll notice that DH and Holosmith are on there, despite not being very popular. Some people I was discussing DD with while making the diagram were on the fence on whether or not it should be included at all. DD is actually the reason I decided to make the bottom DPS section. It's not bad, but you do have to keep in mind that "burst" here refers to what you can do in a few seconds, not the first number on the golem. DD can't burst as high as the classes above it, even if you're an absolute pumper on DD. It can do okay, but 3 of them would definitely struggle to do clears at high pace, hence the limiting to 1 class in the bottom section. CMs and T4s are a different story and there's absolutely nothing wrong with playing pDD on everything except 100.
@@abree107 Ok, ty for this detailed explanation :) yeah in 100 cm you gotta go for Condi/Ranged dps. Is there a reason why the druid is not recommended as a alac healer? Is it the burst oriented healings instead of consistent healing?
@@LegastheNick Druid provides less in the way of Stability and Aegis, both of which get really high value in fractals in general. You basically get the same stuff and more from Heal Alac Mechanist (including barrier). You probably COULD run something like druid or tempest instead, but it's just going to be more rough, particularly in that first room.
@@abree107 ok ty again ^^
Make a Guide for 96 farm pls!!!!
Thank you!
Might be a tough ask, my fractal crew is a bit defunct at this point. Not impossible, but would potentially be a while.
I would love to try these but I cannot get any groups at all for fractals or even strike missions
If you gear a meta build, you shouldn't have too difficult a time getting into groups through LFG. The easy 3 icebrood saga strikes and tier 1 fractals are great places to start. Lots of guilds help people learn too.
@@abree107 thanks sir. Appreciate it
Wait.. do you have 150k gold??
omg you got so much gold, wth dude
does this still work in 2023 july?
Absolutely. The only thing that has the power to ever kill this farm is a major rehaul of fractal rewards, which I doubt ArenaNet would ever do. Carry on!
@@abree107 thanks very much! my bro showed me gw2 2 months ago i love the game
If only I liked group content at this stage in my gaming life. After 12+ years of hardcore wow (and 10 years of very casual GW2 playing) the very thought of organized content makes me shudder.
It's not for everyone. There's still plenty of other good options available!
4:30
150k gold with 10k in the inbox. Damn... I already feel rich AF when I hit 1k :D
The truth is that many players have many accounts and take their Login Rewards. One RUclipsr said he had 40 accounts. Doing Dailys on all of them takes time but thats alot of Gold.
@@NecroViolator While Alt loggers are real the money is not that good from them looking at timeframe required.
@@zanar5414 Probably not, but that person hade everything maxed 59 characters with all 32 slot bags and massive amount of Gold. He said he bought the DLC when it was on sale. And has everything ingame and showed his stuff. Crazy...
The Devs should wake up and let us "normal" player make gold just from the open world. Instead of some stupid Black Lion trading. Want to play a game not a merchant sim !!
This is why I already Pre Ordered Diablo 4. You can get everything instead of having all the most important behind a Paywall.
Infinite Farming tool = Blue Gems
Skins = Blue Gems
Inventory Slots = Blue Gems
Bank upgrade = Blue Gems
Stash amount = Blue Gems
Everything is behind a paywall. Ludicrous !!
@@NecroViolator you can turn gold into gems, so it's not behind a paywall.
@@Velakor9150 The problem is you the player have to get Gold. Someone has to either "buy" your stuff from BLT, or you do Mists/Fractals until you puke.. I was saying for example making Gold in the Open World, like any map so it is possible to get Gold so you can get those Blue Gems. Over 140 Gold now just for 800 Blue Gems.
Hell maybe Im just playing totally wrong but if someone does a video with over 100.000 in Gold then God damn someone has many accounts or not stating the truth. NOT accusing anyone !.
I keep struggling to get even 50 Gold and I have been playing since day one. !!
If anyone wants a POV of bladesworn (one of the, if not, THE best dps class for this farm), heres a video of one of our runs.
ruclips.net/video/n2ovMj5_dMI/видео.html
Clean your inventory, idiot.
@@abree107 😢
Wtf man, geez - hours and hours in WvW for a handful of gold... SMH FML.
Time to make friends and explore something new...
150k gold is something
the guy just had 10k gold sittinng on TP
HUY HUY HUY !!!
96 > 42 no? in a good party
In a good pre-made party, largely yes. The difference shrinks as you get titles. 18/42 are much easier to find people/groups for, which is why I focused on them for this guide. At least on NA, the only people that do 96 are a couple of very closed farming groups. The only reason I know they exist at all is because I've bought encryptions from some of them in the past. More people are aware of 18/42 and you don't NEED a specific class to do skips efficiently, so it's a bit more accessible on that front. I may put out a 96 guide in the future though.
you are going to end up like Ankka when you expose yourself to fractals for too long.
Unusually large for being a small rat?
@@abree107 max height asura gameplay, but i meant more like she lost her mind traversing the mists in the lore, there was some somewhat hidden dialog in it in eod. You rerunning the same fractal endlessly, mirrors the way she did with the aetherblade guys.
@@Maebbie We lost our shit when they canonized 42 farming for resources.
o god, no life have 150k gold^^
Considering that my average playtime over the past 3 years has been 1-1.5 hours a day, I'm not sure how you figure that.
@@abree107ayo show me the sauce, this is guildmm level of gold jesus lol.
@steven8098 MM has around 7-8x my wealth last I knew haha. All the info I used is in my videos.
@abree107 welp time to watch, I am in the otc discord but the spreadsheets hurt my head sometimes man haha.
Just so people wont say its too hard etc..
I took me about a month of casual gameplay to achive 0 to 100 agony ressistance when i had no ascended items atall.
Also you donr need that much AR, competant groups or healers can carry you easily into t2 fractals with as little as 10 agony ressistance
The point that I will make is that this is a guide for farming, not just for tier 2 dailies. I would not advise anyone to farm like this without already having characters fully geared and knowing what they're doing.
@@abree107”Fully geared” here just meaning full appropriate ascended and the agony resistance cap for level 42? (47-49 agony resistance)
@@piedpiper1172 Yes, that's the minimum requirement. That said, if you wouldn't be comfortable doing T4s, you should stick to 18 and not do 42. You do need to be a pretty solid player to farm this efficiently.
@@abree107 Yep! Gotta be able to not only pull weight on burst dps or role but actually move through the fractal in a way that doesn’t slow the group.
I grok ya. Just wanted to be sure I understood the gear check. Ty for such a prompt reply on a several month old video!
Having a real life job is >200 gold an hour. If you're just doing it for the grind, getting a job will not only let you do so more efficiently in GW2, it will also help you move ahead in life.
To each their own. There's plenty of people that enjoy grinds.
@@abree107 Why not do the more profitable real-life grind then?
@AulisVaara Because my job is salaried and spending more time on your job/career is rarely compensated 1:1 unless you're doing hourly work with no schedule cap or sales. Then you have to consider that most people aren't 100% happy with their job. A grind in a game you enjoy vs. a grind that likely exacts a mental and physical toll on you is a pretty clear difference.
All of that said, for my case personally, I'm already "grinding" by most people's standards. A full time job, a couple small side hustles, a churning hobby, and actually understanding the financial products/accounts that have massive effects on my life. My discretionary spending is limited to a spotify subscription, a gw2 expansion here and there, and hades 2 when it comes out. Am I supposed to get another job and spend my whole waking life working for extra money I don't have time to spend? Because I'd rather be playing games or spending time with my boyfriend.
@@abree107 "Am I supposed to get another job and spend my whole waking life working for extra money I don't have time to spend?"
Well no. The point is that by working for real money and converting that, you can actually get whatever you want or need in the game for less effort thus leaving you more time to spend how you want in the game or outside of it.
@@AulisVaara The game isn't a chore to be ticked off a chore list. I enjoy playing it. Playing GW2 isn't work. Not even at its most intensive.
Nerf incoming.
People said that in 2014. It never happened. There's also other farms that I didn't show for sake of time or lack of popularity.
ArenaNet Devs occasionally join instances to make sure people aren't botting or using other ToS incompliant methods. They're very much aware of this farm and have left it largely untouched.
@@abree107 and they basically made it part of the lore in EoD. 🤣
Nah... it's rare to get a competent group that knows how to port and the mechanics and all that. It's also quite high intensity compared to almost anything. It's a lot of mental effort for the gold and it drains ppl.
This is quite ridicolous to be honest...playing the same content over and over should be greatly discouraged, as speed running in general.
Diminishing returns is the key here: to make fractals healthy again you should get less and less rewards for completing the same fractal level in a day, until you get 0.
Speedrunning trivialize content and make it appear ridicolous on RUclips for new/external players, split the community between pro, semipro and starters much more than what it normally would be and keep players away form other remunerative contents.
In a game like GW2, having a reeson for saying "this is a much better farm than others" is a problem.
Nobody in the general playerbase is going to stop playing other content to farm fractals. There's plenty of other options that are viable to make gold with and people that like those more will choose them. People still do octovine and tequatl every day, even though octovine is mediocre for rewards at best and tequatl is just bad for them. The actual gold per hour is not the only thing that matters.
I simply don't agree with the notion that people should be discouraged from playing the game the way they like, just because someone else doesn't like to play it that way. I believe in giving people options and letting them decide what they think is best for them to pursue. If someone wants a higher intensity, repeatable farm with a competitive gold output, this one serves that purpose. A lot of players don't, hence why the "disadvantages" list I showed was bigger than the "advantages" and why I made sure to say that it's not for everyone. I'm the first person that will tell you to make gold the way you like.
Just git gud
Dude your comment is reaching why gate keep content like this,lmao theres always "this method is better than this" in any game especially making gold in every mmo,gw2 is not exceptions, its up to player whether they like it or not,i am new player my self but i would rather doing fractal farm than any open world meta ,since open world meta give jack shit unless you hit jackpot on drops,you can blame anet on that not the content creator
or get a job, go to work. boom 1 day you can convert and get 4000gold.
1. Not everyone works in a country/area that provides that kind of income.
2. Some people don't have any disposable income to spend (especially GW2, which attracts a lot of people that want to forego games with subscriptions).
3. Some people would rather play a game for several hours than work a job they hate for one hour to get the corresponding amount of gold. If you enjoy the game and like playing the content, may as well do it and enjoy the process for free.
Everyone's situation and priorities are going to be different. If you love your job and don't mind spending the extra money, go right ahead.