I see a lot of guides popping up which suggest that Rift Hunting is a good method of making gold in the game, but I completely fail to understand this. IMHO it’s terribly boring and does not even have a good gold/hour ratio.
My undesrtanding is that the main reason for doing Rifts is to get those Essences which you will need for the new Legendary PVE Armor, i. e. you do the weekly Rifts and that’s it. But maybe I’m not quite getting it.
Here are some gold making alternatives with varying levels of required skill/engagement.
- Fishing
- sell Chunk of Ancient Ambergris
- craft and sell Zephyrite Fish Jerky
- Daily Fractals
- Daily Strikes
- Weekly Raids
- sPvP (Automated Tournaments)
ErisShrugged@beehaw.org 11 months ago
Your analysis stops before you consider how one might actually make money from rifts, specifically by using the essence you loot to make motivations and selling said motivations on the market. Just poking at it casually yielded ~160 gold from motivation sales for me recently, some of which was of course eaten by the other materials needed for motivations. It’s worth noting that besides activities mandated by the story, I used zero motivations myself - there are plenty of people tagged up and doing them, and you want t1 and t2 rifts for this purpose more than t3 anyway. I wasn’t very seriously trying to make gold with this, just running around with friends who wanted to do rifts for their own reasons or collecting xp to fill in mastery tracks.
Deciding whether this is a good way to make gold relative to other options would require significant work, but that’s where you want to go if you want an answer.
necropola@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Not quite, and of course I looked up the crafting prices and possible profits on GW2Efficiency as well as the price trend on GW2TP.
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Your strategy seems to require other people to buy or craft Uncommon Kryptis Motivations, so you can do Tier 2 Rifts for Essences of Greed (green) which you use to craft and sell Rare Kryptis Motivations for Tier 3 rifts which you are not interested in yourself. I can see how this system is destined to collapse.
ErisShrugged@beehaw.org 11 months ago
I think demand for legendary armor is high and sustainable enough that the situation may continue pretty much indefinitely. The grind required is huge, and a lot of people are undertaking it with great enthusiasm, and looking at the examples provided by other legendary equipment supports the claim that interest will hang on more or less indefinitely. I’m still constantly running into people who want to do raids to work on that armor or Coalescence, fractals for Ad Infinitum, etc, and those projects have been available for years.
Note that I’m using the word ‘may’ here because all this is wild speculation about what players will do en masse; it’s not a hill I’m going to die on.