8 Powerful Daily Habits To Maximize Gold Income

Key Takeaways

• Orichalcum, flax, and astral acclaim farming for easy daily gold
• Mawdrery ascended crafting daily gathering for a big bi-monthly gold payoff
• Octovine Assault meta event for a quick gold boost

With so many amazing skins, Living World seasons, novelties, useful gizmos, legendary weapons, and gem store items built up over Guild Wars 2‘s decade-plus life, finding the gold to pay for it all can seem daunting, especially for those who wish to buy their rewards in-game rather than using their credit card, and more so for players who only have a short amount of playtime allowed in their schedules.

Thankfully, there are a number of activities available in-game that can be completed quickly and easily and are sure to build up any gold supply over time. Simply playing the game (and paying extra time engaging with the more lucrative content) is the best way to accumulate wealth in Guild Wars 2, but these targeted strategies are some of the most time-efficient ways to maximize gold income.

8 Orichalcum Farming – Daily

A Goldmine For Masters of Mounted Movement

• Estimated Completion Time: 10-15 minutes per character (with practice)
• Gold Output: ~2.2 gold per run

Orichalcum ore has somewhat lost its profit prestige over the years, but it is still a valuable resource, as it is a common ingredient in exotic-level items and above, selling at two silver apiece and above. While it can be sold directly on the trading post, it has plenty more value in daily crafting recipes. There are guaranteed rich orichalcum veins scattered all across “Path of Fire”‘s Crystal Desert region.

One way to collect a harvest of the ore is to plant characters near the vein; another is to master mounted traversal and memorize waypoint teleportation for farming runs. These runs can be done across multiple characters. At their most proficient, players can expect to collect one hundred in around ten minutes, depending on the player’s proficiency.

7 Mawdrery Ascended Components Crafting – Daily & Weekly+

Crafting A Happy Little Lamp And Other Items For Mysterious Mordemite

• Estimated Completion Time: Under five minutes (but requires charged quartz crystals, a time-gated material
• Gold Output: ~15 gold (every ten days or so)

Using 25 watchwork sprockets, which can be gathered daily from the home instance or obtained as bonus material from the watchknight’s mining pick, ten orichalcum settings, 25 sunstone lumps (which go for around five gold total), and ten charged quartz crystals, players can take home a tidy 20 gold by crafting a “grow lamp” and selling it on the trading post. The lamp is used in crafting Maudry II, a highly useful Guild Wars 2 gizmo and backpack combo.

The sprockets come as a by-product of using the watchknight’s mining pick or by attaching the Glyph of the Watchknight to an infinite crafting tool. The settings and sunstone lumps should be bought on the trading post for five gold. Because charged quartz crystals can only be created once a day at a hero point node (such as the one in the home instance) and ten are needed, this item can only be crafted every ten days, making it a bi-monthly item, but only thanks to a small daily activity that is highly synergistic with another easy gold-accumulating habit.

6 Home Instance & Guild Hall Harvesting – Daily

Reaping The Rewards On The Homefront

• Estimated Completion Time: Ten minutes (when harvesting from a complete home instance)
• Gold Output: Varies depending on home instance completeness

A player’s home instance can be found in every capital city, while a guild hall is only accessible via an established guild. It is difficult to put a number on the gold made per day from home-instance and guild-hall-node gathering. The items received from guild hall synthesizers vary depending on the guild’s progress, and depending on their investment, players may not have much to harvest from their home instance. However, what they do have will be worth the quick harvesting trip.

Purchasing home instance nodes is not considered profitable, but many helpful completionist players will list their fully complete home instances on the Looking For Group tool, allowing anybody to come in and reap away at liberty (although a tip of 50 silver to one gold coin is generally considered good etiquette). The exact gold output is further muddled by the fact that many harvested items are account-bound and require crafting or currency conversions to turn into liquid assets, such as crystal quartz or Season 4 currency items.

Quick And Very Profitable With The Right Timing

• Estimated Completion Time: 15-20 Minutes (during peak play hours)
• Gold Output: ~6-10 gold or more, depending on RNG

As meta events go in Guild Wars 2, the Assault on Tarir event in the Auric Basin is one of the quickest and most profitable, and it’s actually one of the most engaging group events in GW2. Learning how to take down each vine (simultaneously with the other three) is generally a good idea, as every player’s input counts, and too many players assume that someone else will do the heavy lifting for them in this event already, which can drag the event out.

For those players who are short on time, it is best to attempt the meta event during peak play hours, usually in the evenings or on weekends. However, there is a risk that the map can become full. In this case, even if a player is unable to complete the event, it is still possible to follow the loot train below Tarir and make a tidy sum. The Hero’s Choice chest offers amalgamated gemstones, which go for more than a gold each on the trading post.

4 Alt Chest Parking & Pickup – Daily

Picking Up Rewards For Sitting On A Scenic Spot

• Estimated Completion Time: Instant
• Gold Output: Varies depending on the loot

There are many chests dotted throughout Tyria, most placed at the end of a combat or jumping challenge. “Alt-aholics,” or those who love making multiple characters, should consider leaving any spare characters they have hanging around at these locations for an easy daily chest-opening reward.

The best chests to sit characters at are in Bjora Marches by the essence chests and various locations across Cantha in “End of Dragons,” although there are many other chests across Tyria worthy of guarding and opening once a day.

3 Flax Farming – Daily

Trading Piles Of Seeds For Bags Of Gold

• Estimated Completion Time: 8-10 minutes (with practice)
• Gold Output: ~1.5 gold per character

Flax is always in demand thanks to the fact that it is an ingredient used in high-end weapons and armor, as well as the scribe’s guild hall crafting. While the seeds are scattered across the expansion and Living World maps, flax can be found in abundance in a select few spots in the Heart of the Maguuma and the Crystal Desert.

Each flax patch is fairly easy to reach from a waypoint, and each patch can be gathered multiple times across alts. To maximize income from this kind of farming, players should list their harvest (instead of selling them instantly), especially as other players are constantly buying the seeds up for crafting purposes.

2 Legendary Ley-Line Anomaly – Daily

The Daily Mystic Coin Speedrun

• Estimated Completion Time: 5-12 minutes
• Gold Output: ~2 gold

This event runs 20 minutes past every even server hour. The Legendary Ley-Line Anomaly rewards a mystic coin once per day, and while it is not a difficult fight, it can be a challenge to get to the boss in time before it perishes, which is often under a minute flat. The Anomaly forms across three maps, and its location is random, but a helpful player will usually announce the waypoint in map chat.

It is advisable to arrive at least ten minutes early and to bring skills that do area damage, as the boss can actually be defeated before its model spawns in. As long as a player lands a few hits or creates enough combo fields for other players, they should be able to snag the reward in time.

1 Wizard’s Vault Dailies & Weeklies – Daily & Weekly

Highly-Profitable Rewards For A Few Easy Chores

• Estimated Completion Time: 10 minutes (daily), longer for weekly completion
• Gold Output: Minimum ~3 gold, ~25 gold (upon weekly completion)

Completing daily Wizard Vault challenges, which replaced the daily log-in rewards system, is by far the easiest and fastest way to rack up a gold supply. Completing challenges such as “defeat ten enemies” or “harvest ten ore nodes” can be done in a matter of minutes for a reward of gold and astral acclaim. Astral Acclaim can be used to buy highly profitable items, some with a monthly-restricted supply and others with an unlimited amount.

Mystic coins and laurels are examples of cheap items that can potentially sell for two gold each and cost 9-10 astral acclaim. Chipping away at monthly challenges each day will reward players with 700 astral acclaim to play with if they can complete a minimum of six. Some monthly activities include completing one of Tyria’s jumping puzzles or a fractal run, which tend not to be too hard and take around 15 minutes to complete.