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Another farmable fractal is scale 96 or [https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Aetherblade_Fractal Aetherblade Fractal]. Many parts of this fractal can be skipped with [https://metabattle.com/wiki/Guide:Fractal_Skips shadowstep exploits] which makes it possible to complete in 7 minutes or less.
Farming either of these will provide ~10 gold per hour, with potentially more profit if you invest in fractal titles.
Farming either of these will provide 10-15 gold per hour, with potentially more profit if you invest in fractal titles.
==Daily Dungeons==
==Daily Dungeons==

Revision as of 04:22, 17 January 2019


Last updated January 2019

Selling Materials


Daily Completionist


Daily Tequatl


Daily Heart of Thorns Metas


These meta events also provide quite a lot of loot, which works out to another few gold in profit. Overall they provide ~4 gold for 10 minutes of your time (except for Dragon's Stand, which provides ~8 gold over 45 minutes to 1 hour).

Daily Gathering






RIBA (Silverwastes)





If you do all this right, one hour of RIBA will net ~25 gold and ~500 Bandit Crests.

Istan (Palawadan/Great Hall)

The Domain of Istan is a popular farming map with several profitable events. By running around and tagging as many champions and trash mobs as possible, and then swapping instances, you can earn lots of Volatile Magic, Palawan Phylacteries and Unidentified Gear per hour.

The basic idea is to upscale events and metas with huge numbers of players so they spawn champions, and then farm the loot they drop. As well gather the Supply Stashes from the Great Hall/Palawadan meta events. The events you want to farm are:

Once you have finished metas like Great Hall/Palawadan and there's nothing to do on your current map besides AFKing, try to swap instances to find a new map with a Great Hall bar to break or a Great Hall/Palawadan meta happening so you can keep farming instead of sitting at the AFK rock. You can try to swap instances by logging out/in; going to and leaving your guild hall ; going in and leaving PvP lobby.

  • If you find a instance with any of these characteristics, advertise in squad chat so people can join on your instance. Be careful to not taxi people to a map that is about to close (volunteer).

How to break the Great Hall bar:

  • Kill Corpse Caravans heading to the Great Hall.
  • Rotate with your squad inside the Great Hall area clearing trash mobs (just bunny up and go inside).
  • Do events that spawn a lot of trash mobs like Akili and Graveyard.


  • Open your Palawan Phylacteries (not affected by Magic Find).
  • Sell all your Unidentified Gear on the Trading Post.
    • If you have maxed out account Magic Find, you can go to The Silverwastes, stack Magic Find buffs, and then open the Unidentified Gear for slightly more profit. See here to know how to maximize your Magic Find.

Istan farming squads are usually advertised in LFG. A proper Istan farm will net ~25 gold per hour.

Leather Farm (Lake Doric)



If you do this right you will net ~20 gold per hour.

Daily Fractals




Each tier of daily achievements provides around 5 gold. Completing every daily fractal on T4 will net you ~25 gold for an hour of your time (down to 30 minutes if you have a good group and the fractals are fast).

Fractal Farms


Another farmable fractal is scale 96 or Aetherblade Fractal. Many parts of this fractal can be skipped with shadowstep exploits which makes it possible to complete in 7 minutes or less.


Daily Dungeons

Dungeon paths provide daily gold and dungeon tokens. Completing 8 different dungeon paths will also give you 5 gold and a Chest of Dungeoneering from the repeatable Dungeon Frequenter achievement. With a party of experienced dungeon runners, you can speedrun a path in 10 minutes or less.

Here are some recommended dungeon paths to farm:

To convert dungeon tokens to gold, you can exchange them for rare or exotic equipment at the Dungeon Armor and Weapons vendor, which you can then salvage for insignias/inscriptions and Globs of Ectoplasm to sell on the Trading Post. See GW2 Efficiency for a detailed breakdown.


Weekly Raids

Raid bosses drop gold and a variety of valuable loot. With an experienced squad, you can smoothly clear each boss in 5 minutes or less, resulting in ~30 gold per hour (not including things like ascended gear drops). This method is restricted by the limited number of raid boss clears every week (capping out at 46-48 gold per week), and becomes much less profitable if your squad can't reliably clear raid bosses on the first pull.


Ranked PvP reward chests and Automated Tournaments provide a fair amount of liquid gold. PvP reward tracks will also provide rewards of varying gold value. If your guild has access to it, be sure to maintain the Guild PvP Reward Track enhancement for even more profit.

Holiday reward tracks such as Wintersday or Halloween are usually more lucrative than permanet reward tracks.

Grinding Ranked PvP during an active season awards ~7 gold per hour, with more or less profit depending on your division, top stats, and how consistently you can win matches.

Tome of Knowledge and Potion of PvP Reward are requirements for certain Guild Hall upgrades. Although account bound, these can be sold to guilds the following way: get invited deposit the amount requested into the guild bank get paid in the mail. This is a bit more risky than other methods as you can get scammed if the guild refuses to pay you after receiving the items.

Currency Conversion

If you have excess Spirit Shards, Karma, Badges of Honor, Laurels, Guild Commendations, or Black Lion Claim Tickets, you can convert them to liquid gold through a variety of methods. See GW2 Efficiency for a detailed breakdown.

Trading Post Flipping

If you have a good eye for commodity trading, you can buy low and sell high on the Trading Post for potentially massive profits. This is quite difficult, requires a lot of capital, and is generally beyond the scope of this guide.

For those interested in playing the TP, some useful sites may include GW2BLTC, GW2 Spidy, and GW2 Efficiency.

Gems to Gold

For the vast majority of players, the best gold farming method in Guild Wars 2 is to work a full-time job and buy gems to convert to gold. The minimum wage in the US is $7.25 USD/hour which translates to 580 gems or ~120 gold per hour. Now that's efficiency!