What do you spend your gold on?

[isilgorn.4160]

Heya,

So i got to this point personally where i spend my gold doing ecto-gambling constantly to make more gold. Simply for the thrill and addiction? i guess to gambling. I have no other reasons or things at this point where i spend my gold on. I currently find myself back to 2k gold. But now comes my question, since i tossed my ecto-gamble items out of the inventory. What do you folks spend your gold on? Aside of legendary / armor crafting.

Being free from the whole ecto madness, it really just gave me a big wallet with nothing to spend it on. It is a nice feeling obviously, but since i don't play too much i was wondering as to the question above! perhaps to make some inspiration for myself.

[Sico.6941]

 Every now and then with some extra gold, I will make some “newbie kits.” Bags, weapons, armor etc... (low level stuff, except the bags) and head off to the starter zones. Look for some new players that need “a welcome to the game”! 

 

It helps them get started and gives them a good experience. I’ve actually made a few good in game friends this way.

[JUN YANG.4328]

i always have not enough gold to spend. :( and i dont know how and where i spend those gold on.

[thepenmonster.3621]

Makeover kits to win the fashion wars.

[Blood Red Arachnid.2493]

Mostly gems. For mounts.

I've got a lot of mounts.

[Fyrebrand.4859]

I seldom have much gold to spare, but when I do manage to save up a good extra chunk of change I splurge on a nice Black Lion weapon skin from the Trading Post, or else an actual Exotic weapon that happens to have a cool skin to unlock.When I can, I'll convert gold to Gems, but I almost always have to supplement that with real-world money. Although, I'm catching up on my Living Story S4, and I was missing one chapter unlock which I was able to grab in this way! Say what you will about the Gem Store and some of the more shady paid-gambling boxes on offer, I still think it's a pretty great system in the grand scheme of things.

[reapex.8546]

Gear, mount skins, and sometimes buying crafting materials for gh decorations for me.

[Vince.1695]

Nowadays build templates.

[Eloc Freidon.5692]

I'm almost where I have a couple builds for every character with a full set of each weapon they can have.

After that I'm pretty much waiting for good looking legendaries to make one of each weapon type. Other than that collections and whatever QoL purchases that come out that won't gouge out my wallet.

[Knighthonor.4061]

Skins on Tp

[drunkenpilot.9837]

Currently I've been spending it all on home instance nodes to finally push toward completing mine. I've nearly finished getting all of the S4 nodes, the big stopping point is obviously the volatile magic but it's been bleeding my gold dry as well. I only have one node left and it's the least important one (Kralkatite) so I'm less worried about it. I also have 7 regular nodes left to collect, and after that just some of the gem store stuff before I'm done, which I may or may not purchase (still on the fence about garden plots). Ultimately it will be a while before I'm finished, but it's nice to have a goal to work toward and the tradeable nodes are all fairly reasonably priced so I can usually get one every few days.

Aside from that, I like to buy up complete sets of Black Lion weapon skins from the trading post when I see the entire set can be acquired for less than 300-400g. I prefer to get the entire set at once so I can complete the collection, as this is the fastest way to acquire a lot of weapon tickets quickly. I then use those tickets to purchase skin sets with the intent of holding onto them for long term investment in the hopes that they'll become rare after a couple of years. It's a speculation game and admittedly, it doesn't usually pay off-- but if I've held onto a set for a long time and it still hasn't really spiked in value, then I can unlock them all personally and I've got a new shiny set of weapons to play with, plus another 7 tickets which continues the cycle.

[Danikat.8537]

Mini pets, dyes, skins and currently materials for Claw of the Khan-Ur. Also sometimes I buy gems with gold (although more often I use real money).

I always have something I'm saving up for or otherwise working towards and I can't see that changing any time in the next few years at least.

[yoni.7015]

Currently I save my gold for the next legendary I want to craft, but I didn’t decide yet which one it is going to be.

[ButcherofMalakir.4067]

Right now for templates. Refuse to pay real money. for that. Most of my gold went to gears on my characters.

[Sinistra.4190]

I'll use it to buy materials for my leggy or use it to buy stuff for (unlocking) collections. And I use it to buy exotic gear for when my characters have reached lvl 80.

[Antycypator.9874]

I don't like spending too much gold, especially if I could go below my 3k gold treshold, but I spend it mostly on:

• Outfits, mount packs.
• Weapon skins from TP.
• Bank tabs.
• Crafting materials if I need them (I'm too lazy to gather everything). Includes mats for legendary weapons.
• New eq (mostly insignias to flush asc items in Mystic Forge), sigils and runes for my characters.

[Ultramex.1506]

Gems unless Anet add gem store items on TP

[Tukaram.8256]

Pretty much nothing. There are very few things ingame I need to buy. Each of my avatars gets three 18 item invisible bags, and I may buy some runes or weapons, once they hit 80. Then there is nothing to buy.

[ParadoX.3124]

Build templates, legendary armors/weapons, food

[Tanner Blackfeather.6509]

Most of my gold goes to Legendary weapons, and (at a leisurely pace) upgrading my alts' bags. I don't make a lot of gold :)

[Roamer.3259]

I'm a collector, so as I earn gold above my threshold I trickle away at skins, dyes, tonics, minis, etc... thou now I'm mostly saving for the extremely rare and expensive ones so at the moment just hoarding gold, or using it to buy stuff I can flip later for more gold.

[TheGrimm.5624]

Consumables for WvW, materials for crafting, materials for Legendary armor sets.

[Gop.8713]

It is kind of a little frustrating. Gold is one of the main rewards, but there's really nothing to spend it on that makes the game any more fun. I just make arbitrary goals and put my gold into those, like rn I'm buying up all the cheap weapon skins. Once I finish that there's a fairly good chance I'll just redefine what 'cheap' is and keep going :p

But given gold's limited usefulness, I think ecto gambling is a good a use as any. Just do what you like . . .

[Sobx.1758]

@isilgorn.4160 said:i spend my gold doing ecto-gambling constantly to make more gold

lmao, nice bait :lol:

[coso.9173]

i'll probably save up to 300 or 500 gold for the hoodied town clothes outfit, since it's pretty much the only way to get an armor look i enjoy for my medium armor male human...