The insane amounts of GOLD you could be making

[@phandrel]

As @ThermalLightning pointed out, the goal is to farm TIER 2 rifts to make gold. Not Tier 3. Thanks again!

[@sentokigames151]

You have diabetes or something if you are tired and stuff?

[@alt0rias355]

I don't comment often but I do appreciate your videos! :)

[@MyFoolMind]

Man, your content is great and informative. Take your time, rest, and do what makes you feel good. Thanks for what you do.

[@rjrulz327]

I haven’t even logged in for twelve days after buying myself out to the bone preparing. Mind you this is after logging in every day for two years straight! I’m excited to get back at it and plan on playing tonight, breaks are much needed, keep killing it dude.

[@vdepp8960]

Count me in for the group farming ! I'm always struggling to find people to play with, even though the fun of GW2 is exactly that, group content ! Keep us posted, I'd happily join any Discord channel you may open

[@JustGentle]

I am mainly solo in GW2, but that is only cause I don't have any friends that also play. Would love to have the group content, please keep us in the loop!

[@gangrel1234]

Always happy when a new video of yours pops up❤

[@kasma5708]

Just discovered your channel a few days ago and watched a lot of your gw2 videos :D I enjoyed all of them!

[@phandrel]

I love to hear that! Thank you!

[@ZHLodhi]

Thanks so much for these videos! And, while I'd also have to take days off sometimes, I'd be down to try and farm together fairly consistently. Keep us in the loop!

[@phandrel]

Awesome, thank you :)

[@mrxatissimo3937]

I was really sad to see your discord closing and if you open it again I will be there. Would also be happy to join some rift hunting groups although I play at some off hours because of my working schedule. Keep up the good work man, everybody needs some time off every now and then.

[@phandrel]

Thanks! It'll eventually come back, I rushed it out before and I want to do it right this time. I have a vision for the information that should be on there before opening it up again, because if not I always find something else to do and I never get to it.

[@OfficialPartibus]

I would highly appreciate a video about research notes, thanks bud, great content 👍🏻

[@TheG-Tree13]

Awesome video! Been loving all your GW2 content. If it works out for you to run some farming groups id love to join any that fit my schedule. Side note: it sounds like you could use some support. I hope you have it irl. Im a coach irl and if you ever need someone to talk to, id be happy to listen. I might be able to point you to resources that ive found helpful. Either way, i hope you have a good support system. Good luck and keep up the awesome work!

[@phandrel]

Love to hear that, thank you! I surrounded myself with the right people to take care of things, and I do have a solid support system as well. Thank you for the comment though, very much appreciated!

[@bilaliqbal4012]

Yeah that's the thing.. I strongly think that there will be an easier/better farm in one of those future releases so it probably is better to sell to take advantage of the market.

[@bilaliqbal4012]

It's also weird how the Meta in Amnytas falls really flat in terms of rewards. It's basically a big rift boss isn't it? So why doesn't it award a good amount of essence? There's been some odd decision making in Soto in my opinion.

[@smudgyy8808]

Only problem is that if u actually want the legendary armor you need to be saving up the essenses meaning you cant really make any gold.

[@phandrel]

True, my personal plan for these types of things is usually to farm first for profit and collect after. That usually yields enough gold till the next expansion :)

[@akhsdenlew1861]

that's not a problem.. that's literally the reason why it's such a profitable way of making gold. it's the perfect system. Newbies and slackers who don't want to do any real content for legendary armor will finally get legendary armor, and the rest can profit on the same system. A win - win situation.

[@smudgyy8808]

real content? not everyone like all the gamemodes. It doesn't make them less real. I have legendary PvP armor but I don't think PvE players are doing anything less real. We are all playing a video game.

[@Akihito_Kanbara]

It's called a compromise. Do you want legendary armor or do you want gold? Legendary armor requires an investment. Gold is just one of them.

[@mismismism]

Good info, unfortunately I'm hopefully going to go for the legendaries so I can't do this but I passed this info to friends. They really made farming and crafting what you need multiple levels of overly complicated and expensive so I'd imagine this will be profitable for a pretty long time.

[@SharxDerCoole]

The first 3 days the prices for T3 Motivations were insane, i sold them for up to 25 gold each 😂 But now prices are much more reasonable

[@phandrel]

Nice! Nothing compares to expansion launches if you manage to farm the items that people will want/need the most. I hope with SotO we get more of these with the quarterly updates, if not we at least have an expac roughly year now though :)

[@kesamek8537]

Another excellent video. If you get the time to make something about Research Notes go ahead I'm sure it would be appreciated :)

[@phandrel]

Thank you! And I'll surely do :)

[@ant3205]

I get the lack of energy thing due to health issues, I've recently been diagnosed with fibromyalgia and often don't have the energy for prolonged farming groups or even fractals and raids, I usually do the levi farm as it's more casual and laid back, hope you find something that helps with your health

[@phandrel]

Thank you! And I do hope things will get better for you as well!

[@visidious95]

I’d be excited to join the essence farm group

[@willemandries7234]

Thank you!

[@vicious9734]

Do you have an updated farming build?

[@phandrel]

Posted my Herald build a few days ago, and working on others now :)

[@embreis2257]

4:25 '...contemplating the idea of forming groups myself and having massive non-stop farming parties.' doesn't that grow old very fast? farming, farming all day long? whatever rocks your boat but there is so much to do in GW2, farming the same type of content over and over again doesn't sound like fun but might turn into a chore rather quickly

[@phandrel]

I know it isn't for everyone, but it's something I thoroughly like. So by opening up my party, people could filter in and out for however long it stays fun for them, even doing a single rift is fine.

[@mariospolyravas5096]

whatever your condition is , have faith and everything will go well... count me in as well if you are going to do the discord for rift hunting. although how can we reach out to you? is there somewhere we can text you perhaps ? thanks for your content as well

[@phandrel]

Thank you! When the time comes to reopen the discord, I'll make a post in the community tab and list it in the about section of my page as well :)

[@kaeyrl]

What website do you use to showcase the profit? @1:56

[@phandrel]

It's from the wiki, if you go to one of the Kryptis motivations (wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rare_Kryptis_Motivation for example), in the bottom right of the Ingredients window there's an option to "show base materials".

[@TheGrazyFrogg]

I dont get it, why does tier 2 and tier 3 make good options for massive amounts of gold instead of tier 1? According to the farming community website the tier 1 gives a higher profit too. Could someone explain

[@phandrel]

Tier 2 essences are used to craft Rare Kryptis Motivations, which were selling at quite the premium when I made the video. I mistakenly added Tier 3 rifts, but those will get you less gold per hour, as the essences are only used for your own achievements. At the moment, T2 rifts are still pretty profitable, though. Especially with a group of people, as [fast] farming mentioned that you need to do T1 rifts solo to make them as profitable as they mention.

[@TheGrazyFrogg]

@@phandrel Thanks for the fast reply man. I think I still dont really get it that because if you farm tier 1 and craft uncommon motivations you get a profit of +- 50gph, but if you farm tier 2 you only get a gph of 15 according to farming community. So why would tier 2 farming be more profitable than farming tier 1? I'm trying to understand

[@phandrel]

​@@TheGrazyFrogg Right now T1 rifts are more profitable and if you're solo that'll probably always be the case, due to how fast you can kill the Guardian. When I made the video you could almost make double the profit from selling Rare Motivations, compared to Uncommon ones, granted you had someone who opened rifts for you or if you shouldered the cost together. On top of that, there were a lot of players participating in T1 rifts, making the pre-event really long (still the case with the afk farmers in Lake Doric sadly), and we were clearing T2 rifts rather fast as a group. BTW make sure you're sticking to the guidelines of the fast website for T1 rifts: if you're not using common motivations, your GPH will drop to 31. If you're don't have Rank 4 of the Rift Mastery, it'll be around 23gph without common motivations, or around 41gph with motivations - if my back of the napkin math is correct.

[@vanhohenheim9083]

I tested your herald build yesterday, which was a bit different from the one I played before, and I feel like it's much better after the changes, so thanks for the build! As for the rift farm, I'd love to join one, the only question is on what server? 😅

[@phandrel]

If I go ahead, I need to do it on EU. Unless ANet makes me a partner but I doubt that will ever happen 😅 Glad you like the revenant build!

[@vanhohenheim9083]

@@phandrel Cool. Every time I saw a similar initiative it was on a NA server, so being in EU I could only watch it. 🥲

[@phandrel]

@@vanhohenheim9083 Haha, I feel you. It'd be really cool if we could server hop like we could in Guild Wars 1, but I think that's probably very expensive for Anet.

[@berkesenbay8437]

it's like 10 gph with common motivation if u include research notes

[@phandrel]

Yeah, prices for sure evened out compared to the launch. I wonder whether they'll pick up in the second update, or remain as is.

[@Erik1495]

god i hate research notes so bad... any tips?

[@phandrel]

I've had a few requests now, so I'll make a video in the coming days :) If you need vast amounts, crafted gear can be salvaged in 40+ or 50+ directly from the station. I always have a few orders out overnight, too. There's other methods, but I'll make a guide on everything I know

[@eyalreinfeld9111]

Thanks!

[@ThermalLightning]

Why do you think you should be farming T3 rifts? Its the only one that drops essence which cant generate you any gold at the moment. And maybe never?

[@phandrel]

You are absolutely correct, sometimes I get so focused on rewriting every sentence in my scripts I lose common sense. Will make a pinned comment, thanks for looking out!

[@anneonyme213]

What is your elementalist build?

[@phandrel]

I'll post it soon :) still testing out a bit of stuff, to make sure I don't recommend gear sets that turn out to be worse or expensive for no reason.

[@anneonyme213]

@@phandrel I'm more interested in how this... works...? Like, two elementals to summon? Don't these die too quickly? Plus, Signet of Earth? Does that mean you take Hardened Aura too then I suppose? And why those signets above the Signet of Air for the movements speed? What specialization do you even take then? I have a hard time making elementalist "work" for me, but you clearly have a logic in that build that I would love to understand! I'm guessing this is made with a specific goal in mind.

[@zylle1993]

Maybe i should buy soto and start the grind, im fairly new to gw2 still so i could use some gold

[@phandrel]

Don't feel you need to rush though! While prices might change, things that require account bound materials, often keep selling at a premium. The experience you'd miss out on by skipping to some endgame farms can't really be recovered. Then again, if you prefer farming over anything else, that changes things.

[@Sarcaustik]

what is this build you are running?

[@phandrel]

I was testing Celestial Catalyst, planning to release a guide soon. It can basically solo most champions by simply mashing buttons and not worrying about mechanics. But it isn't 100% there yet.

[@sldjflaskjfdalksjfla]

ty

[@finalfan321]

it's boring af and i hear ppl are leeching on others for rift activation

[@isty4491]

Not feeling refreshed after a nights sleep? Thats called "getting older", im guessing youre in your mid to late 20's, or possibly older The fact is, and few people talk about this, but as you age you get less sleep quality, it doesnt matter if you sleep an extra hour or two, you will never feel refreshed, each day youll have less and less quality sleep Look it up, theres loads of stuff on the web about this, also ask your parents, grandparents and older colleagues, pretty sure theyll confirm what im saying You just have to get used to it, and good luck

[@dgenerationx5855]

Ehem….just no.

[@isty4491]

@@dgenerationx5855 Well at least your open minded and spent some time researching what i said right? You didnt just go "naaah" like someone with a closed mind? Its true for me, and everyone i have spoken to about it, and many documents supporting it but your opinion is just as valid as mine, as long as it has a similar amount of data to back it up

[@RhoVabien]

Thank you so much So are already doing a or for us Also Have a good one