Powerselling - Turn your skill points into money (cons)

I make ~45 plat per hour in my alt window with this method while playing GW in my main. In other words, this is a completely "passive" way to make GW cash without boring farming.

A little while back, I found myself noticing I had about 900 unspent skill points on my assassin, and considered turning them into cons for money. The problem was - that's boring.Little money to be made, buying materials from trader = low profit, buying from players takes too long. Lately, I've been using a second account windowed while playing, so I thought I'd try to combine these two things and feel it's been a success after the Embark update. I would go nuts sitting there buying materials for 30+ minutes. Worse than farming.

What you need:
* Lots of skill points to burn
* Some money to start (takes money to make money)
* Access to a second account
* Preferably the ability to window both screens (makes it much more practical)

How to do it:
Just play, though this works best when you're doing something that isn't super involved. For example, when I run Rt/ or /Rt (kinda sad the best build for my monk is all rit skills), it's pretty easy most places. I have both windows windowed, with the one I am playing in taking up most of the screen, and my materials guy in a very small window in the corner. Simply put, it's very easy for me to request/buy/request/buy/etc a bunch of materials while playing. After I'm done playing I just do a quick trade from my alt account to someone with the right EotN rep/skill points and craft. Viola.

I do consets 25 at a time because it's easy to keep track of, and this costs me ~180 platinum and 75 skill points. Cons sell for 9k/set easily, so 225. It takes me much less than an hour to get enough mats for 25 sets together, but I figure you also spend some time in your alt window selling in ToA or something, hence my guestimate of an hour.

Anyway, it's a lot easier than it sounds, and I've found it to be a great way to convert those skill points into money if you have them around.

PS: any alternate ideas or suggestions to improve this are greatly appreciated. Also, if folks are wanting to sell iron/dust/feathers/bones...I'd be happy to pay you what the seller charges me.

What con is the easiest to sell in your opinion?

I just sell them by the set, since that's definitely easiest IMO. The other option is to craft essences ("backups"/BUs) with dust/feathers, which yields about 750g profit per skill point if you pay full trader price, whereas full cons yield about 600g/skill point if you're paying full price. BUs tend to be a harder sell, though, since folks don't need as many of them, whereas every group leaving ToA is going to be taking some full consets with them.

Honestly, if I didn't have a 2nd account to window, there is no way I'd sit around in town selling stuff...to me it's too boring and if I'm going to be bored, I could make more money running speed clears or farming.

What program do you use to run the game in the 2nd window?

Most folks use a program called GW2X to launch (you guessed it) 2 instances.

There are other and more technical methods involved in launching more windows, but some of them are hard to pull off or mean modifying the exe with a hex editor.

GW2x will let me have two instances on the same machine?

That is correct. With modifying "handles" or hex editing, you can have as many copies running at once as you'd like. I think there's a tool called multiple intance creator that folks have used.

Just as always, be very, very wary running any 3rd party tool, both for your password and the Terms of Service. I know hex editing for sure falls against the strict interpretation of the ToS because you change the window name (which allows you to run more than one window). Changing "handles" does so on the tail end at run time and does not modify the .exe.

I do know that GW2X is very easy to use, people have been using for years with no problems, and I believe (can't remember source off the top of my head) that Gaile Gray had mentioned she used it. As always like with texmod, any of this falls under a "use at your own risk" policy.

One last thing I'll mention is that I always run my main GW account vanilla, and any alts in a second instance. Therefor, if the very, very, very unlikely were to happen, I wouldn't lose my main.

I use GWx2 as well. It's a program I downloaded years ago off some officially approved site that I don't remember. There's no hex editing involved. The only difficulty I have is that I must delete and re-copy the gw.exe from my main account folder to the alt folder after each ingame update.

I have some questions.
1. Are you buying mats from players or just from the trader? What price are you paying for the mats.

2. What is a "full conset"? I've typically considered it to be an Armor, Grail and Essence but once I tried to sell that and my potential buyer said I was ripping them off because I didn't include a powerstone. So basically, what would I get for my 9k? Powerstone or no powerstone?

3. Interested in a solo feather farm thru Nahpui Quarter sometime? I know how it's done.

TheRaven said:

I have some questions.
1. Are you buying mats from players or just from the trader? What price are you paying for the mats.

2. What is a "full conset"? I've typically considered it to be an Armor, Grail and Essence but once I tried to sell that and my potential buyer said I was ripping them off because I didn't include a powerstone. So basically, what would I get for my 9k? Powerstone or no powerstone?

3. Interested in a solo feather farm thru Nahpui Quarter sometime? I know how it's done.

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1. I get them from players occasionally, but due to the mass amount of skill points I have to burn I'm simply buying from trader. So, I am getting the worst possible deal on mats. Prices fluctuate a bit of course, but materials and crafting costs me ~180-185 plat and 75 skill points; I sell for 225k. So, it's 40-45plat there, or about 600 gold per skill point spent.

Buying ANYthing from players would be a huge boost to profit, but I just don't want to spend the time at the moment. Maybe I will after I spend my points down, but right now it's spam merch in mass, sell in mass.

2. Grail/Armor/Essence. That guy was crazy, especially considering adding powerstones would mean it costs about 11k to craft, haha.

3. Very, hate paying for those, and love to mix things up. We can roll that right after we roll SoS through UW.