Currency

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This article is about Guild Wars currency. For gold weapons, see item rarity.

Gold and platinum

The base currency in Guild Wars is gold. 1,000 (gold) is equivalent to 1 (platinum – also known as plat, p, k or K). The maximum amount of currency a player can hold in their inventory is 100 . Due to this restriction, players often use items such as Zaishen Keys, Globs of Ectoplasm and in the past, Rubies in trades worth more than 100 . A Vault box will hold up to 1,000 .

Contents 1 Acquisition 2 Use 3 Economy 4 Notes

[edit] Acquisition

Currency is acquired through many methods. The most common way is picking up money or selling looted items from slain creatures. Doing this repetitively is called farming. It can also be given as a reward for the completion of quests. Currency can also be acquired from other players. For example you can perform services for others, whether it be running, grouping or just trading with them.

[edit] Use

Currency is used to buy items in game from NPC sellers (armors, consumables, scrolls…) and from other players. You can also customize your weapon, make and expand your guild and your guild’s guild hall or hire other players to complete various tasks for you.

[edit] Economy

Whilst currency can enter the game, it can also leave through the various gold sink mechanisms that exist. This maintains a balance within the game economy.

[edit] Notes

• “Gold sinks” are transactions that remove money from the game world: all gold given to non-trader NPCs (and the margin that the traders take) is deleted from the game. This creates an artificial out-flow of currency to balance the artificial in-flow of gold created from nothing when players kill creatures or sell items, and prevents runaway inflation.
• In order to store money in an account a player must talk to a Xunlai Agent and pay a one time charge of 50 to access their vault box. Then to obtain crafting material storage, another 50 must be paid.
• The maximum amount of gold an account can have is 4.5 million. This is achieved by having 1,000,000 in the vault box and 100,000 on all 35 characters (the maximum amount of characters possible on one account).
• Gold coins dropped by creatures in an instance are not assigned and may be picked up by anyone. They are shared evenly amongst all characters (including heroes and henchmen) in the instance.