Shaemoor is one section of the zone called Queensdale: Compare the first image to what is shown on this map and you should have a rough sense of the scale we’re starting with. The blue diamond marker at the bottom center is the waypoint you see in the first image. We’re in the area around the village of Shaemoor. That floating glowy sphere to the left of my character is a waypoint. That blue stuff on the right, in the far distance, is the Western Divinity Dam. Here is a scenic little spot in the Human starting zone: You have two major expenses to deal with: Equipment and travel. Inquiries as to where your comment disappeared to will be met with bureaucratic indifference and accusatory questions. * If you think the words “progressive tax” are some magical pass to start talking about politics, you are about to have your comment visited in the middle of the night by my jackbooted jackass police. In the early game you make less, but keep more of it. This forms a progressive tax* on your income. Even though your earnings are eventually multiplied by 9, your increase in expenses will far outstrip this increase. You can solve all money problems by simply leveling past them. In WoW, costs that are considerable at level 20 become a joke by level 40. So you will make just short of 9 times as much by the end of the game. We can probably extrapolate while making a hand-wavy gesture and say that if a level 80 quest did exist, it would pay 400 copper. I haven’t even found a level 80 quest (I’m pretty sure at that level it’s all event-driven) but the quests in the late 70’s pay around 375 copper. In Guild Wars 2, your starting quest (which is actually level 2, because level 1 is set in the tutorial zone) pays 45 copper. So you will make 5,292 times as much money at level 80 compared to what you were making at level 1. There are a ton of level 80 quests, but this one – chosen basically at random – pays 132,300 copper. In World of Warcraft a level 1 quest pays 25 copper. This will let us compare WoW level 80 to GW2 level 80, which is the best we can do. Note that a proper apples-to-apples comparison is probably impossible, but for the sake of pretending this makes sense I’m only going to include stuff up to the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, which is where I found the level 80 quests. We’ll talk about everything in terms of copper, as in: 12,345 copper. To show off how different this is, let’s just do a few comparisons between this game and you know who.įor simplicity, I’m not going to go around expressing large values as “1 gold, 23 silver, 45 copper”, or 1g 23s 45c. It is not without the occasional amusing absurdity, but that’s probably inevitable. Guild Wars 2 has the most interesting and sane economy of any MMO I’ve played.
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