I dunno, I made tons of money soloing green shard dungeons. Most of my money comes from these book drops. I forget what they're called but you click the book and it gives you 1000 or 10000 points in your equipped gear. They sell for about 30-35k on the auction house (often the buy orders on these are very close to the sell orders so you can just sell it directly and not lose much).
For gear, I've started doing sell orders now that I realize you don't need to go back to pick up your money:
1) Type in the name (or partial name) of the item you want to sell, e.g., "robe"
2) Select the tier of the item in the filter
3) Switch to the "buy" tab in the market and see what the cheapest one is
4) Switch to the "sell" tab and put a sell order in for something less than the cheapest one
Like if I see tier 4 robes are selling for 5198, I will put mine up for 5000 and it sells pretty quick. If I sold direct I might have only gotten 800 or something.
Basically take all your loot to the market and take the time to "properly" sell it and you'll get a whole lot more money than just dumping it. And beware of using any clickies you find because they might sell for a ton. Granted we might find out later there was a reason to save them but for now the money seems worth it. I think they are highly valued by people trying to quickly retrain in a new area and they'd rather just buy 30 books for a million silver and click them all than grind it out.
I've hit 100k in my personal bank almost 3 times now this way, mostly soloing green shard dungeons. That was how I paid the guild startup fee so quick (which was right around 90k. I got about 10k from Crice but the rest was mine) and the initial guild island (it was just over 100k and I had it on me). I'm back up to about 80k now.
For gear, I've started doing sell orders now that I realize you don't need to go back to pick up your money:
1) Type in the name (or partial name) of the item you want to sell, e.g., "robe"
2) Select the tier of the item in the filter
3) Switch to the "buy" tab in the market and see what the cheapest one is
4) Switch to the "sell" tab and put a sell order in for something less than the cheapest one
Like if I see tier 4 robes are selling for 5198, I will put mine up for 5000 and it sells pretty quick. If I sold direct I might have only gotten 800 or something.
Basically take all your loot to the market and take the time to "properly" sell it and you'll get a whole lot more money than just dumping it. And beware of using any clickies you find because they might sell for a ton. Granted we might find out later there was a reason to save them but for now the money seems worth it. I think they are highly valued by people trying to quickly retrain in a new area and they'd rather just buy 30 books for a million silver and click them all than grind it out.
I've hit 100k in my personal bank almost 3 times now this way, mostly soloing green shard dungeons. That was how I paid the guild startup fee so quick (which was right around 90k. I got about 10k from Crice but the rest was mine) and the initial guild island (it was just over 100k and I had it on me). I'm back up to about 80k now.