Estimate on AD/Gold Ratio?

guruoftime

This will kind of be a multi-part question, just trying to gather some information.
Is there a guesstimate to how much AD a gold is worth?
Is there any decent way of converting gold to AD?
If not, what can I do with gold? I have a fair amount (maybe 200 or so), and have no idea what to do with it!

Thanks in advance for your time!

codher0

Buy a mount for 5 gold. Put it up in the auction house for 4 k AD. They sell very fast.

thezer0flux

Gold is mostly worthless. You use it primarily for potions, injury kits, and removing enchantments from gear. You can also use it to take advantage of the dummies out there selling quality items for gold, but I've taken to trying to help them by teaching them about the AH and how the AD <=> Zen conversion stuff works. They usually don't listen, but I can't help my bleeding heart.

Other than buying stuff from dummies and turning it into thousands of AD, you can still convert gold into AD with companions and mounts. It fluctuates, but right now you can get about 600-800 AD per gold.

What I do with my extra gold is share it with alternate characters. Gold matters more below level 30 and every little bit helps.

reallyrecon

I don't think there's any kind of accurate conversion rate, and to be honest it's a bit silly that players are trading valuable items for large amounts of gold.

If it were me I'd buy stacks of potions/injury kits for my guildies or put them on the AH. I have a HR friend who always pugs and blows through HP potions like crazy, so he's always complaining about how he needs gold. Since I'm a Cleric and rarely use my pots unless I'm clearing harder content, I typically give him a stack or two every now and then. They seem to drop like crazy for me so just from looting alone I'm able to accumulate at least a half stack a day.

Not sure what the AH price is, but I'm sure there are plenty of players in my friend's situation who would rather buy cheap stacks with AD.