I have never bought gold and I've made over 2million gold just by grinding (I have over 99k mobs killed), and selling items (e.g. discs). Perhaps I'm one of the few, but I've shown it's not impossible.
Sorry dude but I have to agree with others. even if you had killed 100k Mobs and sold their drops to vendor, (not including frags here) You would be looking at around 1Mil, and how long have you been playing for? Also, in my clan, we have a rule that you are not allowed to sell frags. Any frags that you get that you do not need go to the clan bank to help kit the other players. any that you do need you keep. I have given away 15+ drags, and in no way do I see this as giving away 1-2Mil, because they were never mine to sell, it was a group and clan effort.
Reducing the price that items sell to Vendor was a bad move in my opinion. 50Coins for a Connacht weapon is pretty reasonable imo, if not too low. E.G. a Connacht Sword is not much worse than a standard Falchion. a Connacht Sword sells to the shop for around 36 gold now. A Falchion costs 925.
All-in-all, it is very hard to get money, and if it wasn't available on plat store, then every world would have sooo much less money, and having gear that I think of as simple things now such as a Heroic Ammy of Rejuvenation, Heroic Gloves, Heroic Boots, Bloodlust, Bodkin of spirits etc. would be a lot rarer.
Just for clarification, i have spent a lot of time Farming gold, but the majority of my money and items has come from buying platinum and merching items. Withouut being able to do these i would be lucky to even have a Heroic Ammy of Rejuv by now.
Also, non-combat skills and a variety of Mini-games is the answer to it all!
..RAP
