How do you earn money ?

firefox74

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2007

Well I have all 10 chars. I also have all 4 areas

Well all in all I just wounder how I can earn money for titles like sweet tooths, druknard and party...

I have 26 maxed out titles and out of money because I used them on armor sets.

Well I have not played for a long time now and just woundering where can you earn a decent amount of money..Something like 10k in 15-20 min

I hope anyone have good ideas because I would like to get some profit again and I suppose that selling is really bad considering that prices have been going down since long long time ago.

Keero89

Keero89

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2007

Fairbanks, Alaska

Me/Mo

By farming, easiest way I think.

Steboy93

Steboy93

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Feb 2007

Trinity of the Ascended [ToA] | Ex-Officer [TAM]

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Powertrading is always a good way to make money.

Farming special event items is can be decent too.

Nick Of Troy

Nick Of Troy

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2008

New Zealand.

Human Alliance [HA]

D/E

Sell the birthday presents in your inventory, if you've been away for a long time

isildorbiafra

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2007

The Netherlands

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You cant. The economy is broken. These days you cant even make 1k in 10-15 minutes; but if you insist i guess your best chance would be power trading, which unfortunately is not much fun.

mage767

mage767

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2006

USA

LOVE

Me/E

keep doing UW until your head hits an eternal blalde.

firefox74

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2007

Is it really so fu** these days, with the prices are there any idea how I can obtain "Druknard, sweetooth & party stuff".

And there must be some decent farming places too, somewhere.

tmakinen

tmakinen

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

www.mybearfriend.net

Servants of Fortuna [SoF]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by firefox74
where can you earn a decent amount of money..Something like 10k in 15-20 min
That's quite an unrealistic expectation ... try 10k per hour and you'll find many guides in the farming section.

Or, since you're aiming for drunkard, you can farm Singed Gargoyle Skulls in anticipation of the next Wintersday. It is possible to farm the equivalent of 30-40k of skulls per hour, and you can convert any surplus to booze and sell it to other players.

For party items, Canthan New Year is your friend, and for sweet tooth you mustn't miss Dragon Festival - although you can't farm in advance it is possible to gain about 5k sweet points during the festival weekend (maxed mine in 2007 when the festival was held twice ).

Gift3d

Gift3d

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2007

Las Vegas

Enraged Whiny Carebears [oR]

W/E

zaishen keys...
the zaishen chest is absolutely worthless and the rank is just very embarrassing. sell them for 5k/each, and i have way more cash than i even know what to do with.

unkleanone

unkleanone

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2008

TN

Semi Automatic Bananas [SEMI]

R/Mo

sell gold unids 5k for 7. Farm them in the snowmen dungeon or from raptors in HM. Raptor farms take less than a minute per run and usually net atleast one gold each run.

SirSausage

SirSausage

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2008

Poland

Architects of Forgotten Truths [AoFT]

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by isildorbiafra
You cant. The economy is broken. These days you cant even make 1k in 10-15 minutes; but if you insist i guess your best chance would be power trading, which unfortunately is not much fun.
I agree. Farming isn't worth the effort anymore, the drop rates are ridiculously low. As for powertrading, you need a lot of patience.
Not so long ago I wanted to sell a non-inscr. r9 Chaos Axe for 50k and the only whispers I got were questions whether it's inscribable (duh...). The buyers market is messed up and that's why it takes ages to sell anything and so the prices go down. It's just so damn hard to sell anything. At the moment my storage is clogged up with gold weapons and mods, as no one wants to buy them. Is that supposed to be a healthy economy?

firefox74

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2007

Just looked at Auction house and saw that eaglecrest axe actually selling for at pretty nice price I will start with that and try to farm for wintersday


Should not have opened my birthday presents

The only great thing I found was an Elf

conget

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jul 2008

Trading is a good thing here currently. The problem is, you HAVE to have a decent amount of money. (Talking about 100-200k in your pocket)

With that money, i managed to get 20-30k an hour with making consets or trading ectos.

You can also try as trappers in PVP to get 5000 faction to trade into zkeys. You can sell those for 4.9k around each. If you are lucky, and you open the z-chest, and get a everlasting trapdoor tonic=> 700-900k earned immediately

sLiceR

sLiceR

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Oct 2005

Milan, Italy

[可愛い]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Gift3d
zaishen keys...
the zaishen chest is absolutely worthless and the rank is just very embarrassing. sell them for 5k/each, and i have way more cash than i even know what to do with.
z-keys = $$$

firefox74

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2007

Well is it still easy to farm Zaishen Elite for Baltzar factions ?

Have done some AB before but is there an easier way to obtain more baltazar points ?

firefox74

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2007

What about ectos is it not worth it anymore ?

tmakinen

tmakinen

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

www.mybearfriend.net

Servants of Fortuna [SoF]

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If you want to get money by selling Z-keys you cannot afford to not partake in Xunlai predictions, it's a pile of free zippys every month. If you have several accounts multiply the size of that pile by the number of accounts, too.

Lady Raenef

Lady Raenef

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2007

Oregon, USA.

Zero Mercy [zm]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Gift3d
zaishen keys...
the zaishen chest is absolutely worthless and the rank is just very embarrassing. sell them for 5k/each, and i have way more cash than i even know what to do with.
I plan to stop once I hit rank 3 just for the HoM. Gold spear is good enough for me. All your excess cash can go to my bank. Just saying.

Tek

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2008

Thunder From Down Under [TfdU]

Rt/

Bonus Mission Pack, if you have it. You can earn 7,500 for each mission if you meet all three requirements. The warrior's mision is the easiest in my opinion. You can clear it in 15mins and make 7,500g. There are four missions and if you have 10 characters, that's 40 x 7,500 = 300,000. Oh, and the missions are repeatable, so....

Div

Div

I like yumy food!

Join Date: Jan 2006

Where I can eat yumy food

Dead Alley [dR]

Mo/R

I played for about 45 minutes worth of game time and made 100k farming zkeys.

BulletStopper

BulletStopper

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2005

Staring At my computer

Knights an Heroes

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by isildorbiafra
You cant. The economy is broken. These days you cant even make 1k in 10-15 minutes; but if you insist i guess your best chance would be power trading, which unfortunately is not much fun.
Oops, I must be doing something wrong, since I generally make 1-2k in 10-15 minutes of farming.

But, to the original poster - 10k every 10-15 minutes (average) is not a realistic expectation from anything other than power trading, which I find detestable.

As one poster said, doing zaishen elite for the keys will give you 5k in about 30 min.

You can learn to hero fast faction farm, that earns 3750 in about 35 minutes, plus any money made from running others. Currently the rate is 50-100 gold a run, which adds 1250 to 2500 additional gold per person ran for the same 35 min, bumping the total to as much as 8750 per 35 min. Also, if you have two accounts, learn to run both and it now doubles your income.

As far as farming, I've been farming a long time (since back when the invinci-monk farm is UW was new), and that depends on what classes you have, and which campaigns, but as a rule of thumb, I aim for 1k+ for every 10 minutes of farming.

I do know (because I have done it) I can make 1 million gold in 30 days, if I put my mind to it.

fowlero

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2007

England, UK

We Are The One And Only [rR]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Tek
Bonus Mission Pack, if you have it. You can earn 7,500 for each mission if you meet all three requirements. The warrior's mision is the easiest in my opinion. You can clear it in 15mins and make 7,500g. There are four missions and if you have 10 characters, that's 40 x 7,500 = 300,000. Oh, and the missions are repeatable, so....
I'm pretty sure you can only make the discoveries once per account, for this exact reason.

aaje vhanli

aaje vhanli

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2006

^ Yep...

I personally resort to Hero's Handbooks for gold. Helps build reputation for my individual characters as well as yielding ~40k for each r8 earned in any single reputation title.

Songbringer

Songbringer

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2007

EastCoast

E/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Gift3d
zaishen keys...
the zaishen chest is absolutely worthless and the rank is just very embarrassing. sell them for 5k/each, and i have way more cash than i even know what to do with.

You say that but I disagree. I have gotten 2 everlasting tonics and a nice volt spear from that chest. I made a killing off of it. However I had to flush down so many keys. I still ended up making more money from the tonics alone then I would have on the keys.

SilentWhistle

SilentWhistle

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2008

UK

[NoW]

Mo/W

Quote:
You say that but I disagree. I have gotten 2 everlasting tonics and a nice volt spear from that chest. I made a killing off of it. However I had to flush down so many keys. I still ended up making more money from the tonics alone then I would have on the keys.
Yep. I used just under 150 keys maybe and have just recently got the Trapdoor everlasting, made me around 700k+.
It's like the lottery, some get lucky, some don't.

Gift3d

Gift3d

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2007

Las Vegas

Enraged Whiny Carebears [oR]

W/E

People like me don't get lucky with drops. I've opened enough chests to get rank 2 of that stupid title and has been 99% creme/firewater, and not a gold that's worth over 2k. Not once. I don't get lucky. Selling the z-keys i shall remain. (:

Pleikki

Pleikki

WTB q8 15^50 Weapons!

Join Date: Nov 2006

???oo ???ugs ???lan [?????????]

Quote:
Originally Posted by holymasamune
I played for about 45 minutes worth of game time and made 100k farming zkeys.
its easy For High ranked Pvp ppl ^^

Malice Black

Site Legend

Join Date: Oct 2005

For a broke person farming is the only real answer.

Farming for up coming festivals is a good one. Farm stacks of charr carvings etc

Learning the CoF run will net you some cash, be prepared to be ripped off a fair bit though.

Offer a service. Mission runs, chest running etc

Trading won't help you until you have surplus cash. Selling low end items isn't worth the hassle because the game is full of low end items. Back in the day any gold could be sold, but those days are long gone. Power trading requires cash to make cash, and making a profit isn't always possible.

T1Cybernetic

T1Cybernetic

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2005

Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Uk, Nr Earth

Alternate Evil Gamers [aeg]

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One of the best money earners is farming the cathedral of flames or better still (for me) i farm shards of orr 600/smite and that nets me quite a fair bit each run

If you can stand the smite run do that on a warrior or even better if you have an assassin you can farm ectoplasm all day long in the underworld, that seems to be very profitable according to friends...

gremlin

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Oct 2006

GWAR

Me/Mo

Go to every festival and do all the quests etc exchange any tokens for booze or sugar items.
With 10 characters you should be able to get a head start on either title for free.

Other than that sell everything you find buy only what you need and money shall be yours.
Unless your talking huge quantities of cash in which case power selling has been recommended many times as the best way.

leeky baby

leeky baby

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

Surrey University

Starting to play again... need a guild

W/E

If you are going for r6 KOAD why not max out Kurzick track by doing HFFF? You will get an extra title and enough money to buy sweet and party?

kupp

kupp

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2008

The Shiverpeaks

[KISS]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by obsidian ectoplasm
QFT this is so true

do Zaishen elite = 6k fac in 30 mins thats over 5k in 30 mins do that each day

I only play 1.5 hours a day and i manage to make about 10k faction in that time


other than that the best way is UW solo best way is perma sin
This is a bit slow tough, only 6k points per day it takes 2 days to 10-15k gold for the 2-3 keys you'll be get, if you go on RA to get the rest of the balthazar points. If you are talking about balthazar, or am I missing something?

Dumb question, but can someone tell me what exactly is power trading?

Richardt

Richardt

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2007

http://friendsofloa.com/forum

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I get all my money from doing Dungeons.

In HM, get two gold drops with a good chance of something rare or a max mod. Plus about each dungeon nets me around 2-8k in drops.

I assume you've done vanquishes on your primary toon, so how about doing them on some of your secondaries?

Sai Rith

Sai Rith

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2006

W/

I make 20k-30k a night. Farm 10k by 55ing or w/e, most spots only take 1 1/2 hours tops to make 10k in. I then proceed to farm the next 10k-20k PvPing, depending on how our GvG goes.

BenjZee

BenjZee

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2006

The Overacheivers [Club]

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with that many maxed titles i think you should have found a way by now. Anyway you shuoldn't start threads like these due to the fact vague'ness of the question. Seriously theres not just one way of making money and if there was some super special way then everyone would be doing it.

N1ghtstalker

N1ghtstalker

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2007

E/

i don't farm, it's kinda like grinding
i just get the money from random stuff i do, dungeons 'n stuff

Savio

Savio

Teenager with attitude

Join Date: Jul 2005

Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]

There are enough "how to make money" threads out there. Closed.