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in the first month of playing GW in august 2005, i just got out of presearing with 12k from charr and ended with 55 at the end of the week in ascolon trading. Didnt even have a character passed piken square yet back then.
How to make big money
Thallandor
96TSi
seems in the past month or so my easy cash has turned to crap. i used to buy wood in massives amounts and craft them into parchment to sell. but now days it seems everyone has figured that out and is selling parchment in droks for 70g each.
once i got to the point hwere i could buy alot of supplies to craft, i was making an easy income.
once i got to the point hwere i could buy alot of supplies to craft, i was making an easy income.
Loviatar
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Originally Posted by 96TSi
seems in the past month or so my easy cash has turned to crap. i used to buy wood in massives amounts and craft them into parchment to sell. but now days it seems everyone has figured that out and is selling parchment in droks for 70g each.
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i used to do that..i also used to sell fur squares at between 250-450 easy .............now
eudas
feathers are a decent common material to sell for money right now (common mat trader buys them for 90gp per 10). they are easily obtained by farming tengu, avarica, or blessed griffons.
vials of ink are also a reasonably decent profit (rare mat trader buys them for 120, a profit of 53gp over what their crafting cost is).
i'm not sure whether it's more profitable to use the collector in ascalon to trade 4 charr hides for 1 fur square, or if it's better to expert salvage the charr hides for fur squares and hope that you get at least a 25% success rate. anyone have any data on this?
i'm trying to make a little spreadsheet which one could just input the buyer-purchases-at prices for things, and then it could tell you which ones are the good things to sell today. i need to put in a "min price i'll sell for" column though so it can be more selective.
eudas
vials of ink are also a reasonably decent profit (rare mat trader buys them for 120, a profit of 53gp over what their crafting cost is).
i'm not sure whether it's more profitable to use the collector in ascalon to trade 4 charr hides for 1 fur square, or if it's better to expert salvage the charr hides for fur squares and hope that you get at least a 25% success rate. anyone have any data on this?
i'm trying to make a little spreadsheet which one could just input the buyer-purchases-at prices for things, and then it could tell you which ones are the good things to sell today. i need to put in a "min price i'll sell for" column though so it can be more selective.
eudas
Cottage Pie
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It's definately more profitable, In my experiance (and a test I did) to trade them for fur rather than expert salvage, I was getting leather for most of the hides, add the cost on expert salavge kits into that and it ends up more cost effective to just trade 'em
Juk3n
Elona minos - 1 gold item out of about 200 kills (bad)
1 purple item out of about 50 kills (quite bad)
2-3 Blue drops per 2 min run.
thats about 15 minos, 2 mins, 600-800g per run if everything goes straite to merchant. Back when i was a noobling i used to do this run killing enemies 1 by 1 with my swordy warrior too about 20 mins for a run but that included Dune Burrowers. then i learned w/smite and it became just Mino's. to this day there isnt another place where u are Garunteed to make 8-10k an hour , WITHOUT..getting a perfect mod/weapon or rune..all items to merchant (as stated before) Been using it for 8 months.
Quicker than Drock Trolls, was quicker than Griffs, (even though they gave better drops, they we're never 2 min runs) for pure quick cash purposes without looking to strike rare items it cant be beat .
Just my personel view.
1 purple item out of about 50 kills (quite bad)
2-3 Blue drops per 2 min run.
thats about 15 minos, 2 mins, 600-800g per run if everything goes straite to merchant. Back when i was a noobling i used to do this run killing enemies 1 by 1 with my swordy warrior too about 20 mins for a run but that included Dune Burrowers. then i learned w/smite and it became just Mino's. to this day there isnt another place where u are Garunteed to make 8-10k an hour , WITHOUT..getting a perfect mod/weapon or rune..all items to merchant (as stated before) Been using it for 8 months.
Quicker than Drock Trolls, was quicker than Griffs, (even though they gave better drops, they we're never 2 min runs) for pure quick cash purposes without looking to strike rare items it cant be beat .
Just my personel view.
Dracus Steelbow
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Originally Posted by Ketendra
Go to the 3rd page of the Chest Farming thread an you will find the Divinity Coast barrell (and alot of information/opinions on it in general)
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XvArchonvX
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Originally Posted by wgregory87
You're not making money around yaks because you're a ranger and you don't have traps yet. Rangers are among the worst classes for solo farming before you get traps.
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While I realize that this isn't the most profitable way to farm, I've never had the desire to make a 55 monk and since I have given up SF farming due to value dropping in green items, I find that this works well for me. I already have 8 char, 5 of which are lvl 20, seared, and at least to RoF if not completed the game (had a lvl 20 necro also, but decided to remake him). On these char I have several pairs of 15 armor, green/gold max/perfect, blah blah. Case being I really don't have as much of a need for gold as I used to and spend more time helping guildmates or just messin around with new characters that I am working on at the same pace with friends, so money isn't really a worry anymore.
stickyballs
POWERTRADING <-----slow, and mind numbing, but BEST PROFITS
I bought a 14^50 R8 Crystalline for 1.2 Mil. Then a few days later I sold it for like 2.5 Mil. Of course, you have to start small...(ex. buying Fellblade UnIDed for 40k, selling for 60-65k) It won't be easy, but once you have the general idea and feel of the value of items, you can easily make 20-30k in like 10-15 minutes. Watch LA Dis 1 and eventually you will see a good valued item.
EDIT: Reviving ages old thread btw. And 820k is not so rich it hurts, it is relatively rich. *Rich* imo, is those who got freaking 15^50 R8 Crystalline Swords. How many people is that again? Oh yeah, less than the number of fingers I have (5 fingers, lol), I remember now...
I bought a 14^50 R8 Crystalline for 1.2 Mil. Then a few days later I sold it for like 2.5 Mil. Of course, you have to start small...(ex. buying Fellblade UnIDed for 40k, selling for 60-65k) It won't be easy, but once you have the general idea and feel of the value of items, you can easily make 20-30k in like 10-15 minutes. Watch LA Dis 1 and eventually you will see a good valued item.
EDIT: Reviving ages old thread btw. And 820k is not so rich it hurts, it is relatively rich. *Rich* imo, is those who got freaking 15^50 R8 Crystalline Swords. How many people is that again? Oh yeah, less than the number of fingers I have (5 fingers, lol), I remember now...
Tobias Funke
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i found one somewhat reliable way to solo farm with a ranger
have high beastmastery and a lvl 20 pet and simply farm sand drakes...they are usualy in small numbers so you wont get ganged up on and your pet takes most of the damage |
Francis Crawford
To update this thread with a general observation:
Prices of most things have come down. Therefore, most ways to make money produce less than before -- but they still make enough to get you what you need to have a maximally powerful character pretty easily.
There are many many many ways of making money. The key is to find the ones that also are fun for you, and that you find you can be good at.
Also, there are certain kinds of farming -- for many people, ettins -- that don't make a lot of money, but do provide exactly what you need for armor or weapons -- runes, tanned hides, and so on.
Prices of most things have come down. Therefore, most ways to make money produce less than before -- but they still make enough to get you what you need to have a maximally powerful character pretty easily.
There are many many many ways of making money. The key is to find the ones that also are fun for you, and that you find you can be good at.
Also, there are certain kinds of farming -- for many people, ettins -- that don't make a lot of money, but do provide exactly what you need for armor or weapons -- runes, tanned hides, and so on.
WeepingRanger
good stuff...............
Eat A Poptart
i wish i was rich i only got like 1k in my bank
Enko
after having the game for about 4 weeks, i've raised about 800k gold mainly from buyng and selling. material trading is a great way to raise money though its slow and steady. after realizing i was spending full days just selling instead of actually playing the game, i went out and got another account so now i keep on character in town trading while i play on my main.
The milk shake
personally i have a mediocre amount of money but ive felt that buy low sell high etc... is THE best way to make money, spent a few minutes and get some good deals.
majoho
Someone please enlighten me and tell me what the point is in hoarding gold and not using any of it?
Silent Kitty
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Someone please enlighten me and tell me what the point is in hoarding gold and not using any of it?
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majoho
Well I don't buy that... sounds to me like people are just farming for farmings sake - must have gotten the habit from WoW or something.
Longasc
While playing through the game, have plenty of Luxon and Kurzick keys.
Buy them from Alliance members that can sell them for say 500 GP.
These keys are a gamble, but they are worth it. These chests gave me better drop than I ever had elsewhere - regularly.
Buy them from Alliance members that can sell them for say 500 GP.
These keys are a gamble, but they are worth it. These chests gave me better drop than I ever had elsewhere - regularly.
Malice Black
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Originally Posted by majoho
Well I don't buy that... sounds to me like people are just farming for farmings sake - must have gotten the habit from WoW or something.
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Jetdoc
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Originally Posted by Malice Black
farming is part of any MMO...dont like that fact then dont play the games
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I've accumulated all of my wealth by (1) doing missions and quests solo without henchmen and (2) buying/selling on the open market.
I've always lived by many of the suggestions of the OP, except I find that expert salvaging, on average, doesn't quite produce the returns that you hope for. I generally only expert salvage an item if both of the following apply: (1) it is an item that will yield iron normally and (2) it is highly salvagable. And that is for the sole reason of salvaging steel, which is probably the most marketable (and valuable) "common" rare salvage material.
But then again, I've had incredibly bad luck expert salvaging items, so that may cause some of my bias...
majoho
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Originally Posted by Malice Black
farming is part of any MMO...dont like that fact then dont play the games
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My suggestion was that people merely THOUGH that they had to do it because they were used to it, to some people I assume it's a sport, but then again they are obviously retarded or something if they can't think of better things to do
Deacon Roswell
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Originally Posted by majoho
No it's not, you don't need to farm in GW at all.
My suggestion was that people merely THOUGH that they had to do it because they were used to it, to some people I assume it's a sport, but then again they are obviously retarded or something if they can't think of better things to do |
Farming IS a part of any MMO. You may not choose to do it, and you certainly don't have to do it, but it IS a part of the game.