Money making schemes

To follow up on Redfang's post, I'd just like to say that you can pretty much do all the missions with the crappy, generic armour (you know the one, it's always the armour which is cheapest to make in terms of materials). Save your rare and precious materials for masks and lvl 20 armour.

I misread it... Not quite like you misinterpreted though.. lol.
I misread it as Monkey Mating Scheme.
Good read, good info...
I'm definentl going to be doing that to stock up before the academy.

When and on which item should I use an expert salvage kit instead of a basic one?

After wasting some expert kits on items which gave me only a few basic materials, my rule of thumb has become to use expert kits only on salvage items (Shaman Garb, Mind Spark Garb...) which can drop a rune or a rare crafting material (silk, steel or linen), or on a weapon with crappy stats and a good component.

Same question for ID kits. Is it a good idea to identify all items? I tend to identify only the items with decent stats for my lvl, or items from late missions.

Where is the first place you can come across a vault keeper?

I've found that the fastest way to get gold is to travel through an area that's still gives you experience. If you decrease the henchmen you need, the wasted gold will rise. Another item that you want to keep ahold of are salvage packs, maybe four or three(-300 gold). No matter what zone you're in, you'll eventually run out of room for carrying equipment. Other than that, you may make more money exploring than going through missions since the mission monsters tend to be easier to deal with, and you can always return to a spot to pick up something you left behind if you die.

Expert Salvage Kits seem to work better on runed armor, equipment that unlocks combat abilities, and identified colored items that unlock runes. Rare items sell very well to outfitters. Highly salvageable usually gives a lot of items or occasionally a few rare crafting components. I believe you need to use the expert salvage kit to obtain the rare components, but I can't back that statement up.

in ascalon - at least in post-searing. I was never in pre-searing this last beta, so don't know if there is one there.

In post-searing Ascalon. There was none in pre-sear, but that may all change in the full release, though.

on the first page someone said they got around 30-35 scale fins near fort ranik i love scale fins i will buy them for 15 gold a piece,(sorry i am a collector) so anytime anyone here has scale fins bring them to Lazerous Demnivanni. I LOVE SCALE FINS!!

speaking of making golds in game...
i would like to share my experience.
i bought a rune of holding which costs 500 gold in a town.
instead of subtracting 500 golds...i actually earned 500 golds for free..plus a rune of holding.
i was like....cool!!! free golds plus a rune!!!
but i reported it right away...so i think it is fixed now.
it helped me to gather gold for my armour bit faster though lol

just sharing my story

Redfang,

That sounds like good advice for a MMORPG or for life. You can look/act rich or you can be rich.

Cheers,
Lews
www.freecorps.net

ya um why would u report it? jerk

I'm probably not going to be at a point to make use of this anytime soon....

so what about buying expert salvage kits in Yaks Bend, mapping back to early post-sear locations and selling them for 150% - 200%?

I know that I've got some items I'd at least like to try an expert kit on and won't get a chance to get one for a while.

So far, my favorite gold scheme in pre is also a very risky one:

Just south of Barradin Estate is a merchant in Green Hills, there is another southeast in what looks like a gypsy camp. Either of these two merchants, or any that are in explorable areas, will work for this trick.

The trick is that I drop my entire inventory at the merchant's feet, then am able to fill every slot with valuable items in the surrounding areas. Come back, sell all, grab your goodies and head back to Barradin to reset. Rinse, repeat, leave pre-searing with 2 plats like I did. =)

If you try it, just keep praying to your respective god that the game doesn't crash or the server doesn't go down, because you lose all but your gold if it does. Luckily, the merchants aren't smart enough to pick up the stuff at his feet rather than paying you for it.

Or, rather than dump all your loot on the ground, you could make due with the empty inventory slots you have and just make multiple trips to the merchant. Less risky, and besides, just how much stuff are you carrying around that you're not willing to sell? I believe I had seven slots allocated to things I wanted to keep. The rest was empty after any visit to a merchant.

I kill lots of shatter gargoyles, they drop scales, I sell them for way to much

Shatter Gargoyles have scales? My E/Me Lvl 9 needs some of those to buy the pyromancer armor in Ascalon! Where's the closes place I can find some of these beasties?

Do you guys know if this is stil valid ? I just started a new character..and well..i know where to get the belts --> I know where to find the collector who will give me a pouch --> but i dont see any "outfitter" near there and the "standard merchant" buys the pouches for 5g each only They removed this, or did i just look at the wrong places (all around ashford and abbey) Thanx in advance

Right outside Ascalon in Old ascalon. Turn right at the first junction and walk to the end pressing c, probly the first monster you see will be a gargoyle of some sort. And flash gargoyles are usually acompanied by their pals, shatter gargoyles. To kill more just go to the desert section, there are dozens there. In fact all of old ascalon is infested with them.

Patched. They now offer 5g for belt pouches. I once got offered 6g for one by some merchant, but that's still not a profit.

Regarding salvaging things in pre-searing, I salvage everthing that isn't "precious". Salvaged materials stack, non salvaged weapons/armor don't stack. I'm a raw material horder (the term for "a woman that is easy" is filtered ).

Yeah they only go for 5g now to merchants, but you can easily sell them to other players for 50gold...unfortunatly you cannot trade them in the trade window. The only way to do it is to go to a PvE area with them in your party, and drop the bag on the ground, then have them give you the money.

I did this for 3 pouches, none of the 3 people tried to rip me off, and I got an easy 150gold for it. Course it is a little annoying that you have to do this...wish they would just let you trade empty bags.