Curse

Thallandor · Apr 04, 2006, 11:56 AM // 11:56

/signed

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.

96TSi · Apr 04, 2006, 12:33 PM // 12:33

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.

Loviatar · Apr 04, 2006, 02:49 PM // 14:49

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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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it is called competition.

i used to do that..i also used to sell fur squares at between 250-450 easy .............now

eudas · Apr 05, 2006, 05:15 PM // 17:15

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

Cottage Pie · Apr 05, 2006, 05:28 PM // 17:28

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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?

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 · Apr 05, 2006, 06:44 PM // 18:44

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.

Dracus Steelbow · Apr 05, 2006, 09:32 PM // 21:32

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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)

Could you please leave a link, or if you have already, a page number from this thread?

XvArchonvX · Apr 06, 2006, 02:18 AM // 02:18

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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.

I actually have found that farming imps and golems outside Ice Caves with my R/Mo makes more than farming ettins outside Bergen with my tank. I almost never get any runes/gold/purple items with this type of farming, even though I can get some good runes with my tank, but the pure amount of gold and materials along with shiverpeaks keys and such makes up for it.

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 · Apr 06, 2006, 02:23 AM // 02:23

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...

Tobias Funke · Apr 06, 2006, 04:22 AM // 04:22

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Originally Posted by firestartr

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

I second that. It works for the ettins too.

Francis Crawford · May 15, 2006, 08:50 AM // 08:50

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.

WeepingRanger · May 15, 2006, 08:53 AM // 08:53

good stuff...............

Eat A Poptart · Jul 24, 2006, 12:41 AM // 00:41

i wish i was rich i only got like 1k in my bank

Enko · Jul 24, 2006, 03:52 AM // 03:52

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 · Jul 24, 2006, 08:41 AM // 08:41

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 · Jul 24, 2006, 09:35 AM // 09:35

Someone please enlighten me and tell me what the point is in hoarding gold and not using any of it?

Silent Kitty · Jul 24, 2006, 09:52 AM // 09:52

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Originally Posted by majoho

Someone please enlighten me and tell me what the point is in hoarding gold and not using any of it?

When a new chapter comes out, it makes it easier to equip your new characters.

majoho · Jul 24, 2006, 09:57 AM // 09:57

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 · Jul 24, 2006, 10:20 AM // 10:20

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.

Malice Black · Jul 24, 2006, 10:39 AM // 10:39

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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.

farming is part of any MMO...dont like that fact then dont play the games