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Rampager · Feb 13, 2007, 07:01 AM // 07:01

Running to towns, Running missions and chest runs

SotiCoto · Feb 13, 2007, 11:15 AM // 11:15

Whatever crap is dropped for me in my travels.... I pick it up and sell it to the merchant. Thats the long and the short of it. I don't have any more special ways of getting cash....

... Ok... maybe one.

I've found some bosses when soloed will drop scrolls... occasionally rare scrolls... and I can merch them for 400 apiece... which isn't necessarily too shabby... Funnily enough I've never tried selling them to a Rare Scroll Trader...

But thats about it. I don't deal with human meatbags as regards buying or selling... generally....

Star Naiad · Feb 13, 2007, 04:42 PM // 16:42

Farm Kournan Pendants sell them to Helenah in Gandara, the Moon Fortress for Bone Idol which is 270 gold and buy like 20 of them and merch em and i make 5400G

Miss Puddles · Feb 13, 2007, 04:52 PM // 16:52

honestly, picking up every single item that drops for me, as long as i have inventory space. id'ing and salvaging all those things and merching what i dont want.
that and the free treasure in elona

Kotetsu Rain · Feb 13, 2007, 07:01 PM // 19:01

Now I can do any of the above. I have an A/E Solo green farmer that i toy around with and I run Droks whenever I need some spare cash. I swear my networht across all my characters has to be in the 600k range but I've never seen a 3 digit number in front of my platinum. >:P Anyways when your starting out these are some of the things that you can't come to do quickly so heres what I did when I started out.

You always get meaningless drops from monsters and the such but instead of selling those right away to the merchant see what you can salvage them into first AND how high the stacks (10 of a material) are going for in the merchant. Your net worth will begin to rise little by little by paying more attention to what you can get in the long run instead of immediatly selling for quick cash.

the_jos · Feb 13, 2007, 07:27 PM // 19:27

Picking up everything on my path and merch those.
The rest is just doing quests and missions.

Furtermore, reconsidering what you spend is not a source of income, but helps keeping a positive cashflow.

wetsparks · Feb 13, 2007, 08:12 PM // 20:12

I sell all whites to the merchant. Blue, purple, and golds get identified, if they are any good I'll sell to other people for fairly cheap so that I dont spend all day spamming a sell (enless it is worth big bucks, then it would be worth spending all day spamming). IDing all the colored stuff usually makes the 100 gold back after the second or third item plus a couple thousand more gold. After IDing, if it says highly salvageable, I salvage it because the materials are worth more than the item.

After that I do all the quests cuz they give out money, sometimes an item or tradable thing like comendations, plus the loot from monsters. Do some farming with my warrior and ranger but that gets boring. What I like to do though is make a new character and get all the comendations on the noob isle, sometimes I'll trade them for ale for my drunkard title, but mostly I trade them for scrolls for 100g.

Edit: Try to get your Protector Titles also, having to go through the missions, especially the later missions, multiple times can get you decent money. I get up to 1000 gold per run in the latter missions.

Painbringer · Feb 13, 2007, 09:02 PM // 21:02

Play the game and collect and sell. Made 20k yesterday off of drops from questing/missions alone. (Granted the black dye and white dye helped get to 20

)

My Green Storage · Feb 13, 2007, 10:18 PM // 22:18

Bored: a/e - e/a solo farm
Want to: B/P in SF, Ele in Deep
Really bored: Chest Run
Wanted to ALOT, but recently became BS: Solo E/Me smite farming (Nerf Visage / Grasping interrupts are FTL)

But my source of income: Greens.
Don't have to worry about this or that stat.
People know them.
People know the price of em.
Don't need to have it Price Checked / checked for rarity.
Set a fair price and 7/10 times it's a quick sale.

moriz · Feb 13, 2007, 10:38 PM // 22:38

i do AB on the kurzick side for jadeite shards.

T N Player · Feb 13, 2007, 11:25 PM // 23:25

i 55 in moddock crevice, i got a a gold tatoo scim there and sold it for a lot and lots of gold runes there too. my guildie got a white colossal scim so a gold one is possible.

Jesse · Feb 13, 2007, 11:31 PM // 23:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by Batou of Nine

3 words::

Domain of Anguish

bingo...thats it, That and Fow soloing / UW W/Rt soloing and everything in between

Eldin · Feb 13, 2007, 11:43 PM // 23:43

For me the income from questing, missions, and exploring covers most of my expenses until about the Crystal Desert/Drok's, where between 1.5k armor between salvage/ID kits and such just becomes too expensive for me.

Also, about how much do you make on average after one hour of farming? I'm just asking because I make about 10k an hour, and I want to know, is that "good" by most standards?

-.- · Feb 13, 2007, 11:45 PM // 23:45

Underworld for now, everything else isn't worth it for a Warrior.

The Herbalizer · Feb 13, 2007, 11:47 PM // 23:47

pre-factions running
pre-factions power trading

dont need to work for gold now.

**cosyfiep** · Feb 14, 2007, 12:28 AM // 00:28

questing, missions....and now those treasure chests/buried treasures etc (have 9 toons that can do them and most havent gotten to the later ones yet).
otherwise just playing and then capping all my elites---usually gets me enough for what I need.

BuD · Feb 14, 2007, 01:14 AM // 01:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by My Green Storage

Wanted to ALOT, but recently became BS: Solo E/Me smite farming (Nerf Visage / Grasping interrupts are FTL)

This is still very doable, it takes practice to learn the timing of their interrupts.

When no guildies are around late at night I solo UW with with my Ele & the build youre talkin about. B4 NF I farmed trolls for a long long time with my Ele, then I made a Monk then farmed pretty much everything around the trolls (Avicara Tundra Giants & Grawl). I have since made a Warrior, Id like to start doing chest runs.

Envious · Feb 14, 2007, 01:20 AM // 01:20

My primary money maker is Farming, though I do a bit of UW/FoW.

Traveller · Feb 14, 2007, 09:49 AM // 09:49

I really haven't a main source of income. When Prophecies was new, I used to farm and farm and grind and grind until I became very bored of it and had to take a break from gaming. I usually make money whenever there's a fad around, like IDS or 3x green weekends, but right now I have about 2k in my bank account but I just can't be arsed to grind for more. It'll come if it'll come.

Here's to hoping they reset the Elona treasures once again - that's a really fun way to get some money and some nice weapons!

Cebe · Feb 14, 2007, 10:06 AM // 10:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by CyberMesh0

Cartography.

This is true. I was quite amazed at how much money I made just exploring GW...edge-walking forces you to slaughter your way through piles of Heket..Wardens..Imps....

Feb 13, 2007, 07:01 PM // 19:01	#25
Kotetsu Rain Lion's Arch Merchant Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Utopia Profession: D/	My way Now I can do any of the above. I have an A/E Solo green farmer that i toy around with and I run Droks whenever I need some spare cash. I swear my networht across all my characters has to be in the 600k range but I've never seen a 3 digit number in front of my platinum. >:P Anyways when your starting out these are some of the things that you can't come to do quickly so heres what I did when I started out. You always get meaningless drops from monsters and the such but instead of selling those right away to the merchant see what you can salvage them into first AND how high the stacks (10 of a material) are going for in the merchant. Your net worth will begin to rise little by little by paying more attention to what you can get in the long run instead of immediatly selling for quick cash.

Feb 13, 2007, 08:12 PM // 20:12	#27
wetsparks Desert Nomad Join Date: Nov 2006	I sell all whites to the merchant. Blue, purple, and golds get identified, if they are any good I'll sell to other people for fairly cheap so that I dont spend all day spamming a sell (enless it is worth big bucks, then it would be worth spending all day spamming). IDing all the colored stuff usually makes the 100 gold back after the second or third item plus a couple thousand more gold. After IDing, if it says highly salvageable, I salvage it because the materials are worth more than the item. After that I do all the quests cuz they give out money, sometimes an item or tradable thing like comendations, plus the loot from monsters. Do some farming with my warrior and ranger but that gets boring. What I like to do though is make a new character and get all the comendations on the noob isle, sometimes I'll trade them for ale for my drunkard title, but mostly I trade them for scrolls for 100g. Edit: Try to get your Protector Titles also, having to go through the missions, especially the later missions, multiple times can get you decent money. I get up to 1000 gold per run in the latter missions. Last edited by wetsparks; Feb 13, 2007 at 08:45 PM // 20:45..

Feb 13, 2007, 09:02 PM // 21:02	#28
Painbringer Furnace Stoker Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Minnesota Guild: Black Widows of Death Profession: W/Mo	Play the game and collect and sell. Made 20k yesterday off of drops from questing/missions alone. (Granted the black dye and white dye helped get to 20)

Feb 13, 2007, 07:01 AM // 07:01	#21
Rampager Krytan Explorer Join Date: May 2006 Location: Australia Profession: Mo/	Running to towns, Running missions and chest runs

Feb 13, 2007, 11:15 AM // 11:15	#22
SotiCoto Banned Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Drazach Thicket Guild: Temple of Zhen Xianren [Sifu]	Whatever crap is dropped for me in my travels.... I pick it up and sell it to the merchant. Thats the long and the short of it. I don't have any more special ways of getting cash.... ... Ok... maybe one. I've found some bosses when soloed will drop scrolls... occasionally rare scrolls... and I can merch them for 400 apiece... which isn't necessarily too shabby... Funnily enough I've never tried selling them to a Rare Scroll Trader... But thats about it. I don't deal with human meatbags as regards buying or selling... generally....

Feb 13, 2007, 04:42 PM // 16:42	#23
Star Naiad Academy Page Join Date: Nov 2006	Farm Kournan Pendants sell them to Helenah in Gandara, the Moon Fortress for Bone Idol which is 270 gold and buy like 20 of them and merch em and i make 5400G

Feb 13, 2007, 04:52 PM // 16:52	#24
Miss Puddles Jungle Guide Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: California Guild: Shiverpeaks Search And Rescue [Lost] Profession: Me/	honestly, picking up every single item that drops for me, as long as i have inventory space. id'ing and salvaging all those things and merching what i dont want. that and the free treasure in elona

Feb 13, 2007, 07:27 PM // 19:27	#26
the_jos Forge Runner Join Date: Jun 2006 Guild: Hard Mode Legion [HML] Profession: N/	Picking up everything on my path and merch those. The rest is just doing quests and missions. Furtermore, reconsidering what you spend is not a source of income, but helps keeping a positive cashflow.

Feb 13, 2007, 10:18 PM // 22:18	#29
My Green Storage Wilds Pathfinder Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Arizona Guild: My Blue Storage Profession: N/	Bored: a/e - e/a solo farm Want to: B/P in SF, Ele in Deep Really bored: Chest Run Wanted to ALOT, but recently became BS: Solo E/Me smite farming (Nerf Visage / Grasping interrupts are FTL) But my source of income: Greens. Don't have to worry about this or that stat. People know them. People know the price of em. Don't need to have it Price Checked / checked for rarity. Set a fair price and 7/10 times it's a quick sale.

Feb 13, 2007, 10:38 PM // 22:38	#30
moriz ??ber t??k-n??sh'??n Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Canada Profession: R/	i do AB on the kurzick side for jadeite shards.

Feb 13, 2007, 11:25 PM // 23:25	#31
T N Player Krytan Explorer Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: The Bay Area Profession: W/	i 55 in moddock crevice, i got a a gold tatoo scim there and sold it for a lot and lots of gold runes there too. my guildie got a white colossal scim so a gold one is possible.

Feb 13, 2007, 11:43 PM // 23:43	#33
Eldin Forge Runner Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: America. How about you, commie? Guild: Fellows of Mythgar [FOM] Profession: R/Mo	For me the income from questing, missions, and exploring covers most of my expenses until about the Crystal Desert/Drok's, where between 1.5k armor between salvage/ID kits and such just becomes too expensive for me. Also, about how much do you make on average after one hour of farming? I'm just asking because I make about 10k an hour, and I want to know, is that "good" by most standards?

Feb 13, 2007, 11:45 PM // 23:45	#34
-.- Banned Join Date: Oct 2006	Underworld for now, everything else isn't worth it for a Warrior.

Feb 13, 2007, 11:47 PM // 23:47	#35
The Herbalizer <3 Ecto Join Date: Jul 2005	pre-factions running pre-factions power trading dont need to work for gold now.

Feb 14, 2007, 12:28 AM // 00:28	#36
cosyfiep are we there yet? Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: in a land far far away Guild: guild? I am supposed to have a guild? Profession: Rt/	questing, missions....and now those treasure chests/buried treasures etc (have 9 toons that can do them and most havent gotten to the later ones yet). otherwise just playing and then capping all my elites---usually gets me enough for what I need.

Feb 14, 2007, 01:20 AM // 01:20	#38
Envious Frost Gate Guardian Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: 13N/144E FoKai	My primary money maker is Farming, though I do a bit of UW/FoW.

Feb 14, 2007, 09:49 AM // 09:49	#39
Traveller Wilds Pathfinder Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Finland Guild: League of Extraordinary Explorers [LOST] (my one man guild) Profession: Me/	I really haven't a main source of income. When Prophecies was new, I used to farm and farm and grind and grind until I became very bored of it and had to take a break from gaming. I usually make money whenever there's a fad around, like IDS or 3x green weekends, but right now I have about 2k in my bank account but I just can't be arsed to grind for more. It'll come if it'll come. Here's to hoping they reset the Elona treasures once again - that's a really fun way to get some money and some nice weapons!