making moneyFollow

kill, steal and con. Works for me

Depends a lot on class and level. Help us out here, what are you?

hill giants in rathe mountains

Used to make some money killing Griffs in Jagged Pine and autoforaging at the same time. Griff meats and plant shoots sold to those doing baking for 15pp each.

Not sure if the new GoD recipes have nerfed this though...

Find a trader in the bazaar you can farm for. Ex. acrylia bars go for 100pp in the bazaar. The kill at 51 is a breeze all green to you. You could easily make some serious plat there in a few hours either by having your own trader or farming for another. Also, 5th floor wedding in the Tower of Frozen Shadow. Kill the ushers the bars sell for 100pp in the bazaar. Both of these items are used in tradeskills and traders love them!

My sentiments exactly...*cough*Ebay*cough*

True, I am constantly amazed by the /ooc banter that goes on in PoK about "How do I get to east karanas?" and "Where is the library?" coming from mid-high level characters. I guess some people don't have a lot of time to go exploring and just end up going to places they are very familiar with until they can't possibly stay any longer.
It's just that it takes a good long while to get your first character up to 51 (I'm only 40) and it seems odd that someone would be asking these types of questions in the manner they are asking them after spending that much time in the game.
I could be wrong! *cough*ebay*cough* :)

I could see how an non-ebayed character could get to be relatively high level and not know where a zone is. Myself, I got talked into playing the game by a friend, who had a lvl 51 at the time cleric. Well I wanted to play with him, so I pretty much focused on leveling. After I got to his level, we ended up joining a raiding guild so again to be useful, focused on leveling.....

So I know all about
Halas
Blackburrow
Paladule Caverns
LDONS
Dulak
Droga
Planes of Power

I have run around in
Old Sebulos, veskar, chardok and Chazic Thule

I know there is a lot of EQ that I have missed and I will say my overall EQ geography knowledge is **** poor. But if you would group with me, my overall play skills are solid. I know the roles of each class and how they pertain to a group setting.

I am willing to go explore, but I play a warrior and it is next to impossible to find pickup groups that are willing to just run around exploring.

What amazes me though about that question, where JP is... is we're in a forum of Alla's. Click zones on the left, click on Jaggedpine Forest. Tells yah pretty much where it is, what zones it's connected to, etc... even gives you a map and bestiary.

Anyways, at lvl 51 ranger, you should be able to kill hill giants in Rathe Mountains (off Feerott, take the Ogguk stone, go west). They will be iffy xp still at that level, can bow kite em if you have the arrows to burn, or straight up kill them, just heal yourself after fights. When you get encumbered with coin, go north in the zone to the gem merchant and buy peridots to lose coin weight. Little loss in coin once you sell them back off, but better than runnin out of zone every halfhour-hour.

What's that poem?

How many ways can a Ranger make money?!

I know that Druids and Necros can do OK, but I think that all things considered a ranger has more ways of making lots of plat than any other class in the game. (Yes, even if for some strange reason they wont kill bears and wolves).

1. You can forage stuff all over Norrath and the Planes that many silly erh needy people will pay big prices for. As Josettee said, do a deal with a proffesional bazaar vendor and wholesale the stuff out to him/her.

2. You can hunt rockhoppers for pelts that also sell for ridiculous prices, ditto above to sell.

3. As mentioned above you can hunt Grimlings and aliens for acrylia, while you are at it you can collect stuff for the Rallic Pack.

4. Hunt giants in DL, FM, BW, GD, WL - collect PP, sell the stuff to merchants.

5. Hunt Geos in WL for gems, Gorillas and Panadas in Stonebrunt for gems, Ulthorks in EW (or anywhere the tusks drop) for gem quest in CS.

If all of that is too hard, go to the Warrens and slaughter kobolds, get good faction with Paineel and sell everthing you loot to the Paineel merchants.

Oh and of course there is that top secret Ranger strategy, hunt mammoths in EF and sell the tusks to the magus at the Wayfarer camp.

Edited, Wed Apr 28 23:47:48 2004 by Iluien

Crystal Caverns would be a good spot to farm Acrylia for 51 ranger

I think the "e-bay card" is overplayed. There are some astonishingly ignorant people who have played all the way up from leve1 1. (I use "ignorant" in it's technical rather than derogatory sense)

This is caused by many factors.

The "mainline" PC>HHK>DSP/DL>PoP that means you can reach 65 without ever visiting Norrath apart from a brief tussle in your newbie yard.

Some people have awful memories. ¥hen I was doing my levels of quadding in E¥ the same guy came in night after night and asked for the loc of Crystal Caverns. He is actually a good player aside from a slight attitude but obviously completely incapable of remembering where a zone is for 24 hours.

Failure to use sites like this. I meet people frequently who are missing spells because they simply do not know they exist. Like the 16 Cleric still using Light Healing because he didn't know he had an upgrade. Like the "Old hand" cleric who would not believe he got a rez before 39 (or whenever the first one used to be). Like a 53 Cleric whose only heals are CH or Celestial. Like the 40ish non-tanking ranger who used a shield "because this mob hits hard". Even people who post questions here seem often to ignore the rest of the site. Just like the guy in E¥ it is easier to put a shout out and let someone tell you than find out yourself

Because if you have good friends or guild you may never have the need to find solo spots, You are carried along by their need for your company (or your class ) Until one day they have left or gone on holiday and suddenly you need to find somewhere they never took you. And it has to be said that JPF is a nightmare zone for nonrangers/druids unless you can totally avoid the wildlife and do cave basilisks or gnolls

Because so many people emphasise levelling above anything else. The idea in WoW (or is it EQ2) that you can gain exp by exploring is wonderful. It may backfire but the concept of rewarding people for gettin away from the 2% of content that "gets you levels fast" is great.

So there is no need to cry "E-bay" every time you meet someone who doesn't know their asp from their elbow.