I'm a Weak Lil Gnome and I Can't Carry AnythingFollow

I've soloed Rathe Hill Giants and other mobs for plat/loot and I end up being encumbered really quickly...This makes for no fun, as I have to zone or port to a bank and sell and bank my plat, which brings on alot of downtime and makes the whole farming thing less efficient...

It's not so much the loot, but the coin that weighs me down...I finally realized (after going nuts b/c I couldn't drop it on the ground) that I can destroy my copper pieces which helps out, but I still end up weighed down rather quickly (I suppose I could destroy my silver as well)...

I've got a my 10 slot 50% weight reduction bag from LDoN (I had no idea what the "reward" was, I'm so happy that I chose my necro to be the recipient) and a 6 slot 25% archaeologists pack which someone gave to me, but from what I can tell 100% weight reduction bags are very expensive and it would be counterproductive to put my money into those when the purpose is to make plat to begin with...

My str is a dismal 80 something, again, It'd be counterproductive, in a number of ways, to buy str gear for the lil guy...I do often try to get HoS before I leave to farm, but honestly, I'm not ready to leave when that wears off...

When I'm in the mood to make plat, I like to grind it out, usually at odd hours when there aren't that many people on line, and it's a real pain to have to gate out and find a bank, especially when its a considerable run to the zone where I'm farming...

So...Any suggestions as to how to prevent becoming encumbered so quickly? Also, if you have any farming spots that you wish to share (lvl41 necro), I'd appreciate that as well...


Oh, and I forgot, Is there any way to make the coin weight reduced via my wt. reduction bags?

Edited, Sat May 15 17:19:16 2004 by Blacktharne

Getting rid of your copper and silver is a must.

Another thing you can do is send an OOC where you will trade your gold for something under the conversion rate in plat.

Also, you can get frost giant beards in the Great Divide. They drop off of giants. As long as you're over level 35, you can briefly equip it, right click it and increase your STR.

I think one beard has 5 charges. And like the other guys said. Sell FS items to the Rathe vendors.

Edited, Sat May 15 18:31:07 2004 by Ralston

Thanks for the suggestions guys, some good things I didn't think of, one thing though about the GMing a tradeskill...

I brew, bake, and make pottery with my necro (smith with my war and tailor with my druid, those are slower as they are more expensive though) and I imagine it would be pretty easy to GM brewing or baking, as both are about 150 atm, and as I recall it isn't that expensive to do and I keep all my foraged items from my ranger and druid, but...

I can only GM one tradeskill per toon, right? So, given that I brew, bake, and pot with my necro (I also have a bunch of words saved up and plan on dumping training points into research, can I GM, research and does it count as my 1 GM tradeskill?) so which would be most wise to GM? My knowledge about upper end tradeskilling is very limited, GM =250 and max for others is 200, is that right?

The idea that I could summon unlimited 100% redux bags is very very appealing, and I would definitely be willing to invest the time (and a limited amount of plat) into creating my "trophy" and could probably get some help from my guild if some of the "trophy" items are tough to get...

you are right that you can only gm 1 tradeskill others can only go to 200 until you get high enough to earn aa's then you can use them to be able to gm more than one ( i am not sure exactly how it works i am not that high yet)

Good deal, thanks for the info...

Is GMing Brewing a mistake, though? Would it be better to put a little more effort into one of the other TSs, since GMing one of them might be more useful/profitable in the end?


Also, can someone else please verify that if I GM a TS and create my "trophy" (if someone could elaborate on this as well...) that I will be able to summon 100%WR bags indefinately?

Although as you say it would be counterproductive, Get a mount. I many times after farming leave an area(outside area of co9urse to do this) and I have returned to a vendor weighing 500/86. Use a mount to your advantage in this case.

One word of caution. You need to get a GM trophy for you to have the summoned 100% WR bag. You can trade one in for a permanent bag so that's the good news. If you are planning on doing brewing GM, while it is cheap to GM, the trophy will cost you a fortune. All the trophies will cost you about 4-4.5kpp per try if you bought everything, except for brewing. Brewing trophy requires a corking device, which requires tinkerer a blue diamond to make. Usual price I have seen on Xev is about 1k. So, it will cost you 1kpp more per try on brewing trophy. Other trophies cost next to nothing to make, other than the initial 4k-4.5kpp outlay, since the item you need to make is fairly trivial in cost and levels to make.

You don't have to use mount to get around the weight limitation, just get a SoW, or even better potion. The potion is called Blood of the Wolf, I believe, and you can get them for about 80pp for 10 use on Xev now days. Sow will work like horse/drog in that even if you are loaded, you can at least move at decent speed. And it's cheaper in short term. Besides, by the time your cost for SoW potion catches up to horse cost, you would be in another zone closer to merchants anyways.

Good luck.

Taushar

only need to be lvl 51 for the crafting aa's

This is probably the most relevant advice to be honest. WR bags will not reduce the weight of coins you are carrying. Yes. They will reduce the weight of your other gear though, so your str will stretch a bit farther, but the difference between having 70 out of 80 str used in weight and reducing that to 50 out of 80 will still get eaten up in coins pretty fast. On my paladin, I usually have about 80-100 more str then weight, but I can fill that up with coins pretty easily depending on what I'm farming.

There are two major concepts to remember. First off is that when you buy something, you will always buy it using the lowest coins you have first. So you can often significantly reduce your carried weight by doing nothing more then buying food and water at a vendor. Why throw away the copper and silver? Buy food instead.

Also, as baabaa mentions, the cost difference between the buy and sell prices for gems is not that bad (if you've got a decent cha). Buy gems that are designed to eat up everything but your plat. You'll reduce your weight carried by a ton, but keep about 90% of the value. Turning 400gp, 600sp, and 800cp into a stack of gems that you can sell for about 40pp is very useful.

That's all contingent on merchants being in the zone you are in. However, rathe mountains has some gnomes in one of the main valleys that sell lots of stuff (including gems). It's worth taking a couple minutes of time to run over and do a quick conversion. Certainly better then gating and running back, or trying to get someone else to exchange the money with you.