How to make money?Follow

My Wife and I have been playing for about 5 or 6 months now. We enjoy the game but are starting to get a little frustrated. Our Characters are not really under equipped, some friends who got us into it gave us some of there low level throw aways, my Ranger has a Banded Mail shirt and a Lumberjacks cap for instance.
But my Wife's Durid is having a hard time buying spells for lack of money.
So where would you go get decent money off the monsters or how do you generate income in this game?

Yeash! This sounds like my everyday life. "Where am I gonna get the money to pay for THAT!?!"

Thanks for your help and input.

Edited, Sun Aug 8 17:02:56 2004 by phnxkeep

DOH!!!
That might be just a bit relavent...
My Ranger is 17 her Druid is 16.
Our whole EQ experience has been kill things for experience points.

I don't know if I should flame or not as I do not understand what you are saying.
What is an 'Ego-Shooter'?

We play sporadically at best as we both work full time and she is in school full time as well.

Are you saying that this is too low or too high for that length of time?

I really don't know if I am not fully epressing my question, if I've not given enoughinformation or if I should be offended. Can you clarify a little please?

One other question, do you have a broadband connection to the internet?

If you do, that opens up the bazaar to you during your off hours for trading. Buy low sell high, there's a hundred threads on the subject out there. It takes a while to learn what people want but you can make some money. Farm spider/spiderling silks and sell them off hours, that sort of thing.

If you're on dial up and you're just looking for a few plat head to EC,WC or eruid crossing and hunt Wisp for greater lightstones. Fill a couple backpacks full and head to North Karana for this quest. 10 to 11 pp per GLS turned in. A nice low level quest that can make you a couple hundred pp.

https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=374

There is no magic solution, and no magic "uber" drops for your level. In fact even at much higher levels you will hear people bemoaning their lack of platinum. So what can you do?
1) There are many trade skills in the game. You can find out all about it here, and at www.eqtraders.com. Some tradeskills require items that only drop off mobs, or that are only available by foraging, a skill BOTH of you have. Some of the much sought after items you can easily find and collect. You may get no experience from the mobs, but then you can kill in saftey. An excellent example is Spider silk and spiderling silk (EXACTLY that name.. web graphic. Woven spider silk, and special types of spider silk may not have equal interest). High level characters hate having to run around and kill "green" spiders and spiderlings. If you spend YOUR time doing it, they will be happy to pay. Keep killing (over a few sessions on) until you have 20.. a "stack".

2) Check your bazaar to see what they are currently selling for. Check over a few days.. you will see quickly what is "normal" "high" and "bargain".

3) Now you have to options. You can /auction WTS Spiderling Silk 4p each pst. Do you know how to make a link? I assume you do. Ask here if not. Do this in PoK, and even the bazaar. If you pick the bargain price (may be higher or lower than 4p on your server) you should sell easily.

4) Your other option is, as another poster said, to go "trader mode". Buy at least one "trader satchel" from a vendor in the Bazaar (use find). Put your silks in this, stand under one of the awnings (where the other traders are) and type /trader. You now can set the price for your items, then click "trader on". Now you are a trader too! If on broadband or permanent 56k, you can go to bed and let your silks sell themselves. Under these circumstances you can choose to set either the bargain price or even normal price.

5) What else is good to sell? Hard for me to answer... check the ranger and druid sites for advice, especially for foraged items. Work on your foraging skills all the time.. there are special hot button tricks described in many locations on the net to have foraging happening continuously while you run around.

6) Some animals and creatures DO drop items that will make you a few pp. Hunt the green goblins and goblin warriors in BBM for heads and blood (around 4p each to vendors). By vendors I mean the everquest NPC merchants. Try and find ways to increase yoru charisma, to get better prices. Buy two opal encrusted steins, or get a shaman to cast a charisma buff on you. In paludal caverns, the bandits occasional drop bronze brigadine armour that sells for between 2-6p depending on the piece (again selling just to the npc vendors.. players dont want it). In a few more levels you will be killing mammoths in everfrost (mammoths are I think level 23 and up). When they drop tusks, they sell for 8p or more each to vendors (not calf tusks unfortunately). There is a wealth of special case information too.. at a bit higher level, you will track and kill Martar Icebear in everfrost every time he is up. He has a cloak that sells to vendors for just under 50p.

7) Loot everything. I'm sure you do already, but at your level and bank account level it ALL helps. So loot every item (including rusty swords) to sell off to vendors. Check corpses others have left.. you might score a nice item to sell for a few plat. You can consider sneaking into zones that you cant really hunt, just to see if there are some corpses lying around. Dont loot without asking (if others are there) but often people get jaded with common drops.

8) Offer services. This is a game where you play with others. Run a message, bring some food to a camp, track a mob, port someone (for the druid), change copper to plat at a camp (called atm). Set a price, or do it for free.. you may get a donation anyway. When you get SoW, offer buffing service in PoK. Make it donations based, many will be generous anyway.

9) Buy wisely. Set a goal eg "as a ranger I want to upgrade my Dex to help bow skills). Now research over a few nights what is available just OUT of your price range... get an idea "wish I could buy that sword with 12 dex on it". Now wait. When the price comes down, pounce.

10) Be generous. Its hard when your have little, but share advice, run errands, help the bewildered, entertain folk. Suprising and interesting things result (though that is NOT the reason to help others of course).

11) Read up: scround this site (hours of happy reading) and other ranger and druid specialist sites.

12) Learn to fight in your specialised styles. Ranger can bow kite, and in a few levels (22? 24?) you will get fear animal. Yup, they run, you hit. Druids are the master kiters (yah yah I have heard of necros). Your little duo has the makings of a good team.

13) Progress at exactly the rate you wish. EQ is full of people hurrying to a destination that they don't want to arrive at. They rush levels, then bemoan their fate when they have seen it all and done it all. If you hunt in ten different zones from level one to fifteen, then you have done (in my opinion) a MUCH better job of learning to be a ranger or druid than the "expert" who did 1-5 in the tutorial, and 6-15 in crushbone. Pfft, so they can kill an orc in a tiny zone!

14) As you learn the ropes in the bazaar, you will see people selling items for not much money that you KNOW sell for more. Feel free to buy and resell (NOT of course to overprice and rip off). You can sometimes find people selling items for LESS THAN THEY ARE WORTH TO THE NPC VENDORS! Double check every which way, then buy and make instant profit.

15) You can also hear about items that are only sold in far away zones. If it is safe for you to go there, you can offer these items at a small profit in the bazaar.. up to others to decide whether to be lazy or not.

Good hunting and enjoy the process.. thats ALL THERE IS!!

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Edited, Mon Aug 9 00:56:24 2004 by Belletrix

There is absolutely no need for a broadbat internet connection to be successful in the bazaar.

If you're on a dial-up that drops connection every 2 hours then you may have a problem but even so a lot can sell in 2 hours.

I have to say that "not having enough money for spells" is such a hackeneyed old phrase it has little credibility nowadays.

The last round of spells for the druid was at 14 and has a dozen spells in in. Some cost as must as 6pp, others a couple of gold. Lets call it 50pp total. That is only a dozen Green Goblin heads or bloods from Butcherblock and you have a ranger to track. It should take all of an hour perhaps to get them.

At the weekend I was doing a Dervish camp in North Ro with ranger and druid (13 and 12) and made around 50pp from the bronze weapon drops.

These sums are totally trivial with your level and capabilities.

Your next spell round has a load of "Ring" spells for single port to places. Ration them to the ones you think you will use. Do you plan on sending your wife solo to Grimling Forest? I doubt it. And don't bother with Tiny Companion. You are 39 levels off having a pet.

With a bit of care and pruning you might need under 100pp for those spells and have 3 levels to get that. You can kill Spiders for silk worth several thousand plat in three levels and make good exp doing it.

Explain why you call first person shooter 'Ego shooter'.
In my eyes that makes you look like a fool that dont know what your is talking about.

First of all, I do not fully agree with MRCleric. nobody should tell you what you should be doing. level as fast as your time permits, do as you are pleased. that's the diversity of the game. some kill, some explore, some tradeskill, some do quests, or mixtures of all... doesn't matter what, as long as you're having fun

money-wise, here a few links which you might want to check out. use the search forums functionality here on alla or google to get more infos.

http://www.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=1&mid=1079053144647992669 (here especially Yanaris post)

http://www.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=1&mid=1087256715975397976 (nice guide from BODragon)

http://www.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=1&mid=1079969089713348338

good luck :)

EDIT: link

Edited, Mon Aug 9 09:06:32 2004 by Kajolus

I will find homepages, comments etc made by ignorent people like yourself.
Anyways, Cobra seems to be very wise and made much sense so I rated his post 5.

regarding the above posts you can declare that I did misunderstand you - and that you didn't mean that I invented the term "Ego-shooter".

But more amusing would be if you did mean it....and you'd be so stubborn that you will still try to prove your point... :D

Welcome back Leiany

It is very possible that these folks are in fact very new to the game. It is easy for many of us to take for granted all of the means and methods to level and make money. If in fact they are new they may not be aware of all the resources out there. Play styles differ and folks play for different reasons.

I would suggest that you follow the above suggestions regarding trade skill items. I would suggest you use this site to perhaps seek out some fun quests to look into (although not required if that is not your thing). Level at your own pace but take the time to really look around...it is a very large world and this site offers alot of info on many aspects of the game.

Enjoy

Seeler