cash problemsFollow

Hi, i have several 50+ characters and yet i am still always out of money. friends tell me if i have money platinum just to buy it online but i dont agree with that. im just wondering if anyone can offer a few tips to get more cash so i can actually be affective in groups? thanks

There isn't much you can do that gets you exp and cash simultaneously at that sort of level. The usual answer is to do some sort of farming - ie killing stuff easily that is green to you in sufficient quantity to yield cash.

You may find that there are places like Cobalt Scar where you can get exp and collect Wyvern Hides. Even better for a druid (if you have one) is WW Velium Hounds.

I haven't looked at the bazaar lately so it may not be very healthy any more but wyvern hides used to be 100pp each and VH hides around 1k.

Personally i would take that crew to Sirens Grotto, succor to the Western Wastes side and commence the slaughter. Many gems drop there as well as Molktor Hides that sell for pretty plat (they are used in coldain shawl quest). XP is not bad either. With my 63 ranger, grouped with a couple 55+ guildies, i get about 20% aa in an hour or so.

Few zones offer BOTH loot AND XP, so you will have to sacrifice one for the other.

Not that this belongs in the "Quest" forum...

But you should be able to take any of those chars and start hitting the boats in Dulak. The exp is good and there are quite a bit of cash, gem and gear drops to get. A few hours with my 53 necro will usually net 3-4 gems from Fire Emeralds to Blue Diamonds, half a dozen "fine steel" value weapons and one or two gear drops from that ship's captain.

If you're interested in just getting plat, take one of them to Sol A. The gobbies are numerous, drop gold and FS weapons that sell good. There are a few drops there that may fetch some plat in the bazaar as well.

best part is, if your faction in good, you can sell and bank @ the gnomes, never having to zone.

I could easily bank 100+pp an hour just by killing an looting

I would ignore the posts about bone chips or gobbies (banking 100+ pp an hour)... there are much better ways of making money. Most are already listed here. Quad-kiting hill giants with that druid of yours can put 600-1000pp per hour in your bank, depending on how much mana you have. Uncreative and no xp to speak of, but there are other good suggestions listed above.

Well, how about doing DoN missions for cash? Missions take about 1 hour for 33 crystals minimum. Lowest crystal I've seen was selling for 400pp on Lanys. Say you do 3 missions a night at 13,000 pp per mission = 40K. A few nights of that and you are all set.

Everyone says to go to Rathe Mtns and kill HGs. The problem is (even with lower server populations) that HGs are still camped 24/7 (at least on my server).

Couple of suggestions:

To the original poster: if you like to solo with your druid, I would suggest the Temple in Nadox. Simply zone into Nadox and click on your succor. There are roughly 10 mobs there, and they are all single pullable. If you like kiting, it is tight, but doable there. Personally I like to root/rot. Loot is about 1kpp in gems & weapons & cash per hour. There are also two named that spawn there that drop decent stuff (a nice druid item, a ranger item, and the Charm of Deception which is pretty nice). And they don't summon :D. They do break root occasionally, so a clicky root is good. This will give you nice xp up until the late 50s, and good cash.

If you like to group, I would suggest Dulaks, like the poster above mentioned. Good gem drops, and there are a number of named in that small area.

Seafury cyclops used to be $$ but that was when human TSing was more popular.

To the level 20 guy asking: Depending on how you are geared, you may want to take a look at EK or king xorbb's gorge (they renamed it and I am blanking if that is the old or new name). In EK the crag spiders should be good loot & xp (Spider silks are still $$ though not like they once were). In the gorge, take a look at killing the Eyes. They can fear, but they drop decent lowbie gems and gear. Just have a lot of bag space. It is also a fairly short run to Rivervale (if you are not KOS there).

Anyways, those are my suggestions, if you are looking to solo or are just looking for quieter spots where you don't fight groups.

What's up with you and ocean of tears??

Lots of good options here. Another one I like to use is farming acrylia at the Sammy camp in DSP near the entrance to naidens eye. and Rockhoppers in the caves to the west of the neth lair zl. I farm them for trade skills, (HM backpacks, acrylia studded/reinforced armor are my main sources of income), still, even if you are not tradeskilling the hides and ore sell very nicely in the baz. You can start on the sambata camp around 40 if you are soloing and a little higher for the caves where the hoppers spawn. My 54 sk hunts them all the time with little trouble.

One thing, in the caves you have to kill the Sambata Tribal leader if the sammys are up in order to get the Rockhoppers to pop. Once you kill him, invis quick as the remaining sambatas will vanish and the hoppers will soon spawn to take their place.

All sizes of the ore drop in the outside camp and some also drops in the caves off the sammys but it seems with less frequency. All qualities of hides drop as well with a fair number of them flawless and superb.