Money Making Tips?Follow

I've decided to start playing EQ after growing tired of every other game on the market. It seems like it's very difficult for a new player to make money (at least, until the upper levels). Is this true? And if it is, what are some ways of scraping up the income to mitigate the difficulty of acquiring funds early on in the game? Is there good money in tradeskills, or has the game been out far too long to make anything off of them until they're at max level also?

Alright, thanks.

What about tradeskills? Will there be any point in doing them since the game's economy is so established already? Or will I primarily be making items for myself to use?

The easiest way I've found is to compare /barter prices with what you find in /bazaar - it's crazy what people will sometimes put up in /barter - makes me wonder if they even check the bazaar first.

I've gotten stacks (yes, stacks) of sunshard ore for 50pp a piece, then resold it for 400pp / piece. Magnetized armor pieces that smiths use (I suppose) for 1-3k from a bazaar trader, then resell to barter traders for 4-5k. Even droppable pieces for epic 1.0 drops (for instance, I sold a feather for the necro epic for 70k to someone who was in /barter mode - it took me maybe 15minutes to get it to drop, and cost me 100pp to port up to Sky in the first place once I found a wizard; Also the monocole for the warrior 1.0 that drops in the Dreadlands I sold for 50k, to the same barter trader). For epic pieces it's all a matter of timing, I'm afraid. I have 4 Shattered Emerald of Corruption (no drop, but MQ'able)for the Ranger 1.0 gathering dust on Erollisi at the moment, for instance.

It's usually quick and very fast. On good days (where tradeskill demands were high) I cleared out bazaar traders for items (spider/spiderling silk, Rockhopper hides, ice burrower/velium hound pelts, etc. etc.) and resold them to barter ones - the most I've made in 1 day doing this is 25k, just with simple turnaround. Those people who have the money and want to increase their tradeskills without doing the farming really don't mind putting high prices on the stuff they want.

Tradeskill items are the ones that sell the best, really. You're looking for items that are commonly dropped AND used in cheaper recipes that are used by people for skillups.

I'm just sad - I'm now getting into tradeskills myself (for the Artisan Charm) but I'll be doing the farming for items myself. I just remember all the stuff I sold (Blue diamonds, anyone?) in the past and I kick myself wishing I still had it all.

I would farm tradeskill stuff: spiderling silks, spider silks and wolf, bear or cat skins, and maybe eggs.

Spiderling silks from either East Commonlands, Everfrost, Field of Bone (in the secret little underground spider caves, or perhaps West Karana. Spider silks galore in East Karana. Skins you can farm in the Commonlands or nearly any of the Karana's pretty easily.

For straight cash (without having to bazaar stuff) Paludal Cavern bandits are one of the best bets for NPC sellable drops.

Once into the 20/30's you can pick up fine steel weapons in High Hold Keep, Castle Mistmoore, and other dungeony type places.

Not sure what level you can start in on Rockhopper hides but soon as one can efficiently take out the Rockhoppers in DSP there is sure money to be had. Also the Grimlings in the little caves of Tenebrous Mountains are pretty wealthy.

Too bad about goblins in BBM. It was a must-do zone for levelling through most all my toons.

FYI, my suggestions lack any knowlegde of content post DoD.

Edit to add: Highland lions in North Karana drop the very rare High Quality Lion Skin...can easily bring in 1k or more in the bazaar.

Edited again to add my thought on tradeskilling to make money:

First off most tradeskills you can get your skill up close to 100 pretty easily without spending much money at all with the Abysmal Sea TS quests and other select recipes, excepting maybe jewelmaking, spell research and mabye smithing (never done smithing). with Alchemy (shammy only) and maybe baking and tailoring you'll be able to re-sell much of what you make if you create wisely, though the profit margin will be slim. To make any REAL profit with tradeskills, for the most part you have to invest a lot to get in the 200's before you'll see the big bucks.









Edited, Mar 22nd 2007 1:18pm by Elinda

I get my toons to 15, get the wayfarer's stone, then go to Abysmal Sea via Nedaria's Landing. Skills up to 54. Its boring doing the repetitive things the NPCs want, but it is free. I probably need to do mroe of this. Pottery skill neded for the Alchemy trophies... have to make some of the vials...

I rarely sell bone chips anymore. Occasionally, about once a month, someone will buy 20 or more of them and shock me. Usually its less than 5.

Spiderling silks in Crescent Reach noobie yard are plentiful. I rarely sell spiderling silks these days.

I'm most active on stromm and xegony.

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