Making money in Qeynos vs FreeportFollow

Has anyone else noticed that it is difficult to make money in Qeynos?

If I leave the IoR with 22s...

1.) ...and go to Qeynos, I end up with around 32-40s at lvl 11ish. That isn't enough to buy all my armor much less a weapon upgarde.

2.) ...and go to Freeport, and I have 53-85s at lvl 11. I can buy armor, weapons, and still have some left over(6s). On top of that, I'm now lvl 12 and have 50s already. This is just from running around and doing quest and selling crap I get along the way.

Has anyone else noticed this. This happens with all characters I send to Qeynos and all I send to Freeport. In Qeynos I'm rewarded with furniture and chump change, where in Freeport I'm rewarded with armor and weapons and more money than Qeynos missions on top of the armor and weapons.

i have a hard time making money in qeynos, but i havent made a character in freeport yet. so im not reallly sure on how hard it is to make money in freeport.

I actually found that the Commonlands are much easier to hunt as a low level character. Lower level mobs are clustered right next to the gate with the guards. Beetles, moving out to Armadillos, lower level Carrion Hounds, over to Ghostly Orcs, up to Elephants. Ghostly orcs will drop iron weapons that sell for around 3-4 silver, they also drop chain or brigadine leggings and adept spells.

Qeynos the mobs are scattered all over, too many people fighting over them, guards spaced too far apart.

Hands down, the Commonlands is an easier place to level to the mid/upper teens than Antonica.

If you build up your tradeskilling on the IoR, it's quite easy to leave with 2c (as I did with my latest toon). That's beside the point, though...

I have noticed that the FP newb quests are generally a higher level than the Qeynos ones, yet just as easy to complete. At lvl 9, most of the suburb quests from Qeynos were blue to me, while most of the FP suburb quests were yellow. Naturally, I got bigger rewards in both xp and coin for finishing them in FP just because of the lvl difference. The other nice thing about FP is that there's a series of easy quests (can finish all of them by lvl 10) in Longshadow that will score you a full suit of lvl 15 armor. Qeynos has a couple pieces, but no real equivalent. I mostly just get weapons and food by the boatload. I'm standing there with no shirt on asking myself, "Do I want to use my +2 health/+1 power sword or my +1 health/+2 power axe?"

One tip I will give is that if you're offered different rewards for a quest and have no intention of using any of them, grab the biggest weapon or heaviest armor. They tend to sell for more. My lvl 15 warrior has twice the cash as my druid of the same level, and they've spent almost identical amounts of money for spell/ability upgrades.

Here on LDL Freeport is way cheaper than Qeynos.

I'm going to have to start making some serious money, luckily I'm all set to around lvl 26, and by then I hope I have my AQ's done. That'll give me some time to save some bucks, but yes...I've noticed a big price difference here.

That may have something to do with you being an iksar more than it does with you being in Qeynos. NPC's sell stuff in Qeynos for the same as it does in Freeport.

Do you like the doves, the sunshine of a clear blue sky, the lag, and happy carefree way the citizens of Qeynos frolick to and fro??? Gah!! You sicken me!!

<<shakes fist>>

On another note, I looked at some player made armor... and the **** was selling for prices like 1g 38s!!! For one piece of armor that would be obsolete at lvl 13!!!! I could buy 2 sets of armor from an NPC plus weapons, shields, bow, arrows, and poisons for all for that same amount. Do people actually buy anything from these people???

Have you played a character with NPC bought items and actually compared the difference?

1g for anything pre-20 is just not worth it to me. In fact the total amount of money I make from lvl 1-10 doesn't come out to 1g.

Do materials to make player crafted stuff cost that much? Or are these bastards just greedy?

I have to wonder if we're playing the same game?

Making 1g before 10 is only difficult because of the rapidity with which you reach 10.

Watch the merchants - prices vary enormously. If you take your items to different merchants you can see as much as 50% difference. Find ones you like and who like you. A simple example is Canine Saliva which several merchants pay 24c for my pet merchant pays me 37c. As a general rule the merchants out in the exp zones pay badly for stuff.

I've not played Freeport but a friend who has did make a similar comment about it being easier to make money there.

Whichever money is not exactly difficult in either place. Nor is it really necessary. Apart from room, food, drink I need arrows and (for my ranger) poisons. Most armour you can quest for and forget paying for it. If I sell something for a nice price I might look on the market but mostly having found a nice upgrade I come here and look up the quest for it.

The reason I don't think anything at those lvls should cost 1g is because you're just not at that point long enough to spend that kind of money for an item that will be outdated in possibly a couple days.

I believe that ALL classes get a boost at lvl 20 to compensate for the boost in mob strength.

This is great for me, as I am a crafter! I can corner the market on many different kinds of items and scrolls in FP. Although, even if I have a monopoly, i still dont rip anyone off. I believe that it is more important to make repeat customers than to make a lot of coin off someone one time and make them mad. But, I am making a great living in FP. Never played Qeynos.

Gotta agree that the Qeynos lowbie quests need some work. Seems that 80% of them offer yet another version of the weapon you already have - ooo wait, one is +1 str and the other is +1 sta or some big woop like that. You can quest for an okay suit of armor, but you gotta spend 30 minutes in Alla's quest guide to line it all up, heh.

I like that a couple of the quests offer odd items to put in your house, like a cage, a bench and an easel. But they do get tiresome after a while.

Our evil gnomes started in FP, and yeah, the lag was less... but everything was the color of mud - and every NPC there has PMS or something. Does being evil mean you have to act like a Piza Hut Assistant Manager talking to a screwed up 16 year old employee who doesn't really care if he gets fired or not?? I guess so. Anyway, FP was so depressing that we changed our firewalls to reduce the lag and rerolled as Qeynosians. Yeah, some of the PETA-esque tree-hugging Oxfammers who live in Qeynos make me sick, but overall - well, we are still evil gnomes; we just live in Qeynos. Gawd, the thing that kills me the most - I've always pronounced it "Kay-nos", not "Key-nos". "Key-nos" is so squirrelly sounding.

Another prob living in Key-nos is that the cheaper houses near the bells are all taken - boo. We hadta buy a house so far from anywhere in N Q that we never use it. Btw there are plenty of ways to make cash in qeynos, and artisaning is only one. I'm not telling some of my tricks - too many people know them already. Just nose around and think a little - money-making techniques will come to you. GL all.