Where do you stand financially as opposed to a month ago?Follow

I myself thought it to be near impossible to come up with a gold about a month ago. And now I am finding it much easier to acquire the much needed money to buy upgrades. I find myself buying weapons that cost 40-50 silver just to see how I like them. My apartment is well decorated with those expensive stone walls and floors. And now I'm thinking that the illusive platinum coin might be a reality soon! Yet paying that 5 silver every week for upkeep still kinda irks me =S. So how are you doing?

I haven't been in-game for a month but I can tell you that things have improved measurably over the course of the week and a half that I've been playing.

When I first got to Qeynos, I wondered how I would ever be able to afford the 5s a week for my room at the inn. Now, from the *lofty* perch of level 14, I am beginning to see decent drops and am realising a steady income from questing and killing!

I can now afford to tradeskill with the promise of selling some of my goods in the not too distant future and can see the big-big money on the distant horizon.

I've yet to hold my first gold coin but life in Norrath is good...

We couldn't resist doing a little wholesaler tasking prenerf. It was just too easy, and we are, after all, EvilGnomes.

It's a lot harder to get money now because our routine was disrupted. But we saved a lot from those days. It's not like we ever got rich, but a two-room apt. and a few pets came our way. We have scholar and another who can do food and maple strongboxes. We ought to play them up to tier 3 ... I'm just too lazy to.

Sadly, I wasn't aware that you could go to the broker and pay for the supplies needed to end the quest. I wish I knew that before, then I might have a little more money now O_o, or did they do away with that as of the latest patch?



What server did you say you played on? =D

Edited, Tue Jan 18 23:47:06 2005 by SteelGuard

I was doing fairly decent, then I went and bought the language books. Broke again. Hey, if you're on Perma, currently selling tradeskill supplies...help me out.

I wish they didnt' do away with being able to trade for the wholesaler task...or that they would make it so that you just have to have the item on you, not find it, to complete the quest (though that would have problems with the broker again). Before the wholesaler nerf, I would go out foraging resources for about 6 hours at a time, come back, have my friend hand them into me one at a time till a quest of the right item is complete.

After that I was at about 80 gold, cause I went out for many nights gathering. Then after spending alot, and then selling many boxes my crafter made, sitting around a plat and living large.

It's nerfed, gone. You can do wholesaler's tasks, but u must harvest the stuff yerself. You could buy off people sellin em or trade for credit. Now totally nerfed.

Language primers cost 12 s and are found usualy in the towns where the lang u need is spoken. A book. I think buying it triggers it and gives u the language - never done one - but I remember reading that. GL

I lucked out myself, and sold "Anger of the Ancients. Master 1" that I won the lotto on for 1.5 plat. Instead of blowing it all I invested, and have actually turned a profit, and have kept my gear all VERY nice.

If you watch the broker, and control the supply of some high demand items you can usually turn quite the profit.

Sitting on 55 gold right now, working my way to a plat... The teir 4 harvested goods go for a good bit, so that's what I'm working on now. If only I could sell that Palladium cluster...

A month ago had about 1 gp, now I have about 15, made most of my money harvesting and selling or questing. I can't seem to get into the crafting too much but I am trying. Which path should I follow for the best profit and the items that sell the fastest? I heard Jeweler was good....

Right now I think I got about 20 silver. I had more but I have been doing tradeskills (made myself a pristine malachite necklace hehe) among other things.

Went up from a lvl 4 artison to a level 8. I can not start making some real stuff.

Im not thirlled with so little to show, but bascially it was invesdted into 4 lvl's of artison. I still have enough to pay rent monday heh. Gear Wise Im mainly going for drops/quests.

Hehe I can't seem to get past 3 gold at one time. I get 3 gold then find upgrades or decide I want to try more tradeskills. My toon is a lvl 22 DE Conjuror(Found a bug in betrayal and had to do it twice=P) and lvl 10 scholar. Right now I'm sittin on about 3 gold between my toons. Maybe one of these days I can get lucky enough and find a rare harvest and then be rich. =P

Here's what I have done to make money as an adventurer:

When I go out, either in a group or solo, I fight normally in Thundering Steppes or Nektulos. It's easy to get groups in both of these places, and if the situation calls for it - then I can solo without problem.

The things I collect while out there range from crap to pretty nice. Usually the standard corpse loots I sell to NPC merchants for the rate they have (normally I wait till I get back to town to get a better price, usually 1-4 silver each, unless I am really overloaded - a few copper to a couple silver each). Chest drops are pretty frequent in groups, and semi-frequen soloing green or blue group encounters.

Usually you have 4 general categories of drop types in chests: Armor/Weapons, Abilities/Spells, Tradeskill Books, and quest items.

Of these types, the ones that sell the fastest are the abilities/spells and tradeskills. Armor, if it has stats, will sell pretty fast provided you do not overprice it. If the armor is just AC and no stats I usually sell it to a NPC merchant in town (16-24 silver a pop normally). Quest-starter items from chests are usually no-drop so I either use it or destroy, or don't even bother to loot it.

While you are out adventuring solo, you also have the time to harvest. Harvesting while I am out usually nets me about 2 gold or more while in merchant mode, so I never pass it up. Just don't harvest while in a xp group.

For those of you that can leave your character logged in over night, set up shop in your inn and sell your days stash. I usually look the market over and compare prices. I very rarely undercut. Normally I set my prices at mid-range between the lowest common price and the highest common price. Harvested goods I usually sell for 1 silver each, no matter what (Tier 1-3); though certain harvested items do go for more when they are in demand, so I will price accordingly, but never below 1s, why bother.

I have not done much tradeskilling, so I cannot really comment on there, but everyone I talk to says it's very rewarding on the bank account. Unfortunately I do not have the time to do tradeskills AND adventure, so I choose the more exciting (to me) of the two and explore the wilderness while gathering goods to unload on the masses.

Hope that gives a few of you some insight on ways to pull in some cash. It may sound pretty basic, but that's because it is. ^_^; But it works none the less.