Trying to make money as a new player

[drostan54]

I just joined the server and I rolled a halfling Druid i'm currently level 4 i'm seeing alot of pelts and other random loot some of the pelts I vender for over 1 gold. I have heard people talk about pelts silks and bone chips selling for 1 plat? My question is what should I be looking for?

[Halius]

This guide is very helpful:
http://wiki.project1999.com/Ultimate_Leveling_While_Making_Money_Guide

In short for early levels keep all bone chips, they sell for 10pp a stack to players. Also keep all low, med, high quality pelts. Most low and med pelts sell for 1pp per, but high quality cat/wolf pelts are about 10-15pp per and High quality bear skins are up to 30-35pp per. They are really good early on money makers. Also keep all your spiderling silks, they sell for about 1pp per silk or 20pp per stack.

If you head to Crushbone at some point, keep all the belts/legionnaire shoulderpads as well as they sell well to other players farming faction. About 1pp per belt, 5-10pp per shoulder.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong on the pricing, just what I recall here.

[drostan54]

Im also looting Skins do those count too or just pelts?

[Halius]

Yes they do, I believe wolf and bear pelts show up as skins. They are basically the same as pelts.

[drostan54]

Ok thanks now my only problem is I only own 1 bag and my inventory is full of pelts lol i'm guessing I have to get to EC to sell them.

[Itching]

Yes you would have to make a trek to EC to sell them unless you find some random druid who happens to port into Misty Thicket. There should be a vendor in Rivervale that sells some form of bags (though they are not that cheap) to help increase the load that you can carry to EC. I would however recommend buying a your important spells for the next couple of levels before heading to EC so that you can level in that area instead while you sell your loot.

[gprater]

even though you are not in the area being a halfling, qeynos is hands down the most lucrative starting area. at level 5 you can kill the 2 rabid wolves in qeynos hills and make 2 plat off of each one at teh cleric guild in NQ. they are a 5 min respawn and are in the same small area all the time. At level 9-10 you can add in the rabid bear and get 3 plat (1 for the pelt and 2 to sell back the scroll you always get as a reward.)..at level 9-10 you can duo or group bandits in WK...this is when the noob plat starts to flow...and xp.

[Itching]

I have never actually leveled in the Qeynos area before, it was always so empty minus the fishbone earring camp.

[Whirled]

I talked to a guy that once talked to another guy that said they would get sow & invis & run to NK - kill wisps by gypsy tent - hand in light stone + GLS - sell books they give to the cursor & rejoice in your new found imaginary coins.
Allegedly.

[Brutal_X]

Speaking from experience, I would suggest the best way of making money is just leveling up. Sure, shooting for a few things here and there to sell early to have money for spells and maybe a few pieces of gear is great but it should not be your primary focus at your level (in my opinion). The best way of making cash is just leveling up and acquiring it as you go. The higher level you get the more expensive items mobs drop and thus a higher income. This is especially true for Druids because of your ability to port people later on and buff/power level. Druids are probably one of the best classes for making money by practically just advertising services. Anyway, welcome to Norath and enjoy your stay! :D

[Xer0]

Ok thanks now my only problem is I only own 1 bag and my inventory is full of pelts lol i'm guessing I have to get to EC to sell them.

HOnestly if you're under like lvl 20 don't just focus on hides, fill yoru inventory (mostly) with bags and loot/sell everything.

Weapons will net you half a plat each oftentimes, fine steels 5pp per. But even most rustys are worth several gold.

If you're on blue the bone chips are definitely a good idea, I found them to be next to worthless on red; tried for weeks to sell over 200, no takers.

Speaking from experience, I would suggest the best way of making money is just leveling up. Sure, shooting for a few things here and there to sell early to have money for spells and maybe a few pieces of gear is great but it should not be your primary focus at your level (in my opinion). The best way of making cash is just leveling up and acquiring it as you go. The higher level you get the more expensive items mobs drop and thus a higher income. This is especially true for Druids because of your ability to port people later on and buff/power level. Druids are probably one of the best classes for making money by practically just advertising services. Anyway, welcome to Norath and enjoy your stay! :D

This is also very true. Fine steels start droppng more frequently, mobs start dropping plat; before youll know it you'll pull in several hundred plat from an xp sesh.

Just loot and vendor trash everything you can to afford spells and keep on grinding.

[Whirled]

If you get to Halas; pick up some of those alchemy bags cuz they less weight then backpacks too.

[Ikonoclastia]

Best way other than the boring grind to 50-60 and then farming would be:

Pyzjn (level 13-14) necromancer in Qeynos Hills - drops 3k item
An Erudite Madman (Level 12?) wizard in Eruds Crossing - drops up to 3.5k item
Paineel Guards - Level 15'ish+ - each drop 9pp in loot per guard

They're pretty sweet camps for low level pp

[Aeaolena]

Once you are level 5, get a port to Greater Faydark

Level 5
Orc Hill, sell Crushbone belts to other players - 1-2pp per?

Level 8-15
Crushbone, sell Crushbone belts/pads to other players - 1-2pp per?

Level 15-19?
Lesser Faydark, Bandit Sisters.
Frequently camped, but ask whoever is camping it to be on the list, or Duo. They drop bronze weapons that sell to a merchant nearby for 2-4pp per. Very lucrative.

Level 20-24
Lake Rathe, Aviak's outside Arena entrance - Drop Bronze, 2-5pp per

Level 24-34?
Everfrost, Charm-kill Mammoths
Drop tusks that sell for 10pp per

Level 34-44
The Overthere, Bind Outside Skyfire ramp
Level 60's "hammer in" to The Overthere desperately seeking a port out. Some pay upwards of 100pp. Level up on the cacti and cocks around the ramp and take every offer to port someone you can. Very, very lucrative.

Levels 45-60
No recommendations on Money-making spots to go to while leveling, but here is where I spent the last 15 levels.
- 45-50 Bloodgill Goblins in Lake of Ill Omen
- 50-54 Aviaks in Timorous Deep
- 55-60 Bears/Wolves (charm killing) in Permafrost pits


Good luck!

[Troxx]

Depending on your class - the best early game money I found on p99 was Orc 2 in EC right by the WC zone like in the north. It has no high level named and is camped a lot less frequently than Orc 1. With patience I could reliably get 10p per Orc scalp and 8-10p per belt. You have the added benefit of a high in zone population. The money was good enough that my bard had a 9/19 and 6/19 weapon set as well as a full visible small fine plate set, mm drums and gypsie lute - as well as all my songs up into the 30s ... All before level 15. In all I probably made 2-3k there.

I could have leveled faster elsewhere, but money is actually harder to come by in your late teens and early 20s. I stayed there until I hade a plat buffer (small) - and the mobs started going all low light blue.

Crushbone is also good but you have to wait longer for buyers at times. I'd usually sell those belts for 3p and pads for 5p. Every now and again I'd buy belts/pads low from other lowbies at 1p and 2p respectively and fill my bank until I had a buyer. It was good money on my druid but nowhere near as good as the orcs in EC.

[Xer0]

I just joined the server and I rolled a halfling Druid i'm currently level 4 i'm seeing alot of pelts and other random loot some of the pelts I vender for over 1 gold. I have heard people talk about pelts silks and bone chips selling for 1 plat? My question is what should I be looking for?

You could also not play the game like a banker and as long as you're selling your fair share of loot and everyone autosplits you'll have a couple thousand plat byt he time you reach 40.

[gprater]

all this advice is good but if you havent started a toon in qeynos you should and see how much money you can make. qeynos hills and WK, have 5-15 players each most times during primetime (est and cst )I just moved my newest toon there this past week when crushbone became its usually madhouse. Spent 20 plat on port. left me with 8 plat and was level 8. I am now 12 and have nearly 150p. I have grouped and soloed in BB as well as WK and the really fun bandit camps.

Try it if you havent and let me know.

The NK wisp idea is great. I would go there when I turn 14. Wisps for money mostly, grizzlies, lions, and bugs for xp. I would keep farming bandits for bronze and sashes. Great raider camp behind the druid ring on the water in NK. With Harmony would be a piece of cake until they became green.

Orc scalps on that side of Antonica are great as the poster above mentioned. Scalps can be sold easily at all times of day or use them for super xp until late teens, belts are much harder to sell and typically go for 5pp or less. The xp on those suck past 6 or so.

[iruinedyourday]

My strat to get some forward momentum on p99 when I joined was to kill bandits in the hills of WK and turn in their sashes to the pally guild in Qeynos, receiving a bronze wep to vendor for each one.

The XP was good for solo too, the karanas are a wonderful peaceful zone & the farmers will shower you with love (except for that creep who complains about all his acreage needing seeding when you hail him - yea, id like to see you seeding that acreage with all those bandits running wild, unchecked) to top it all off, there is a small little outpost of homes near the bandits that have a merchant you can sell dropped trash from while you do it.

I banked about 1k for my first cloth wearing character there and was comfortable until my 30's.

Its a great and casual way to get the plat you need :)

[Troxx]

NK has gotten a bit more dangerous since the last patch. Griffon, fennes, and fawns now run at what appear to be faster than SoW. Still great money to be had, just requires a lot more situational awareness so you don't get blind sided by something that easily out runs you.

Prior to patch even without sow you could strafe run after 1-2 hops and outrun everything in the zone. Now even with self sow at low levels they might catch you and give you grief.

It's super convenient though. Hard to argue with 10p per greater stone in those levels. If there weren't so many rich alts looking to cheese-level via belts, scalps, ears etc - probably some of the best cash potential at early levels.

[Tasslehofp99]

As a new Halfling player you can probably hang out in misty thicket where higher level players will kill guards. Since they are KoS they can't really sell the loot they get off the guards. A lot of times they will allow you to loot all of their stuff to run to town and sell for a percentage. This could be a decent way to earn some starting coin.

[Old_PVP]

Personally when starting from scratch, I think one of the quickest ways to make money is what I call "vendor shopping". There are so many things that other players have sold to merchants that can be resold for huge profits. It is tedious and boring, but very easy with almost 0 risk. Keep your eye out for the staples that will always sell, like bone chips and High quality skins; but also keep your eye out for magic items that you could potentially use, or sell for profit.

I have made a ton of plat from nothing, just by checking out merchants and reselling stuff. I remember clearing out a few cities and netting over 1000 bone chips. At 10p a stack thats 500p. It all adds up.

[khanable]

Good advice

I sometimes do this to find a few odd items here and there

[Troxx]

I still check most vendors as I run by. Every now and again you get lucky.

Aside from a few cash hotspots at low levels, your best bet for making cash is leveling. Hot spots it might be worth taking a detour for to make cash to buy cheap upgrades that overpower the low level game:

-gfay/CB for belts and pads
-common lands for Orc belts/scalps
-nybright sisters for raw cash (bronze weapons)
-wisps for lightstones
-anywhere with xp giving skeletons for chips
-bears giving xp for HQ hides
-xp giving spiders for silks to sell

All of the above available prior to level 15 and will give you more cash for time investment than you'll probably find from late teens up to high twenties depending on class. With a fresh new server many of these would not be reliable cash sources, but with as high end cash bloated as this server is - high end toons pay well for what would be a trivial and boring farming session. In the time it would take them to get 1 HQ bear skin they'd pay you 30p for, they could have gotten more than double (or 5x, 10x, or 100x) that cash farming xp giving mobs for themselves.

Milk the low levels for all they are worth. If recommend saving a good chunk aside for casters as the money in the higher teens to higher 20s will be harder to come by ironically.

[Cuktus]

As a hobbit EC really isn't that far of a walk. should be able ot make it back and forth pretty easy, just don't try it at night game time

[Itching]

Ya... my first time in Kith Forest on live was a bad experience, I thought well follow the path because roads are always safe! Ya I didn't get the warning from my friend until AFTER I had died and saw the "Loading Please Wait" screen.

[Seredoc]

Also being a druid don't forget that with forage you can get misty acorns from the thicket and often times people sell these for 25pp a pop.

[Taeoz]

It's always good to check what is selling currently and see if there is a way to get your hands on it.

Leatherfoot Raider Skullcap (http://wiki.project1999.com/Leatherfoot_Raider_Skullcap) is a pretty easy quest to do in your teens. I farmed the ingredients for it with a level 14 druid. Shark skins from sharks in Erudin docks, Grizzly skin (also bonus HQ pelts) from bears in WK, Polar bear skin from Everfrost and Alligator skin from Innothule/Feerrott. Then just buy a Dragoon Dirk for 50 plat (or camp Dorn - was slow, but he is charm kiteable as lvl14 druid) and make the turnin. Sell for 600ishpp. Hardest part was the white/yellow con sharks in Erudin - though the easier sand sharks can also drop the skin (as well as the small sharks that spawn from diseased shark).

It took me around 4-5 hours to get 3 sets of each skin. More time was spent on buying dirks and selling the hats. You could probably make more money by actively farming bear pelts or mobs that drop weapons (like Nybright sisters) - but this route allowed me to AFK a lot and it was interesting, as it created a reason for me to visit places, I otherwise wouldn't have.

So it's worth looking around and trying to figure out things for yourself as people rarely divulge their best money making methods in public.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

As a druid, once you get to 30, you can't beat south karana treants. Only a two spawn, but they pop quick and drop 20-30p.

[Shodo]

Wouldn't killing treants ruin your faction with some of the druid guilds/rings?

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

oh, who needs ports anyway.