Making plat as a lowbie?

[Renad]

Greetings all. I was hoping someone could give me some suggestions for making some coin as a lowbie iksar. I recently hit level 8 on my iksar necro and went to buy my spells only to find out they were quite out of my budget. I was able to pick up my pet spell and lich, but that was it. I've been selling all the weapons I've picked up from skellys I've killed, but that wasn't quite enough. I have managed to accumulate about 4 stacks of spider silk and and about as many bone chips. Would my best bet be attempting to get a port to the common lands to sell em, or is there another more 'local' way to make some coin? Thank you in advance for any suggestions.

[hanamil]

Farm bonechips till your eyes bleed in kurns. Even on red you'll find someone in ooc that'll buy them. For anyone by qeynos id say rabid bears and wolves in wk. I lvled to the low 20 just on the xp and made a couple k just in the 5 or so plat u get per turn in. I killed hundreds of them.

[Jimjam]

I'd just vendor spider silks. Spiderling silks and bone chips I'd sell to players.

[myriverse]

Best thing: just level.

Silks and Bone Chips (look for people doing the quest)
Field of Bone - skellies weapons and especially shields (1pp each)
Kurn's, if you're ballsy enough at 8, for lots of bones.

[skarlorn]

Find a high level in cabilis and ask questions about leveling on p99. If you can open dialogue, they'll eventually inspect you and realize you're a true noob. They should give you some plat, usually 50-200, to help with your spells. God bless my erudite

[thufir]

You find decent cash drops in Upper Guk or the Warrens starting from single digit levels - little gems and mesh armor in Upper Guk, bronze and wicker stuff in the Warrens.

As an iksar, should be able to move your bone chips in /ooc like hanamil says. If you can't, yeah, may be time to get a port to ec and start exploring the mainland.

[kotton05]

Just don't. Level up as fast as you can on a necro. Once you reach certain levels bigger cash camps will open up for you rather than nickle and diming plat

[kotton05]

First cash camp should be like earring of essence. Farming HHK guards.

[fugazi]

Roll a female character around Freeport and sell your cyber services and teehee's around the tunnel.

[fadetree]

Yeah, sell a little tail.

[Renad]

Thanks for the advice! Not sure my tail shaking skills are up to par, but I'll keep that in mind. I've been doing my best to hawk my bone chips, but I guess being in field of bone, theyre pretty easy to come by. Should I really just vendor they spider silk? Could have sworn I used to make some decent coin on it back on live, maybe it was the spiderling silk. I l just want to make sure I can afford my level 12 dots so I can head to kurns. Don't think the level 4s I'm using will cut it in the tower. Hopefully I can track down some of the shields the skellys and footpath have from time to time, I'm only managed to find 2 so far. Thanks again.

[Sillyturtle]

Go to the Field of Bone exit from Cabilis. Run part way down the path and turn left int othe trees. Run along the line of the desert/forest. Look at he hills. There is a cave inside one of the hills among the trees.

Inside you will find a bunch of spiders. They drop spiderling silk. Frequently. They sell for 1 plat each to players. My first character is my main, an Iksar monk. I farmed 1000 spiderling silk there. 50 stacks. Was mind numbing. But I had 1000 plat to play with. Then I made the trip to East Commonlands TUnnel. Was an epic journey.

[clacbec]

Go to the Field of Bone exit from Cabilis. Run part way down the path and turn left int othe trees. Run along the line of the desert/forest. Look at he hills. There is a cave inside one of the hills among the trees.

Inside you will find a bunch of spiders. They drop spiderling silk. Frequently. They sell for 1 plat each to players. My first character is my main, an Iksar monk. I farmed 1000 spiderling silk there. 50 stacks. Was mind numbing. But I had 1000 plat to play with. Then I made the trip to East Commonlands TUnnel. Was an epic journey.

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[Transylvania]

Do exactly what Sillyturtle said but instead of selling the spiderling silks, buy a sewing kit and make leather padding and sell them for 200pp a stack in EC. To make padding, combine 3 of your silks into a silk thread, then combine the thread with a low quality animal pelt (bear, cat, wolf.) To get higher quality pelts down to low quality, use a skinning knife (buy from players or make with low level smithing yourself.) The back area of Rathe Mountains (near Lake Rathe zoneline) has about 20 bears that respawn fairly fast, good for getting the LQ pelts.

[Jimjam]

Thanks for the advice! Not sure my tail shaking skills are up to par, but I'll keep that in mind. I've been doing my best to hawk my bone chips, but I guess being in field of bone, theyre pretty easy to come by. Should I really just vendor they spider silk? Could have sworn I used to make some decent coin on it back on live, maybe it was the spiderling silk. I l just want to make sure I can afford my level 12 dots so I can head to kurns. Don't think the level 4s I'm using will cut it in the tower. Hopefully I can track down some of the shields the skellys and footpath have from time to time, I'm only managed to find 2 so far. Thanks again.

I suggest selling the regular spider silks as 1: they are worth a couple of plat a stack to vendors and 2: there is an opportunity slot in storing them in inventory until you can find a buyer (bone chips tend to go for more in my experience).

Prioritise all your slots to bone chips, food and drink. Skip the unimportant spells. Once you are ~20 you will have bags (bank?) full of bone chips. If you haven't cleared your stock with people buying faction in cabilis you can try your luck in EC (maybe even post in the buying/selling part of this forum).

In my experience there is always someone wanting to trade bonechips for xp in kaladim. As a necromancer, any you don't sell will be useful to you anyway.

edit: leather padding is also a good suggestion. Just remember to be gaining xp while you are making plat as the faster you level the more plat you can farm.

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[Kotopes]

Leveling in EQ/P99 is the most important to get where you can actually make some plat. Just stick to Kurn's tower and only kill skels there till lvl 24. This zone is a necro heaven for as long as you never touch those moles. One kill and you're KoS to them. Never harm them and you can lurk in lower levels there till lvl 24-25, using all your undead only spells for maximum effect.

Just loot every goddamn skel, save bone chips and fill your bank with them (make a lvl 1 alt and drop a few bags on him to save space). Other than bones their loot sucks but it should be enough to get your most important spells. Also your necro will have enough bones for next year or two :)

There's a named skel or a ph that is on mole faction, need to avoid that one as well. I don't remember which one. Kurn's was a blast on live if you knew how to use your abilities and the burinai faction trick.

24+ you will have way more options for making cash, but really necro can play almost naked. 2x55 or 65hp rings and jboots is all you really must have, rest is optional.

[Rygar]

Around cabilis I trained brewing and made heady koala's by the bunches. It takes a small amount of plat to make a stack and they always sell well in the commons.

I concur that bone chips are quicker and easier to do... Being a necro you should be good naked.

[Jimjam]

Also don't kill the Thick Boned Skeleton if you want to remain tolerated by Badgerbadgerbadgers.

[Kotopes]

Also don't kill the Thick Boned Skeleton if you want to remain tolerated by Badgerbadgerbadgers.

Yeah that one got my cleric KoS on red, it sucked really bad as Kurn lower levels may last well into lvl 25, and with high +xp modifier that zone has it's been a blast leveling there.

[Renad]

Awesome, that's just the info I was looking for. I'm going to give a few of these a shot. Thanks for the heads up about the badger guys and the thick boned, very sneaky of them to stick a skelly on there faction list! I'm not quite confident enough to head to kurns just yet, but hopefully soon. If anyone in the area wants to group up sometime, give me a shout on Rawts, he's just about level 9.

[Kotopes]

Just do pit til lvl 12 and grab only most important spells, then head to Kurns. Iksar newbie zones might not have greatest loot but from what I remember it was enough to afford spells at the very least.

[Vidar]

Greetings all. I was hoping someone could give me some suggestions for making some coin as a lowbie iksar. I recently hit level 8 on my iksar necro and went to buy my spells only to find out they were quite out of my budget. I was able to pick up my pet spell and lich, but that was it. I've been selling all the weapons I've picked up from skellys I've killed, but that wasn't quite enough. I have managed to accumulate about 4 stacks of spider silk and and about as many bone chips. Would my best bet be attempting to get a port to the common lands to sell em, or is there another more 'local' way to make some coin? Thank you in advance for any suggestions.

WHat you need to do is Level off of humanoids only. They drop weapons AND cloth armor. Get some back packs to carry all the cloth. each piece will sell for over 1 gold. and some as much as 4g.

Hope this helps.

[Mobb Deep]

make some leather padding. sells for like 15pp/ea

[mev]

Also, now that you can port to Emerald Jungle from anywhere, it should be much easier to get to EC and back for selling purposes.