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Wfrench1234
01-30-2018, 02:13 PM
For those of us who don’t get all super secretive about where and how we get our plat I figured isn’t make a thread and see what people did/do to make pot. Can’t cook without that dough.

On my monk, even tho there is the weight requirement, I looted everything. To this day I’ve never won a big ticket item (best items I’ve won were a locustlure and a box of nil space). Now don’t get me wrong I never got rich, but by looting everything people don’t want adds up. On top of that, whenever junk loot like for instance sebilite scale armor dropped, most people would pass. I’ve probably sold 50-60 pieces of that stuff. Same with low 50s spells. Another good example would be Kunzar cloaks. They vendor for 80 plat give or take so basically every time I grouped in KC I’d walk out with one no one wanted because most people had one in the bank and they are lore.

On my Druid I found a nice way to make money is to bind outside city of mist and sell ports. It’s one of those out of the way places people appreciate getting a port out of. Also I’d offer to buy people’s vendor trash off them and change their gold and silver into plat. A lot of people don’t bank often when they are parked in COM.

elwing
01-30-2018, 02:22 PM
Slowly...

Legidias
01-30-2018, 02:27 PM
inb4 loramin treasure hunting guide (but theres at least 2 good plat treasure guides on wiki)

Doctor Jeff
01-30-2018, 02:36 PM
I have a job.

Lhancelot
01-30-2018, 02:38 PM
When I was in money-making mode, I did best on my druid.

I would do the monk sash quest then sold that for 2k, I would do the WC port cap from RV, and then I would do Jboots MQs occasionally. I also did ports.

This added up nice change when I was a newer druid at 40-50. I then took my plats and started buying/selling in EC later and that boosted my plats faster than farming anything.

I don't think reselling is as lucrative now, but you probably could still do it.

Seems like the market sucks now plus you got 5-10 resellers constantly spamming EC making it hard to get deals as they gobble up good buys quickly seeing they in EC 24/7.

Luckily I have a nice nest egg of plats I can get any gears I want and monkey around on alts whenever I feel like it.

Spyder73
01-30-2018, 03:17 PM
I cashed in on the Elder Holgresh bead market when they went from 20k to 120k. Traded a Tranix Crown for my first set of beads actually. No regrets selling even though prices continue to rise.

If you wanted to make money on the server today farming gems in Velks is not a terribly bad way to do it. There was an afternoon I left Brood Mother with over 50k in gear/gems from maybe a 3 hour play session and that's not uncommon. Gem prices have fallen but not to the point where its not worth farming them.

I have no doubt a well managed static farm group for Velks could manage to pull 100k a week with pretty minimal effort and playtime.

Fungi farming probably the most time tested and true way to get rich though

Tupakk
01-30-2018, 03:19 PM
Porting.

It’s easy plat and no risk. Join DaP.

mefdinkins
01-30-2018, 03:29 PM
Scrounging - Collecting loot. Fine steel weapons, crafting mats, high price droppables, and everything in between adds up. Don't kill yourself to vendor every 20 plat Tar Goo Strand if you're XP'ing there but loading up your bags every trip out of town can really add up. Over the course of my game time, I'm sure three or four of my tink bags were probably funded entirely by Fine Steel Weapons.

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Patience - Don't waste money to rush to finish things you can do yourself. For example my buddy decked out a cleric alt: Jboots - 5,000p; Peggy Cloak - 10,000p; VP Key Quest - 40,000p; full Skyshrine MQ's can be 200k+; Epic Quest 55,000p. If you want to drop all that plat more power to you but that adds up to 300k+ and you could buy some really game changing items like Elder Beads/Fungi's/COFs/NTOV loots for 300k. This game isn't going anywhere and no one is finishing a character in one trip to EC so take your time.

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Play Smart & Have Fun - Know your chars and opportunities to make money. Is porting your best option? PL'ing? Solo'ing high plat camps? Grouping? Do what's fun for you and it's not like you're killing yourself to earn every 1k. Buy MQ's when you can't get the item together and it's cheap/easy. Help out your buddies and get a chance to roll on spells/items that drop when you're doing quests together. Have fun.

skarlorn
01-30-2018, 03:33 PM
As a leveling toon I farmed Groi Gutblade and sold dozens of Rings to raid guilds.

At level 60 I locked down King Tranix and Drusella Sathir camp before velious dropped and made about 100k in 2 weeks.

OH yeah, I have puppet strings.

Baler
01-30-2018, 03:50 PM
By not sharing how I got my plat.
God didn't get to be god by giving money away.

loramin
01-30-2018, 03:54 PM
inb4 loramin treasure hunting guide (but theres at least 2 good plat treasure guides on wiki)

Obligatory "link in my signature" post :)

Also I'm sure there are several great guides for earning plat on the wiki, and I'd recommend them for anyone looking to have a path laid out for them. My "guides" are really more lists of ideas of places to get plat/xp for people who want to make their own path.

Wfrench1234
01-30-2018, 03:58 PM
Obligatory "link in my signature" post :)

Also I'm sure there are several great guides for earning plat on the wiki, and I'd recommend them for anyone looking to have a path laid out for them. My "guides" are really more lists of ideas of places to get plat/xp for people who want to make their own path.

I and the community appreciate your guide but this thread was more for stories of how people actually did it.

skarlorn
01-30-2018, 04:08 PM
nerds who quit the game but are too righteous to RMT cash out by giving my lvl 20 main highly valuable items because i'm exquisitely good company

that's not RMT tho. that's just giving away pixels.

Jimjam
01-30-2018, 04:12 PM
Don't spend your plat on dumb shit.

It'll accrue on it's own if you're not a tard.

Plus, there is always money in the bananastand.

Raavak
01-30-2018, 04:35 PM
I'm Jewish. And I play EQ like I am too.

azeth
01-30-2018, 04:46 PM
The main sources of platinum I had when i played came from:

1. Farming Seafury Cyclops for about 1.5 hrs a day, or more.

2. Amassing starter-investor platinum of about 100,000

3. Flipping high-ticket, high-demand items for plat. Not a ton, but doing a lot of transactions. An example would be ALWAYS having the plat capital available to buy something thats priced low in EC. Don't ever spend the last of your plat, consider 100k is your new 0.

skarlorn
01-30-2018, 04:47 PM
o h yeah i used to make 3k per hour pickpocketing all seafuries

Alesclandre
01-30-2018, 05:05 PM
Started with monk from scratch a bit more than 2 years ago, HQ brute hides while lvling helped buying SCHW at lvl40 then hill giants at 45+ to get pantherskin. Raised around 150k farming Droga SS and Chief/BG camps before CoS nerf at lvl50+ after getting epic and bought my 1st fungi tunic.

Then i rolled an enchanter and became a millionnaire lol.

kaluann
01-30-2018, 05:08 PM
Leveling my necro 49-53 exclusively on seafury island

Leveling my wizzy 51-54 exclusively off WL fairies (and then selling all the gems and porting people while my brain melted away in EC)

After amassing a small fortune, I blew it all on gearing my alts I rarely play.

Foxplay
01-30-2018, 05:19 PM
Play enchanter

Baler
01-30-2018, 05:22 PM
o h yeah i used to make 3k per hour pickpocketing all seafuries

By far one of the most thrilling and heart breaking plat making guides on p99...
https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=277707

mefdinkins
01-30-2018, 05:59 PM
Then i rolled an enchanter and became a millionnaire lol.

Damn chanters! Next time you won't budge on my offer I'm porting you to Tox!

Mendo
01-30-2018, 06:03 PM
Buying items off of recharge mules.

d3r14k
01-30-2018, 07:40 PM
By far one of the most thrilling and heart breaking plat making guides on p99...
https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=277707

Thanks for sharing this, Baler. This was a great read.

Mad props, Skarlorn. You continue to surprise and amaze me.

I'm still in the "making my money" phase, so I can't really answer this thread very well. I'll just agree with Tupakk: Ports. It isn't unusual to make 2k or 3k in a couple hours. Right after an earthquake is when people are most frantic and tend to drop a ton of plat, I've noticed.

Pokesan
01-30-2018, 07:59 PM
creating loads of aggressively homosexual content is how I keep the Jum a-flowin

:)

silo32
01-30-2018, 09:36 PM
farmed seafuries

after a month or 2 my net was 450k raw plat

i bought a bunch of stuff, think i have 20k left

silo32
01-30-2018, 09:38 PM
then i got into selling epic mq's and retired

Handull
01-31-2018, 02:00 AM
Druid main. Started with tailoring, mostly bags in EC. Eventually could buy tink bags from SolA. Had a set of cha gear, so selling one bag in EC was almost 500pp profit for the time of porting to SolA and running in slowly with plat. Eventually bought puppet strings, one for myself and one for guild, free OT hammers to guild, charged others 5k per hammer and made a killing. Would solo random stuff with strings for profit as well. Need to find your own way mostly

skarlorn
01-31-2018, 02:07 AM
I think strings are by far one of the best ways to earn plat. You just need to know a friend with strings too

Handull
01-31-2018, 02:19 AM
it was better when they were 10-15k per hammer, even the 5k I sold it for was a goldmine. less so now, but still an easy money maker. locket of escape turned out to not be such a worthwhile investment.

I also sold a bunch of chardok and KC monk epic pipes, probably starting at 30k and moving down as the market fell. fun camp to solo on a druid charming, and hard to beat that price while XPing

Alesclandre
01-31-2018, 05:41 AM
By far one of the most thrilling and heart breaking plat making guides on p99...
https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=277707

PURE GOLD.

Diogene
01-31-2018, 07:03 AM
I think one day platinum will collapse

Itap
01-31-2018, 11:05 AM
Looting vendor trash is a pretty decent way to make plat while leveling. When I ran my bard through the typical lvling route in MM, i noticed that almost nobody looted anything. We would have 15+ unlooted corpses and they would eventually rot before being looted. I probably made around 4k just vendoring crap dropped from appropriate lvl NPCs from 30-39 in MM.

7thGate
01-31-2018, 01:07 PM
I am proud to have been the rogue to share my story of boosting a star sapphire from a seafury and thus providing the great Borgnach with the information for his famous heist: https://www.project1999.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2536320&postcount=65

I only ever PPed unengaged ones though, which is....less lucrative. Its been a while since I did any pickpocketing now that I'm in my 50's though. IIRC the 45 level cap on mob level for pickpocketing purposes raises by 1 per level over 50. I should see if I can Pickpocket the Allizewsaur one of these days now that I'm over 55.

Maelstrom
01-31-2018, 01:28 PM
Farming that fine steel. Try not to go insane.

GinnasP99
01-31-2018, 02:20 PM
http://wiki.project1999.com/Guard_Kiston x 20,000

Reguiy
01-31-2018, 03:13 PM
Farming the robe of the lost circle/robe of the whistling fists. One day I was farming around Lguk like I always did and I ran out of camps. Decided to take a peak at Raster. He was up! Killed him and got the idol. Sweet. I had done the Monk epic already and knew the rest to get the robe was pretty easy and just a little bit of running around. Got the robe of the lost circle and figured out there was a huge market for these and sold the MQ for 50k+. Ended up rinsing and repeating that about 10 times.

The main thing was there was all this stigma behind the Raster camp. All the horror stories from back in the day where people camped him for days and days on end to no avail. But on this server at least, it was just like any other camp. Sometimes you got him in a couple hours, sometimes it took like 8+. And once you got the idol you just had to run around for a few hours and you got a 50k MQ item.

mefdinkins
01-31-2018, 03:51 PM
Farming the robe of the lost circle/robe of the whistling fists. One day I was farming around Lguk like I always did and I ran out of camps. Decided to take a peak at Raster. He was up! Killed him and got the idol. Sweet. I had done the Monk epic already and knew the rest to get the robe was pretty easy and just a little bit of running around. Got the robe of the lost circle and figured out there was a huge market for these and sold the MQ for 50k+. Ended up rinsing and repeating that about 10 times.

The main thing was there was all this stigma behind the Raster camp. All the horror stories from back in the day where people camped him for days and days on end to no avail. But on this server at least, it was just like any other camp. Sometimes you got him in a couple hours, sometimes it took like 8+. And once you got the idol you just had to run around for a few hours and you got a 50k MQ item.

I found Targin the Rock up and have been thinking about completing it just for the fun of it on my monk but damn it seems terrible. I did it once before and Raster took forever.

Reguiy
01-31-2018, 04:00 PM
I found Targin the Rock up and have been thinking about completing it just for the fun of it on my monk but damn it seems terrible. I did it once before and Raster took forever.

It's honestly no worse than a fbss camp or something similar. I believe all the highest tier loot camps in this game have a similar spawn/drop rate. But I did a quick search after I wrote that comment and found that they're selling for considerably less these days to the point where it would probably be more efficient to camp something else and sell that item to buy the MQ.

Twochain
01-31-2018, 04:53 PM
Got my monk up to level 55, and a wonderful fella named Lennox showed me how to pull king in Sebilis. Won the first 3 fungi's i ever saw drop. After that, Twochain was pretty much perma parked in sebilis to farm fungi's until I joined Aftermath. Was a lot of fun. Definitely sold my soul to that camp for a while lmao.. i've probably won over 20 fungi's. Monk is the best character to do this camp with imo, as a good monk is needed for the camp first and foremost. On top of that, you can tank, and also DPS for the group. And if you make a good name for yourself as a competent puller, a spot is almost ALWAYS available to you. It got to the point where I would login, /ooc "TWOOOOCHAINNNNNNNNNNNN" and get a group offer.

Crazily enough, out of ALL the time i've spent in Sebilis over 3-4 characters, I've only seen ONE cobalt bracer drop, and ZERO, ZERO! Haste items (RBG/SBC)

EDIT: Now that Twochain is perma parked in ToV, I use my enchanter to farm velk when I need plats =)

Raavak
01-31-2018, 05:02 PM
Should request a name change from Twochain to Ka-ching

supermonk
01-31-2018, 06:05 PM
as a monk trying to make money, do more with less. if you can do a camp with 2 people, then there's no reason to have a 3rd or more. also I suggest you do an even split on all loot rather than /random; you'll make more in the long run and your partner(s) will appreciate it.

Zemus
01-31-2018, 06:12 PM
I'm terrible at farming plat because I only do a little bit at a time.

1. Hot pick 3's and sell the mq's
2. PoM puppets
3. Lodizal
4. Fungi king in seb
5. Juggs
6. DN rats
7. SG Shimmering Sea Spirits or Fellspine

are the go to activities

Oh yeah, raid. Way better than farming plat per hour.

SiouxNation
01-31-2018, 06:23 PM
1-2-4-8-16-32

branamil
01-31-2018, 06:49 PM
I used to powerlevel people, and it was pretty good money, until they ruined it. If I was powerleveling one person, another would guilt trip me that it was their turn. Getting messaged constantly that they want more xp, wouldn't take no for an answer, and guilt trip me more, that I didn't feel like powerleveling someone for 10 hours. Sometimes I wanted to do my own thing and would act insulted if I said no. Other times I would do long hardcore sessions and get stiffed on payment. So it was a pretty slavish way to make a living would not recommend

Wfrench1234
01-31-2018, 07:29 PM
I used to powerlevel people, and it was pretty good money, until they ruined it. If I was powerleveling one person, another would guilt trip me that it was their turn. Getting messaged constantly that they want more xp, wouldn't take no for an answer, and guilt trip me more, that I didn't feel like powerleveling someone for 10 hours. Sometimes I wanted to do my own thing and would act insulted if I said no. Other times I would do long hardcore sessions and get stiffed on payment. So it was a pretty slavish way to make a living would not recommend

That sounds like a crummy way to have to
Make a living. Especially with people showing their true colors.


Also twochains ive spent quite a bit of time in Seb both on live And P99 and I’ve never seen a random drop haste item either. Also never have I ever seen a tstaff drop.

SiouxNation
01-31-2018, 07:48 PM
Always get money up front for PL sessions.

Wfrench1234
01-31-2018, 07:54 PM
Always get money up front for PL sessions.

That sounds like an easy solution but then the buyer has no protection other than perhaps whatever reputation the person doing the power leveling has. Seems like PLing is a situation rife for abuse

Itap
01-31-2018, 07:56 PM
I used to powerlevel people, and it was pretty good money, until they ruined it. If I was powerleveling one person, another would guilt trip me that it was their turn. Getting messaged constantly that they want more xp, wouldn't take no for an answer, and guilt trip me more, that I didn't feel like powerleveling someone for 10 hours. Sometimes I wanted to do my own thing and would act insulted if I said no. Other times I would do long hardcore sessions and get stiffed on payment. So it was a pretty slavish way to make a living would not recommend

Yikes, makes me happy that I have never PLd anyone for plat ever on p99

Nexii
01-31-2018, 08:00 PM
ERP and erotica stories

Lulz~Sect
01-31-2018, 08:22 PM
I recall a role playing wood elf named Layonya Forpp who made a lot of money in EC in Fennin Ro just telling stories.

Lemonhead
01-31-2018, 09:42 PM
Plus, there is always money in the bananastand.

This is THE clue.

fastboy21
01-31-2018, 09:58 PM
I try my best to never buy anything that can't be resold. Most of my "wealth" has come from not sinking my plat into non-resellable stuff for my toons (either no drop MQ stuff, spells, or items that lose their value).

Be patient when buying big ticket items. When you start getting up to the 200k range you can see price variations of +/- 30k sometimes.

Other than that, its just time. The slow constant accumulation of plat...it adds up over time.

Also, I had the common sense to bank 6 holgresh beads (I think I bought them for about 20-30k each while they were regularly farmed). I don't understand how people didn't do this...it was stupidly obvious.

SiouxNation
01-31-2018, 10:08 PM
You don't bend to the whim of your customers who have plat to burn, if you are PLing, you make the terms.

d3r14k
01-31-2018, 10:26 PM
I used to powerlevel people, and it was pretty good money, until they ruined it. If I was powerleveling one person, another would guilt trip me that it was their turn. Getting messaged constantly that they want more xp, wouldn't take no for an answer, and guilt trip me more, that I didn't feel like powerleveling someone for 10 hours. Sometimes I wanted to do my own thing and would act insulted if I said no. Other times I would do long hardcore sessions and get stiffed on payment. So it was a pretty slavish way to make a living would not recommend

This is just as good advice as some of the others, even if it is sold as an example of what not to do. I've only powerleveled a few people and have never advertised it as a "service", more as a favor with the expectation of a set rate per hour platinum. It can be pretty good money if you find the right impatient twink alt.

Having said that, I've been guilt tripped into doing many a port that I simply didn't want to do because I was XPing or grouping with buds, et cetera. It's hard to turn down when someone is naked and wanting to get back to their body. A little different from the greed and impatience of wanting to be PL'd, but it's in the same vein.

skarlorn
01-31-2018, 10:40 PM
roll an enchanter get him to 16 and then sell "mana regeneration buffs" in KC, Seb, and even Kael. If you're smart you won't die, and you'll also be /roleplay - ask for 100pp for groups and 50pp for individual and you'll be able to earn a good bit of cash every night just by logging into your ENC and selling people Breeze.

100% did it on my ENC and made thousands of plat

Wfrench1234
01-31-2018, 11:35 PM
roll an enchanter get him to 16 and then sell "mana regeneration buffs" in KC, Seb, and even Kael. If you're smart you won't die, and you'll also be /roleplay - ask for 100pp for groups and 50pp for individual and you'll be able to earn a good bit of cash every night just by logging into your ENC and selling people Breeze.

100% did it on my ENC and made thousands of plat

Was with you on the seafuries this seems not too plausible.

OptionsNecro
01-31-2018, 11:36 PM
roll an enchanter get him to 16 and then sell "mana regeneration buffs" in KC, Seb, and even Kael. If you're smart you won't die, and you'll also be /roleplay - ask for 100pp for groups and 50pp for individual and you'll be able to earn a good bit of cash every night just by logging into your ENC and selling people Breeze.

100% did it on my ENC and made thousands of plat

...

Mendo
02-01-2018, 12:53 AM
I used to powerlevel people, and it was pretty good money, until they ruined it. If I was powerleveling one person, another would guilt trip me that it was their turn. Getting messaged constantly that they want more xp, wouldn't take no for an answer, and guilt trip me more, that I didn't feel like powerleveling someone for 10 hours. Sometimes I wanted to do my own thing and would act insulted if I said no. Other times I would do long hardcore sessions and get stiffed on payment. So it was a pretty slavish way to make a living would not recommend

I'm so glad you hooked me up !

Lulz~Sect
02-01-2018, 12:59 AM
porting or twink gear after alt swapping

Remeygi
02-01-2018, 01:06 AM
I beg from NPCs

Phenyo
02-01-2018, 01:18 AM
Selling MQs

Freakish
02-01-2018, 01:19 AM
I kill hasten after a few people do jboots. Get tens of thousands of gold each kill.

Sonark
02-01-2018, 01:47 AM
I beg from NPCsWhat is the maximum amount that can be begged?

Asking for a friend.

Remeygi
02-01-2018, 02:10 AM
What is the maximum amount that can be begged?

Asking for a friend.

Doh, I was actually jk. No idea, tbh

Sonark
02-01-2018, 03:03 AM
Now my friend will never know.

Bboboo
02-01-2018, 04:40 AM
I PL'd a bunch before the max hit when sitting patch. Made around 120k, never got stiffed.

Also ported my ass off for a while back when DaP was sorta newish.

Now a days I make plat by leveling my various alts and hoarding/selling everything.

supermonk
02-01-2018, 11:35 AM
before monk sneak nerf, I duoed fungi camp regularly with my pal. at the time I was a casual monk who desperately wanted to upgrade and buy 2 sky fists, which I eventually did, from fist/som . was fun solo pulling king to tube through all mobs in brain/jail/exit. groups of course eventually got mad at me and regularly petitioned me; not because I was breaking the rules, but because they were mad I could out-mobilize and claim camp solo, if I had to. I didn't respect groups who claim "king" when they haven't killed a PH and are still at entrance mobilizing. gave me a "bad" reputation. didn't need good gear either, I was able to duo at level 59 with non-dragon gear. it was a skill pull more-so than gear dependent.

we made a lot of money, a lot..and single handedly destroyed the fungi price because we'd net an average of 2-5 fungis per farm session. best drop rate we've gotten was 6 fungis in 5 hours. I think at the peak, I was able to drop the price from 50k down to 38k because I flooded the market with them. resellers would send me hate tells because it would ruin a key source of their income. it was the best camp because you fight 1 mob per 25 minutes, afk and work on the other screen, rinse and repeat.

point is OP, don't set the bar low if you have Walmart gear, thinking you can't do big camps. I was able to do it and learned a lot through trial and error. find a shaman friend and challenge yourselves. you will eventually learn that several money camps are possible when a majority of the population would write it off without a single attempt.

Lhancelot
02-01-2018, 11:43 AM
before monk sneak nerf, I duoed fungi camp regularly with my pal. at the time I was a casual monk who desperately wanted to upgrade and buy 2 sky fists, which I eventually did, from fist/som . was fun solo pulling king to tube through all mobs in brain/jail/exit. groups of course eventually got mad at me and regularly petitioned me; not because I was breaking the rules, but because they were mad I could out-mobilize and claim camp solo, if I had to. I didn't respect groups who claim "king" when they haven't killed a PH and are still at entrance mobilizing. gave me a "bad" reputation. didn't need good gear either, I was able to duo at level 59 with non-dragon gear. it was a skill pull more-so than gear dependent.

we made a lot of money, a lot..and single handedly destroyed the fungi price because we'd net an average of 2-5 fungis per farm session. best drop rate we've gotten was 6 fungis in 5 hours. I think at the peak, I was able to drop the price from 50k down to 38k because I flooded the market with them. resellers would send me hate tells because it would ruin a key source of their income. it was the best camp because you fight 1 mob per 25 minutes, afk and work on the other screen, rinse and repeat.

point is OP, don't set the bar low if you have Walmart gear, thinking you can't do big camps. I was able to do it and learned a lot through trial and error. find a shaman friend and challenge yourselves. you will eventually learn that several money camps are possible when a majority of the population would write it off without a single attempt.

I remember those days.

I wondered why you stopped hitting EC with non-stop fungis, now I see it's due to the nerf to monk sneak I guess is what you are saying.

Really fungis never recovered they still hover at 40-44k which is still much cheaper than they were before you sold so many fungis at 38-40k.

As for finding a lucrative niche like you did, without gears I don't know.

I don't think anymore plat camps like your fungi camp are out there tbh, and if they are actual geared players who been on the server for years live on the camps never granting a noob-ungeared player a chance to even begin to learn such a camp.

Raavak
02-01-2018, 11:47 AM
find a shaman friend and challenge yourselves. you will eventually learn that several money camps are possible when a majority of the population would write it off without a single attempt.Seems most players stick with what everyone knows; there are plenty of "secret fishing holes" out there.

supermonk
02-01-2018, 11:54 AM
I wondered why you stopped hitting EC with non-stop fungis, now I see it's due to the nerf to monk sneak I guess is what you are saying.

i stopped farming regularly, not because of the nerf, but because you eventually reach a ceiling where plat can't progress your character without joining a raiding guild. i sent some respectable offers to raiding guilds back then to buy some no-drop ntov weapons and got turned down bc their guild members needed them.

I don't think anymore plat camps like your fungi camp are out there tbh, and if they are actual geared players who been on the server for years live on the camps never granting a noob-ungeared player a chance to even begin to learn such a camp.

you don't need gear to learn how to pull. you just have to put the time in to learn the mechanics. post-nerf i ran around DN trying to figure stuff out and eventually did - and it can be applied to any camp. vilefang can be a profitable camp still. the new pull mechanics actually make it easier to still single pull him to zoneout if you know what you're doing.

Foxplay
02-02-2018, 01:01 AM
Now a days I make plat by leveling my various alts and hoarding/selling everything.

I find this to be true as well, as long as you don't go crazy twinking them and just buy them starter gear and spells leveling new toons can easily rack up 40k+ while lvling them 50 to 60. This is less true if you alt is shm or enc due to the higher cost of their spells

I find this a good method if doing the same plat camps on the same class wears thin. But if all you care about is making the most money either play a shm or enc and learn to solo well or form a dedicated plat making partner ship duo or trio and farm mq's and other things most solo cant

aaezil
02-02-2018, 01:06 AM
How did i make it rich you ask?

I won every single one of those "giving away cof/fungi" threads












































Just kidding those are just troll threads

Trelaboon
02-02-2018, 02:09 AM
When the server first started I leveled at all the “cash camps” the average population online during the first six months to a year was like 250 people during my hours of play, so I was able to do Lesser Fay sisters, OOT Sisters and then Highkeep Guards uncontested all the way to 50. By the time I was 50,’I’d say I had around 15k in gear and as a caster that was plenty. As I made more alts I seemed to just collect a little profit every time of twink something new, but I was never wealthy until about two years into Kunark. At that point I had made an enchanter alt, leveled it to 60 and spent a several month unemployment streak grinding out at NG for like 8 hours a day. I barely had to play, I just sat AFK and came back for my three bug kills ever 27 minutes. I usually made about 14-18k a day and I did this for months. I ended up making a couple hundred thousand plat doing that, and then also picked up a Manna Robe off of Trak that I eventually sold for about 140k.

All told I’m still not that wealthy, I have around 500k in total gear spread over 4 total alts, but I also spent around 160k total on Shaman spells (Torpor being the big one) so really id have closer to 660k. I’m not living lavish but I do alright and I have a fungi to throw on twinks when I’m bored

Premaximum
02-02-2018, 03:54 AM
vilefang can be a profitable camp still. the new pull mechanics actually make it easier to still single pull him to zoneout if you know what you're doing.

Somebody, please. Fill this niche. I've been trying to buy Infestation for months now.

REMEZ
02-02-2018, 06:19 AM
Level enchanter to lvl 60, solo at BM camp in velks for Black Marbles and Flawless Diamonds, profit.

silo32
02-02-2018, 11:16 AM
pre nerf there were a few iksar guards in cab that were bugged dropping vendor items that would sell and net you 5k an hour

anyone remember this?

Jimjam
02-02-2018, 03:42 PM
Somebody, please. Fill this niche. I've been trying to buy Infestation for months now.

look for people selling chipped fang / Ralgyn's Promise / Circlet of the Falinkan MQs


...

though they may be coy, as they might anticipate you being there to steal their timers as well as paying for an infestation loot.