Decent cash camps?

[Halfcell]

So, I just came back to P99 after a bit of a long break, and my favorite chill cash camp has since been decimated by nerfs (Seafury Island). I play a Torpor Shaman, so I can solo quite well, and despite my time away, I am quite proficient with my shaman. I am wondering where else people tend to go to just accumulate some cash.

NG in Seb is great, but supports exactly one person at a time. I guess I could kill Spectres or Hill Giants, but damn that's boring and such a waste of a powerful class to kill mobs 25 levels below me. Are there any really good replacements for Seafuries? Or should I just pick a camp with a good drop to solo (Heirophant, Phase Spiders etc)?

[Legidias]

WW / turn in dragon heads. Maybe not the fastest, but its guranteed income

[loramin]

http://wiki.project1999.com/Treasure_Hunting_Guide

[Halfcell]

http://wiki.project1999.com/Treasure_Hunting_Guide

Oh my God, thank you, because as I said I have never played P99 before....

If the answer to my question was in that guide I wouldn't have asked it.

Dragon heads is a good idea though, I may head out to WW later and take a shot.

[loramin]

Oh my God, thank you, because as I said I have never played P99 before....

If the answer to my question was in that guide I wouldn't have asked it.

The guide has an entire section on "Coin/Trash Item Camps (to be sold to vendors)", but sure it doesn't answer your question at all ...

[Halfcell]

The guide has an entire section on "Coin/Trash Item Camps (to be sold to vendors)", but sure it doesn't answer your question at all ...

I suppose I should have said "I have already read the guide many many times, and was hoping for some actual answers from real people a little more oriented to long time players. Thank you for the suggestion though."

I just find you, specifically, super annoying, so I was kind of a dick. I am not sorry, to just link the most basic page on the wiki like you were a hero is super douchy, but to anyone else I would have been far more diplomatic.

[Ghostly]

Lets move this to RnF IMO.

[bigjeff100]

I suppose I should have said "I have already read the guide many many times, and was hoping for some actual answers from real people a little more oriented to long time players. Thank you for the suggestion though."

I just find you, specifically, super annoying, so I was kind of a dick. I am not sorry, to just link the most basic page on the wiki like you were a hero is super douchy, but to anyone else I would have been far more diplomatic.

Wow you're a dick. Seriously though, what is wrong with you?

[loramin]

I suppose I should have said "I have already read the guide many many times, and was hoping for some actual answers from real people a little more oriented to long time players. Thank you for the suggestion though."

I just find you, specifically, super annoying, so I was kind of a dick. I am not sorry, to just link the most basic page on the wiki like you were a hero is super douchy, but to anyone else I would have been far more diplomatic.

Here's the thing ... you're not special:

https://i.imgur.com/dbhoNsC.gif

Many, many players have looked for places to earn plat. So many, in fact, that years ago I got tired of all the posts asking "where do I earn plat" and started the treasure hunting guide. That way, when someone asked the same question for the millionth time, I could simply refer them to a wiki page. That one wiki page has saved countless hours of people posting and responding to posts (with a tiny fraction of the suggestions that page offers).

You may not like the fact that you're not a special and unique snowflake. You may not like that you have to earn plat at the same places as everyone else on the server, and a good number of those places are documented on a wiki page ... but that's the reality. For long-time and short-time players.

This has nothing to do with me, or me being a hero, or even what you think of me. Like I said, I post the treasure hunting guide links out of laziness, not heroism.

It has everything to do with you thinking you're a snowflake, when really you're just another player here enjoying this wonderful place we call P99.

[deezy]

I just find you, specifically, super annoying, so I was kind of a dick. I am not sorry, to just link the most basic page on the wiki like you were a hero is super douchy, but to anyone else I would have been far more diplomatic.

wow you're such a sweetheart.

[bigjeff100]

You asked a generic question about camps and cash. Loramin answers with a link to a wiki page that blankets your entire question. You then proceed to snip at him.. What were you hoping for? Camp suggestions NOT included in the treasure hunting guide? Ask that question specifically then.

Somebody name and shame this chump.

[sonicjoose]

As momma always used to say.....................................

Haters gonna hate

Gaters gonna gate

[Whyt]

As momma always used to say.....................................

Haters gonna hate

Gaters gonna gate

hahaha Gaters gonna gate... killed me lol! - very nice!

[Zipity]

They don’t wanna give you the good shit bro, you gotta think bigger or find a niche! You got strings? If so you can solo Lodizal and make big buccaroos or you can solo in SG for money or BM/BM/lower dogs in velks, can kill ayilish in WW and sell +6 neck LR, could camp halfling mask in chardok if ya are factioned and sell LR, hell highpass hold idol camp + bags + scalps is easy 750-1k an hour. Could farm in PoM, farm dragon tooth chokers if you can solo the spy, go after ticket items solo/duo is the way to go! This is shit right off the top my head no one is gonna tell you their best spots though. If you want fast plat make a bard or ench shamans kill slow so you need to kill shit most others can’t solo.

[jolanar]

You are much better off accepting that aside from tunnelquesting you will probably just make around 250 to 500p per hour playing the game in a normal way (grouping in Seb/HS/Velks, killing guards for fine steel etc.) and realize that hording mass amounts of plat just takes time more than anything.

[Lysander]

I suppose I should have said "I have already read the guide many many times, and was hoping for some actual answers from real people a little more oriented to long time players. Thank you for the suggestion though."

I just find you, specifically, super annoying, so I was kind of a dick. I am not sorry, to just link the most basic page on the wiki like you were a hero is super douchy, but to anyone else I would have been far more diplomatic.

I sympathize with you completely, and I am shocked more people are not coming to your defense.

Posting a one line link to a wiki page over and over in response to a class of thread is obviously unhelpful, regardless of his intentions. Should we just link the Loraen's Enchanter guide to every enchanter who asks a question and nothing else? But I genuinely think he just wants to help everyone, so among most people he gets a pass.

If he is truly so tired of the question of "where the best places are to make plat?", he should stop replying to those threads instead of giving a lazy answer.

I am prepared to get flamed by everyone else. Thanks.

[loramin]

Posting a one line link to a wiki page over and over in response to a class of thread is obviously unhelpful, regardless of his intentions. Should we just link the Loraen's Enchanter guide to every enchanter who asks a question and nothing else? But I genuinely think he just wants to help everyone, so among most people he gets a pass.

If he is truly so tired of the question of "where the best places are to make plat?", he should stop replying to those threads instead of giving a lazy answer.

I am prepared to get flamed by everyone else. Thanks.

I'm not trying to "flame you", but to me it seems you have an odd way of looking at the situation.

How is posting a link that is (at least arguably) the best answer "obviously unhelpful"? If some new Enchanter player asks how to do crowd control, Loraen's Guide probably has the best explanation. I mean, as a non-Enchanter I can't speak to the quality of that specific guide, but in general people put thought and effort into guides. If a guide covers a topic, then pointing people to that guide likely means pointing them to the best possible resource for what they want to learn.

Think of it this way: how is reading responses from a bunch of people in a forum (responses that repeat what's on a wiki page), any better than just going and looking at the actual wiki page? Especially since the wiki page has over a hundred spots, and any given forum thread won't get more than 20-30?

Of course, the guide doesn't have every possible spot, but as I said before many, many people have asked this same question over the years. Each time it's been asked, people have suggested places, and those suggestions have gone into the wiki page. It's not just me that adds to it: check the history of the treasure guide and you'll see many have added to it over the years. As a result it truly does have more answers to the question than any other source.

So when I post a link to the guide I'm certainly not telling anyone else in these threads "don't post new ideas". I'm just saying, here's a link: it's got the best answer to your question ...

... oh, and for the OP I'm also saying that if you think you're too special to earn plat at the same places as other people do, well then you better be special enough to find new places on your own, because it's not like forum-goers are going to magically reward you with a thread full of never-before-seen places.

[Quinas]

I think the point is more - and this isnt a criticism of you Loramin - that the Treasure Hunting Guide is good for newer people, but most of the spots there are pretty commonly known, and are thus typically going to be camped. The spots for 51-60 are essentially just go to Seb, SolB, LGuk etc and camp the items there.

The best (either rarely camped or better plat) spots will be guarded knowledge because people are inherently greedy. If more people contributed to the guide it would be a comprehensive resource that could be used as a catch-all for these questions.

Right now it's essentially telling a max-level Torpor-geared Shaman to go to LGuk or farm guards for FS.

(And again, not a criticism of you.)

[loramin]

I think the point is more - and this isnt a criticism of you Loramin - that the Treasure Hunting Guide is good for newer people, but most of the spots there are pretty commonly known, and are thus typically going to be camped. The spots for 51-60 are essentially just go to Seb, SolB, LGuk etc and camp the items there.

The best (either rarely camped or better plat) spots will be guarded knowledge because people are inherently greedy. If more people contributed to the guide it would be a comprehensive resource that could be used as a catch-all for these questions.

Right now it's essentially telling a max-level Torpor-geared Shaman to go to LGuk or farm guards for FS.

(And again, not a criticism of you.)

No offense taken, and you're 100% correct, but here's the thing: if people aren't going to share their favorite level 60 Torpor-equipped Shaman treasure locations on the Treasure Hunting Guide, they're not going to share them in the forum either. In fact, as I said before most of the locations in the treasure guide originally came from the forums. This means that if a place isn't in the guide, it could just be that no one has bothered to add it from a forum post yet ... but it's more likely it's not there because no one ever made a forum post in the first place.

As I said to the OP, if you don't want to hunt at the same places as everyone else, that's perfectly fine, but don't expect to magically get a bunch of new suggestions that aren't in the guide just because you're person #223 to ask this question: people won't post them because they want to keep them secret, not because they want to tell complete strangers on the forum but just have been waiting this whole time for you to come and ask.

[loramin]

P.S. I don't think this is really fair/accurate:

Right now it's essentially telling a max-level Torpor-geared Shaman to go to LGuk or farm guards for FS.

The guide has: Siren's Grotto, OT Cliff Golems, Howling Stones, Sol B, Lower Guk, Sebilis, and Kedge (with multiple camps for most of those zones). All of those places have potential for several k item drops that a Torpor shaman can solo, and many of them have several different possible camps (caveat: I've never done the SG one myself; guess I need to try it :)). Oh, and it also lists cash camps like the Othmir, NG in Seb, EF Ice Giants, or panthers in WL ... for Shaman that don't like spending time in the tunnel.

In terms of making max plat/hour, Crypt in Seb or a doing good named camp somewhere like HS is probably the most plat, or at least close, that a Torpor Shaman can make without joining a farm crew or selling MQs.

So while (as a Torpor Shaman myself) I know there are more places a Torpor Shaman can make plat, the guide is far from useless even to them. Take a look, it might surprise you.

[Quinas]

Oh I have looked and I'm far from well-schooled in all the plat camps and my last line was perhaps a bit hyperbolic, yes. But I think that my point was the OP ultimately wanted more 'secret' locations.

No offense taken, and you're 100% correct, but here's the thing: if people aren't going to share their favorite level 60 Torpor-equipped Shaman treasure locations on the Treasure Hunting Guide, they're not going to share them in the forum either.

But this is very true.

...people won't post them because they want to keep them secret, not because they want to tell complete strangers on the forum but just have been waiting this whole time for you to come and ask.

And agreed, yes.

So really asking for 'advanced' cash camps on the forum is probably as equally pointless as telling the person asking for those secret locations to check out the guide. :P

[loramin]

So really asking for 'advanced' cash camps on the forum is probably as equally pointless as telling the person asking for those secret locations to check out the guide. :P

Touche ;)

In my defense, OP's original post never said anything about secrets, so I genuinely thought the link might help:

So, I just came back to P99 after a bit of a long break, and my favorite chill cash camp has since been decimated by nerfs (Seafury Island). I play a Torpor Shaman, so I can solo quite well, and despite my time away, I am quite proficient with my shaman. I am wondering where else people tend to go to just accumulate some cash.

NG in Seb is great, but supports exactly one person at a time. I guess I could kill Spectres or Hill Giants, but damn that's boring and such a waste of a powerful class to kill mobs 25 levels below me. Are there any really good replacements for Seafuries? Or should I just pick a camp with a good drop to solo (Heirophant, Phase Spiders etc)?

[Snaggles]

Torpor sham mourning about seafury nerfs. Can’t figure out how to farm plat.
An orchestra of tiny violins is somewhere playing a majestic opus...

[wwoneo]

So, I just came back to P99 after a bit of a long break, and my favorite chill cash camp has since been decimated by nerfs (Seafury Island). I play a Torpor Shaman, so I can solo quite well, and despite my time away, I am quite proficient with my shaman. I am wondering where else people tend to go to just accumulate some cash.

NG in Seb is great, but supports exactly one person at a time. I guess I could kill Spectres or Hill Giants, but damn that's boring and such a waste of a powerful class to kill mobs 25 levels below me. Are there any really good replacements for Seafuries? Or should I just pick a camp with a good drop to solo (Heirophant, Phase Spiders etc)?

Your best bet is to find a duo or trio and do real cash camps. Solo plat farming isn't what it used to be.

[Madbad]

Torpor sham mourning about seafury nerfs. Can’t figure out how to farm plat.
An orchestra of tiny violins is somewhere playing a majestic opus...

QFT

[bigjeff100]

Touche ;)

In my defense, OP's original post never said anything about secrets, so I genuinely thought the link might help:

Asked a generic question. Got a generic answer.. I see nothing wrong with Loramin's post.. A grumpy torpor shaman asking where he can grind cash is ridiculous in the first place.. Not only that, but went full asshole mode doing so. I remain at 0 respect for OP.

[Crawdad]

I play a Torpor Shaman, so I can solo quite well, and despite my time away, I am quite proficient with my shaman. I am wondering where else people tend to go to just accumulate some cash.

I guess I could kill Spectres or Hill Giants, but damn that's boring and such a waste of a powerful class to kill mobs 25 levels below me. Are there any really good replacements for Seafuries? Or should I just pick a camp with a good drop to solo (Heirophant, Phase Spiders etc)?

Man, I just can't imagine having Torpor and spending my time killing giants or cyclops for ~500p an hour. I even saw a shaman out on seafury island yesterday, I can only assume quietly weeping into a mug of sea foam at what once was.

You can solo so many silly things, or get a partner and do even sillier things. Solo or buddy up in DN, Kael, Skyshrine, SG, WW, Seb, Velks, Chardok, Epic MQ parts, etc.. Don't spend your energy looting 8pp 132gp 90sp 65cp at a time.

[Snaggles]

Even setting up a PL session at a set rate pp/hour would be mind-numbing but less so than chasing mid 40's druids and bards for hill giants...