Plat farm for 60 ranger or wizard?

[kanis999]

I have like 1k on all my characters combined, absolutely pathetic for multiple 60s. Is anyone willing to suggest some places where a 60 ranger (very geared) or wizard could farm plat? Giving ports is an obvious one but DAP has that mostly on lockdown. Shrunken goblin skull earring as wizard aoe nuking all the goblins might be best. Any better ideas?

[Ripqozko]

I have like 1k on all my characters combined, absolutely pathetic for multiple 60s. Is anyone willing to suggest some places where a 60 ranger (very geared) or wizard could farm plat? Giving ports is an obvious one but DAP has that mostly on lockdown. Shrunken goblin skull earring as wizard aoe nuking all the goblins might be best. Any better ideas?

Guards, lots of guards. Choose your location , sell fs, ???, profit. If you get a duo you could farm more like cliff golems or juggs.

[ScottBerta]

Probably Hill Giants using track with ranger in Rathe MTNS

[loramin]

https://wiki.project1999.com/Treasure_Hunting_Guide might give you some ideas

[Pint]

EJ cycle? Ragefire? Some repeatable quest mq like falinkans. Very geared is vague so hard to gauge what you could actually solo

[Toxigen]

make an enchanter

[jolanar]

Take 60 Ranger to Droga. For an average plat per hour over an extended period of time it won't get any better than that.

[PatChapp]

Log ranger in at 9pm in south ro

[Jimjam]

Log ranger in at 9pm in south ro

Bind wiz at oot clops. Port to s ro every 8:30pm. Dumping a ranger on s ro ac is just a waste of a toon.

Plough thru stuff on a 60 ranger is pretty fun but I feel is better for doing random cash farming, especially cos they are better at taking the money to where it needs to be.

[kanis999]

Thanks for the ideas. What I learned mostly is it's less about winning big 10k+ items to sell and more about patiently raking in consistent cash flow. This was a big misconception on my part, bc I assumed everyone rich just won something supremely valuable and sold it.

Ranger is just geared in terms of damage output, not so much defense. Carrying baton of flame, swiftwind, and sky cloak.

[Evia]

If you go to HK you can make about 1500-2k an hr reliably if you kill guards on all floors and vendor the fs swords. It's not the best I'm sure, and it requires you to have all the guards to yourself which is uncommon, but it's steady and you never have to leave the zone or deal with ec.

[jolanar]

If you go to HK you can make about 1500-2k an hr reliably if you kill guards on all floors and vendor the fs swords. It's not the best I'm sure, and it requires you to have all the guards to yourself which is uncommon, but it's steady and you never have to leave the zone or deal with ec.

There is no way you are getting that much per hour in High Keep. That's 300 to 400 guards per hour in a zone with an 18 minute spawn time. There is ~30 to 35 guards. That math doesn't add up. It's more like ~500p an hour, which don't get me wrong is still good.

[Crede]

I have like 1k on all my characters combined, absolutely pathetic for multiple 60s. Is anyone willing to suggest some places where a 60 ranger (very geared) or wizard could farm plat? Giving ports is an obvious one but DAP has that mostly on lockdown. Shrunken goblin skull earring as wizard aoe nuking all the goblins might be best. Any better ideas?

Maybe try kedge mermaids? They should be on the old oot cyclops loot table. Dispel ‘em. Not sure if they’d wreck ya tho.

[druidbob]

Quadding wyverns in CS can make some decent plat for a wizard. Become familiar with the gems to learn which ones are used for the velious armors, keep those to auction and vendor the others. Save the wyvern hides and you can sell the stacks to players trying to grind up their tailoring. Only problem is that it's a popular xp spot for low 50s, but there are a bunch of spawns to go around as long as you aren't there during peak times.

[Imago]

Probably Hill Giants using track with ranger in Rathe MTNS

Can put down 5k in raw plat in a few hours if nobody else is challenging spawns

[cd288]

There is no way you are getting that much per hour in High Keep. That's 300 to 400 guards per hour in a zone with an 18 minute spawn time. There is ~30 to 35 guards. That math doesn't add up. It's more like ~500p an hour, which don't get me wrong is still good.

I've definitely made more than that per hour there. I can hit a couple hundred just on one cycle alone. Sometimes the guards can deliver like 10pp per kill between the sword and plat they drop. If you have time on the cycle you can also go out to Highpass and kill all the guards at the gate right there which deliver the same type of plat.

I agree you're not getting 1.5k per hour there, but it can definitely be more than 500pp per hour.

[cd288]

Thanks for the ideas. What I learned mostly is it's less about winning big 10k+ items to sell and more about patiently raking in consistent cash flow. This was a big misconception on my part, bc I assumed everyone rich just won something supremely valuable and sold it.

Ranger is just geared in terms of damage output, not so much defense. Carrying baton of flame, swiftwind, and sky cloak.

With the classes you have yes. With something like an Enchanter or geared Shaman then yeah you're going to be solo farming big ticket items.

[Troxx]

Thanks for the ideas. What I learned mostly is it's less about winning big 10k+ items to sell and more about patiently raking in consistent cash flow..

This has generally been my experience. I have never gone out of my way to farm cash drops, sell MQs, EC mule, port whore or whatnot. I mostly focused on playing and having fun. The cash accumulates naturally. I won a few big drops here and there but typically used the item vs selling.

I never got rich but my characters geared out naturally with time/effort and the surplus did help to finance some nice alts.

[kanis999]

Update:

I've got a pretty good Droga system now involving both characters. Droga is great for the ranger to hunt in (once you learn which mobs to expect DS on and dispell), but the big problem is selling your goods. Nearest merchant is in LOIO.

Solution is to bind the wizard outside Droga with 5 empty slots. Ranger fills up 5 bags with shiny stuff. Ground transfer to the wizard in a discreet location. Wizard ports to WC to sell, gates back, gives empty bags back to Ranger.

Eliminating the long run makes the whole process smoother.

P.S. I have a ton of goblin skins and death salts to sell. PST Blazetree or Rolldeep if you want to buy.

[Keebz]

Farming SRO AC or peggy cloaks is gonna be about 10x more time efficient than grinding random FS/Goblins. It does take some know-how though.

However, the absolute fastest, if dubious, way to make money at 60 is to just join a raid guild and bid on dropable loot. This is how most guilds fund themselves for a reason.

[kanis999]

Farming SRO AC or peggy cloaks is gonna be about 10x more time efficient than grinding random FS/Goblins. It does take some know-how though.

However, the absolute fastest, if dubious, way to make money at 60 is to just join a raid guild and bid on dropable loot. This is how most guilds fund themselves for a reason.

Yeah I like AC farm a lot. I just cringe at the idea of wiz having to tell some low level char to get their own SOW and that I'm going to port them to Cazic instead of Feerrott. But I suppose I could get over that fear, I myself have bought jboots from a wizzy at level 5.

[cd288]

Confused why you cringe at the idea of selling JBoots MQs to low level chars

[kanis999]

Confused why you cringe at the idea of selling JBoots MQs to low level chars

Because wizards take them through Cazic, which is extremely dangerous compared to where druids take them.

[Evia]

There is no way you are getting that much per hour in High Keep. That's 300 to 400 guards per hour in a zone with an 18 minute spawn time. There is ~30 to 35 guards. That math doesn't add up. It's more like ~500p an hour, which don't get me wrong is still good.

Oh OK. You must be right. All the years I've been banking 1500-2k an hr killing guards I must have been off on how long it was taking me. All I know is when papa wanted a new item I spent the day in HK and funded it.

[Infectious]

Oh OK. You must be right. All the years I've been banking 1500-2k an hr killing guards I must have been off on how long it was taking me. All I know is when papa wanted a new item I spent the day in HK and funded it.

Duck tales LOL. You ain't making 1-2k an hour on high-pass guards.

[cd288]

Because wizards take them through Cazic, which is extremely dangerous compared to where druids take them.

So have them get a port to the jungle then. Anyone who has 5k to spend on jboots for a lowbie char isn't gonna care

[enjchanter]

No one in all of life itself has ever made good plat farming fine steel weapons. That's the p99 equivalent if worming at McDonald's.

OP picked 2 terrible classes for farming plat
Learn to do quillmane on your ranger or reroll imo
Otherwise use your wizard to wing ring8s and angry rolls and sell those

Buy a ring 7 mq for 10k, roll at ring8 till you win, sell that for 75k

Get note to skargus, roll at angry till u win, sell that for 100k

[Infectious]

TT cycle, goblin ring, jboot mq,

[cd288]

Anyone who farms the goblin ring for plat is doing it wrong lol

[Lune]

Anyone who farms the goblin ring for plat is doing it wrong lol

You know I've heard that but I've actually had good luck with that camp farming it to use. Probably just statistical anomalies.

No one in all of life itself has ever made good plat farming fine steel weapons. That's the p99 equivalent if worming at McDonald's.

OP picked 2 terrible classes for farming plat
Learn to do quillmane on your ranger or reroll imo
Otherwise use your wizard to wing ring8s and angry rolls and sell those

Buy a ring 7 mq for 10k, roll at ring8 till you win, sell that for 75k

Get note to skargus, roll at angry till u win, sell that for 100k

bad advice and trolling as usual from this guy

[Swish]

Park up at OT in front of all the other porters and offer TLs for donations.

The key to success is sitting in front of the other porters, gotta hustle.

[kanis999]

Park up at OT in front of all the other porters and offer TLs for donations.

The key to success is sitting in front of the other porters, gotta hustle.

Sooner or later people be parked inside the boat

[cd288]

You know I've heard that but I've actually had good luck with that camp farming it to use. Probably just statistical anomalies.

Jealous lol anytime I've done it I've never gotten that good luck. IMO too variable on the RNG compared to how much you can sell it for to make it worth it as a plat farm.

[7thGate]

Puppet show in pom might be good in a duo with shaman if you're geared enough to clear them. Jayya is in ALS so can't really farm items for plat, but had been doing a lot of puppet show to earn her cloak of confusion and resist flowers.

Its hard to tell the drop rate because it sucks, but I would estimate its something like a throne every 10 hours for both people in a duo on average. Based on wiki prices, I am guessing it is probably over 2k per hour average.

[danceparty]

Agreeing with the quadding CS wyvs on wiz. I do this occasionally because its peaceful and the gems add up fast.

[Jimjam]

It's more exciting to include drakes in the quad :D

[Lune]

I don't know if the wiki isn't super apparent about some of the better ways of making plat. Maybe tucked into a guide somewhere. I've never run the numbers to compare the popular steady mob grinds to the opportunities people find. I had a friend who had a couple friends that would help him hustle monk epic MQ's, and he'd help them with their epic enterprises. I'd chip in sometimes just to hang out; we were homies together in field of bone. Just a crew within a guild. Back when my brother played, he would camp jboots and sell the MQ's during a period of high demand. Sometimes he'd corpse 2 or 3 in a night (14-21k at the time), but he was up at weird hours on his days off. The price of jboots tended to remain higher than it otherwise probably should have relative to the difficulty of getting the camp when you want it. It was a pain in the ass so a lot of people avoided it and just paid the rate set by a cartel of jboots farmers. I had a few different things I did, most of which were only lucrative at the time I did them. One was selling Rain Callers (easy quest, a couple hours a week, 5-6k each). I don't have the slightest inkling of what pays in late Velious, and things are different with blue's population being a shadow of what it once was (far slower-moving market)).

The overarching theme here is that a lot of plat can come from making friends and playing the game with them, and in the process learning what's moving in the market. This aligns with what Troxx said:

This has generally been my experience. I have never gone out of my way to farm cash drops, sell MQs, EC mule, port whore or whatnot. I mostly focused on playing and having fun. The cash accumulates naturally. I won a few big drops here and there but typically used the item vs selling.

I never got rich but my characters geared out naturally with time/effort and the surplus did help to finance some nice alts.

Grab some pals and be the person selling the epic or the whatever obscure item from whatever obscure camp to the people grinding plat from mobs, or old money. Knowledge of these camps and sales percolates from playing the game and interacting with guildies/friends. The amount of hustle and the amount of time/effort you put in dictates how rich you get, but plenty of people make good* plat playing somewhat casually. If your guild is a dud find a better one. It all hinges on grouping up and being social. This is what makes EQ great. Or if you prefer to chill out an grind plat, that's cool too. Hill Giants are great for that, as are Gargs in an empty mistmoore (while checking for Princess Joleena ;)), and droga.

* asterisk because what the hardcore raiders make selling very high end things is in its own league.

[enjchanter]

Real talk if you're not farming urns or fungis idk how anyone can make any plat

[Naethyn]

Real talk if you're not farming urns or fungis idk how anyone can make any plat

Bid on droppables at raids and wait for your guild to collapse. 401k plan

[enjchanter]

Bid on droppables at raids and wait for your guild to collapse. 401k plan

I keep getting kicked / declined so this won't work for me

Damn capitialism

[algernop]

Duck tales LOL. You ain't making 1-2k an hour on high-pass guards.

Maybe 1k if you kill all guards and are not contested.

[Ghost of Starman]

Join a high end raiding guild, warm body for a bit, then drop your DKP on an expensive high-end droppable like Zheart or something similar, sell a few of those and you'll never need plat again, that's probably going to be your best and easiest plat per hour.

[enjchanter]

Join a high end raiding guild, warm body for a bit, then drop your DKP on an expensive high-end droppable like Zheart or something similar, sell a few of those and you'll never need plat again, that's probably going to be your best and easiest plat per hour.

I'd highly recommend playing the long game and going for kt head and selling the white dragon helm

It's not too much more dkp than a zheart but will net you atleast double if not triple the plat

You will probably sell it instantly at 600k but you could hold out for 750k

Just don't fall into the aon trap
Very hard to sell, have mostly no practical use except for good gcd clicky

[Lowako]

Real talk if you're not farming urns or fungis idk how anyone can make any plat

demon fang mqs were pretty solid when i last played (6 or 7 years ago at this point). 35k for a little over 2 hours of effort split between 2 people was pretty good. not sure its possible anymore w/ recharge/clicky nerfs though.