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Originally Posted by Esheon
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Levels are king. Higher-level mobs drop more cash and better items.
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At level 50 or so (depending on your class) you can do Seafury Cyclops, which can get you 500+ plat an hour. At level 40 or so you can do Hill Giants which can get you 20 plat or so each (100-200 an hour). In contrast, at level 10 (or any level before 40) you will find it very difficult to make more than 50 plat an hour; that's an entire order of magnitude less than what you can do at 50.
Meanwhile the difference between wearing armor you find on the stuff you kill, and wearing 1k worth of purchased gear, is very small. I'm not saying there's no difference at all, but the actual impact on your leveling speed will be minimal. Certainly it will be a LOT less than 10x+ difference between trying to earn plat now vs. at level 50 or so.
All that being said, if you really do want to get plat now, in a few levels you can start looking at this guide to get ideas (and if you find anywhere not in that guide, by all means please add it; it is a wiki after all):
http://wiki.project1999.com/Treasure_Hunting_Guide
*EDIT*
As I was writing this BarackObooma went and posted a great suggestion for how to make a decent amount of plat per hour at low level. It's not a bad suggestion, but personally I'm a little skeptical that you'll be able to find buyers that easily (there's not that many people that care about faction), so I suspect you'll be spending a lot of time in EC trying to unload them (which will mean you'll make less plat per hour than suggested).
Meanwhile all that time you spend running around doing the quest, and then all that time you'll spend waiting in EC, is time you're not spending getting XP. In other words, instead of just spending X hours and getting Y exp, you'll be spending X hours, getting 0 xp, and getting slightly better gear that will only let you level
slightly faster. I highly doubt that "sightly faster" XP gain will make up for all the time you could have just been earning XP in the first place.