I'm a financial failure in video games.

[Encroaching Death]

EQ wealth is a lot like RL wealth:

• Meet the right people and get the good loot
  
• Work your ass off and grind for scraps
  
• Use your head and find a niche in the market

I rely on the strengths of my class and farm items that people constantly need and use.

Only one class can make potions for example (less competition) and people will need/use SoW all the time.

Bam.

Or maybe you're a Ranger. Use your Tracking to your advantage. Not everyone can Track. DE SK? Farm CH scythes. You get the idea.

[WizardEQ]

Originally Posted by magnetaress [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

No matter how hard I try i just cant put in the work get good gear/make plat/gold etc

Even tho wow has automated programs that just print money for u off of the AH after u sign over your account details still cant

all 25 years I have been playing these games I have never made more than pennies on any of my characters.

And even now I don't even remember my login codes so I maybe at best have like 1kpp somewhere. Also half my gear is borrowed from other ppls it would be wrong of me to sell it. And I tend to lose money doing that too.

Who else is like this and just *boggles* at the ppl with over a mil pp?

I want to be clear i'm not complaining i'm kinda actually proud of the fact that I can't seem to ever break even from crafting banded

There are people with 14 lvl 60 toons and a few million pp on every toons. It can be done with enough time, especially if you were a legacy player and equipt all your alts with Manastones.

Just for the record, I am nowhere near that invested in this game. However, I have accumulated hundreds of thousands pp over the years. It's not really THAT hard. I don't even do a ton of EC tunnel. You just get items or win on rolls and acquire shit over the years. For example, if you saved a CoS from pre-nerf and banked it until now, you have 60k. That's a mere tiny example. You can also do trades. I did JC early on and made a small fortune. I also do Erudite Cultural and have made full visible sets for people. It takes a little bit of knowledge and a ton of planning is all.

After 25 years, how can you still have "borrowed" items and less than 1kpp?!?! THAT's pretty insane. Just farm shit and you'll have tens of thousands of plat!

[magnetaress]

you can sacrifice yourself like 5 or 6 times per level for 1k? do that for about 10 lvls down to 45 and u got urself about that

[mattydef]

I have probably a million plat between droppables and platinum, and have probably spent another million over time, but I’ve played on and off for 8 years now.

[magnetaress]

i made a new untwinked paladin on a server i have zero items on so ya i think i'm screwed again

[GardylooGubbins]

My highest level is a 51 druid, and I've after pricing it all out I've got maybe 8k worth of gear on me and 1.5 in the bank. I get a kick out of all the alt gearing suggestions that say things like: "Just get a fungi for them..."

I sometimes wonder when the money starts rolling in.

[Ekco]

Originally Posted by GardylooGubbins [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I sometimes wonder when the money starts rolling in.

they nerfed a bunch of stuff, it's our reward for beta testing. you're welcome.

[Basanos]

Originally Posted by GardylooGubbins [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

My highest level is a 51 druid, and I've after pricing it all out I've got maybe 8k worth of gear on me and 1.5 in the bank. I get a kick out of all the alt gearing suggestions that say things like: "Just get a fungi for them..."

I sometimes wonder when the money starts rolling in.

Seafuries are the most brainless way I make money on my druid. There's competition sometimes but insomnia has its advantages

[Ekco]

Seafuries used to drop double ruby crown... like a lot.

[WizardEQ]

Originally Posted by Ekco [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Seafuries used to drop double ruby crown... like a lot.

And there was Chardok AE as a plat maker. As a wiz, I would make 2k per pull off my proxy. If you had stamina, you could make 60-80k per session.