Plat farming guide

[Baler]

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

The plat from that would be great for my 18 monk thats there getting xp wearing all cloth. That's why my suggestions where for new people starting out here.

Don't get me wrong. However 95% of the people who camp it are level 50-60.

A person of level could get messed up by the surrounding goblins. Especially the shaman.

[Maciver]

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

Don't get me wrong. However 95% of the people who camp it are level 50-60.

A person of level could get messed up by the surrounding goblins. Especially the shaman.

Oh yeah they are nasty, even when i camped mine at 32 i tried to avoid them. If you do the PH on the wall its much easier to avoid them. Lower levels should avoid 2 spawn on wiki.

Anywho, he never mentioned level or goals, i was just adding lowbie advice just in case.

P.S. Monk is camping any of the spots np at 18 with no gear, but well, he is a monk....hehe

[jolanar]

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

I've seen people in a guild make more plat in 5 minutes from a raid than most of the p99 players make in a year+
talking 100k-200k+ from 1 item. *rolls eyes*

Just sayin.

Not sure if I am just missing the sarcasm here or not, but being in a raid guild by default means it probably took hundreds of hours at minimum, likely thousands, and not 5 minutes.

[Triiz]

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

ONLY CAMP sarnak couriers IF YOU NEED THE FUCKING RING OR BUY IT.
You're wasting your time if you farm for this for plat because the drop rate is not good.

And ofc there is the R N G chance you'll get it first kill. However I know people who've farmed for it for 8+ hours for 3-4 days straight and didn't get it.

Second this. I've done pretty much every plat camp in the game that's soloable and the Sarnak Courier 2 spawn is by far the worst camp I've done.

Once you have the PH's split you're tagging a mob roughly every 15 seconds. You basically can't look away from the screen. Need to piss? Pull both PH's on you and hope some douche doesn't come by and kill them or DS you so you have to clear the field again. It's as awful as it sounds.

I've never done the single spawns, but I've done the 2 spawn enough to know that decreasing your chance at drop by 50% by only doing 1 spawn sounds even worse than the 2 spawn.

[captainswjr]

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

I know there must be like 10 of these posted a day, but I have tried to search the forum for a decent/good plat farming guide and I am not able to find one.

If someone can give me a forum link to one that's on here that i've obviously missed that would be great!

Thank you in advance,

Confused Shaman in distress

Munhk

If you're just starting out, here's the basics.

Buy a bunch of bags. You'll want to be able to haul around a bunch of stuff.

Fight near a merchant. There are plenty of camps with a merchant nearby like every starter zone, oasis beach has a gypsy camp, windmill in LOIO, etc, etc.

Loot everything! You're right next to a merchant. Loot every rusty piece of junk, spell research component, meat, etc that drops. The only things that should be left on corpses are very low priced non-stackables. Fill your bag, head to merchant and sell.

Ghetto-bank at a merchant. Find something that SELLS to the merchant for over 1p. Even if it costs you 1.5p or so. Buy that item with your gold/silver/copper and sell back for plats. A good example of this is Mistmoore, you can go to the rangers in Lfay, sell all your bronze junk, convert all your gold/silver/copper and be back to your camp in minutes instead of the much longer trip to Felwithe, Kelethin or Ak'anon. Evil races have a longer run to the druid ring, but it's the same idea.

If you're really pinched for cash, slaughter greens with weapons near a merchant of some kind. Example would be the derv camp in WC. Slaughter the whole camp in 2 minutes, loot everything, walk over to druid ring, vendor junk, merch-bank and now you're 10pp ahead for 3 minutes work.

[Kotopes]

IF you're a wiz/druid and are level 34, bind in OT by SF ramp. Do a quad kite, then when finished, wait for at least 250 mana and spam your porting services. If no clients when you are near full mana, just do another quad.

You can also join Dial a Port and hit /anon before pulling, then /anon off when you are oom, then wait for tells to roll in/spam your service in /ooc. You won't get rich but you'll gear yourself nicely for upper 40's and 50's.

Why slow down leveling by porting while medding up you may ask? Many of your clients will be enchanters with crack, so it kind of compensates for rate of xp loss a bit.

[Crevex]

The Halfling Deputies drop 10p spears every time. They are also sissies and go down easy. Great cash spot while leveling up. Plus, they are guilty of many crimes and deserve to be brought to justice.

[loramin]

The http://wiki.project1999.com/Treasure%20Hunting%20Guide strives to have every good treasure-hunting spot (and if anything's missing feel free to add it; it's a wiki!)

[Jimjam]

I sat on the hill in Loio from lvl 12 to lvl 24 killing the courier PH. I got hundreds of couriers in that time and not one GG ring. (much of this was done with an enc and a druid with me; we were trying to get the rings for these guys).

It can be stupid rare!

The other day I was running through Loio and decided to clear out the goblins (those sarnak hating green illegitimates!)

Of course, this immediately spawns a courier, which despite no longer being interested in, I killed out of curiosity. Of course, this one drops the ring. My druid friend doesn't really play any more and the enchanter rerolled as a monk. Damn.