Leveling while making money in Kunark

[Kastro]

levels are the best way... if you just keep killing stuff and selling the drops you will find the plat to buy the spells needed... best bet would be Kurns... might get lucky and get an Iksar Beserker club to sell... plus most players on red are pretty generous to newbies...

[mr_jon3s]

Kunark has some of the best plat farming you can get while lvling.
FoB skeletons with shields that sell for 1pp.
Kurns tower kill the moles in the basement for the chance of icy soloist wand dropping which sells to players for alot. Also iksar cook who drops berserker club.
Loio bracer of the hidden and signet ring both drop here and sell for tons of plat to players.
WW giants drop items that sell for 10-100pp to merchants forest loop which sells for 300pp to merchants or 300-500pp to players. Goblin shrunken earring also drops in the zone which sells to players.
FM has giants with the same loot table and tons of rare spawn cycles that drop great items.
It just keeps going.

[Viszix]

Thanks for the advice. The xp bonus on red is great, so I think I'm just going to keep leveling and buy what spells I can. I'll probably try and hit up WW too; the giant fort sounds like a nice place to generate some income.

[toolshed]

1) Best way to make money on red is to make a halfling druid and sell ports after 29. Easiest and fastest way. If you go this route, make it on a separate account than your necro so your friend can log on and port your necro around.

2) Misty Thicket guards drop a spear that sells for 10pp. Bind at the vendor in hhk and gate back when you are encumbered. I was making 100pp per yellow soloing there.

3) HHK guards drop fine steel + you can vendor AND bank there

4) Once you get high 30s you can start soloing spectres. The ones in oasis have a vendor nearby (gypsy camp) and the scythes sell for 12pp

Only thing you really need on a necro is a Circlet of Shadow and I would work on getting on before Velious comes out. Everything else (harvester, int gear) you can farm solo pretty easily

[loramin]

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

levels are the best way... if you just keep killing stuff and selling the drops you will find the plat to buy the spells needed

That. Everquest is heavily weighted towards the higher levels when it comes to making money. For instance, at level 50 you can go kill Seafuries and make 500 plat or more an hour. Before that there's hill giants that can make you maybe 200 plat an hour. Before that you're lucky if you can make 50 plat an hour.

In other words, more levels = way faster plat. But the inverse is not at all true: even with 5k worth of gear you will barely gain XP any faster than someone wearing only what they looted while leveling. So you can waste lots of hours earning plat as a low level, and get almost no benefit in leveling speed, or you can spend all those hours leveling and get a huge increase in your plat-generating speed.

That being said, if you do want to focus on earning money as a lowbie in Kunark anyway, please consider adding any good spots you find to:

http://wiki.project1999.com/index.ph..._Hunting_Guide

(It only has Old World places currently.)

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

Am I mistaken, or is it simply true, that if you level at a normal pace (no paying for power leveling, etc.) you pretty easily make enough plat to keep you in quite decent level-appropriate gear and spells with plenty left over?

I've played and leveled in no rush, and at 56 I have perfectly fine non-raid drop gear, and about 12k in the bank.

People always asking how to make plat, I think they just don't want to spend the time on "the grind" of normal leveling.

Of course, the OP was talking about Red, and who the hell knows how that place works. It's Rura Penthe over there, I hear.

[mr_jon3s]

On red you power through lvls so fast. Its 50% exp solo and 290% exp in a full group. So you easily outpace skill ups and spell money.

[baalzy]

Early levels for a caster can be a bit rough if someone doesn't give you pity plat on red. 5pp per spell starting at level 8 is really rough. Level 4 is still around 1pp for a spell. You'd have to specifically farm skeletons carrying the iksar targ shields (1pp each to vendor) to have much luck of being able to buy all of your useful spells per level. You'll definitely have to prioritize. I've never once seen someone looking to buy bone chips, tho someone may respond if you OOC that you have them for sale (to get cab faction I'd assume). Not many necros on the server so there isn't demand for them outside of faction quests.

That said, since group xp is so fast you don't really need to buy too many of your spells. Make sure to have the best pet spell available to you and pick up the others once you're in the 20s and can move over to the giant fort for raw PP drops.

[Dis_Still_Mornin]

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[Latege]

You can farm me some tradeskill stuff, see here: http://www.project1999.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=170047

No one really buys this shit except me and I overpay to help new players out.