Trying to make money as a new player

[Old_PVP]

Personally when starting from scratch, I think one of the quickest ways to make money is what I call "vendor shopping". There are so many things that other players have sold to merchants that can be resold for huge profits. It is tedious and boring, but very easy with almost 0 risk. Keep your eye out for the staples that will always sell, like bone chips and High quality skins; but also keep your eye out for magic items that you could potentially use, or sell for profit.

I have made a ton of plat from nothing, just by checking out merchants and reselling stuff. I remember clearing out a few cities and netting over 1000 bone chips. At 10p a stack thats 500p. It all adds up.

[khanable]

Good advice

I sometimes do this to find a few odd items here and there

[Troxx]

I still check most vendors as I run by. Every now and again you get lucky.

Aside from a few cash hotspots at low levels, your best bet for making cash is leveling. Hot spots it might be worth taking a detour for to make cash to buy cheap upgrades that overpower the low level game:

-gfay/CB for belts and pads
-common lands for Orc belts/scalps
-nybright sisters for raw cash (bronze weapons)
-wisps for lightstones
-anywhere with xp giving skeletons for chips
-bears giving xp for HQ hides
-xp giving spiders for silks to sell

All of the above available prior to level 15 and will give you more cash for time investment than you'll probably find from late teens up to high twenties depending on class. With a fresh new server many of these would not be reliable cash sources, but with as high end cash bloated as this server is - high end toons pay well for what would be a trivial and boring farming session. In the time it would take them to get 1 HQ bear skin they'd pay you 30p for, they could have gotten more than double (or 5x, 10x, or 100x) that cash farming xp giving mobs for themselves.

Milk the low levels for all they are worth. If recommend saving a good chunk aside for casters as the money in the higher teens to higher 20s will be harder to come by ironically.

[Cuktus]

As a hobbit EC really isn't that far of a walk. should be able ot make it back and forth pretty easy, just don't try it at night game time

[Itching]

Ya... my first time in Kith Forest on live was a bad experience, I thought well follow the path because roads are always safe! Ya I didn't get the warning from my friend until AFTER I had died and saw the "Loading Please Wait" screen.

[Seredoc]

Also being a druid don't forget that with forage you can get misty acorns from the thicket and often times people sell these for 25pp a pop.

[Taeoz]

It's always good to check what is selling currently and see if there is a way to get your hands on it.

Leatherfoot Raider Skullcap is a pretty easy quest to do in your teens. I farmed the ingredients for it with a level 14 druid. Shark skins from sharks in Erudin docks, Grizzly skin (also bonus HQ pelts) from bears in WK, Polar bear skin from Everfrost and Alligator skin from Innothule/Feerrott. Then just buy a Dragoon Dirk for 50 plat (or camp Dorn - was slow, but he is charm kiteable as lvl14 druid) and make the turnin. Sell for 600ishpp. Hardest part was the white/yellow con sharks in Erudin - though the easier sand sharks can also drop the skin (as well as the small sharks that spawn from diseased shark).

It took me around 4-5 hours to get 3 sets of each skin. More time was spent on buying dirks and selling the hats. You could probably make more money by actively farming bear pelts or mobs that drop weapons (like Nybright sisters) - but this route allowed me to AFK a lot and it was interesting, as it created a reason for me to visit places, I otherwise wouldn't have.

So it's worth looking around and trying to figure out things for yourself as people rarely divulge their best money making methods in public.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

As a druid, once you get to 30, you can't beat south karana treants. Only a two spawn, but they pop quick and drop 20-30p.

[Shodo]

Wouldn't killing treants ruin your faction with some of the druid guilds/rings?

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

oh, who needs ports anyway.