How did you make your elfsim millions?

[Quinas]

Good chat.

[Swish2]

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

It's a bad idea to try to catch up at this point. Set some reasonable goals for yourself and don't let them move. When you're done log off for a year or so. If you want to play again in a year, then set some new goals and repeat.

Red unsurprisingly has lower mudflation, much better for new starters ^^

[Vormotus]

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

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That is the most fun ingame skill ever to raise!

[Ravager]

My fortune started with a cracked staff.

[Djanis]

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

Gathering the plat required for some big ticket items seem like a mountain to climb. Got any rags to riches stories?

I played blue for 3 months back in 2011 and made over 50k in plat & gear, with only getting my main to 12th lvl. An erudite paladin named Elendil. In the end, I gave it all away.

You often need money in order to make money, so the initial 1,000 plat was the hardest to make. Bone chips was the ticket for me, just to make a couple hundred plat... I then invested that into Tradeskills. Blacksmithing was the 1st money maker, banded armor for 1pp per AC was a consistent seller. But once I got my tailoring to 88 skill (handmade backpack trivial) I didn't even waste my time on smithing anymore. Hand made backpacks would sell for 50p each easy and fast. At first I would farm my own HQ bear skins, but then demand outweighed my supply, so I had to start buying them directly from noobs at 20p each. Still an instant profit machine.

I did that well past my initial 1,000 plat mark, until I found a new money maker. Vendor Shopping. You see, people sell all kinds of shit to vendors. Some things end up being zero investment risk to buy it directly from the vendor and flip at a higher price. Bone Chips... you buy it for 1s 5c, you can sell it for 1s, 5c. So even by some god awful chance they never sold... you never lose money. But that's just the bottom of the totem pole, you used to be able to find everything... tradeskill materials, rare gems, magic armor etc. Gems hold MOST of their value, Kunark-class specific gear holds MOST of it's value. I would buy Cobalt boots for example for 332p off a vendor, and resell it for 1k. Most of the time I would auction the gear without buying it first... then if someone was interested, i would buy it off the vendor and flip it to them.

Anyways, was fun... but time consuming. Was constantly running around checking vendors...in retrospect I should have made a port class to make my life easier.

Someone made a video of me giving away all my shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ-ENJJO4RA

[Swish2]

There used to be money in taking groups into HS - not sure if there still is. We pulled some nice sellables out of that place and split the plat among us.

[zati]

Started my first toon when Velious first launched. I was like lvl 35 on my SK 1 month in. Met a bunch of cool peeps in befallen and I'd go there every now and then to reminisce how hard that damn zone was w/o gear. Had a full group w/ 1 druid healing who died 7x in a row (rip) and ran back each time from Rivervale.. lmao.

Eventually I found out about Reapers of the dead. Sold them for 1K (upwards to 1.2k) to raiders. Bought a Noct blade for 3k , Atra shield 3K, and some miscellaneous gear. Lvled up to 51 as fast as I could w/ my RL friend. We wanted to farm elder beads which resulted in deaths.. those monkeys were hard AF so we had to kite them. Never saw one drop, but we had the camp a few times(unbelievable right?)

I ended saying F camping em and sold more reapers...eventually saved 20K and bought 1 pair of beads. The following day I won a T staff in KC. Holy shit I sold that for 30k ASAP and bought another pair of beads for 19K.

Traded one of my beads to get Soul leech MQ and finished mah epic(no regrets) at lvl 57..the dream [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] . Still got the other pair of holgresh beads to this day.

[enjchanter]

Originally Posted by Swish2 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There used to be money in taking groups into HS - not sure if there still is. We pulled some nice sellables out of that place and split the plat among us.

I have too many HS items for sale atm so not sure if its worth the trouble anymore

[Quinas]

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

I have too many HS items for sale atm so not sure if its worth the trouble anymore

Seems like only DS items, South items and Ad Club sell?

[Para99]

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

Easiest way to make money is a time machine. Most of the plat millionaires started before they took out the cool stuff. Like, farm 2 holgresh elder beads 3 years ago. Now sell them today for 500k each.

^this. Anyone that started in the last couple years is at a huge disadvantage. Even outside of nerfed items like HEB's, rare drops that are basically the same difficulty to farm as they were 3+ years ago are now worth 1/8 the price if not much less.

Plus for classes like mages that couldn't farm high level dungeons, they could farm plat at Seafuries. Now what do mages do for plat? Never leave ToV and sell COTHs to POM?