Fastest way to earn AD if I can only play 1.5 - 2 hrs a day?

reposterz · June 2017

Hi guys, whats the fastest way to earn Astral Diamonds if I can only play 1.5 - 2hrs a day?

silence1x · June 2017

Daily skirmishes, eTOS (x2) and eLoL (x2) would be a good place to start. Also, do the dailies and weeklies in the different zones.

aftershafter · June 2017

Go to the River District and spam "INV SHIP PLS" and see if people will pay you to shut up.

reposterz · June 2017

silence1x said:
Daily skirmishes, eTOS (x2) and eLoL (x2) would be a good place to start. Also, do the dailies and weeklies in the different zones.

I am only IL 8800+, would it take longer to complete eTos and ELol?

namelesshero347 · June 2017

reposterz said:

silence1x said:
Daily skirmishes, eTOS (x2) and eLoL (x2) would be a good place to start. Also, do the dailies and weeklies in the different zones.
I am only IL 8800+, would it take longer to complete eTos and ELol?

eLoL is T1, you should be fine.

But for the T2s, eToS, eCC, and eGWD, be smart about it. Inspect the other players. Consider leaving if both tank and healer, or all DPS, are low-iLevel. You need one well-geared DPS and one well-geared tank/healer or the boss may be a problem.

plasticbat · June 2017

Start your leadership. No, it will not give you AD directly and it will take a long time to be useful. However, for long term purpose, you should set that up and that cost you little time per day (unless you have a full fleet of leadership army). This does not stop you to do other things other people suggested.

litaaers · June 2017

reposterz said:
Hi guys, whats the fastest way to earn Astral Diamonds if I can only play 1.5 - 2hrs a day?

Also remember, almost everything that drops is AD. I keep a slot on my main for all of the potions,kits, and other miscellany that drops. When the stack fills up, I drop it on the AH for whatever the AH recommends. You won't get rich overnight, but it adds up over time. (I checked one month, and got around 80k just on the flotsam and jetsam.)

minotaur2857 · July 2017

plasticbat said:
Start your leadership. No, it will not give you AD directly and it will take a long time to be useful. However, for long term purpose, you should set that up and that cost you little time per day (unless you have a full fleet of leadership army). This does not stop you to do other things other people suggested.

Indeed, I have 15 9 slot R25 leaders. Leadership gave me millions of ADs worth of free RP and I sold surplus resonance stones for about 2-3M in the last 2xRP. Also wanderers fortune and dragon hoard enchants means you can use bound RP and sell the unbound ones from leadership.

wintersmoke · July 2017

reposterz said:

silence1x said:
Daily skirmishes, eTOS (x2) and eLoL (x2) would be a good place to start. Also, do the dailies and weeklies in the different zones.
I am only IL 8800+, would it take longer to complete eTos and ELol?

You can get the AD from any 2 dungeons, any 2 skirmishes, & any 2 PvP matches/ & yes, do your weeklies, those will speed up your boon progression, which will make everything faster.

spelldazer · July 2017

As someone who has been in that position, I also recommend doing demonics in well of dragons and dread ring. You might get a ring or two and the seals add up. Do these while waiting in queue or doing your dailies and weeklies. In addition, if you run leveling dungeons for quick ad, pick up the ad bags for 500 seal of adventurer and wait for a x2AD event to open them. My personal quick ad pref is to run 2 leveling dungeons and skirms and then queue for higher level content while doing other stuff. This way, after 20 minutes of play, I usually already have 12k+ ad (don't forget to pray!). Another easy ad method is to queue for IG Bronze farms. Those drops are nice salvage and you might get something to sell for profit. Some people flip rings on the AH to get around the raw ad limits. You lose ad this way, but what you earn goes straight in your bank.

callumf · July 2017

I am in a similar position time wise. But my tactics are a bit different.

First question is why do you need AD so badly? [Polite question]. If you are in the UK you can buy 1200 zen for £7.99 which means you can buy 600,000 AD for £7.99. What do you need the AD for specifically?

I tend to spend my [limited] time concentrating on leveling up my boons doing daily weekly [the weeklies give a decent AD return] quests etc.

For AD - what they said above - ToDG skirmish and Dungeons.

But for me I like to run Dread Ring lairs as they drop purple stones [seemingly] quite often. Some of those can go for 60k. PF takes me about 5 minutes max solo. I can run 10 in an hour easily. With luck you can rack up 100k easily in that hour.

hawkblaze1954 · July 2017

I'm not going to answer why you need AD as this is troll bait.
600k AD isn't enough to get a negation enchantment, let alone rank 12 enchantments, coal wards etc, etc, etc... £7.99? Unless you're made of money which will cost thousands.

Thus the AD grind as this is a MMO.

litaaers · July 2017

hawkblaze1954#5209 said:
I'm not going to answer why you need AD as this is troll bait.
600k AD isn't enough to get a negation enchantment, let alone rank 12 enchantments, coal wards etc, etc, etc... £7.99? Unless you're made of money which will cost thousands.

Thus the AD grind as this is a MMO.

Nice attitude.

They mentioned that it was a polite question. Sometimes, it helps to answer the question being asked, if more is known about the situation. And since they weren't necessarily asking you..... but now that we now where you stand.....

There *are* ways to enjoy the game without being on an endless quest to maximize AD. Who knew?

wintersmoke · July 2017

litaaers said:

hawkblaze1954#5209 said:
I'm not going to answer why you need AD as this is troll bait.
600k AD isn't enough to get a negation enchantment, let alone rank 12 enchantments, coal wards etc, etc, etc... £7.99? Unless you're made of money which will cost thousands.

Thus the AD grind as this is a MMO.
Nice attitude.

They mentioned that it was a polite question. Sometimes, it helps to answer the question being asked, if more is known about the situation. And since they weren't necessarily asking you..... but now that we now where you stand.....

There *are* ways to enjoy the game without being on an endless quest to maximize AD. Who knew?

Because, as everyone knows, once you say "I mean no offence, but..." the comment that follows is never something offensive. Heh. Anyone that asks the question "Why do you need AD?" is either a complete newb, or a troll. AD is needed for almost every aspect of character progression in this game. The 3 most common ways to get it are to buy with RL money, to grind, and to play the market. Buying with money IS the fastest way to get AD, but a little off topic as the question was how to use limited play time to get AD (grinding).

armadeonx · July 2017

Going the completely FtP route, you're going to be limited to around 20k per day in the early stages - that's 2 dungeons and skirmishes which will take about an hour. That means you'll earn about 600k in a month so you may want to think about @callumf#9018's suggestion and simply buy that so you can spend all of your time working on progression instead.

The others are right, 600k won't buy you much but it'll get you off the ground with basic enchantments.

The game is designed around the concept of players either having lots of time & no money or vice versa, so earnings are very low for those with little spare time.

When you've finished grinding out your boons you can just spend your time running dungeons and you should reach the daily cap if you burn through the salvage.

litaaers · July 2017

wintersmoke said:

litaaers said:

hawkblaze1954#5209 said:
I'm not going to answer why you need AD as this is troll bait.
600k AD isn't enough to get a negation enchantment, let alone rank 12 enchantments, coal wards etc, etc, etc... £7.99? Unless you're made of money which will cost thousands.

Thus the AD grind as this is a MMO.
Nice attitude.

They mentioned that it was a polite question. Sometimes, it helps to answer the question being asked, if more is known about the situation. And since they weren't necessarily asking you..... but now that we now where you stand.....

There *are* ways to enjoy the game without being on an endless quest to maximize AD. Who knew?
Because, as everyone knows, once you say "I mean no offence, but..." the comment that follows is never something offensive. Heh. Anyone that asks the question "Why do you need AD?" is either a complete newb, or a troll. AD is needed for almost every aspect of character progression in this game. The 3 most common ways to get it are to buy with RL money, to grind, and to play the market. Buying with money IS the fastest way to get AD, but a little off topic as the question was how to use limited play time to get AD (grinding).

Your statement made me giggle. It is true, similar to someone saying "This stinks! Here, smell this!!"

I think the question *may* have been asked in more of a 'what specifically were you wanting AD for' rather than a 'generally, why do you need AD in this game' sense. Although, I could be mistaken. It happens to me all the time when posting/texting and people can't read my facial/body cues.

johonxgalt · July 2017

So 45-60 hours of game time a month can be spent playing as you like or farming AD. Take 2 hours a month and do side jobs (overtime at work, lawn mowing, car wash) Pretty much anything can net you enough cash in 2 hours for a million AD, and leave 43-58 hours to play as you like.

callumf · July 2017

Wow. I asked a question to try and help and its troll bait? What a bunch of HAMSTER.

And no... "Because, as everyone knows, once you say "I mean no offence, but..." the comment that follows is never something offensive." I wasn't being contentious.

MY POINT BEING

Its what you spend your AD on which can be important which is why I was asking the question. Of course we all ****ing know we need AD. der. But for example I am IL 11k and still using Rank 8 enchants. I think the millions of AD to get rank 12 enchants is PERSONALLY a waste of time and effort. My opinion. My advice still stands. Spend a little money to free up some fun play times and get a life.

urabask · July 2017

johonxgalt said:
So 45-60 hours of game time a month can be spent playing as you like or farming AD. Take 2 hours a month and do side jobs (overtime at work, lawn mowing, car wash) Pretty much anything can net you enough cash in 2 hours for a million AD, and leave 43-58 hours to play as you like.

This pretty much means you're spending money to avoid having to play parts of the game. If you get to the point where you've you're spending money to get AD it's time to ask yourself if you even enjoy playing the game any more.

asterotg · July 2017

You have to spent AD, to make AD. Invest in VIP. A lockbox drop is nice, but the real boon are the keys. Run dread ring for the mats and make VT keys. The best time/AD ratio playing the game is running dread ring and VT, in my opinion.

As others said before LS, Quartermaster enchants etc. can maximize your profit.

The real profit is made buying and selling things. Buying stuff at a 50% event and selling it later for near to 100%. Even with the AH cut you can make 50-80% profit. If you do this with 100-200 kk AD, you will have a profit of 50 kk AD - 160 kk AD with every event. But to be honest, this makes the game somehow a little bit boring. You can grind your boons, but there is no loot drop or reward, that is significant compared to the profits made trading goods.

litaaers · July 2017

I usually keep a stash of AD that I buy/sell using the AD market fluctuations. When the ADX tops out at 500/per, I trade quite a bit of Zen to AD. Then, I post various orders to buy at lower amounts. Wait until it fluctuates again, rinse, repeat. Its only a small amount (20,000 AD for 5000 ZEN with a 5/per fluctuation), but the only cost is my time to watch the market and post, and the loss of opportunity of using the ZEN/AD for something else. And that's more than a couple of weekly quests. Also the risk that ZEN will tank while I'm not watching

The whole idea behind my post (and my support of @asterotg 's post) is that: you can use your character to gain AD from the thin-air spigot of the Dungeons/Skirmishes/etc, but you can also use real world business mechanics to gain ancillary AD to augment your income. Its all about what time/effort you want to put in to it. If someone only wants to play the game, for free, and not play the market/AH, that's fine, but you will pay more in time, which is an acceptable tradeoff. If someone wants to get the most AD they can wring out of this software in the shortest amount of time, they will pay with effort and RL cash.

callumf · July 2017

litaaers said:
I usually keep a stash of AD that I buy/sell using the AD market fluctuations. When the ADX tops out at 500/per, I trade quite a bit of Zen to AD. Then, I post various orders to buy at lower amounts. Wait until it fluctuates again, rinse, repeat. Its only a small amount (20,000 AD for 5000 ZEN with a 5/per fluctuation), but the only cost is my time to watch the market and post, and the loss of opportunity of using the ZEN/AD for something else. And that's more than a couple of weekly quests. Also the risk that ZEN will tank while I'm not watching

The whole idea behind my post (and my support of @asterotg 's post) is that: you can use your character to gain AD from the thin-air spigot of the Dungeons/Skirmishes/etc, but you can also use real world business mechanics to gain ancillary AD to augment your income. Its all about what time/effort you want to put in to it. If someone only wants to play the game, for free, and not play the market/AH, that's fine, but you will pay more in time, which is an acceptable tradeoff. If someone wants to get the most AD they can wring out of this software in the shortest amount of time, they will pay with effort and RL cash.

Great post

xenotorch · July 2017

litaaers said:
I usually keep a stash of AD that I buy/sell using the AD market fluctuations. When the ADX tops out at 500/per, I trade quite a bit of Zen to AD. Then, I post various orders to buy at lower amounts. Wait until it fluctuates again, rinse, repeat. Its only a small amount (20,000 AD for 5000 ZEN with a 5/per fluctuation), but the only cost is my time to watch the market and post, and the loss of opportunity of using the ZEN/AD for something else. And that's more than a couple of weekly quests. Also the risk that ZEN will tank while I'm not watching

The whole idea behind my post (and my support of @asterotg 's post) is that: you can use your character to gain AD from the thin-air spigot of the Dungeons/Skirmishes/etc, but you can also use real world business mechanics to gain ancillary AD to augment your income. Its all about what time/effort you want to put in to it. If someone only wants to play the game, for free, and not play the market/AH, that's fine, but you will pay more in time, which is an acceptable tradeoff. If someone wants to get the most AD they can wring out of this software in the shortest amount of time, they will pay with effort and RL cash.

Great advice, spot on. It all comes down to the amount of effort you can commit to. And, very importantly, have fun.

For me, the 1.5 - 2 hrs per day tends to come down to 2xSkirms, 2xDungeons. A round of Demon HEs in Dread and Well. And my daily VIP lockbox key. Which is usually a Cavalry pack at the moment - so straight on the AH for the same price as the lowest quoted.

Fastest way to earn AD if I can only play 1.5 - 2 hrs a day?

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