Affording skills and armor?

ILubby - Raging Tide

I don't spend real money on the game and I really don't have 2 computers to make an alt catshop all day, and I don't go afk to make my main catshop either.

So I was wondering how can I afford my 170k each lvl skills and good armor if the quests I do barely give me 10k-20k and higher level mobs don't drop shet, really, barely some coins.

Oh and quest rewards......they don't consider all classes, mostly heavy and light and barely anything for arcane users.

And I won't do TW.....because I simply don't have a good armor and time for sure. Plus I'm loyal to my non TW faction.

Solo TT runs barely give anything either, I made 2 runs and all I got were mirages and klunky. I wanted to refine my weapon and whoops, 4 mirages went for nothing so yea I guess I should have dragon orbs too.

So srsly, do you have to spend real money to keep playing this decently?

I'm not complaining or anything, it's still a game to me and I play it for fun. But it's kinda unfair to be honest.

Michael_Dark - Lost City

You have to either spend a fair amount of time to make coin or you have to charge for it.

Kupuntu - Sanctuary

1) Farm herbs
2) Farm sub/wine mats
3) Merchant, you don't need a shop for that
4) Farm TT

Telarith - Sanctuary

If you're doing BHes and such to level, you're basically screwed in the coin department. It was set up so that if leveling the old way, you'd have enough coin to level your skills, mats for crafting armor, and mirages from decomping to have what you needed. Either you need to stop focusing on level and do some TT money runs, farm mats/herbs to sell, or just focus on whatever money method you feel like to get back enough coin to use up all your SP. Yes, you're going to level faster than any of the longer playing people, but you're also going to pay for it. We got our boredom spread out a bit, and were used to it. You get it all at once, though you also get the benefit of having better over-all drops.