Farmin advice - tired of the gold trade

Starflair - Dreamweaver

Hello friends. Like many others, for the past 3 years I've sacrificed time spent farming for buying and selling gold with my hard earned dollar. Unfortunately, I've lost a bit of that luxury and now find it necessary to invest more time into working in game for coin. Recently coming into a leadership position in my faction adds some pressure for funding as well.

Now, I'm no newbie or an FCC baby; I know the fundamentals of the game and I know my options. I've been using trial and error working different instances and methods including power trading and farming herbs with modest success and come to you guys to see if you would share your personal success' as well as failures. I'm sure class and equipment plays a role as well as far as personal capability goes.

At the moment, I've come to understand that 2-4 man multiple nirvana runs is a popular choice, but I'm looking for a more solo option. Thanks for your time and help!

Nurfed_You - Harshlands

if you have 10k hp and +10 fists at 5aps you can solo 3-2 3-3 if you log buffers and such.

fuzzywuzz

Nurfed_You - Harshlands wrote: »

if you have 10k hp and +10 fists at 5aps you can solo 3-2 3-3 if you log buffers and such.

So so broken it makes Fuzzy want to cry. b:sad

Starflair - Dreamweaver

Oh irony, why do you haunt me so? My favorite catch 22 is the need for highly refined and expensive armor needed in order to run/ participate in money making instances. Prime example being nirvy runners only wanting +12 (hundreds of mils) 5 aps( several mil) demon HF (bout 90mil). An honestly If I had all those, I wouldn't NEED the money anymore hahaha.

kawaiijen

You could help further ruin the community by power-leveling hyper babies. Those don't require super high refines and gear. Just the ability to clear to the big room and solo the big room for them. You don't even have to go past that since the noobs are too spoiled on that exp they think the rest of it isn't "worth it" rofl.

There's always the option to farm DQ AoE grind style and sell it to players who want DQP.

And if you do it in the right spots there is a chance to get one of those RARE as HELL secret letters to spawn a wraith invasion for MILLIONS of coins worth of DQ from.

Elenacostel - Heavens Tear

Multi-client herb farming. Work out those Alt and Tab buttons!

BerserkBeast - Sanctuary

Not wanna sound pessimistic but with 2x getting to and end soon, there will be hardly any profitable farming options,unless you got lots of patience ofc.

Go go go go till its 2x

Baby_pho - Heavens Tear

if you have demon hf i suggest you try caster nv. i lurv dem demon bmssssss b:dirty

OIdpop - Heavens Tear

get alt,make it a store,have 2 mill as a base fund to have on the alt for purchases,buy herbs a little higher than the shops around,then sell a little cheaper and watch coins come in...works for me.HAvent did it as much this month due to me selling tt items and other stuff but when x2 is over ill be back to herbs againb:bye

Herb merchanting really doesnt take much to start raking in coins.

M_ - Dreamweaver

FuzzyWuzz wrote: »

So so broken it makes Fuzzy want to cry. b:sad

total bs


broken is casters and people soloing it and getting 1b coins in 1 week


tt is nerfed anyway

Cotillion - Dreamweaver

From the sounds of the first post, it sounds like you played with the gold trade with real money and now that has changed?
If thats the case...why stop with the gold trade and merchanting tho? Presumably you would have saved some or built up some funds...so you can always continue in some regard either gold trading or merchanting, on top of farming, ofc.

Liam_ - Sanctuary

I found the herb market goes into frequent total crashes on my server. Not sure what it's like on your server, but it's no where near as profitable as it used to be. Still, if you have spare time and don't feel like anything else, even half an hour is coin in pocket.

Definitely do BH. Having a lv100 alt or two to BH with can really bring in a nice packet of coin. Personally I like 2 lv100's, any more and I'd be stuck in instances all day. Do BH2's, even turning the talismans into mirages adds up. You'll also get extra coin in warsong emblems, warsong medals, lv9 essences, delta coin and lunar drops if you find a squad that does full. And that opens up Divine Emissary quests, the purple ones are worth 350k and the token things can be turned into 100k npc worth of potions.

I've also found TT 1-2 isn't bad when your gear isn't OP. Make a sin alt to give BP. You get anywhere between 6-10 fairy boxes and the mats from the last 2 bosses are an easy 100k ea. You can also unload the junk mats in AH and they do eventually sell. And it's fairly quick and easy, 1m per run isn't unlikely. It's a nice starting out instance.

Store keys for 2x. Again, lv100 alts help. 99 key runs are nice bonus coin. Spam vana and/or TT during 2x, it really adds up.

OHT dailies are ok too. Preference thing here, but they are a quick 10-15 mins. Store those Tears, then make a bunch of chi stones from bracers. Purified stones can go for 500k too. Sometimes you'll make a nice interval or channel bracer and that sells nicely too.

Following the above myself, I went from +4 deicide and 2.86 aps to having a +10 claw with garnet gems, two +10 lunar rings, +10 vana pants, demon bell, demon hf, 5.0 and 9.6k hp in about 2-3 months. Then I got bored and quit lol. But with a little merchanting on top there's no reason why you couldn't get far better.

Jaabg - Sanctuary

If you "play" the gold market, that market is still viable. You just need to start doing it with your in game coin, and remove 2% each time you either buy or sell gold in ah. 4% total cost taken by AH per transaction order. Not the fastest or best way, but definitely a viable option at times.

There have been times when i bought gold at 1.1m, and a few months later of no good sales, gold is 1.6~2m, i just sell the gold and make a decent profit from that.