why is it so hard to make money

What are you selling?

DQ items are not big sellers, for me it is just easier to sell back to an NPC.

Farming mats and selling those seems to work well, but it all depends and I don't know what sells on your server.

But my suggestion...farm and sell.

Reselling is always a gamble. Vendor your DQ drops and crappy armor/wep drops. Gather mats and catshop them. Don't teleport unless you absolutely have to. Have you tried aoe grinding? I would imagine if done right you could minimize your repairs-per-mob.

Farm low grade herbs and sell them at Hidden Orchid I believe it is or beside any Apothecary. I can make easily 150K with no repair costs. And that is only for about an hour and some of herb farming. I actually have a dedicated farming path which works out great so every loop the herbs are all respawned.

I have been able to buy a Panther and christmas clothing with herb money. I now play on PVP and am just starting so I have not needed to make to much money.

RedsRose - Lost City wrote: »

DQ items are not big sellers, for me it is just easier to sell back to an NPC.

It depends on which DQ items and where you sell them. I average about 250k profit in sales per day just buying and selling DQ items.

Farming them myself, however, just doesn't seem to be worth the effort, because there are so many people willing to sell them for dirt cheap at the wrong (ie. less profitable) locations.

XxPkBladexX - Sanctuary wrote: »

Grinding is really boring..but i have no choiceb:shockedb:surrender

If running a catshop isn't an option, then yes. But like I said, I don't grind for money and still pull in about 250k profit per day for less than 1/2 hour of buying/selling.

You can also make and sell ultimate substances they sell fast for the right price

Something I do that works quite well.

Make a veno alt for nothing but grinding. My veno is only level 15 and all I do is gring the lvl 20 DQ items. They only sell for what is it 850 or something but after a couple hours I'll make 200K easily. Then just put that coin in the AH and withdraw as needed for my main wiz. It really helps with those crazy stone quests and such

Alecsys - Sanctuary wrote: »

If ure repair cost is bigger than normal i think ure doing smthing wrong... i'm grinding and make quite a nice sum... pity that all my money goes in skills for now.
And crazy stones is not that expensive so u can cry about it.. its like 10k per day lol... i can make 10k in 2 min's lol.. cant really see a complaining motive in that quest...

Other than that... if u want money get ur backside to work and grind ur money. Peace. b:victory

wow 10k in 2 min? it means the monsters u kill drop 5k worth of money in 1 min which is bout 2-3 monsters??b:shocked

Your first problem.. you're a BM. They are the single worst class at making money. The absolute worst.

The next problem is that you're most likely one of those people who throws something into the AH, whacks an insane price tag onto it, and then wonders why no one buys it. Either that or you're trying to sell crapola.

AH is only actually useful for trying to sell the miscellaneous stuff.. scarlet fruits, gear, books, some TT mats and that stuff.

You might as well just NPC all the DQ you pick up. That'll be enough for you to turn a profit, albeit not a very big one.

The next time you get a chance to go on a TT run, jump at it. Unfortunately, you're a BM, so you're kinda unlikely to be invited on TT runs outside of your guild and/or people you know.

If you're not a zen buyer, the best thing for you to do would be to make a venomancer alt. Use that for all your nefarious money-making schemes. Or just keep plowing on with your BM and find some way to turn a profit from grinding. Both are good options.

Basically, you're gonna need to slow down your spending, change your money-making habits and find a way to mesh it together... or you can make a veno. Neither option is better than the other. It's all personal preference.

lets say that on your lv in 1h on right mobs you can make ~100k in DQ's + other drops...so i dont see that much of an issue unless you want to buy Cash shop items

fuzzles wrote: »

Your first problem.. you're a BM. They are the single worst class at making money. The absolute worst.

The next problem is that you're most likely one of those people who throws something into the AH, whacks an insane price tag onto it, and then wonders why no one buys it. Either that or you're trying to sell crapola.

AH is only actually useful for trying to sell the miscellaneous stuff.. scarlet fruits, gear, books, some TT mats and that stuff.

You might as well just NPC all the DQ you pick up. That'll be enough for you to turn a profit, albeit not a very big one.

The next time you get a chance to go on a TT run, jump at it. Unfortunately, you're a BM, so you're kinda unlikely to be invited on TT runs outside of your guild and/or people you know.

If you're not a zen buyer, the best thing for you to do would be to make a venomancer alt. Use that for all your nefarious money-making schemes. Or just keep plowing on with your BM and find some way to turn a profit from grinding. Both are good options.

Basically, you're gonna need to slow down your spending, change your money-making habits and find a way to mesh it together... or you can make a veno. Neither option is better than the other. It's all personal preference.

Heh.. I would disagree on that.

WarrenWolfy - Sanctuary wrote: »

It depends on which DQ items and where you sell them. I average about 250k profit in sales per day just buying and selling DQ items.

Farming them myself, however, just doesn't seem to be worth the effort, because there are so many people willing to sell them for dirt cheap at the wrong (ie. less profitable) locations.

"Wrong location"? And are you basing "dirt cheap" on what you sell them for?

Azlin - Sanctuary wrote: »

wow 10k in 2 min? it means the monsters u kill drop 5k worth of money in 1 min which is bout 2-3 monsters??b:shocked

I do that >.> actually i been power lvl my factions barb, 1 hr leeching off me on air mobs with exp scroll got him 40% exp from 56-57(basically he picks up my drops while i keep killing, works very well) b:laugh
i was averaging about 5-8kills per min when we did this depending on how far the mobs are.
frost arrow+ 5xhit = dead

AndromedaB - Sanctuary wrote: »

no mages are the wost actually

silly dead witch b:chuckle
i am pretty sure mages aren't the worst but if u want sent a message or something when i am on and we can grind those minions that keep killing u i will make sure u earn some money then XD

i know that BMs depending on how good your weapon is can be making very little money sometimes. As a BM u kill slower than most other classes while taking a large amount of hits so u get high repair cost and potion cost.
1 way to cut down on your potion use is to farm for herbs and make apoth potions to supplement your use of pots.
Another way is slow down your killing and meditate to restore your health after every kill or something, but this method can make your grinding very very long,slow and boring.
As for cutting down your repair cost, the only thing i can say is try and save up money by the methods i mentioned and what other people have said. Then see if u can get a better weapon.
more damage=faster kills=less hits taken=less hp loss=less repair+less pots

earning money is a slow process dont expect to suddenly be getting 500k per day unless u are doing some insane merchanting but with u follow the suggestions u can probably start earning money to save for stuff u might want to buy.

XxPkBladexX - Sanctuary wrote: »

repairs are so high tho

The cost of repairs normally works out about the same cost as the items you loot if you were to sell them to a npc. Well thats how it works for me and my costs are high for repairs and ive got over 400k in the bank