Best places to grind for money

Maragon - Dreamweaver
Maragon - Dreamweaver Posts: 645 Arc User
edited December 2009 in Venomancer
I'm currently lvl 48 on my veno and would eventually like herc but dont wanna pay real cash. I know it will take a while but what aer the best grinding spots for money for venosfrom 48 up through say 60-70ish
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  • WaffleChan - Sanctuary
    WaffleChan - Sanctuary Posts: 2,897 Arc User
    edited December 2009
    sundown highlands.
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  • _Surreal_ - Heavens Tear
    _Surreal_ - Heavens Tear Posts: 1,458 Arc User
    edited December 2009
    if you have a good air pet grind on vipions lvl 50 around skull mountain? when you hit 70 seaweed thieves near sanctuary are good
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  • axt57
    axt57 Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2009
    Get an air pet and go bat hunting over swamp for your 60-70. Those Minion of Allacurd (or w/e) guys must have some sort of bugged drop rate; they spam DQ items like no other mob I've ever met.

    Nix+bat hunting = best grinding ever.
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  • ElonaFiorna - Sanctuary
    ElonaFiorna - Sanctuary Posts: 181 Arc User
    edited December 2009
    axt57 wrote: »
    Get an air pet and go bat hunting over swamp for your 60-70. Those Minion of Allacurd (or w/e) guys must have some sort of bugged drop rate; they spam DQ items like no other mob I've ever met.

    Nix+bat hunting = best grinding ever.

    QFT. I out right bought most of the mats/subs I needed for TT70 gear with the money I got grinding on those things. b:victory
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  • Lykea - Lost City
    Lykea - Lost City Posts: 10 Arc User
    edited December 2009
    ElonaFiorna - Sanctuary wrote: »
    QFT. I out right bought most of the mats/subs I needed for TT70 gear with the money I got grinding on those things. b:victory

    There must be something wrong with my veno then >.> She's lvl 68 and grinding on those but they don't drop good..I get 1 QI per 3 kills or more. :/
  • Brael - Dreamweaver
    Brael - Dreamweaver Posts: 1,430 Arc User
    edited December 2009
    At 48 you're not going to be able to really grind the coin for a herc very well. You would be better off farming mats and/or taking advantage of the AH/catshop. I don't really watch the prices on the wine mats you can harvest at your level, but I'm betting on it being around 4k per. Assuming gold drops to 400k, you would be looking at 75,888,000 coin. If you can get 25 mats per spawn cycle (they're 10 minute spawns) you would be looking at 600k per hour, which gets you a herc in 126 hours and 30 minutes of mat farming. Doing some merchanting in there as well, could probably cut your time in half to ~63 hours. Assuming 20 hours a week of playing (and a catshop up when not playing) you could have it in 3 weeks.

    You could even take it a step further if you wanted, cease leveling while you farm the mats. Then pick up a couple of genies and feed that cheap crazy stone experience to them. Resell them afterwards and turn your exp/spirit into coin for the herc.
  • Vitenka - Dreamweaver
    Vitenka - Dreamweaver Posts: 4,125 Arc User
    edited December 2009
    Huh, I can't say I ever had that great a drop from the bats either. Not terrible drop rates, but not wonderful either.

    At 46... scrunchkins. Just south of krimison. Double spawns of each and every mid mat, including herbs - and only half of them aggro (though they ALL react to a fight starting, so it takes a little bit of care)

    They're level 50 so you'll be getting close to the best drop-rates from them, and they drop reasonable numbers of DQ items and lots of compound thread.

    ... and looking on pwdatabase I find out that I've been wrong all these weeks, and it's Shrunchkin. No 'c'. huh.

    So yeah, they drop ghost charms - and light armour. (And I don't care what that list says, they drop light armour WAY more often than scrolls)
  • Brael - Dreamweaver
    Brael - Dreamweaver Posts: 1,430 Arc User
    edited December 2009
    You're reading the additional drop table wrong, it doesn't say they're anywhere close to the same drop rate. Scrolls have a combined 12.1433% chance of dropping on that loot table, but unlike the normal loot table, the scroll table is only on .005763% of mobs, meaning you see a scroll every .07% of kills (1 in 1428). A pair of Wraith Boots is .3312% of drops with .423405 per kill, meaning 1 in 713 kills is a pair of Wraith Boots.

    Pretending all armor has that drop rate, because I'm tired and don't feel like doing more math, there's 21 types of armor that can drop, so you would be looking at 1 in 34 kills for a piece of armor. In reality since they're different rates it's higher, probably up around 1 in 50. That's still almost 29x more common than a scroll though.
  • ElonaFiorna - Sanctuary
    ElonaFiorna - Sanctuary Posts: 181 Arc User
    edited December 2009
    Lykea - Lost City wrote: »
    There must be something wrong with my veno then >.> She's lvl 68 and grinding on those but they don't drop good..I get 1 QI per 3 kills or more. :/

    Well, I did have a Nix by that time. So I was blowing through them at a fast rate.

    I was also dumping XP into my genie (which I regret doing now) so it would catch up to me.

    TBH, nowadays grinding just doesn't bring in the money like it used to at the lower levels for me. It's almost like the higher level mobs have a lower drop rate, or maybe it's because they drop only a little more expensive stuff, and the things I need are alot more expensive at my level.
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