How 2 make $?

Other than the usual merchanting and cashhopping answers, I don't think there is another way. Some say grinding, but you'll only get that kind of money from grinding if you play 24/7 for a year straight.

I guess the only thing is to farm air mobs unless you role another Veno.

do TT3-3 5 times and get 10 gold mats :O

The answer will not be posted here, I'm afraid.

The way PW works, is that someone finds a niche on how to make money. They keep at it and make a modest amount of money-- then, when the money has been made, someone learns of it. When 2 people do the same thing to make money, you can be sure that a third soon will. Soon, this wonderful way to make money is no longer so wonderful.

Any potentially valid post in here will likely be invalidated within a few weeks, given that many people read these posts.

With that said:
The best way to make money is probably grinding spiders. Make a set of OHT gear with wood resists only and plop a bunch of wood resist shards (cheap!) into them. Get an anti-wood damage genie and mob all the spiders. Pick up the loot afterwards

Also, Asty had some good advice.

Ok, while I can't tell you exactly how to make 30m, I might be able to offer some insight into the catshop side of things.

Here are a few of the 'styles' of cat shops that I've seen. (there is some overlap between styles)

'the convenience cat'
This style of catshop is generally set up right where you will need them. Whether they're selling Elemental Essenses at the quest giver, herbs at the apothocary or ultimate substances at the forge, these catshops thrive on players that forget they will need something at this destination.

Some other ideas might include:

celestones / refining aids next to an elder
rebirth orders at the elder in archosaur
shards at the crazy stone quest giver
ultimate substance in front of twilight temple
chi stones and other genie stuff at the genie npc
various tradable items needed for a quest at the quest giver
powders / potions by a PVP location
wines on the BH platform

overall, this style of catshopping is either very slow, or very profitable, depending on what you're selling, how high your markup is, what the competition is like, and how often you're there. I suggest this method for a small but steady stream of cash.



'the b/s cat'

This catshop style generally requires a great deal of initial investment, has a lot of competition, and depends greatly on your knowledge of current market prices.

Someone running a buy & sell catshop is generally selling items that are in very high demand, that a lot of people are going to be buying and selling at the same time. This could include coral / tokens, mats, hp / mp food, chi stones, shards, etc etc.

Basically, buy low, sell high. Keep a close eye on your margins unless you want your catshop exploited by others.

This catshop style can be highly profitable, so long as you ensure your prices are within the right range to entice people to buy and sell with you, and you choose a location / name that will attract business.

'the farmer cat'

This catshop style is commonly used by those that are two busy to be bothered with mercantilism. These include people running endless FB's / TT's / Rebirth etc. and who then need to unload their haul of drops. Keep your prices low, or you won't sell through your inventory like you want.

I'd suggest this style for people that have accumlated a massive amount of valuable items (like TT mats, molds or 3*** items for example) that they do not need.
this style of catshoping is usually shortlived, because if you do it right, you'll soon be back to the adventure. This style can be highly profitable, but it requires that you remain very active in hunting for valuable items.

'the clearance cat'

Honestly one of the worst and best types of catshops around. Rarely profitable, but good for finding a deal. I would put lower level people who clear out their banks via catshop into this catagory. Low level tradeskillers who are selling 5 of the same sword, all made by that person, would also fall into this catagory. Not suggested if you wanna make some money, but often good for a deal.

'the craftsman cat'

This style covers those people that go out of their way to assemble / improve an item for the sole purpose of selling it. This would include people selling entire TT sets (buy mats cheap, sell finished product at a gain), leveled up gold genies, premade wines, premade crazy stone shards, potions / powders, 2 star items for tradeskill quests, all class baby pets, high level tomes, rare dyes etc etc.

If you know what you're doing, this is probobly one of the most profitable ways of making money. The main problem is that people might not want to pay your markup for the effort of combining the items / taking the risk of the item not turning out right.

'the scammer cat'

This style gets a mention because I almost fell for it lol. I see a catshop selling stones, and they are all priced as he advertized, except for the last one in the row which is priced with a few extra zero's added. The total extra price would've been like 40 times as expensive as just making it yourself. Be careful what you buy.

Not sure if this has any profitability to it, as I've never tried it.

other money making tactics include:

'the opportunist'
buying something that obviously has a typo in it's price, or that is being sold extremely cheap out of haste or desperation, and then turning around and selling it at a profit.

'the buyout'
Buying out a cheap competitor and adding his cheap inventory of items into your own. You assume the risk of selling those extra items, and also that more competition won't come along, but it can be useful to get the customers flowing again.

Again, I can't tell you "go here and do this" but I figure I can give you some general suggestions that might help.

Shule - Sanctuary wrote: »

'the opportunist'
buying something that obviously has a typo in it's price, or that is being sold extremely cheap out of haste or desperation, and then turning around and selling it at a profit.

I know you probably arent going to believe me at all, but I bought 1000 teles for 100k before, the kitty shop had them selling for 100 coins each (I was nice and did an event over world chat with them and ended up making 10 mil :P, I know not as much as I could have gotten but they sold damn fast )