Cleric AoE Grind for Money

You will find as a cleric it gets really expensive to try to get money this way. Expenses seem to be equal to earnings when grinding...

Lets say you go to lake of WOE to kill moths, lvl 80ish wood mobs, if you aoe grind them you will be getting a repair bill of 80k+ when making about 100k-120k~ if you kill fast enough, not to mention the potions it consumes. So you will end up with about 20k profit out of your grinding or so, I rather use my veno for this kind of grinding.

That, or zhen with some BM, less repairs, only potion consume costs and you end up with somewhat a bit more coins.

Look up replies to Nelae's post and find Kott's movie thats how i learned to pull many mobs - at first i tried to gether them on foot and it didnt work at all
most cost-efficient is aoe on poisons because of elemental advantage
second best is any other dots - low repair cost and dot doesnt hit you bad so you can hold more mobs and heal less than with direct damages
third option: wood, direct magic damage mobs - like mothrans. can be done but you use way too much mana to heal and can hold maybe 7-8 safely, when poisons you can have over 20 at once when you get your timing right
other direct mag mobs - i dont really recommend solo aoe grinding on them, mana and repairs will cost more than you earn (unless its 2*drop)

grinding partners:
1) bm - they love us and we love them. with poisons well timed aoe stun and hf means you can one hit whole group with tempest . and you can assist their aoe grind too, with your heals and assist attack they can gather (and survive) more mobs and kill them faster so you will be welcome to squad anytime
2) any other class. yes, drops are split so you lose some money that way, but anyone who helps you kill faster lowers your costs a LOT
3) classic zhen party (does anyone still do that?) cleric + wiz and/or archer + barb to gather mobs and pick up drops

what to solo aoe grind on: at your level petallis, when you reach 80 move to malicious cadevils near 1k.
for squad aoe grind: who you squad with can make a lot of difference, i dont aoe grind much because of time, but at 70s pirates with bm and wizzy were fun, at 80s cadevils with bm looked awesome (though i died 3 times before we got timing right lol), and with my bm husband i did a lot of crusades on nivastock shieldbearers (what can i say? he liked aoeing them :P he goes nuts when he has to stand and wait till i gather a group of magic mobs as it takes very very long compared to his quick dashes on cloudsprint...)

At your level the celestial hexocs work really nice next to Sanctuary. There are quite a few of them right across one of the bridges to the east. You can gather about 12-14 at a time. They're level 73 too so you should get decent drops from them still

I'll warn ya though, their poison seems to spike at times so start off with a few and work your way up until you're comfortable.

It's a nice area though between the Orchid Petalli and Malicious Cadevils

I have just finished one hour solo aoe grind on spiders at avalanche canyon and made:

~150k exp
~350k coin

Without 2x/3x exp/2x drops on/eso/hyper stones etc.

Yamiino - Heavens Tear wrote: »

You will find as a cleric it gets really expensive to try to get money this way. Expenses seem to be equal to earnings when grinding...

Lets say you go to lake of WOE to kill moths, lvl 80ish wood mobs, if you aoe grind them you will be getting a repair bill of 80k+ when making about 100k-120k~ if you kill fast enough, not to mention the potions it consumes. So you will end up with about 20k profit out of your grinding or so, I rather use my veno for this kind of grinding.

That, or zhen with some BM, less repairs, only potion consume costs and you end up with somewhat a bit more coins.

I think you are talking about bms aoe grinding? Poison doesnt dmg armor at all.

Aelric - Lost City wrote: »

see thats not bad, but im not high enough to kill those :P

(and the hexocs are horrible, not close enough together to get large groups, and I only get 1 element crystal (worth 2k) to drop out of 15 mobs and it took 2 seperate pulls to get all 15)

I think you are late to start making money on hexocs at level 76. Maybe if you get 10k+ wood resist and wait till 2x drops is on then you can do well there.

Might just want to level up to 83 and try making money on malicious cadevils. If you get good enough weapon their mp drain isnt too bad. Well with jones blessing it should be easy. But to grind effectivelly on those you will need around 14k+ wood resist.