Low levels making coins

Merchanting is slow, especially at first. IT's not going to be something that's finished in a matter of hours. That's something that once it starts to pay off, it pays off big but it can take weeks. Keep doing that because eventually it will pay-off. In the immediate time though, you're going to need another source of revenue. For that, I recommend talking to jolly old jones and doing his bounty order quests daily. You can take that quest 7 times a day, and he gives you coins that day just for talking to him. You can do this all the way to level 80. At level 81, it becomes unavailable. As this is your first toon, I recommend staying in the 71-80 range for a little while once you get there until you have a decent amount of coin.

venobarbclaw wrote: »

I've been trying to merchant on perfect stones, but after a couple hours no one has sold any to me even though I'm by the W. Arch perfect stone area, and buying for the most.


Thanks

You need to think about where stuff comes from.

You see the buy/sell shops for mirages, tokens and raps/cannies. Those shops work because lots of players get those things (BH/packs/NW) while not needing them.

That is however not the case with pstones, you rarely just randomly get those. On the contrary, it is quite an elaborate process to produce them. So it is very unlikely someone is comming to sell those to your catshop.

To produce Pstones, you need to have access to OHT which requires you to be high level not sure if you need level 100 or something less. It is an arduous task to make them so you wont find anyone willing to do it for you. When you do have a toon that can enter OHT, i do advise you to give pstones a try again. Just start buying Tears of Heaven and Stones of the Scarred instead of the pstones and use those to produce the Pstones yourself. (againt look at where those items come from and see that it is best to go buy them near the TT exit during 2x)

For now, you better focus mostly on leveling and getting coins trough other means like venus told you. Keep studying markets though, keep trying other things (mirages, tokens, rap cannies, searching underpriced items in AH), but dont expect to get rich anytime soon, just be happy to get some learning experience so that you will be succesfull sooner when you are level 100 and your budget has grown a bit.

Wolfy also told you that not spending your money is the primary source of merching succes. While that is entirely true, you should first focus on reaching level 100 though. (and spending the money you need to do so) Money simply gets a lot easier to come by when you level up so that is your best investment at this point. (Or you seem to be talking about multiple toons, get 1 to level 100 while you leave the others near level 80 for jolly jones money)

You do not need any crafting skills at all. I would also not waste time trying to farm at those levels. Dont spend money on your gear, you get that free from the FB bosses. Certainly dont spend money on fashion and flyers. Do spend money on teleporting though. It is really not worth skimping on that. Just spend the money you have on the most important skills you need to learn to keep going.
I say it like this because you say you have read wolfy. That means you want to get somewhere and youre not here to enjoy the scenery. If you want to enjoy the scenery of course go buy fashion and mounts and whatnot

PS about merching being slow: Merching is as said not about hours, it is about having a catshop up 24/7. Or at very least half of that. And then the patience. I sold quite some pstones. Sometimes you can stand for days and all you see is a 100 here and there for 1000 stones total sold per day. And then all of a sudden comes someone who buys 20.000 of you. Its the same with pretty much everything you merch. Its a long term thing. In markets like pstones, you should thus also not go fidgetting with your prices on a daily bases based on your recent selling results. You just look at the market, the amount you got to sell and how fast you want to sell it and then leave it be for a week. With heavily competed markets like the tokens you do want to adjust your prices all the time based on what your competition is doing.

OHT can be entered as early as level 70. OHT's daily quest for free tears of heaven, on the other hand, isn't available until level 90.

If hay still sells well, the 40s is the best time to farm it, IMO. Antelopes around Heaven's Tear are very doable and at that level have decent hay drop rate. There are other mobs in other areas as well, you can use the in game encyclopedia to find mobs in your range.

MageMERC - Harshlands wrote: »

I know your an expert and I'm not so this isn't a criticism. Just pointing out, yellow gear drops from BH dungeons can also be traded for perfect stones, so the poster could steal run bh29 over and over and get some stones that way - provided of course he knows how to reset the cave to get straight back in.....

Yep, but you only get 1 pstone per item Its not even worth the clicking to trade them when you open a dreamchaser pack, let alone running an instant to get them.

If you make them trough OHT gear, you can make some 20.000 pstones in an hour. That is 40-50 mil coins. The stuff you need to make them costs like half of that. So 20k profit for an hour of running between 2 NPCs and an hour to kill doll a few times.