Rank9 - How did you get it?

Oh i remember when Azzin an Ds were basically the first to start selling Tm's on the server i play on.. But me personally got my R9 from basically just farming TT"s. I also made decent coin when they introduced G16, i would sell mold an badges (weapon mold-80-90m armour mold 30-40m). Oh how alot use to call me a noob an blah blah when i started doing it now its so common on the server till the prices are **** nowb:cry

Sold my car, but it was not enough, so I also quit my job so I could farm TT 16 hours daily to get rest of the coin. Lost friends, GF, now I am eating eggs and bread only, but hey my char is Rank 9. Was worth of it!

KuruTu - Harshlands wrote: »

Sold my car, but it was not enough, so I also quit my job so I could farm TT 16 hours daily to get rest of the coin. Lost friends, GF, now I am eating eggs and bread only, but hey my char is Rank 9. Was worth of it!

Wait, so, i have this thread you might like...

Merchanting like many others. Its sad so many people denie it because they cant do it themselves.

I started this game knowing absolutely nothing. Leveling the very slow way up together with my buddy. When we were level 30, we were checking AH multiple times a day and buying stuff that was cheaper than usually. Initially we started learning the prices of some specific types of items and checked those sections. Later we started using the option to see all the newest addition and then bought all the underpriced things and put them back on for the right price.

This way of nooby merching helped us to get to level 100 comfortably buying our skills, getting our mounts and flyers.

Then i started merching tokens of luck. I was so happy to make 3 to 5 mil a day. I owned the whole market with usually a 180coin margin between buy and seel while i was checking prices pretty much continuously. Sorry to the other merchants, i know, i killed the market for a bunch of months. Anyway, I produced 250 mil like that while we were still running around in TT90. I then went to travel for 6 months. When i got back, my buddy had upgraded his gear to G16 and the 250m were still there. He was mostly into armor production and stuff. He just bought TT mats, raps and cannies whenever they were cheap and produced gear from that to sell. So when i got back from my travels he outfitted me in G16 and basic aps. There was still some money left. I started again with the tokens and together with his armor producing and a butload of warsong farming, we build it up to 1 bil and upgraded his APS stuff to R8 and i bought myself a double int fist so i could use some G16 instead of the TT99.

Then came the breaktrough in multiple ways. We now were strong enough to decently farm TT and we started doing TM lunar. I started massproducing pstones. Most importantly, i got myself into the boutique marked. At first i carefully bought some gold and chip packs. Turned them into GSTs. They were sold in an hour and i made more profit than i ever dreamed of when merching tokens. From then on, every coin i had went into boutique items that are on sale and i steadilly grew the budget with 20% per month and sometimes a lot more during the best sales. I kept building the budget and didnt want to spend much. I kept the budget between 3 and 5 bil while we bought bits and pieces of R9 at each sale. The first bit increased our TM lunar succesrate from 90% in G16 to 100% in partly R9 so we started selling the capes for another nice cash boost.

2 months before i left the game, we were R9+10 and had 5bil in the bank. I had enough of it all, the game was getting boring and it all fend like a huge waste of time, i spend the money on some +12 orbs for our weapons, on a bazillion A packs to upgrade our waravatars and we got both R9 rings recasted and +10. I also started buying some vit stones.

4 months ago, i left the game. OP and nearly broke. It was all feeling pointless. 2 years i had worked 15 hours a day and now we were OP. What use is it to be OP ? None really. 2 years of my life wasted on a game. Again.... (not really the first game)

Synth, you have openly admitted to cash shopping. You have even threatened PWE on these very forums, to stop cash shopping if someone didnt get their ring back.
You have even said that you have spent a lot of money on this game.

I would venture a guess and say that 90-95% of what you have has been obtained from cash shopping. Or do you merchant 5Billion coins a week like your buddy?



Yes there are people who do actually farm for their things. For the most part, people CS for it. It is how the game works. It is how the game was intended to survive.

This game like any other of this type, relies on the player putting it many many hours and some money. Over time, they add things to make your char better.
People, not wanting to lose all the time and money spent to keep up, so they feel the need to spend more.
Then they release better stuff. Again, dont want to waste all the time and money, so spend more money to keep up with everyone else.


Merchanting and farming does exist. But both are being weened out by PWE. DQ and other drops are worthless and pack items are being bound.

I bought my veno's r9 with extra money I had around at the time.

Don't see the point in r9ing my alts, they are just PvE.

To be honest it does not really matter how one obtained their stuff cause at the endof the day it will be the same cycle over an over...

Farmer to casher "I have better things to spend my money on rather than a game"

Casher to farmer "I have a life an can't invest so much time into a game farming for long periods of time"

It will never end! i guess that what makes it so intresting cause without negative talks the world would be so boring..b:surrender

If no one ever posted questions with either pointless or easily accessible answers this forum would be so vacant that Sweetiebot would start to cry.

Or maybe ask HERSELF QUESTIONS O.O

My friend sponsored my full r9b:pleased Well in fact he/she sponsored at least 5 people I know of, all for the sake of creating a good tw guild.

whyarcher88 wrote: »

My friend sponsored my full r9b:pleased Well in fact he/she sponsored at least 5 people I know of, all for the sake of creating a good tw guild

That really nice pf them to do.. hope you notyone of those who leave guild after gettingwhat they want from them,then start talking **** about them afterwards

"it just takes time
hard work and your time"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wz6Ec8zSvk

I personally merched my way to r9r3 with event items, tienkangs/tishas, mirages, GST, MoGs, etc etc etc....... The funny part of my story is, I could of bought r9r3 2.5+ years ago, but i held off because i wanted to save my cash stack to merch the refines/shards... I would of worked... if the price of gold hadn't gone from 1.4m per gold to 3.4m+ per gold by the time i ended up buying it And the funny thing is i only made about 1.5b profit (Which lets be honest, is nothing).

Farm, buy packs and then either:
- get broke, rinse and repeat until valuable items received,
Or:
- save some of the winnings. rinse and repeat and don't touch the savings you had.

The pack ***** gods were kind to me sometimes.

By the way there is another possible way to get full r9 toons. I have a feeling that 1-2 guild lords in each server might be buying up full r9 toons on the cheap from people who want to quit game and then passed these toons to their guild-mates in order to quickly build a decent tw guild. Not likely but possible.

Since people from other servers commented too, I might as well.
I farmed a lot with my game husband. That's how we'd usually do things; we farmed together or helped each other, and then we upgraded something on his toon, then something on mine, then something on his again etc.

I usually prefer farming together with someone, so I've had "gaming partners" throughout most of my PWI time, most of them also happened to be my in-game spouses.