Sarannah wrote: »

Shantu wrote: »

One small hint: Level as many max crafters as you can handle, do daily crafting writs and surveys, and loot and/or decon everything. You'll be surprised at how you will acquire both the skills and materials to make all the gold you want..

Side-question: Do you mean max level crafters as in just level 50 craftingskills with 0 skillpoints in the craftings, or max level as in fully skillpoint leveled craftingskills? ... As I have a few max skill level crafters, and I burn through the highest tier materials really really fast, especially jewelry crafting's platinum. And this is just with 4 fully skill-leveled crafters.

Can't speak for them, but I make sure to do writs on lvl 50 chars (max gold reward) and with professions maxed out and skill points allocated for highest tier writs. I do tend to level provisioning slower on them though to collect more recipes from the lower tiers. The reason is that the rewards are far better on max tier for the other 6 professions.

If you do the surveys, you will get back a lot of your mats you need for crafting. I do buy refined mats from traders once in a while as I also run out of them, not that quickly though. Mainly because I don't bother farming non survey nodes that often. The cost of buying that is pretty low, and is worth it for the max tier rewards.

I usually make 100k - 1kk a week. Depends on what I feel like doing in game and how much time I have for playing. Greymoor furniture plan farming with 10+ h a week? A million. Casually playing with not a lot of time a week? 100k. (usually just emptying my bags from mats)

Beardimus wrote: »

I think this thread shows a thing or two. So many people moan about trading in the game and fat cat monopoly guilds etc. But look at all the posts from people earning millions. They are doing weird on 12+ characters!

In essence, they are doing the work, putting in the effort. It bugs me that people want trading to be over simplified as it's a part of the game that rewards effort just like anything else in the game.

The problem is it's overly complicated for buyers too.

I couldn't care less how much time other people spend farming stuff to sell. What annoys me about the trading system in this game is that if I want to buy anything I have to wait until I have enough time to trawl through different traders hoping to find one that has what I want and that it won't be absurdly over-priced when I do. Even with TTC to help narrow down the search it's still a waste of time.

Compare that with my other MMO where I can open a menu from literally anywhere in the world, type in the name of the thing I want to buy (or part of the name, or use filters, or a combination of methods) and instantly see the current lowest price, then buy it immediately or put in an offer for what I'm willing to spend and wait for it to be fufilled.

When you're used to buying taking seconds the prospect of spending an hour going through loading screens and running around traders and potentially still coming away empty-handed is pretty off-putting and it's the main reason I rarely buy anything from other players in this game.

Really depends both on the location of the trader and your ability to fill your slots with stuff that will sell not just random junk thinking people will pay a fortune for it.

Probably 95% of what I sell comes from doing daily writs:

Intricate jewelry/Gold upgrade mats/various jewelry plating's/stacks of grand repair kits & empty soul gems/master writs/raw mats/recipes

With 18 characters doing writs everyday and listing those items regularly, I manage to make around 1 to near 2 million gold a week in sales(dependent heavily on the RNG of the gold upgrade mats you get from daily writs, bad weeks mean less gold), that is doing the bare minimum with my set up, I have hundreds of surveys in storage I could do but just don't want to.

That is sales profits not counting the gold I get each day from the daily writ quests, which is a bit over 80K per day doing the writs on all 18 characters.

After expenses I usually have over a million in profit consistently each week even on the bad weeks.


The other 5% of stuff I sell is stuff I pick up while playing the game in overland usually set pieces, I will put up any set piece I pick up for a month on one of my less important trade guilds for a low amount in case someone needs an obscure piece of gear for their builds, if it does not sell after the month it gets vendored or deconned.

I could sell food/drink/potions/poisons but those are a lot more competitive markets and I like to keep my alchemy mats for my own use, provisioning stuff I just see the profit being too low to bother with, with the stockpiles of mats I have in the craft bag its the only self sustaining craft for daily writs.


Once you have enough gold built up in the bank weekly expenses largely mean nothing you can buy everything you need for your daily writs on guild traders and never have to go out of your way to farm mats or sets again for gold.



That all said this is not some get rich quick scheme depending on your play time it could take you months or even a couple years to set up a way to make gold like this and a large amount of the gold you do make will go toward leveling those characters crafting skills/leveling them up in general but once that is done the gold just builds up, until you start seeking out expensive stuff like motifs/style pages/furniture plans to blow your gold on.


No matter how much gold you make though housing is the fastest route to going broke.