Ways to make money as a newbie?

[Kayris]

Hi all, just started playing on the server and when I was playing on live Bone chips and various hides/silks were enough to buy spells but after about an hour in EC I have yet to find someone willing to buy even my bone chips. Has something changed in terms of making money as a newbie to buy spells/starter gear that I'm unaware of or was it just a bad night/time?

Any advice would be appreciated as I'm a little lost

[Lorian]

You might have had to few for sale? Otherwise a good way of earning starter plat is running gold in between Perma ice giants and the Halas bank , you can get a few hundred plat in a couple of hours towards some decent starter gear and spell money.

[Grimjaw]

read this red thread

https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=157532

[mr_jon3s]

Qeynos bandit sashes if you can. Bandits are lvl 9-11 and have a chance of droping a bandit sash which are no drop weight hardly anything and you can turn in for a random bronze weapon. Just grind and collect sashes. After head on over to qeynos and turn them in for great exp and random bronze weapons.

[curtischoy]

If you are a good race you can head over to crushbone and collect cb belts and pads. belts sell for 3pp ea and pads for 5pp ea to players. What lvl class race are you?

[Dacien]

If you are a good race you can head over to crushbone and collect cb belts and pads. belts sell for 3pp ea and pads for 5pp ea to players. What lvl class race are you?

This is exactly what I was going to say. By level 6, I had 100 plat from looting and selling cb belts. Once in a while someone desperate and /or impatient zones in and starts offering 4pp per. Seen it happen. Plus, cracked staffs drop in crushbone, which sell for a plat.

I highly recommend the crushbone route.

[Mesnset]

Selling in the EC tunnel is hit or miss with bone chips. I had one weekend with no buyers and many sellers for much of the time. Another time I zone in and people are advertising they are buying them or I get a response after my first WTS.

Below level 6, bone chips (5-10pp/stack), MQ/LQ (3-5pp ea) pelts, HQ bear pelts (30pp ea) and spider(ling) silks (~10pp / stack) are the things to sell. As with Crushbone, in EC the orc deathfist belts sell for 3pp ea. Level 6 is a bit on the low end for those groups.

Also, don't underestimate the trash loot. It does add up.

[Realanlon]

HQ pelts seemed like the best way to make coin in the early levels for me. I sold a few HQ bear pelts and was pretty much set until level 20.

[loramin]

Any advice would be appreciated as I'm a little lost

I'm going to go against the grain and suggest that you ignore all of the above advice, especially since you are playing a caster class. In EverQuest plat doesn't really help you level (unless you have enough to buy something like a Fungal Tunic), but leveling helps you earn a lot more plat.

In other words you can choose from spending time getting plat now (when you can earn maybe 10 plat an hour, not counting the time you spend selling in EC) and then level at the exact same rate as if you hadn't, or you can focus on leveling now, and spend time getting plat when you're 40 and can kill hill giants (100+ plat an hour), or when you're 50 and can kill Seafuries (500+ plat an hour).

As for buying your spells, you really only need a few per level (every class has a bunch of less useful or even complete garbage spells you don't need), and ...

don't underestimate the trash loot. It does add up.

... you'll make enough money to buy the spells you need while you are busy earning XP.

TLDR: Don't get sidetracked by all the twinks on the server. You can earn enough plat to buy the important spells while you level, and if you focus on leveling now you'll make much more plat in the long run than if you waste time earning plat.


P.S. If you run around in crappy gear, you also increase the odds that a kind player might notice and give you some better gear.

P.P.S. If you really do want to earn plat now, another good resource is the Treasure Hunting Guide (http://wiki.project1999.com/Treasure_Hunting_Guide). Admittedly the forum post Grimjaw linked has more ideas, but the wiki guide has a much more readable format.

[Sage Truthbearer]

To loramin's point, see this thread for ways myself and others have kept their #1 focus on getting levels while looting our own gear along the way:

http://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=185493

[loramin]

To loramin's point, see this thread for ways myself and others have kept their #1 focus on getting levels while looting our own gear along the way:

http://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=185493

That thread rocks, great link Sage!

[ko37qtl]

I'm going to go against the grain and suggest that you ignore all of the above advice, especially since you are playing a caster class. In EverQuest plat doesn't really help you level (unless you have enough to buy something like a Fungal Tunic), but leveling helps you earn a lot more plat.

In other words you can choose from spending time getting plat now (when you can earn maybe 10 plat an hour, not counting the time you spend selling in EC) and then level at the exact same rate as if you hadn't, or you can focus on leveling now, and spend time getting plat when you're 40 and can kill hill giants (100+ plat an hour), or when you're 50 and can kill Seafuries (500+ plat an hour).

As for buying your spells, you really only need a few per level (every class has a bunch of less useful or even complete garbage spells you don't need), and ...



... you'll make enough money to buy the spells you need while you are busy earning XP.

TLDR: Don't get sidetracked by all the twinks on the server. You can earn enough plat to buy the important spells while you level, and if you focus on leveling now you'll make much more plat in the long run than if you waste time earning plat.


P.S. If you run around in crappy gear, you also increase the odds that a kind player might notice and give you some better gear.

P.P.S. If you really do want to earn plat now, another good resource is the Treasure Hunting Guide (http://wiki.project1999.com/Treasure_Hunting_Guide). Admittedly the forum post Grimjaw linked has more ideas, but the wiki guide has a much more readable format.

I would say this is good advice if your primary enjoyment is in leveling and getting to the top. For myself, I don't like to spend my time hunting things that don't give xp just for money, although I'll play the lotto on black bears as I pass by, etc. Since I like my characters to earn on their own, I do direct my leveling to paths that are as lucrative as I can manage. Scarcity is part of why this game remains engaging to me for so long but whatever works.

[loramin]

I would say this is good advice if your primary enjoyment is in leveling and getting to the top.

Yeah, I should have prefaced my post with "Rule #1: This is a game and you should play it any way that's fun for you. But, if you're looking for the most efficient way to progress your character ..."

[ko37qtl]

Yeah, I should have prefaced my post with "Rule #1: This is a game and you should play it any way that's fun for you. But, if you're looking for the most efficient way to progress your character ..."

Definitely most efficient.

[Kayris]

Hi all,

Thank you for the responses and information. I ended up going red so some of these things will be too difficult to do (crushbone) and the market for newbie stuff seems fairly low. I talked with some people and they suggested just level and try to work with minimal income for a bit until I can port/farm so that seems to be my next step.

Thank you,
Kayris

[myriverse]

HQ pelts seemed like the best way to make coin in the early levels for me. I sold a few HQ bear pelts and was pretty much set until level 20.
This. Full set of bronze by level 10, simply from selling HQs.