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Originally Posted by Quinas
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Gathering the plat required for some big ticket items seem like a mountain to climb. Got any rags to riches stories?
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I played blue for 3 months back in 2011 and made over 50k in plat & gear, with only getting my main to 12th lvl. An erudite paladin named Elendil. In the end, I gave it all away.
You often need money in order to make money, so the initial 1,000 plat was the hardest to make. Bone chips was the ticket for me, just to make a couple hundred plat... I then invested that into Tradeskills. Blacksmithing was the 1st money maker, banded armor for 1pp per AC was a consistent seller. But once I got my tailoring to 88 skill (handmade backpack trivial) I didn't even waste my time on smithing anymore. Hand made backpacks would sell for 50p each easy and fast. At first I would farm my own HQ bear skins, but then demand outweighed my supply, so I had to start buying them directly from noobs at 20p each. Still an instant profit machine.
I did that well past my initial 1,000 plat mark, until I found a new money maker. Vendor Shopping. You see, people sell all kinds of shit to vendors. Some things end up being zero investment risk to buy it directly from the vendor and flip at a higher price. Bone Chips... you buy it for 1s 5c, you can sell it for 1s, 5c. So even by some god awful chance they never sold... you never lose money. But that's just the bottom of the totem pole, you used to be able to find everything... tradeskill materials, rare gems, magic armor etc. Gems hold MOST of their value, Kunark-class specific gear holds MOST of it's value. I would buy Cobalt boots for example for 332p off a vendor, and resell it for 1k. Most of the time I would auction the gear without buying it first... then if someone was interested, i would buy it off the vendor and flip it to them.
Anyways, was fun... but time consuming. Was constantly running around checking vendors...in retrospect I should have made a port class to make my life easier.
Someone made a video of me giving away all my shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ-ENJJO4RA