Newb looking for easy plat ideas

[Esheon]

Honestly? Get levels. Nothing at that level really drops decent vendor trash, and anything that drops items you sell to players (deathfist/crushbone belts, orc scalps, etc) is probably camped. It would take huge amounts of those sales to get you to 1kp anyway. The only decent money camp I know of around that level is the sisters in lfay, and that's a 4-spawn static camp a bit higher than you, with someone nearly always camping it.

Levels are king. Higher-level mobs drop more cash and better items.

[Kastro]

Orc camps in sro drop pickbringers chain items.. those sell for 80-100plat each... and wold be around your level...

Willow Wisps are excellent plat and exp while leveling. Those can be found in east commons, west commons, and North Karana close to the gypsy camp... you may want to consider getting bound very close and just kiting them with your dissonance dot and getting a whole bunch of them... You do need a magic wep to hit them so you can finish them off...

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Esheon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Levels are king. Higher-level mobs drop more cash and better items.

At level 50 or so (depending on your class) you can do Seafury Cyclops, which can get you 500+ plat an hour. At level 40 or so you can do Hill Giants which can get you 20 plat or so each (100-200 an hour). In contrast, at level 10 (or any level before 40) you will find it very difficult to make more than 50 plat an hour; that's an entire order of magnitude less than what you can do at 50.

Meanwhile the difference between wearing armor you find on the stuff you kill, and wearing 1k worth of purchased gear, is very small. I'm not saying there's no difference at all, but the actual impact on your leveling speed will be minimal. Certainly it will be a LOT less than 10x+ difference between trying to earn plat now vs. at level 50 or so.

All that being said, if you really do want to get plat now, in a few levels you can start looking at this guide to get ideas (and if you find anywhere not in that guide, by all means please add it; it is a wiki after all):

http://wiki.project1999.com/Treasure_Hunting_Guide

*EDIT*
As I was writing this BarackObooma went and posted a great suggestion for how to make a decent amount of plat per hour at low level. It's not a bad suggestion, but personally I'm a little skeptical that you'll be able to find buyers that easily (there's not that many people that care about faction), so I suspect you'll be spending a lot of time in EC trying to unload them (which will mean you'll make less plat per hour than suggested).

Meanwhile all that time you spend running around doing the quest, and then all that time you'll spend waiting in EC, is time you're not spending getting XP. In other words, instead of just spending X hours and getting Y exp, you'll be spending X hours, getting 0 xp, and getting slightly better gear that will only let you level slightly faster. I highly doubt that "sightly faster" XP gain will make up for all the time you could have just been earning XP in the first place.