Utter newbie (!) - how to make money?

[masjaun]

1. Get to level 8-10 (class dependant), get a bind at the Freeport gates and hunt wisps. It worked for me, the greater light stones you can turn in for a quest at the gypsy camp in Southern Ro for 9-10p (+ or - cha). Keep killing until you have almost all 8 bags filled with greaters or normal light stones and make the run down to So Ro. You can make about 400p a run if all your bags are filled with them.

2. Make a lvl 1 evil Erudite and loot shields and swords from lvl 30-40 PC's killing guards there. I followed a mage/cleric combo (I'm sure they weren't boxing, yeah right!) around for 4 hours there and made 1800p! I call it noob leaching. I'm sure that term will catch on soon. Another night I made 500p in two hours while I was eating supper from a lvl 30 monk that was lighting up the guards there and leaving the corpses around. So my female Eru SK that I made just to loot turned into my main and she was pimped out in Darkforge armour at level 10.

3. You can go to the Qyenos Catacombs / sewer. Find the Cubert spawn. It's on a 12 second timer (shhhhh! Don't tell the devs), anyways get there around level 5 and you can kill until level 9-10. Sometimes Cubert (named spawn) drops a dress, don't worry, it's too big for Halflings, once you get the dress go up to the Qyenos bank area and turn it into Zemel (I think that’s his name, guy near the bank that mumbles about some lost girl in the sewers). You get gems and sometimes you can get a +3 int earring....you can sell that for a few 10's of pp.

That’s what I did for level's 1-10 to make some easy pp....let me know once you get up into your 20's, the options, quests and other methods broaden considerably. Old school EQ = a pp heaven!

[Savard18]

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

2. Make a lvl 1 evil Erudite and loot shields and swords from lvl 30-40 PC's killing guards there. I followed a mage/cleric combo (I'm sure they weren't boxing, yeah right!) around for 4 hours there and made 1800p! I call it noob leaching. I'm sure that term will catch on soon. Another night I made 500p in two hours while I was eating supper from a lvl 30 monk that was lighting up the guards there and leaving the corpses around. So my female Eru SK that I made just to loot turned into my main and she was pimped out in Darkforge armour at level 10.

Not to sound like a total jerk and ruin your story, but you got lucky; to help this guy out - this is a very uncommon way to make money and might be a waste of time to follow anyone killing guards, anywhere. I would say a high % of the people who kill guards anywhere sell to nearby vendors - and speaking from experience, there is high risk vs. low reward to kill guards in Paineel if you cannot sell to vendors in there. You need faction to get a key now and to sell to the vendors, and the exp alone in Paineel is not worth the trouble of getting in there just to kill the guards but then leave their loot. Not to mention the BS if someone dies in there and cannot get a key, ugh. I've hunted those guards in there and believe me those bodies are not sitting around waiting for people to loot them. Good story, but it is one of those things that all the stars have to align for this to happen.

So back to helping out the op - he is right about Greater Lightstones, but also searching the vendors in EC might work, people get bored of selling and will sell decent stuff to vendors. If someone is patient enough and the prices are good, you can buy and resell all day and make money there. Pelts, eggs, bone chips, weapons, bronze, patchwork, reinforced armor etc. are always randomly found on vendors, either decent to wear or priced right to buy then resell at the tunnel. I found a hulking spiked club on a vendor for 7pp, sold it for 25pp. Plus in the EC people are always giving gear away.

That is just another way to make money. Looting everything you kill (and the corpses of those who are not looting) and then selling everything you don’t need at the beginning is the only real way to make money – to start.

HQ Pelts and bone chips are your early bread and butter if you are 100% alone in EQ, early meaning single digit levels.

This game takes time if you are alone - if you want to race to 50 then you are on the wrong server.

[Gorgetrapper]

Originally Posted by Savard18 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This game takes time if you are alone - if you want to race to 50 then you are on the wrong server.

It's called playing a mage, it just happens. Not a race, it just... happens.

[Aetherial]

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

Since you are in RV, you may see some higher levels killing the deputies. If they are and they are not looting the shield from the deputy, get them and vendor those for almost 2p ea.

Taking this one step further, you can also offer to sell spears and shields for necros or mages killing guards. They will often pay up to 50p for you to sell 100-150 p worth of stuff.

[Aetherial]

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

This, for me, is a telltale sign that the player behind that female character is a guy. ;P

I am usually pretty quick to mention my wife if I find people being a little too friendly to my Female Chanter.