> Well, I don't even have 2k and I'm lvl 54. I hardly ever get to loot bc of
> my connection speed. People always beat me to the corpses. So I'm lucky if
I
> make 10p in several hours of camping. I think I made about 50p camping in
> SolA for 26 hours. I'm generally busy healing or medding so the tanks
> usually get the loot anyways. Plus I'm not that aggressive about loot.
there are tradeskills as well: i sold heady kiolas to get the money for
the two horses i have. i takes some time to make them and it also
may take some days to sell them (on vendor in bazaar), but it is sort
of easy money. the only drawback: you hate doing it! hint: never start
to count the clicks you have to do!
i fill my trader with two or three bags full of heady kiola. it takes about
45 minutes to fill one bag, that's 10 stacks, eg 200 per bag. on tarew
you can set prices to 3pp to 5pp per piece. i have seen people buying
them off me instead from cheaper vendors, because i had many stacks,
and not "only" less then 20 on me.
another item are some furs/pelts used for tradeskills or quests, for example
in WW wolves drop a pelt, that is sold for 400pp to 600pp each. well,
some still ask for 1000pp for it (i believe it is used for blacksmithing).
tradeskills got really complex! allakhazam has a nice feature showing
the full "chain" of items needed. for example have a look at the
recipe for a "Fearful Darkly Pulsing Orb":
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/recipe.html?recipe=2529
the problem is: are there people around who will by this thing?
is it worth to "hunt" for some components which can be considered
rare drops, or are off mobs in "not-so-easy-zones" (not everyone
can hunt in cazic for example).
also bazaar is somewhat "ugly" about prices, on the other hand
you also can be very lucky in there. let's go back to the example
from the start: one weekend (fr to mo morning) i sold about 1500
heady kiolas (and i couldn't click anymore), then it took about
5 days to sell 200 again.
if some says, you can get an item that sells for Xpp, you still need
someone "willing" to buy it. also from personal experience i know
for some people having 500pp is very much, and other people
don't know if they should buy item A for 20k or item B for 30k
and make a deal to buy both items for 40k.
when i bought my first horse (proud to be able to spent 9k) i
witnessed when a monk bought a 100k horse for his girlfriend.
nice gift indeed... could really need such friends as well... ;-)
one more hint about bazaar: hit F9 (or was it F10) to look
from above to ground. it isn't easy to "navigate", but the "speed"
improvement is worth it.
another hint about gfx: i only enable "new models" for the chars
that have horses. all other additional features are turned off.
zoning is faster, and i have less "gfx lag". i only have P3 systems
with 512MB, but that way i could play much smoother again.
ooops ... i have to stop now... getting late to work, again...
- bilt
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Biltilie Dwimmerlaik, lvl 57 gnome magician, Tarew Marr