My friend and I are VERY new to the game (I have not played since release, and he's never stepped foot here). We just hit level 5 as a Paladin/Reaver duo. After training, and a couple very inexpensive gear pieces, we are both sitting at around 6-8 silver each ... not quite enough for a horse.

We're looking for a decent area we can start to grind in that will also line our pockets a bit, at least enough to cover horse costs and some gear upgrades. Does anyone have any suggestions as far as locations/mobs we could seek out?

Thanks!

Here's what I do:

1) While I do /whisper task with a guard, I also see what drops from that particular mob via the Internet or go sell it to a merchant. I notice what is worth $$ and what isn't. Since you're likely to be tasked to doing different mobs, you should know what's nearby near your level and what they drop. For now, killing bears is terrible but killing adders is profitable.

2) Once you're done with /tasks for the level, I go and farm mobs that drop stuff that is valuable (either because of what it is worth to vendors or because it drops armor/weapons that I use), regardless if it gives me less XP. Some people focus on the XP, but I focus on the coin/items as it really is a barrier, at least for me as a pure solo player. So you might be farming easier things (and thus less xp), but earning more coin. It just depends and paying attention to the drops and factoring in how fast you can farm them relative to what they drop. That's why their really isn't a list, since it varies by the group, type of damage you do, etc.

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3) You could get a necromancer and farm that way, since they don't really require gear and you could trade the coin with your friend to get it on your main. That obviously slows you down because now you're leveling two characters, but it earns the most coin. That's why you see so many necromancers all over the place.

As Moon said tasking is a good source of coin up to 20

Well, here is what I did.

Level up to 5, go to Camelot, become a Tailor. - Level up further to around 7. - Use all the money collected until now to lvl up tailoring, I think it was enough for 200 + metalworking to 200. Go Camelot Hills, kill Boulderlings until they're green. They drop quite some amount of iron weapons. Salvage those, trinket the metal and sell it -> profit. Skill tailoring and metalworking further up. With then lvl 10 I went to Mithra's, but didn't get much to salvage. Stayed there until 12 anyways.

With lvl 12 I was at 300 tailoring. Then I moved to Cornwall, killed ghostly clerics and paladins, not much income too, with lvl 14 I killed Shamblers in Avalon Marshes. Still, not much coming around, but enough to get tailoring up to 400. With lvl 16 I went to the ghouls in Avalon Marshes, they drop lots of Plate and Chain. This is where the money-train started. Ghoul Footmen at first, then with lvl 18 the Ghoul Knights, and with lvl 19-20 the Ghoul Knights and Lords, until I reached lvl 22. With enough salvaged metal to skill tailoring up to 500+, push metalworking and woodworking to 500 aswell.

Next stop was Llyn Barfog. Hunting Bwgan, Bwgan Fisherman and Bwgan hunters. They drop a lot of cloth, some wepaons, the hunters also weapons and staves. This brought me easily to 600 tailoring. I stayed there until lvl 26, with lvl 26 I moved in Llyn Barfog to the Bwgwl. All they do is drop sell loot and plate, lots of plate. I stayed there until lvl 33, making a fortune of mithril-bars and my tailoring level was 1000 when I hit lvl 32.

So, I managed it to get to Legendary Tailor in 32 levels. Money invested: about 3 platin. Time invested: enough. All solo!


If you want do something similar: Well, the possibilities are there, use them. The money income won't stop there of course ... it just begins to get better and better!

You could do crafting tasks to skill up and make money in the process. I went to Camelot at lvl 5 and did crafting tasks as an armorcrafter and now have about 340 skill and somewhere around 60 gold. It is pretty time consuming, and not for everyone, but it is a sure way to gain crafting skill and money. When you get to the point you can't do tasks any more you should have more than enough crafting skills to salvage/trinket your way up from there.

I have never touched crafting, for someone new to it.. I just want to take up salvaging. Does class matter? Do I need both tailoring and metalworking to be able to salvage all loot on one character? I googled this but I don't seem to be finding any useful info so I figure the best place to ask is here.

I know the struggle all too well, and really had a hard time with it up until level 10-11. The best source of revenue I found (and a measly one at that) before level 8 was the river racers at the north-eastern edge of Salisbury Plains. 8-10 was the brownie nomads and brownie grassrunners between Camelot Hills and West Downs, due west of the large bandit camp nestled in the hills. The brownies drop a lot of onyx, large toad stools, weapons, and leather/studded gear that sells for a decent little chunk. After 10 just hit Salisbury Plains and kill anything yellow. At that point, almost everything you pick up sells for 1s each or higher.

Infinitesimaltron wrote:I have never touched crafting, for someone new to it.. I just want to take up salvaging. Does class matter? Do I need both tailoring and metalworking to be able to salvage all loot on one character? I googled this but I don't seem to be finding any useful info so I figure the best place to ask is here.

check out this: http://www.guardiansofvalor.com/Strateg ... gGuide.asp

That's depressing.. thank you for the information but it sounds like it is forcing me to craft when all I want to do is salvage. I simply do not have the time for that.