Another money for loot strategy I've used is grouping with higher level
chars (if your 10 find someone who is 15-17) where you won't get much if any
exp from the level spread, but you will hopefully get a share of the loot to
sell, or in many cases upgrade armor/weapons with.
Of course you have to find a group of higher level ppl that go along with
this, but for parties of say two tanks, or a tank and a magic type, having a
bard along, even a lower level one to heal and add speed (if they don't have
SOW) can be a justifiable trade for loot.
It's also a lot of fun.. I've visited lots of places where it was everything
conned red to me, but white or blue to my party mates. It's also been a
great way to stand back, not fight, and just weave songs.
----- Original Message -----
From: Wayne Sheppard <mrwayne@...>
To: <eqbards@onelist.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: [eqbards] Digest Number 192
> From: "Wayne Sheppard" <mrwayne@...>
>
> > From: grei@...
> >Subject: Re: [OT] Brewing, Pottery and the Norrath economy
> >
> >
> >Just my views here (still off topic, but all us Bards seem to dabble in
> >trade skills anyway):
> >
> >After fighting my way up to level 11, mostly solo, and barely getting
> >enough plat to afford my songs at each level, I was told that I should
> >work on trade skills to make the money I needed. Ok, that's well and
> >good then.
>
>
> You got some poor advice. There is no magical road to money in trade
> skills. There are a few trade skills where you can make a profit, but
> normally require hundreds of plat and many hours to build up your skill
> level.
>
> [trade skill failures clipped]
>
> Forget trade skills. You are never going to get rich there. You need to
> kill mobs with decent loot. The two legged mobs almost always have better
> loot than the four legged ones. Two great areas for your level are
> Blackburrow and Crushbone. Since you are in Freeport, you might not want
to
> travel that far. Instead there is Befallen and all the Derv camps in WC,
> North and South Ro. You will get rusty weapons, and pieces of armor,
> sometimes even a bronze weapon.
>
> Collect every single thing from the corpses to sell. You may want to
invest
> in some backpacks. Once you are way overloaded, sell everything. It is
> important to find a merchant that will give you a good price. With Selos,
> you can run a bit farther for better prices.
>
> After an hour or so, you will will have your bp's full of junk. It will
all
> sell for about 1-3gp. But if you have 20 items, that can come out to
3-6pp.
> Sometimes you will get lucky and find a bronze weapon that sells for
1-3pp.
> Play for 3-4 hours and you can earn near 20pp.
>
> >Frankly, it looks like Verant wants lower level folks to be dependent on
> >handouts from higher level folks.
>
> How can you possibly believe that? My bard never got a handout. At level
> 13 I have full banded, a Combine LS, and 10pp in the bank. For all of us
> who started from day one, we had no one to give us handouts. Don't insult
> us.
>
> >I find it rather sad that I can barely
> >get necessities on my own each level up to level 10 and now that I'm
> >level 11, I really need banded to survive and I can't afford it, nor does
> >it look like I will ever afford it soon.
>
>
> I assume that you did waste some of your money learning all the trade
> skills. That is a hole you will have to work out of. But with hard work,
> you can overcome this. Just concentrate on getting one piece of banded at
a
> time.
>
>
>
> Wayne
>
>
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