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What are some decent ways to make money nowadays?
I used to play Mabinogi several years ago from the time of G12 to G14. When even getting to total level 1k was a rarity. Back in those times, one of the most profitable ways to make money if you had the means was to buy dye amps from people and resell them. I remember owning a house and sold them for 500k each and could usually easily buy them from people for like 300k each.
But nowadays it seems like dyes are all cheap other than the obvious ones like pure black/white/red. Even flashy dyes which were more back in the day are cheaper. I bought a dozen so far of pure black>pure red that were like 50k for some reason. And normal dye amps are like 200k and seems like no one really buys them. Seems like Reforges are the way to go if you want to spend NX but it doesn't look like there is much room in their price to buy and resell. Whenever I see shops selling them, they are basically always in the 250k range and thats it. Enchant hunting used to be a good money maker as well if you could reliably do the dungeon or SM that dropped it within a decent amount of time, but does that even work still now? I used to farm Dexterity ES and they weren't that bad a droprate and Sulfer Spider was fairly simple to solo at INT level.
With how it is right now the Halloween event can bring you in a decent amount of money if you are lucky but once that is done, then what? Seeing as how a lot of decent gear goes well pass 10mil per piece, prices have jumped up insanely from what I remember as well as ways to make money haven't changed. Back in the day the most expensive items were Rosemary Gloves and Nuadha Robe and they were MAYBE 8-10mil.
I know Conflict used to be an alright way if you liked SMs, and Commerce is kinda alright in the later stages. But what else is there? Most posts that ask this kinda stuff are insanely outdated, nothing from 2014 or earlier means anything in 2017. I want to know if the game itself has the means to fund you or did the game finally die to the point that if you don't do Gacha you basically are outta luck.
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How is the Finest Potent Crystals worth it? From what I see, they generally sell for 100-150k per crystal, doesn't seem like you really make anything worthwhile from using them.
It's only worth it to use crystals on Elite SMs like TDB, SW, and SS, and hard mode SW, but let's say you use it on the lowest payout, SW hard mode, 26400g per run. You will make an additional 95,040g. Minus 70,000g, you will get a profit of 25,040g per crystal. Therefore, you will earn 51,440g per run. It adds up over time.
(Though really, HW always brings a good wad of gold. ;p)
HW always seems nice, maybe I will make some ults to spam it as well so I can get to a nice supply to sell faster.
I am not that high a level yet. Just nearing 1k right now. The issue is that starting to get into HM SMs and dungeons is you need decent gear to even RUN them, but need money to even get that gear to run them....Not everyone is some 10k+ player that can casually run Phantasm solo and have some piece of the succubus queen outfit drop and make 20mil :L Or a player that can just dump $100 into the game and sell the NX or Gacha it all.
I am just seeing if anyone got any tips for the newer and/or lower level peeps out here that want to get that shiny 5-10mil item, even if it takes a week or 3 to build up to that amount. This would no doubt help others out too which is always nice. Seems like this game is brutal to the lower level people since they just can't do anything,
You don't have to be 10k++ or buying shop items to make money to buy gears. I was below 300k ttl when I bought my final hit gear...
I can only vaguely remember what I did, but I started out earning my first million with holy water. Then I did Tara bank part time job to get falias fragments and sell them for 150k-300k each. I also grinded Ghost of Partholon to get in demand pages like Ice Spear 2, Fireball 3 and 9. Also, events. Some events are really profitable. For example, I earned more than 40 mil from Samhain event alone, by selling event items. With the money obtained from these, I started merchanting: buying low and selling high. That's where passive money started rolling in.
1) - Life skill mats. Metallurgy + Refining is quite easy. You can get lots of ore and ingots and sell those, since blacksmiths need huge amounts to rank up. There may be other mats too that sell well, maybe firewood for carpentry (not sure) or leathers and cobweb for tailoring. Just have to think what people need lots of to rank their skills and would likely rather buy than having to grind it themselves. Oh yeah, holy waters also still sell well if you like doing church part-time jobs.
2) - Repeat Sagas. Just noticed cause I did the first ep - Merlin again (for Neid pseudo-fieldboss to train meteor strike). It only costs 5k gold to replay a Saga ep, and you get around 3k for each quest on the saga - and a whooping ~50k for the last quest of the episode. They're quite easy to do and you can just spam click through the dialogue.
3) - Skillbooks. Takes quite a bit of luck depending (so not very reliable) on which skillbooks, but some are very valuable to sell (those you can only get from end of dungeon chest or fishing).
4) - Buy and Resell. You can do that with any type of item, not just dyes. It requires getting to know the market and learn what goes normally for how much and is how likely to sell quickly, and then just hunt for cheap sells to resell for more. Takes some starting budget though and lots of browsing shops.