I have fun telling people I dont even need to leave town to make gold.
I started in a different server 3 weeks ago and in the first 2 weeks I made over 30 mil.
I rondo the gear and stalled the elements
in Hotan. Deg 3 - 5 gears are no where gonna make 30 mil in two weeks alone unlessed rondoed. I am currently at 50mil... but slowing down since the server is becoming "crowded" (but that´ll be discussed further below for why I left Eldorado server).
All the other above tips in this thread are excellent, too, for making gold.
I have begun buying deg 9 gear; rondoing 3 mil weapons or 1 mil gears (head, chest and legs) and getting 3 - 4 times their value back in elements. They do spit out stones from time to time, even two from a weapon; I think it has to be lvl 80 or above to make 2 stones. Again, though, it is random in when or what will be produced for a stone.
Another tip is to
buy cheap gear and weapons,
from noob stalls, like in Donwhang and rondo it. Deg 5 weapon sold around 90-120k could be worth 200-400k+ in elements. Wind 4 and Water 4, Wind 3 in one weapon is probably guaranteed to be worth around 600k depending how the server is pricing it. Wind 2 sucks to sell in Hera, not as good as in Eldorado. xD
Spending 1 mil on noob stalls can
get you back 3-6mil+ back depending on which server you are in.
Take a risk with just a 100k and ask yourself how much in elements you have gotten in return for using rondo.
Weapons have the most elements, followed by Chest, Legs, and Head for the rest. In Donwhang buy chest legs and head no higher priced than their lvl, for Deg 3 - 4. Can go higher but eats into the profit from stalling it. Hands, feet, shoulder, etc. buy when priced under their level (lvl 21 = 21k). Deg 5 can be a little higher and from deg 6 on just buy the cheapest. Elements increase in units as the deg and level goes up on an item.
Level 35 spear produces around 2 stacks of elements of 100 to 122 for each at it´s deg and 2 stacks of elements just below it´s degree around at 70 - 80. Now if the deg 4 elements we´re either Wind 4 or Water 4 that is a boost. Eldorado stalls roughly both for 2 - 4 times those values. In the current server I am in it´s not quite the same case with Wind 4 but Fire 4 is not bad either. If ya have all the good elements in one rondo then ya made a nice profit and believe me the
rondo balances out quite evenly of the elements over a short time. It´s like a flipping a coin, you get a 50/50 chance of an even distribution of heads and tails. But, in this case, it´s distributing among 2 degrees and 4 categories of elements but still comes out evenly stacked each time you rondo. Hence, you wont get stuck with a lot of throw away elements. The house, in gambling terms, produces an even distribution for the gambler and for once the alchemy system pays out fairly.
A deg 9 weapon produces roughly around 2 stacks of 800 elements for deg 8 and around 2 stacks of 1,200 elements in deg 9. Earth in my server for a 500 count sells for 1.4mil. the rest can be stalled around whatever to make up the difference and with a stone or 2 if lucky when rondoing the weapon is a nice boost, too.
Of course it´s all pure profit if ya rondo the drops you come across yourself.
NPC gears and weapons are
not yet worth buying for the price of
elements are not yet exceeding the trade off (cost ratio). Rondoing sos is not worth it, it just produces the same amount in elements. I give away deg 3 sos all the time; elements sell faster and sos deg 3 takes up my stalling slot and I stall in hotan. Who needs deg 3 sos there? Any other sox item i´ll stall.
European side
has far
more drops (weapons & gears) than china; means more elements (once rondoed), which means more gold.
Can make over 10 mil in one day.
Just
see what elements cost in Hotan and price near the other elements. If ya want gold fast just price a 100k - 300k below the others. Water 4 for 500 units can be worth around 1.5mil+ in Hotan. I price mine at around 1.3 - 1.4 mil.
If enough people knew about these ways of stalling elements the
element market would be virtually swamped. xD
AND
if you need elements, try
rondoing the
gear & weapons at that degree or one degree above it (it has more elements of the deg you want) and stall the rest.
Save yourself a few mil and regain back what you spent on the gears. xD
The only reason I am stating all this here is becuase Joymax is inconsistant in banning gold bots. The server I am in now is already "crowded." I originally began in Eldorado and have a pure str 300k farmed character (which I used prem and gold ticket for). Now I am banned or blocked like all other legites due to "crowded" servers. I have no prob with buying prem but saying a game is free when it´s not free is not asking for my business. Joymax is the biggest scammer by far.
Another money making source are events. From the halloween event I had a storage full of just scrolls (hp, mp, Trigger, dodge, hit, etc.) A page full of each in storage in that account. Made over 100mil in Eldorado, and even showed some people how to increase the drop rate; can get around 75 drops an hour but keeping that a secret unless someone reveals it which won´t bother me.
If joymax adds anything new to npcs I say buy a few of those things and keep them in storage. For instance I bought a male and female special thief suit. Both originally cost around 1 mil each from the npc but now worth over 10mil each.
If ya got a mil or two to spare, then buy some item when it´s cheap, especially during events. Buy it up from stalls when its cheap and wait to stall it 3 to 6 months later. It´ll be worth 3 to 10 times what you paid for it originally. I bought a female gdf for 6mil, now its worth over 40mil. I bought a male gdf for 30mil, now it´s worth over 50mil+. (I wasn´t in a hurry for it earlier, but I knew it would nearly double in time and, plus, it doesnt lose value. Can be resold at 30mil to recoup my original cost.) I had at one time over 60 rudolphs, too. Some free, some I paid for around 10k to 40k each and sold most between 400k to 600k later. (I still have over 10 left, each probably worth 700k+ each). I wish the same was for monster scrolls and pandora boxes but I was noob then and didnt have much gold. xD
After the last Halloween event I was planning to score big with the Christmas event, with a friend and his guild but Joymax changed it and ripped us players off in that event. Planning to have my friend and I and the guild to have over 300 - 600mil each full of junk. Oh well, it´s fun to dream.
This thread is a little long but I have only posted less than 5 times in all other forums put together. I guess I am just making up for lost time. Besides, reading a thread for 5 minutes that can earn ya 50mil+ in a short time is well worth reading.
That smiley makes me
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Peace.
