Mandalor_ORDO
04-26-2005, 12:30 PM
Here's a real example, one I found last BWE. Thanks to belts and bags now being inventory items you can sell them off. In Pre-Searing Ascalon there are collectors that will give you a belt pouch which you can sell for 50 gold each and every time you bring them 5 of a certain item dropped by a specific monster. Those drops are either Skale Fins or Worn Belts. Normally those sell for 2~3 gold each. So, by turning 5 of them into a belt pouch and selling it off you raise the value of each drop to a full 10 gold, which is a pretty good drop for the level of monsters you'll be fighting. Better yet, the collector who wants Worn Belts is right near an Outfitter who'll buy you pouches as well as near a large grouping of the monsters that drop Worn Belts, Bandits. They're all around Ashford which is near to Ashford Abbey, another zone. You can clean out the Bandits, scoop up several belts as well as the gold and other items they'll drop, head to the collector, trade you belts in for pouches, head to the Outfitter, collect 50 gold for each, zone out and repeat. In rapid order you'll have enough money to afford an ID kit and those monsters also drop a high percentage of "precious" items which will also sell for 50G each once you identify them. An ID kit costs 100G and has 25 charges so each charge is worth about 4G to you. Find two or three precious items - pretty good odds since you have 25 chances - and you've just paid for your ID kit. Before too long you'll be able to have a platinum piece or two, more than enough to afford salvage kits to get the crafting materials for your first crafted set of armor (Salvage kits cost 100G, too, and in Pre-Searing you won't get more than 1 or 2 crafting goods from a salvage unless it's a "highly salvagable" item. That's barely worth it. So it's better to hold off on Salvage kits until you're out of the academy and are doing missions with higher leveled monsters). You can do similarly with farming Skales for Skale Fins.