EQDiva

Greetings, I'm a 43 Bard and I am Very very poor :cry: I blame myself partly for spending so much time on the moon which seems to be baren of any Platinum :) I was hoping for a sugestion for a good place to farm for cash for a 43 Bard. Thanks!

At lvl 43 to 46 i did the Specs in Oasis. Charm-Kiting and Chant kiting. From the loot i made from them, i managed get just over 2000pp. Enabled me to shed some of my Lambent pieces (replaced with Singing) and get a Walrus Skin Drum plus a few others decent items. Was easy, once i got over my fear of the damn things :) Their lifetap really doesn't do much, and after a small amount of time, you'll be able to stay out of their radius. Just pull to the South of the Isle (in the top corner next to a Derv Camp), as no-one hunts there. The best way to pull them all is to charm one of them on the Isle (your lvl 27 charm works with them all - so no mana loss). Once its charmed, it'll be attacked by all the other Specs - so just run south and wait for the charm to wear off. They'll all come floating to you. Respawn time is around 10 mins, so its very easy to almost chain pull them. Plus theres the added benifit of SG's popping (check Track once and a while), as they can drop upto 40plat plus FS weapons and other bits and pieces. The specs drop either: Rusty Sythes (Destroy) - Uncommon Bronze Sythes (3.5 plat) - Common Or Simply Sythes (12 plat) - Uncommon And sometimes; Gems (average around 12 plat per stone) - Uncommon Scrolls (2 gold to 1.5 plat) - Common Jewerly (12 plat average) - Uncommon Pkus they drop coin from 10 copper to 5 plat. Basically i was making around 50-100 plat for every 8 specs i pulled. (around 5-10 mins work) hope these helps.

When I am low on cash, I chant kite griffons and Hill Giants in North Karana. Every now and then the zone gets crowded with people doing the same thing, but's it's generally easy to find something to kill. Alos try east karana for hill giants.

yeah at that level i was kiting hill gaints myself i believe. the real money is whenya hit 59-60 and can group in cazic thule. the price on the drops there is ridiculous, every time you group someone gets an item worth 10kp minimin and often times 100kp.

my eyes hurt everytime I look at your signature Susperia... Anyhow, hunting in rathe mts is good...but not sure if you could drop them quick enough to make it good cash. Once you get 46, they will drop about twice as fast, and if you have the zone enough to yourself, you could charm kite them, they drop up to 50pp in plat and fine steel, one of the best places for cash, I have friend that goes there and can make 1500 to 2k pp in a few hours time, but once again that is when you can take them all, I dunno.....maybe you could swarm kite them too...../em evil grin.

I have been chant kiting in Rathe Mnts since 44. Pull with long distance dot, run back into the valley and snare the giant, then twist snare, chant of flame, chant of disease with your drum in hand (no weapons required).. and kite them around till they drop. I have had up to 35pp loot on a kill. In a couple hours I have made around 500pp. :D [image]http://www.artistic-ecstasy.com/cleorasigdone.jpg[/image]

I am always poor. I always was as my bard was not a twink or an alt but my only, I just liked the sound of it. So I get around this by not needing money. I dont buy anything really. Havent in a long time. I do buy peridots, try to keep 20 (buy more at 5 or so, time permitting) in case I get in a grp with a cleric. They really dig it when you slip them a dot and dont say much except a tell with your TOTAL HP, I have found that move gets my life saved by clerics more than all the groupsays and hotkeys "bard is dying, oh please heal" anything. Just a well placed handshake with the gem in the palm. What else do you need to buy? Gems for quest armor, I did buy some of those - also farmed a bunch at times and stashed them away or gave them to guild vault. Warning, do not give all your gems to guild vault in case you leave guild - it can get ugly. I get armor slowly by drops or from friends, or work with a friend who is a smith to make some for me... What else? I guess if you really are a massive twinker you just gotta buy that 65000pp cloak of whatever the $$ but not me. Im thinking if I dont get a Breastplate drop upgrade soon (I am raiding for them a lot) I might break down and buy a SS BP, but that would involve selling my existing BP (3k), my mosquito boots (7k) and finishing the Tiny Cloak quest, and selling my MQ armor items (8k or so each - 2, thurg armor, maybe just 1,) I saw a SS BP for 20k or so last week. Bingo, got a BP. As far as the rest of it goes I just sort of give people who seem like cool bards old gear when I get something new because thats what a lot of bards have done for me. Its weird, to me there are basically two kinds of bards out there, bards like me, who are *real* bards as I think of us, who play them because we LOVE them and help each other out, and bards like *THEM* who are twink chanters or whatever with 100k + in their bank who bought all their gear at lvl 1 they had all blueberry crap and they dont know what they are doing - or way crazed PL bards who are just insane, they dont twink they EARN it but they go too fast to talk to and do scarey things like kite dragons for fun solo. Both of these grps tend not to say hello, chat a sec, look each other over, the way *we* do. If I see a bard needs an item I have I will go to the bank and give it to them, usually, sometimes if its really worth something, like 1k or more I will tell them and usually they have it, if not I ask them to NOT SELL it when they upgrade but to give it away like I did. I like to think that this has some effect, that these people, I talk to them, I try to get a feel for them first I dont just run around twinking bards, that they are going to perpetuate the thing and be cool to other bards and thats basically why I think we seem to be the most thoughtful, intelligent class as well as versatile and fun, and with all that why get too worked up about money? At lvl 56 I havent ever needed something I couldnt buy, but thats just like RL, I dont drive a Mercedes, though I guess I could go into hock for one... Hmm, that was a tangent, wasnt it? Anyone else have anything to say about money and bards, and / or the whole idea I have that we are kind of a class of thoughtful types who find curious solutions to problems because we have to for one, given our limitations (no 4000hp nuke, no 500 dam double hit with 6000HP stats, that sort of thing, really our *strengths* not our limitations, it forces us to think outside the box and endlessly frustrate Verant and some players who get freaked out when they see us swarm kite - druids in particular seem to be very nasty right away, I have noticed, not all of course but I can go start swarming have a druid come INTO the zone and start in on /ooc about how bards are a menance, etc). So has anyone else noticed this characteristic of bards being these outside the box thinkers? And does anyone else not really care too much about cash? Or am I alone? Gileas Dreamsinger, MM server, bard of the 56th string

Once you get to level 54/55 soloing some in PoG becomes a viable option as well. I got 5 BD in 4 hours solo'ing there. At the time BD were going for 800-1K each. BD down to about 600-1K now, but still not bad cash. Just remember the Thrug gate potion.

If you want to farm, Geos in Crystal Caverns are decent, if you can claim the camp solo, at 43 you could likely camp it yourself and get all sorts of gems to sell right there in the dorf city with our faction song. It is around 1k a night if you're solo. Even grouped it can be 500 or so, maybe more, not sure. Sinfonian

If you want money, go to OOT (ocean of tears) and get gornits camp. He is a hillgiant that is at the shore of one of the islands and drops money just like a hill giant. He spawns every 5 minutes and in the mean time kill seafurys which drop gems and rings and amulets that all sell for 50 to 100pp to a vendor. They drop about every 6 kills. I was there for a day and made around 3k.