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Making Platinum

Bazaar trades -buy low, sell high
Farm iron oxides in Najena, or The Hole and camp the ground spawns
Pick a specific expensive item, and camp it, such as FBSS (frenzied ghoul)
Get a lucky roll on an expensive item (e.g. t-staff, in Karnor's castle, sells for 15-20k+ server)
Merchant Diving - some folks make money digging through merchant inventories for items that are often sold to merchants, but can be resold in the bazaar for a big profit, for example, pelts and spider/spiderlings silks
Gem farming - with a high enough level character, of the right class, you can farm in zones where gems (diamonds, rubies, ruby crowns, etc) drop. These can be sold to merchants for big cash, and to other players in some cases.


Note: From various forum posts and stuff

Zone Specific Information

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High Hold Keep
Farm High Hold Keep guards for plat and fine steel weapons. You can still sell them to a vendor there even while kos

Crystal Caverns
Geonid Tunnel (near zone). Farm the geonids for gems - work your way up and down the tunnel.

Rathe Mountains
Giants in Rathe Mountain

Solusek A
Sol A farming the goblins for plat and fine steel weapons

Great Divide
Dorfs miners in Great Divide - farm them for the coldain heads and sell the heads to people who want kael faction, 50-100pp a head, 30-35 heads an hour
Geonid tunnel in Crystal Caverns

Various Zones
Farm components that trade skill masters need.
Example: Leather Padding, spiderling silks, etc. Sell in bazaar.

Thurgadin Mines
Another nice under camped spot for a 35 to 40 player is the mines in Thurgadin. Great XP and Crystalline silks from Crystal spiders sell for 5 to 10 plat each. Coldain Heads from Lesser Tar Goos sell for 100 plat.

Lower Guk
Still pretty good pp drops, FS and that phosphorescent powder plus the occasional drop

Beholder’s Gorge
Farm random crap

Ocean of Tears
Soloing Seafuries and the Corrupted Seafurie Cyclops. Corrupted gives great experience and the regular Cyclops give fair experience to 54 (along with gems and pp).

The Hole
Elementals in the hole and elder pandas in sbm drop gems worth up to 100pp and can be killed with no downtime
If you camp the jail area, just past drop off it's practically a gold mine. IGS sell for an easy 7kpp still and if you get lucky Slizzik the Mighty (named ratman) will spawn and drop an idol of the Underking improved healing 3 range item (worth 215-40k depending on server)

Tenebrous Mountains
Drops – essence of wind and acrylia ore
2 grimling caves there. Though less acrylia drops there compared to the Grimling caves the windstones sell in bazaar for up to 100pp and the stray gems that drop (and drop often) sell 20-95pp). Skyshadow (rare named bat) drops a great wis/dex cloak (dru/mnk/bst/shm/clr) that sells in the 5k area also. Rare spawn but only 3500ish hps.

Finally, in Tenebrous, the grimling runner drops the pouch used to start the Rallic Pack quest. Once you get the pouch (runner is on 90 minute spawn) the rest of the quest is terribly easy. The pack itself is nice (10 slot, holds giant items, 85% weight reduce) and sells to players for 1000-1500pp. Pack is droppable but the runner pouch is ND.

A few days there and you are set. All the mobs are soloable and should be light blue to dark blue so gaining EXP is a cinch if you are careful to control aggro.


Warsilik Woods (Grachnist camp)
Rings and earrings

Ocean of Tears/Southern Ro
AC camp for ring and jboots multi-quest (camping the AC for selling the mq is ranger-ghey)

Grimling Forest
The caves - kill the miners. They drop acrylia pieces/brick/blocks. In the bazaar pieces sell for 20-25pp, bricks 40pp (small) 60pp (large) and blocks for 80pp. The runes they drop every time (and stack) can sell up to 5pp to vendor. The rest of the mobs in the caves have a slim chance to drop acrylia (though they almost always drop runes) but the miners drop acrylia (or multiples pieces) about 60% of the time.
There is a vendor, banker and port location in the zone

Paineel
I killed 1600 Kobolds in the warrens and then did tooth turn-ins in Paineel to get to amiable. Then you can ask the guard in the newbie area for a key to the Paineel elevator. With the Paineel guards I can make 800pp an hour, when I really want to do it. Average of about 600-700, takes a lot of factioning work as a paladin, though.

Once you are amiable, ask the skeleton guard to give you the key of the city, then enter the city and kill all the guards. No faction hit - NOTE: This has been patched and there are now faction hits for killing the Skele guards in Paineel - and they give FS Sword and Shield every time. Since there are no faction hits, you can bank / sell here and continue the slaughter.

Everfrost (Permafrost Entrance)
Three Ice Giants spawn inside the entrance area of Permafrost.
There is also a vendor near to sell stuff to.

Ocean of Tears
Soloing Seafuries and the Corrupted Seafurie Cyclops. Corrupted gives great experience and the regular Cyclops give fair experience to 54 (along with gems and pp).

They also drop "Mugs of Seafoam" which can be sold to players for 10pp each. Doesnt sound like much, but after a few days of being there I had 3 stacks of these and made 600pp off of them. They are used in Human Culture Armor I believe.