IcterusGalbula
03-02-2008, 04:34 PM
<p>My main is a tier 5 toon, the second toon I created, and the only toon I've ever had over adventure level 23. Needless to say, this toon learned the game on his own and made a lot of bad decision.</p><p>Now at tier 5 he is trying to get the best gear possible: masters and adornments. He's never had an adornment in his life and has had very few masters in the past.</p><p>The masters and adornments are needed to compete since he is on a pvp server.</p><p>I have an entire stable of crafters, generally level 35-45, and two months ago I decided it was time to raise the money to buy the best gear so my main would have a better chance of staying alive.</p><p>I figured the best way to raise the money was crafting a large amount of MC and adept 3 gear and selling that gear on the broker for reasonable prices. So that is what I've been doing for 2 months now.</p><p>My main still needs about 5 more masters to be "mastered out", and still needs a few more adornment components assuming my other crafters will be making the adornments themselves. If I buy the adornments instead that's another 60 plat or so.</p><p>I sell maybe 15 items per day on the broker. Checking every one of my crafters every day and replacing every sold item has become very tedious and literally now takes up all of my game-playing time. I got into crafting as a way of outfitting my main adventurer and now I don't even adventure anymore!</p><p>I'm not complaining, well perhaps I am.</p><p>In hindsight, perhaps the thing to do would have been to reroll instead of trying to salvage a tier 5 toon who knew almost nothing about the game until level 38.</p><p>My main will be well-equipped soon. He has already purchased all the masters he will need for the next 2 adventure levels and part of the third one to come. But I am almost burned out on the game just getting him to this point from all that crafting. It is almost enough to make me understand why some people buy plat or create harvest bots.... ...but not really.</p><p>On the bright side, he can go into some dungeons now solo and kill some herioc named toons, the green ones about to turn grey. He doesn't do that much because he still wants his adornments first.</p><p>But I can definitely see now how farming herioc named toons, ideally for master loot drops, is probably far and way the best way to raise cash.</p><p>Some people have 50-150 masters on the broker for sell. Sell one master for 5 plat and I would make more profit than all of my crafters put together over 2-4 days (after subtracting the cost of the rares.... .....I sell so much stuff now I don't even harvest anymore. There is no time to harvest. Just buy the rares cheap and sell the product for 2-3 times the price).</p><p>Well, I can kind of see the light at the end of the tunnel so to speak, at least for my main. But once he gets equipped for tier 5..... .....it will be time to start stockpiling for tier 6.... ....and my other lower level toons are going to need their own masters..... .....and horses.</p><p>Ideally, I guess, once my main gets equipped for tier 5 he can get into the master-selling business himself and my transmuter will be raised to a higher level and can start selling extra adornments on the broker..... .....seemingly the other venue for nice profit, other than masters.</p><p>Okay, rant / pity-party is over for now. I'll get through this. Just a question of whether I'll be burned out by the time I do. LOL.</p>