So just how much money do Adventures make?

[zDocW]

Excluding harvesting or special circumstances where you win the lotto on some Named mob or Master drops, what do peeps out there CONSISTENTLY make per hour of grouping or solo play?

 

I have a guild mate level 36 who reckons he makes around 10g an hour solo mob killing, which seems pretty good coin to me.

 

 

[DearthofWeal]

Unless there is a Tradeskill counterpoint upcoming, I'm not sure this is the correct forum to post this. I will answer your question, though. My main is a 42 Assassin and when hunting in Rvale the past few levels my income has increased substantially.  Simple body drops on those mobs go for 20-25sp.  Killing 100's of Nightbloods and robbing the shakey/blightwhip-campers blind has allowed me to make HUGE profits.  Also, the adventurers get a fair bit of gp by selling heritage items. All in all, I have a little less than 5pp and am geared out in mostly top-level gear  (will be buying imbued BP shortly) without ever buying things from the broker.  The new imbued weapons available will mean I will be buying from the broker, but I believe as an adventurer you can afford it. Seeing as I'm an assassin and can't solo anything above Green  ^^ I can't give you an estimate on solo play, however, in a good group just looting body drops and killing a couple named I can make about 7gp an hour in merchant fodder and maybe 5-10gp with drops. Your guildmates 10gp an hour at lvl 36 most likely comes from the advanced tradeskill scrolls and maybe a little bit of vendor loot.  The body drops on lvl 36 soloable mobs are usually pretty poor and sell for about 5-7sp each.

[Miral]

probably about a gold a night if i solo blues and whites nonstop. but thats boring. (22 warlock)

[majinvegeta52]

I played for 3 hours soloing in Everfrost killing, skellys and the echos..  I made around 10-20g after I sell to the npcs..  more if I was to try and sell adepts and crafter books to a player.

 

[khelektasare]

I can make 5-10 gold in a hour usually killing solo in EL. Young badgers and beetles give pretty good drops. Some goblins give good drops as well. ADDED: Hehe sorry wasn't paying attention to what forum I was in. I am not on test server.

Message Edited by Cthulhu522 on 04-06-2005 10:05 PM

Message Edited by Cthulhu522 on 04-06-2005 10:05 PM

[Seth]

I can also make about 5-10gp in maybe 1-3hrs solo in EL. I just grab a repetable quest from the docks (pref turtles or beatles) then kill a bunch of em loot what they drop. Most normal body drops will go for about 5sp and sometimes u get something from body drops that will go for almost 50sp. Then also the chest merchant fodder u get and since it solo its all urs

Also did about 4-5 solo quest in EL that nets you 1gp for about 30mins work.

[Ethelwo]

I have many classes, my highest is 37 Berserker, I play him the most and I can tell you that when I solo I dont get nearly 10gp and hour. I may do that in a days session, but not an hour. Those who spit out this I can do 10 gold an hour dribble may have been lucky and done it once, but you can not do that day to day. Maybe 10 gold a day tops at my level if you play an 8 hour session solo. Take away 2 gold for avereage vendor food and drink and another 1 for mending and you average around 7 gold a day really in an 8 hour session of soloing at L37. I do know that in a few more levels my Berserker will be able to solo Nightbloods and then he may be able to do 10 gold an hour. I'll just have to wait and see.

[Jadr]

hard to say really, but would guess 3-4 gold a night if i am doing stuff other than gold farming and 10-20gp a night if i am. Thats not counting in seling the od bit of gear on merchant either, but that's pretty sporadic.

[Tanyla]

46 coercer,  not much I can solo without long recovery time,  but I would say "if" I get a chest drop,  which to me seems less than it was when I was say lvl 37-38 doing my solo writs, I guess I get about 2-4 gold an hr.  If grouped, it's debaitable since the lotto is such a bogus thing, no better than randoming  (as I can watch same person win 3-5 times in a row in the lotto also) depends where we are and "if" I win 2 good drops (usually for some reason win mostly the meat, I think SOE hates me) 5 to 10 gold in a evening (3-4 hours)

 

But then I am a spend thrift when it comes to trting to decorate my suite and lately with the crafters prices ... when their crafting on Permafrost,  which doesnt seem often ( all I see is freeport and qeynos store bought goods most the time )  I can save for 4 -5 days and see it gone in 1 night ( 1 rug, 2 chandelars, 2 adebt 1 spells and a 24 slot box ....  poof 65 g's gone, forget trying to buy food at 45s to 1g a pop, when you can find some one making it,  vender trash food for me).

The economy sucks,  either your rich or your poor ...  lol  too much like RL.  Hope it finds an even middle ground soon.

 

[Fig]

I got in a guild group last night and stayed with the same 5 ppl for a few hours.  We went to Sanctum of Fear, Icespire Summit, Miragul's Menagerie, Permafrost, and Drayek's Chamber.

 

Total hunting time (with very little downtime other than travel) was about 4 hours.

 

When I got done I gated home and went to sell my junk (we lotto'd every drop).  I sold 3 giant meats for ~24s each, 1 giant meat for ~94s, 3 canine salivas for ~24s each, 1 junk armor for ~1.5g, and a reptile skull for ~7.5g (one of those FABLED body items).  Gross profit was about ~11.5g.  Then I went and spent 4g to mend from 80%.  I drank 4 T5 drinks at 50s each.  I'd say this is about average.

 

Net profit = 11.5 - 4 - 2 = 5.5g

 

Pretty exciting huh?

 

On the crafting side of things, my friend just hit T5 on carpenter and started selling his teak boxes.  He made 19g between when he went to work and his lunch break (that's net profit considering his make cost).

 

 

[Eneg]

How much do I make?Less than I spend on repairs/reagents/consumables.Therein lies the issue. I can hardly support myself, let alone save towards anything.

[Miral]

reagents? only reagents I know of are for crafting... you sure yer playing eq2? the game with spell reagents is Ultima...

[Jadr]

There are Odesy stones for clerics, and i think Shadow Knights might have some?

[Miral]

well the only ones that you have to buy are the cleric ones, and I don't see those being used much at all.... plus the poster's sig said warden heh

[djewt1]

I adventure a lot with my guild, and we have a few mt that really know how to keep fighting at high speed.

As a healer i just need good drinks (provi myself) or we have constant downtime, they reduce down time a lot = more loot.

Usually we let the quests decide where we go, so the loot can vary a great deal.

But on average hunting a evening (3hours orso) in EL will make me like 5 g.

 

But i have enough money, especialy because a dum *ss putted his superb white wolf pelt for sale for 70c :smileyvery-happy:

 

Yes a priest can buy oddesy stones, they cost only 1s50c a piece and are 50 stones a stack.

I use them a lot when i come back with the call and go to the black broker.

Only down side is you can only use it once every 20 min, so no group use.

They are pretty nice to send home very irritating serveral times warned group members like agro jumpers orso :smileytongue:

 

Message Edited by djewt1 on 04-08-2005 12:17 PM

[Tradeskill_Addict]

to answer the original question....

 

...ask an adventurer and he will say "I obviously dont make enuogh money to buy every piece of gear thats an upgrade."

"what you mean I dont NEED the best? gear is what adventurers are all about!"

 

....ask a crafter and he will say "adventurers obviously dont make enough money because I cant get rich on selling my stuff to them."

"what you mean I dont NEEd to get rich? thats what I became a crafter for!"

 

so the simple answer is "not enough"

 

 

[Eneg]

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Miral wrote:reagents? only reagents I know of are for crafting... you sure yer playing eq2? the game with spell reagents is Ultima...

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I actually had poisons in mind when I said reagents.Oh.. and before you go and state the obvious... no, a Warden is not my only character.

[Demothis]

Thought I would chime in for those who do both. I cant see anyone making 10g an hour unless you are in you mid 40s. I am currently a 39 dirge. I group with a SK and warden on a consistant basis. We could technically rake in about 5-6 gold maybe 7 if we where gunning for muney drop, and sorry you do have to count those chests cause they do bring in money. Maybe if I was really lucky on the drops it would be 9 or so but thats if luck was purly in my corner.

Trade skilling on the other hand brings in verry little compared to that, at least on my atrisens (see classes below). I dont really play the provisioner much since the sk took it up, but sage, tailor, and woodworker just cant reap great benifits in the coin purse. Also keep in mind I do all my own harvesting, of the other 2 guys will hand me some stuff from when they went out, dont count rares we save all those for our personal use. Dont get me wrong, I can make a profit on the woodworker to a degree with sow totems, arrows, and the rare wood items, but thats it. The totems and arrows sell for so little though its not really a profit I count, I can go killing things, make more money and have alot more fun doing it. The rare woods on the other hand can make some money , after you consider the costs of the wood (which is usually bought, or provided if commisioned to make something) and the refining costs, its really not a huge profit, but a fairly decent 1, a few gold. My sage, forget it, no profit other then working on commision, to many adept 1s, I just keep a stash of all the supplies I need and work soly on commision when im grinding. And my tailor, perhaps my most profitable character can bring in some decent profit on a good day, oh say about 2 gold on average an hour if I'm producing goods on him. Keep in mind thats a good day.

All in all my adventuring has payed to get my crafters a good start and help afford and find the advanced recipes, plus outfitting himself with things I or my friends cant produce or things better then they can produce. My artisens all in all have made some froffit, but little compared to that my adventuring wins me.

[Tomanak]

Think its all luck. Last night I hunted solo in Feerrott for about an hour (lvl 36 Guardian), called back to town and sold what I had found (5 chest drops) made about 9gp, would have been 12gp but I didnt sell the lvl 43 Troubadour Adept I found. The night before I hunted in Zek for about 2 hours and made about 60sp selling Orc meat, didnt have a single chest in 2 hours. As long as I break even by the end of the 'week' I dont sweat it. Im sure others can consistently make 9-10gp an hour, but Im not one of them. Chest drops = good night. No Chest drops = bad night (earningswise)

Bottom line is as long as you can keep your armor and skills upgraded and can buy the player made food and drinks when you need them, with the occasional splurge, you are earning enough.

[Miral]

ah never heard poisons referred to as reagents before... usually poisons and potions are just considered activatables or something...

anyways, yea poisons can be expensive at times heh, but usually arent TOO bad, like a few silver for a lvl 20 or so poison that lasts 12 hrs...

but anyways at higher levels people can make  alot of money, but at low levels there isnt  nearly enough

[WuphonsReach]

Remember, every tier's loot sells for 4x the previous tier back to the vendor. A junk drop in T4 sells for 5sp, while a T5 junk drop sells for 20sp. The trick to making money is to hunt the next tier as soon as you are able to.Level 20 - Easily 25sp/hourLevel 30 - 1gp per hour, T4 corpse loot is 5sp, rare corpse is 45sp, most chest items sell to the vendor for 50-80sp, Adepts usually sell for 75sp to 1gp.Level 40 - 2-4gp per hour, T5 corpse loot is 25sp, rare corpse loot is 1.9gp. Chest items sell for 1-3gp. T5 adepts sell to the vendor for 2.5gp or to players for 4-8gp.Level 50 - ~8-15gp/hr, RNG-willing.I solo'd in the Feerrott at 38-40, usually came back with a stack of T4 meat (there's 1gp), a few T5 meats (2-3gp worth), plus half a dozen armor drops (another few gold), plus a few T5 adepts (at 2.5gp each). So in a few hours of soloing, I'd come back with 10-15gp worth of loot.Costs for those few hours was usually 2-3 stacks of T4 arrows (1gp per stack), plus poisons (maybe 50sp worth).

[Miral]

what id like to see is tiers being usuable at the level you can do the access quest... at lvl 25 its impossible to kill anything in Zek, get resist almost 100% of the time... even on the solo lvl 30 orcs...

[prisoner]

I have been going to Rivervale lately at 36 and I kill the solo dogs and corrupted thieves.  Probably bringing between 2-5 gold depending on chest drops.  If I can get a piece or two of fulginate to drop,  that increases my profits quite a bit.  Soloing the bloodlines instances can net the same amount of cash. 

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[elitewizurd]

I usually make about 20g in 3 hours soloing in Everfrost and killing almost every blue con or higher mobs and selling the loot they drop to wholesaler npc in tradeskill instance.

[Actfive]

All my alts are crafters/advernturers or just plain crafters, and considering the time (and money) I have churned into crafting, I'd say adventurer's definatley have the upper hand. As more and more crafters max out at 50, high level crafted item prices will continue to fall, especially with the advent of off-line selling.  Recently I have been asking myself, why do I bother crafting? Sitting in front of a screen doing mindless clicking hour after hour for little profit, just for good feeling inside of leveling a crafter has begun to have a very hollow feeling about it.

 

So to get out of my crafting rut, I started a new charactor who is just a pure adventurer, and at level 25 he has over 70gp. The money has come from dropped trash sold back to the NPC merchants, and selling dropped items like adepts ect. The ability to sell while adventuring has definatley made a huge differance to income, as crafted items are in most case infeariour to the dropped equivilant, and so sell much easier.

 

So just how much money do Adventures make? A lot more than crafters. That was not always the case. In the early days, crafters definatley had the upper hand, but now the pendulim has swung well and truely to the adventures side of the fence. This is reflected in the posts above. As a crafter I would love to have that sort of income per hour but as an adventurer I will expect it.

 

[[C4 Squad]Bum Bum Ba]

As an adventurer you don't make crap for money till you get to EL then your income goes up...a little.  I'm 42 and the best place i found is Feerrott, armor that drops in chests can sell to merchants for a little over 2gold.  usually get 2-5 chest drops an hour, but not all have armor.  BTW if you find a tattered robe in your chest DON"T DELETE IT!!!!!!!  If you don't know why, then you'll become friends with a certain tree that lives in feerrott. :smileywink: (most ppl know what i'm talking about)

[Neph]

Since i go in solsek and permafrost i make 20-40G in one evening only with cash loot.

For example:

-Giant meat about 96s

-Giant beard 7g50

 

Paladin 48 Atm

[Cagefighter]

I'm not telling you that! :smileytongue:

[ka]

As you teir up just moshing things for cash gets to be decent money. But if you combine that with doing heritage quests the money adds up quite a bit quicker. I made about 1 plat over the weekend with a combo of heritage quest finishing and some loot hunting in el and runnyeye. kaid