How do I obtain gold?

[Schnitzel]

So, I'm trying to get enough gold to get a lvl41 mythic staff (Lost Souls Scythe)
These will be my stats with the mythic staff
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Its around 4,000,000 gold.
Right now I'm at a little under 5k (bought about 50k worth of lovecraft chests, trying to get cupid vanity for my mage)

I've read the guides on the AL Player Guides about Merchanting.
Only problem is: Just about everything i invest money in, the price drops a couple days/weeks after I've bought the items.

So with 5k, What do I do?
I don't have any platinum.
Only thing i have, probably worth some gold, are my vanities, and a Prance, and Breezaga egg...
but if I sold all of those things, I still won't be anywhere near 4m.

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I would like to ask the community if they could give me some tips on obtaining gold

thanks

[Overweightank]

Okay, So first you want to Sell your breezaga and prance egg in auction. put it a few k's less , if you have a lepre, start to farm lockeds and gem essences. That'll rack up to about 100k or so. Then you start doing easy elites and normal nordr Kelvin farming and elite golden pirate chest farming. This gradually gets you up to about 200-500k. Then from there you get ready to farm bigger and bigger. Dont ski[ steps.

[Fyrce]

Even lower level Elite chests sell for some gold. The gold ones sell for more. And lower level Elites are nothing to run. Even solo. Combine Elite chest and egg farming.

[Arachnophobik]

One of the things i wanna see on the next cap is a good way to obtain gold without having to rely on ankhs so itll be fair for those new/poor players. Sort of like the days when ppl just farm km3/elite rooks nest/elite tindirin. I miss those days. Where u have to learn how to park instead of just spamming ankhs. These days i can see some ppl struggling to get 50k gold, ppl gambling all their money on ankhs for a chance on the recipe and end up upsetting themselves. The gap between rich and average is so high, lets say u got 5m worth of gear, ull be facing ppl who has gear worth 100m or more. Skills doesnt even matter much anymore due to this gap. I miss 36 cap. Hope the next cap will be great.

[carmine_blade]

For starters, don't waste money on things like vanities! Had you farmed the lovecraft chests hardcore, and the candies that dropped during the Valentine's event, you could have had an easy million by now. At least. If you don't want to pay real money for plat you're gonna have to put a LOT of time into farming, and not squander any of your precious gold on irrelevant (stats-wise, anyway) things do you have a leprechaun pendant?

[Dragoonclaws]

Add me Ruizhe, i want to farm with you, Let's say I am having the same problem as you

[Zylx]

I have like 300 gold left from the exact same reason. o.o

[ClumsyCactus]

Okay, so, my Way of earning gold... Nobody has ever heard the full version before...
1. Participate in guildevents and win.
2. Participate in forumevents and win.
3. Be a lucky idiot Who loots something crazy on the first run in planar.
4. Get stuff/gold from a friend Who quits.
5. Wait for events and MERCH MERCH MERCH
Thats Where about 98% of my gold come from ^^
(ooooor you could just farm elite maps, bet half of the people on forums would love running with ya)

[Fyrce]

Opening chests does not make you money. Selling items in demand does. The really rare items are that: REALLY RARE. There are common drop items that make gold though. In the last event, candies and chests were those items.

In the regular game, there are the locked crates. Selling them, not opening them.

Doing easy elites WITHOUT using up any ankhs and not a lot of potions for eggs and chests to SELL are another way to make gold.

Run the minstrel quest (does this even take 5 minutes?) and the hauntlet also gets you easy gold.

All of these methods are easy, fast and give you a steady supply to running-around-pot money. A steady supply allows you to save and to run harder elites and arena.

After awhile, I would hope you would have a stockpile of things to sell a little at a time to fund your non-moneymaking playing.

But the 1st thing really is to sell stuff, save gold and not to spend it.

[neoanderson]

jinathedemo is right, MERCH. dont just jump in, watch and get a feel. I even made a spreadsheet bar graph of 5 weeks of prices before i jumped in. it takes time and even if you doubled your gold every day it would take 10 days to reach your goal and thats very very unrealistic. The lovecraft event and beastmaster frog eggs made prices drop so hard it"ll be like a bouncy ball. Look i cant give you 4 mill, but i have a real hard time finding a party that tries as hard as i do so im stuck in shadow plains. I want to get to last stage. Im a lvl 27 warrior "Phillephill",im not sure what its worth ,but if you help me ill help you. Same for anyone.Thanks so much for awesome game STS.

[Ravager]

You're going to have to find friends / guild that have the same goals as you. Don't skip the daily quests for story tokens. You will need many inventory slots to hoard crap. You could try farming teeth and locked until you max your hp/mana potions. Once you have that, try to save up on some ankhs. Afterwards, farm arena or tombs. Everything requires investment to get higher drops. Tombs and Arena have the lower risks, high reward.

Arena:
Eats up pots and ankhs but you can get most if not all that money back from reinforced gems, vials and whatever random drops inside of arena chests back to make up for it most of the time. If you're lucky, you'll loot recipe and will be able to get that staff and/or more.

Tombs:
Eats up pots and ankhs also but you will get a guaranteed item at the end of many runs from the npc in the tombs hall. Extra planar chests are icing on the cake if you loot any.

Again, you need like-minded people in order to meet your goal.

[Erebos]

get a lepre and hunt in km3 u have a chance of getting nexus egg and locks
u will get pirate chests also from which u can also get pinfeather egg which is around 100 k
thats where i hunt hope u like that place

[Erebos]

and another thing save locks and sell in events cuz atm they r around 4.5 k and in event they r 9 k +

[Rx8]

3. Be a lucky idiot Who loots something crazy on the first run in planar.

Actually i fall under this category :P

[nevercan]

Actually i fall under this category :P

What did ya loot?

[noahgoulin]

Actually i fall under this category :P

Me too lol

[noahgoulin]

You're going to have to find friends / guild that have the same goals as you. Don't skip the daily quests for story tokens. You will need many inventory slots to hoard crap. You could try farming teeth and locked until you max your hp/mana potions. Once you have that, try to save up on some ankhs. Afterwards, farm arena or tombs. Everything requires investment to get higher drops. Tombs and Arena have the lower risks, high reward.

Arena:
Eats up pots and ankhs but you can get most if not all that money back from reinforced gems, vials and whatever random drops inside of arena chests back to make up for it most of the time. If you're lucky, you'll loot recipe and will be able to get that staff and/or more.

Tombs:
Eats up pots and ankhs also but you will get a guaranteed item at the end of many runs from the npc in the tombs hall. Extra planar chests are icing on the cake if you loot any.

Again, you need like-minded people in order to meet your goal.

Like ravager said farming tombs and arena is the best way to earn gold

[Transfordark]

Okay, so, my Way of earning gold... Nobody has ever heard the full version before...
1. Participate in guildevents and win.
2. Participate in forumevents and win.

I see those dovabears are finally paying off .
Ruizhe, The best advice I can give is believe in yourself.
I also used to ask for advice and tips on making gold. I used to believe I couldn't reach my goals and always had lost hope on myself.
But, Never give up . As I achieved my goal in getting frost bulwark and soon will get that arcane maul. First of all play this game for fun not for making money with this you will enjoy the game and earn money.
If you made a mistake then learn from it and most of all be patient. Merching nowadays is a great way to earn money it just requires patience. Just be patient with selling items and buying them etc.

But most of all a message to everyone. Why are we taking this game so seriously? We just get jealous of each other that he has an arcane item. Be happy for what you have you never know how much its worth. We are just so focused in these games that even a loss of money or scamming and we get angry and stressed and imagine, Why me? Why does it had to be me?. I'm not trying to criticize anyone.
Just for one second realize about humanity think about those poor people who just have ONE Wish To LIVE so why do we complain so much when we are so blessed?
We are lucky and we still don't realize it.

[chipping]

Well, im in dire straits too and share very much the same goal as u do.

So feel free to add me if u ever get lonely farming :3
well get there someday :'D

[Clickbangboom]

Hmmm... A senior member on forums and a member of Enigmatics and you're asking how to earn gold? Something seems funny here...

Any ways, partake in the Enigmatic contest that they are going to start and win the singe egg and then sell for 12m. Or get second place and get 2m or 3rd for 1m... that would be a good start. And plus all the stuff you will probably loot throughout the comp you can sell and that would probably pad your pockets fairly well too.
Or farm, farm, farm some more like most people have said.