I'm not rich by any stretch of the imagination, but I have worked a few of the mini-champs. First I looked at the stalls in Magincia and found whether any were buying essence, and if yes, for how much. One was buying essence of order at 50k per, so I went and worked that spawn. Best one I got made me just over 42k off the spawn, just over 10k from handing in the ancient tome I got off a lava elemental to Axem the Curator in the Ter Mur museum and 550k for the 11 essence I got from the spawn when I sold them to the Magincia stall.
mh Mr. Syrus, I am not a native speaker, what sounded rude to you, was not meant in that way. I didn't mean any offense. Just wanted to know how to categorize you. Frodo Baggins asked for "lots of gold", so that sounded like "billions of gold" to me, not "millions" or "dozens of millions". In UO today nowadays. But still no offense meant, just wanted to know if you are one of them - because: I have yet to meet one of the billionaires who share their knowledge - their 'real' knowledge, not what is already commonly known (how to make 200k per hour or so). You shared your knowledge, this showed compassion and love for your people. I am still waiting for the billionaires to tell the people how to make 'real' money. But I somehow think they won't share their knowledge, will they.
You are talking about the people who attend all the EM events and then sell the EM items for 100's of millions to suckers with more money than sense.
Somehow I was thinking more about people that I happen to know who seem to dish out 100-500 millions each time they don't get EM items because they were too slow or were not there. So they have to buy from the other attendees. They shell out the x00 millions like it was nothing. I know one player who happens to be a very nice person. Very community oriented, a valueable and highly appreciated member of the shard's community. Sometimes the billionaires name theirselves 'traders' - and to some extent I guess they are right, that being a trader can mean dealing with hundreds of millions or even billions of gold coins. As for some of them... I have yet to see them sell anything to other players, though... :-D They don't spam General Chat, their Luna properties have no vendors... they already got everything and do nothing but buy more and more, filling castles with rares and EM items. Admittedly, they might be a distinct minority, even among the billionaires. But then again, many billionaires are playing in a way which is high above my abilities and beyond my knowledge. And I wonder if it has *anything* to do with what commoners like me would call 'normal game play' as depicted by Syrus.
Goblins IMHO. Couldn't find a proper link on Stratics, completely impossible, so I hope this link won't get deleted:i guess i was asking for a way to make a dozen million - didn't realize there were people with billions. Maybe I should just ask for a loan
So which is the easiest mini-champ spawn to start off with?
Killing dragon fairies in SA is also very good for this.
I did something similar one time. Somebody had driven the price on the Luna bottle venders through the roof. I took my strongest character with his beetle and began buying 2000 bottles for 5 -8 gold each in other towns and sold them to the Luna bottle vendors until the price they would pay came down close to what the other towns were charging for the bottles. It took an afternoon but I cleared something like 1.2 million profit.I've made a good bit of cash the last few days buying boards and leather at the new mag stalls, walking about 6 steps then selling back to another stall and making double my money
I can farm ~600k or more an hour, not including artifact drops, pinks and/or scrolls.
You should note that picking gold from the floor requires a shard where someone is doing the champion dance
Aside from that, I guess it is a nice idea.
I can do a rat spawn in like 20-30 minutes or so.You should note that picking gold from the floor requires a shard where someone is doing the champion dance
As for champions I personally have been unable to convince my sampire to do solo a champion. I only tried the easiest, Baracoon: The slimes seem to smelt my weapons and the ratman mages killed me. I can conclude that with a little more concentrated work it could be well survivable, yet not so desirable for some people who are rather 'casual players' who don't want to concentrate fully on a game for 15-60 minutes.
I did the spawn and champion all solo once with my disco tamer - and I hated it. Lacking area damage it took me well over an hour... that was not fun at all. I tried again with my mystic mage (with or without discordance, I don't remember) - but I didn't like both area damage spells of mysticism because of their small radius of effect.
hm thank you a lot, this I didn't know. Might trigger me to try it again!
I just tried it again and succeeded. I think it took me 20-30 minutes, too. Didn't watch the clock, though.
Worked very well! A pity I could not add Area Damage to the weapon because of this (I crafted a kama for the Whirlwind).
No problem, I don't have a trinket.
I don't have enough parry for it to be useful, I think. And in the heat of the battle I never thought about it. But, this time I never died, it seemed really easy.
, best selling price was in Tram. Beleive the price per bottles I got went from 32-27 GP. So it can be done.
I guess this is true, but let's rethink your 600k gold per hour that you had mentioned - a number that probably not everyone will achieve, by the way. And let's talk about desire as UO has become a highly item centric game.
You can farm medusa for slither, peerless for crimsons, other high level things for artifact drops. Get 1 crimson drop, that's like ~20mil atm. Which if you really put the effort into it, popping between tram and fel to get keys, having 3-4 people doing the quest at the same time, or more- you can build up a lot of keys quick. For a while (I want to say like 6 months) I was with a group that was doing 20-40 Melisande's each morning.but I assume there are better ways than farming that yield you 600k gold per hour (or rather less for most of us). There are just a few among us like me who don't know about those "better ways", so if anyone wants to share, I bet a lot of players would be thankful. Playing full time just isn't an option!
Can IDOCs provide a steady income? Once in a while I got argued into looking for idocs. I never found one.
