Money making as low'ish black mage

[Caspian]

Re: Money making as low'ish black mage

Are you wearing harvesting gear?
Helps a lot on pickaxe breaks, but you'll still get into runs where you'll break several real quick. I usually take 4 or 5 stacks and just go till inventory is full, or I run out of pickaxes. (I drop just about everything but iron ores to use with ds ores for ds ingots, ds and gold ores, and colored rocks, everything else sells for crap.)

[Buzer]

Re: Money making as low'ish black mage

Are you wearing harvesting gear?
Helps a lot on pickaxe breaks, but you'll still get into runs where you'll break several real quick. I usually take 4 or 5 stacks and just go till inventory is full, or I run out of pickaxes. (I drop just about everything but iron ores to use with ds ores for ds ingots, ds and gold ores, and colored rocks, everything else sells for crap.)

Nope, but I might as well consider buying them soon enough. I think I got pretty lucky overall. Result from total of 8 stacks: 1 gold ore, 6 darksteel ore. Time was around one hour. Probably just beginner's luck tho. lol.

I did have some bad luck too tho: Juggler Hecatomb (which was just at the droppoint. Easy to figure the result when I wasn't prepared for it). Also, isn't Foul Meat supposed to be a NM there? It /check'ed as EP o.O

Thanks for all suggestions

And about bots, uh, I played Ragnarok Online. For some reason I got pretty used to them :p (hi2u 20+ killstealing bots in the worst maps)

[Caspian]

Re: Money making as low'ish black mage

Yeah, the NM weapon will aggro, though I've only seen him up once ever, same for the Foul Meat. Usually there's a high level around who can take care of them if need be. If worse comes to worse, just sleep and warp out.
I've also heard the very rare drop rates have been tweaked, not sure how since its been a while since I last went mining. If its true, then you may be getting average drop rate. Really hard to tell with only going for an hour. I usually wait till I've been mining off and on for 5+ hours before guessing what the average drop rate might be.

[Kael]

Re: Money making as low'ish black mage

So far harvesting has worked pretty good for me. I USED to make Linen thread from flax flowers and sell it for a great profit on the AH. But this scheme went down the tubes with deflation >.>, seems too many RMT got the same idea. lol.

Seems like the best way of making money is finding a niche market and supplying it with consistent goods without flooding the market.