3. How to create wealth as F2P
Looks like there is a lot of stuff one needs to get to run endgame instances, how to get all these things? Let first take a look at what items can’t be farmed and need to be bought, then the ones you can get on your own and what are the efficient ways of farming the items you can farm and finally how to make money for those things you need to buy.
For a F2P player there are 2 types of items, things that can be farmed and things that need to be bought. Most of the time, you’ll be farming for those need to be farmed items. The needs to be bought items are:
- Runes(diamond seller)
- Plus 16 plussing(diamond seller)
- 3rd and 4th rune slots(ruby seller)
- Wedding food(diamond seller only during valentines sale)
- Standard running pots like hero, stim, spirit water, pdam food, etc. (crafters)
- Crafted gear(crafters)
- 4 pieces hm set (endgamers)
- Puries (diamond sellers)
- Transfo pots(diamond seller only during anniversary, Halloween, xmass)
Just want to touch on the hard mode gear before moving on to the items you can farm by yourself, if you are not running hard mode instances on a regular basis buy UNDERDURA items, they are much cheaper (free to 5m your abl most of the time) you’ll never use enough hammers for it to not be worth and if you do it means you are running endgame content and in that case you are on the endgame train and should have no trouble making money. Also, no need to get a set from veiled crypt, grotto or even beth set is good enough for a first set of gear.
Many of the items you’ll have to get can be farmed, some are 1 time deal like getting your housemaids to 100 or getting a pet to level 50 with all the skills maxed out or getting your zodiac pets. Some others are things that will require constant work like getting stats and bumpers and tiering and what not. Here is a point form list of what you can get and where.
- Stats (shells/eoj/bags)
- Plussing 1-12 (secret garden during anniversary event)
- Pet level 50(secret garden/golden egg events it’s not worth starting with a low level pet like they say in the old guides)
- Zodiacs(secret garden during anniversary event)
- Housemaids maxed(talk to them every day until maxed)
- Some pieces of gear(mems/quest)
- Bumpers(shells/dreamland)
- Tp (dailies/dreamland)
- Charges(tokens from dailies)
- Weapon level(harpies in kashaylan)
- Instruments(Malatina games/crafting it yourself)
- Fairy tale title(do the required part of the event)
- Ironblood (siege everyday)
We are now at the interesting part of how to make money as F2P. My first comment would be that if you have only one account you are likely doing it wrong. ROM is a game where you can benefit in so many ways from having multiple accounts. I would recommend a minimum of 6 accounts with at least one set of level 50+ toons. Reason for it when you run gobs on one toon you can bring all your toons with you and make 300 shells out of a gobs run instead of the usual 50. The other reason is beceause most proof of myth events require to have level 50-53 toons to get the turn in. You’ll also realise that it is more time efficient to get a second group of alts that can run gobs then doing the other mini games since it’ll take the same time for better reward. Yes it takes time to get alts to level 50, but it’s an initial time investment that pays off over the long term. Here is a list of the possible extra income alts can bring.
- Shells (lvl 50+, gobs, the other minis do not benefit from economy of scale, requires tokens)
- eojs(requires the alts to be high level)
- secret garden (alts any level)
- proof of myth events and other GM events (only get the reward for 1 toon per account, need to atune for the instance for proof of myth events)
- tokens(for every alt you do dailies on)
- gold (mostly from dailies for every alt you do dailies on, mostly true for high level dailies)
Depending on your needs the number and levels of alts that fits you might be different. For instance, if you are relatively new to the game and getting toons to level 50 is hard maybe you want 5 alts account 6th account is your main toon with 1 level 50 toon on each for gobs and the rest of the account filled with level 1 toons you can use for secret garden.
How am I suppose to level my alts?
As far as leveling the toons go, it might be cheapest to make a mage toon and level them through tosh it is mostly optimal if you plan on getting many toons to lowish levels. An other option i've seen people do is to quest them as a group (mostly after getting them to 55 via other means). The group aproach is mostly usefull if you plan on getting your alts higher level to have access to eojs and higher level dailies. If you plan on getting few toons to low level the best might be to pay someone to do a bit of power leveling, I would recommend bringing them to level 44 in that case and making them reach 50 through dailies.
How am i suppose to do so many dailies without taking forever?
There are also a few dailies in the game that allows a time economy of scale. In other words, more alts you have less time you spend per alt. The reason for that is for some quests all the alts can turn in even if only 1 party member actually did the quest. It is usually the case of quests that requires killing. Here is a quick list of the good ones for level 44+ alts and their average time for a set 10 dailies for a group of 5 alts(it’s an average including toon swapping time when you have many groups of alts). For the first 3, it is possible to reduce the time per alt by having more accounts logged in at the same time (as long as the computer can handle it).
Lvl 44: Shut them up (9 min)
Lvl 69: demonstration battle (4 min but need to have done the questline)
Lvl 77: a little refreshment (4 min)
Lvl 90: research expert (5 min no economy of scale)
Doing dailies everyday on many alts will not only give the tokens required to run gobs,
It will also pay for your charges for your weapon and if you have enough alts finance yourself via making dirty tier stones and selling them. You will also need many alts to get enough from secret garden to pay for your plussing from 1-12 for your entire set of gear and you will need a lot of accounts with level 50 toon to get the most out of POM events. Make sure to do the ystra questline for the beginer bag (starts at Joey Klongen) for every alt as you get free puries, hammers, transport runes, advance weapon/armor driller from it. Other ways of making money include selling stats from shells, eojs (Kashaylan’s research expert).
Aside from making money via mainly dailies/gobs, it is good practice to spend as little as possible on the things you have to buy. Always try to buy items you need when they are on sale and plan in advance so you have enough until the next sale.
This post has been edited 2 times, last edit by "pachat93" (Feb 22nd 2016, 9:28pm)
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