-------------------- Level 1-10 --------------------
The easiest way to make quick cash from level 1 to level 10 is to simply kill cows and wolves. It's not a lot of cash in the grand scheme of things but it will get the job done and let you purchase your equips fairly easily. Cow hides sell for 2g a piece and wolf skins sell for 4g a piece. Not bad.
-------------------- Level 11-14 --------------------
Here is where you'll start making a decent amount of money fairly quickly. A lot of people need mushrooms to exchange for their level 10/13 equips from the Mushroom Man. However, gathering mushrooms can be a long and tedious process considering you'll need 190 for the level 10 armor set and level 13 weapon and an additional 80 for a convenient skill scroll that will enable you to teleport outside of Glenvale (a great time saver). Mushrooms sell for about 5-7g a piece depending on the person and bees have the highest mushroom drop rate. 100 mushrooms will take roughly 30 mins to an hour to gather.
Another great method of gold farming is killing bats in the sewers on the way to the Sewer Troll. They hit fairly hard though and are auto aggro until you pass their level. However, they drop a hefty 12g a piece which is a fairly large amount at this level.
-------------------- Level 15-16 --------------------
This is more of a filler area and bees/bats would probably still be your best bet for gathering money. However, an alternative area would be the Savage Sheep map. They drop 2 wolf skins as well as other various food items. They hit hard for their level but at least you'll get a fair amount of exp for killing them.
-------------------- Level 17-20 --------------------
Here is the point at which you'll make large amounts of money fairly quickly. Currently, Bandits are the best source of gold farming in the game. The Warrior Bandit can drop a whopping 90g at a time (if you're lucky). Normally they'll drop around 20-50g a kill. The other Bandits will drop around 20g and some food items so you won't have to buy them again and again. This means that Bandits are pretty much 100% profit. The only thing you have to worry about is their damage ranges. Only take on one at a time as any more can be bad for your health.
-------------------- Bossing --------------------
An experimental way of making money would be to sell the unique equips dropped by the various bosses. However, due to the SB on pickup problem, you can't sell these the traditional way. The only way to "sell" these items would be to form a team who could actually kill the boss and inviting "buyers" along to sit back, wait til the equip drops, drop a certain amount of gold corresponding to the value of the item or whatever the attacking party is willing to sell it for, and then loot the equip(s). An even split of the gold would also have to be factored in as each member of the attacking party would have to get their fair share. Say you charged 1500g for a Flame equip dropped by Molten Lady. When an equip drops, the buyer will first drop the 1500g, the leader of the party will loot the gold, and then the buyer is free to loot the flame equip. The leader would then have to divide the total gold amount by the total number of attackers in the party and split it up that way. So if there were 3 people in the attacking party, each member would receive 500g.
That is how we got around the problem of untradeable unique boss items in several other games I've played (at least until the creators finally decided to make boss equips tradeable via a certain method whether it be a quest or an item you had to pay for). It isn't the most trustworthy method and it is quite easy to be ripped off, but if your group is powerful enough, it's fairly easy to just declare that person a dick and follow them everywhere killing them when possible to make sure their life is a living hell. After all, they can't trade that item to another character so there's no way for them to transfer it to another one of their accounts which would ultimately make that item useless to them.
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