A farming guide by Kris/Kres/Amos

[Atmor]

Alright in my last KQ as Kris I was asked how, at level 20, I was able to afford all of the new skills (not including axe or two handed sword proficienty[sry about any bad spelling]). I replied simply that I farmed, and he asked how. As we were in the middle of a Mara KQ I said we would talk later. Well since it never happened I suppose I will write it here instead.

1) About me

Some of you may know me from around Bijou as Kris, Kres, Amos, or Inomine (as made evident by my sig). Some of you may like me others not so much, I don't care. If you have a problem with the way I will explain anything, please ask questions nicely, but do not get into any kind of arguement with me over my methods. I understand that others may do things differently and that is fine, but I don't want to hear that here. So enough of this, lets get on with it shall we?

2) The basics of my way.

Now how I go about farming is this: Fighter, no skills, pure att, scrolled at first, one or two hour character. Now to explain this.
I use the fighter class because they can take a hit and keep going.
I don't use any skills because they cost money and Fighters that are used for farming my way don't need them.
I use pure att because that extra damage can go a long way in one hour or more for the killing rate.
The scrolls I use are Vitality, Shield, and Power (all tier one). If I keep the character for one hour I use one of each, if I extend it to two hours, I use 1 Vit at begining and then 1 power and 1 shield and renew the power and shield when I need to at the one hour point.

3) What I fight.

As I find myself often lacking in mats, I hunt for what I need. For example if I need SBL then I hunt slimes, then speedy slimes, then slow slimes throughout 1 hour. If I need dogtooth, I start by hunting slimes, and speedy slimes (to level to level 6) then go to crabs, then blue crabs, then hungry wolves with the occasional angry wolf that aggros me.
For dusts/fruit/crystal I go 2 hours and hunt mushrooms, fire mushrooms, speedy honeyings, little hobs, and honeyings. Sometimes I go after mini grenkie too but not often.

4) How I fight

As I said I use a fighter with no skills and pure att. So therefore to heal all I need to do is send him out with all my armor and weapons (upgraded to at least +3 beforehand) and 5 HP pots, plus the scrolls. I only ever need 5 pots because you always get more from drops.

5) If I left anything out let me know. For now it is time for another KQ.

[joecracker]

thats one way to do it, but i think thats kinda cheap doing it that way, tho it is a effective way!

[Atmor]

how is it cheap pray tell.

[Doncer]

Ok there's a better way to farm that gets items faster and doesn't need any pots at all. What it does need is 2 pc's and 2 user accounts.

Step 1: Create a mage with each pc. Supply each account with lvl 8 and a lvl 15 staff but no armor since its useless to a farmer mage. As it lvls put all pts into int. Always only kill monsters that die in 1 cast the higher the lvl of the monster the better since it improves drop rates. Continue casting nonstop lvl 1 magic missiles (skill empower it once to sp reduction taking it from 3 sp to 2 sp and rest to cooldown so can cast faster). You should make lvl 4 or 5 before you run out of mana thanks to lvling up replenishing sp pool.

Step 2: When finally out of mana house that mage. Switch to pc 2 / account 2 and repeat the action. By switching back and forth this way you never have any downtime, you always have plenty of mana, and by 1-hit killing from range you can kill more things faster which translates to more farming productivity. Since you always kill in one hit you also never have to worry about running out of health.

Continue to swap back and forth from one to the other until both characters have outlevelled their usefulness (generally speaking this starts to occur anywhere from lvl 11 to lvl 20 depending on what items you're hunting for). Deposit all items gained, delete farmer mages, recreate. Return to farming to your heart's content.

[Atmor]

An interesting idea but I will NEVER create a second account because I consider that cheating. You feel free to do whatever you want to though.

[anarchy_]

Follow a gold farmer for half an hour, watch and learn.

I think everyone would get the gist of farming then =]

[magna93]

thanks. i was able to get 80 SBL(LQ) out of it, and some other materials as well.

what's gold-farming?

[Atmor]

Well gold farming is just another name for it, except sometimes in gold farming you will just sell everything and not bother making anything out of it.

[Doncer]

Atmor "gold farmer" refers to a group of people that work in China. Their job consists of logging onto a game such as this with random characters owned by the gold selling corporation. They work as teams in general and spend 8-14 hrs straight doing nothing but farming goods (or in some games money drops) then selling them to other players for large amounts of game cash. The corporation then uses those spammer bots everyone hates to advertise a website where players that want extra game cash to buy things can trade their real world money for some of their corporation's farmed game cash.\

If you want to delve more into the "gold farming industry" go to google and type in "Chinese Gold Farmers".

PS: Don't want to use a second account? That's fine. Simply put your mage in rest mode and alt-tab for a minute and go check your emails or go get something to drink. When you come back full mana for attacking.

[Lebatt]

I farm by vending. :P and i can make around 100s a day.

Easier than farming with chars.

[Doncer]

It would be at that. I highly doubt that anyone that needs a farming guide though would have sufficiently high levels of production skills to sell the high end things it sounds like you produce though. Nor do they probably have high enough money already in hand to make the initial mass material purchases that could be turned around to be sold as finished products.

Actually for that matter I've got roughly 300s to my main account and almost all of that is from materials gained at high lvl grind parties rather than from vending or true 'farming'. I tend to only 'farm' when I'm bored with my cleric anyway. ;)

[Lebatt]

300s not bad.

Yeah i only vend right now cuz my main account is locked with a guild bug. sucks but what can i do. 3 days now. so my production skils are a little higher now lol.

[aznhmg]

Seen someone post somethin like this before
but not in Guide format...
but Anyways..
added to my Guide List

Keep it up ^ ^

[TG_Cid]

300s, what tier items you sell? and what kind... stones?

I have been doing that for a time and from buying materials, creating items from materials and then selling the items i have got like 10 - 15 s a COMPLETE, i mean from 9 am to 9 am the next die... tough im still on tier 1

Im not doubting qhat you said about 300s(actually i think its a little bit exagerated), only want to know which is the best production skill to make money...

[liljeffz90]

300s?!
u all are serious pros.
i can't earn much coz i keep breaking my equips =(

currently earning through buying SBL n TL then making tier 1 scrolls
doesn't relli give me much money

[HateUchiha]

the easiest way to earn money is this, it is a little hard but can be done at any lv. go to uruga and HERB! uruga herbs u can sell at nps from 100-500c. 100c being the most common u find. thats by far beats the herbs in other places. now iv gotten to uruga as a lv 20 fighter. on my own, no ppl were fighting i had to go party the monsters. a harkan had hit me on the way leaving me with 64hp.

but for farming i agree, fighter is the best way to go and ur guide is pretty good. one more thing for having 2 comps, and making 2 accounts i would go with the cleric/fighter. this way u could venture far and if the fighter takes to much dmg the cleric can always heal. saves pots and stones.

[alexeggs]

Or u could go to uruga and farm and sell the items for high prices:)