How do you MAKE the money? Vendoring?

[Armisael191]

Is that how you make money scavenging, just vendoring the items that drop? Or do you trade them with players?

[heleos]

Is that how you make money scavenging, just vendoring the items that drop? Or do you trade them with players?

Just guessing, with little practical experience [in warhammer], but with many items in my inv., I would sell what you can to players...But, the economy will take awhile to develop....So hold out for a few weeks, maybe even a few months, then try to sell on the auction house.

[Gulthrak]

I keep the blue / purple items i find through scavenging as they are more likely to be valuable.

The green items i just vendor.
Its not really worth putting items on the AH yet anyway because most people won't be buying them yet i don't think

[HOLLISTER]

I agree with Heleos. You have a large bank vault so store everything that is significant there. When the economy picks up go ahead and auction it off. The other junk that you scav can be sold to the NPC. I have 15G already in my account just by doing this. Almost everything you kill can be scav.

[Hydraa]

With the patch on the 11th every dead body can be scavenged. Awesome! Money money money money... :twisted:

[Becela]

Help the crafters out and put em up for auction instead of selling em to vendors. We are dying for ingredients (especially level 10-100s)

Becela

[Dorfie]

ive got some epic talisman coins from this;

put on ah but ofc there is no economy so it will either take years to sell or for nothing at all;

but the crap ive got from this i sell to vendors;

not bad money earner if u have the bag space for all the watering cans tbh

[tester13]

Out of curiousity, what did you put them on ah for, and what level (skill level) were those items?

[Stantz]

sell to talisman makers, im having a hell of a time getting curios and gold essence. Uh, yah, but wait a week or two.

[cptndunsel]

In a few hours I had 2 purple, 4 blue, a green, and a bunch of gold essence from this gathering skill. Easy stuff. I'll probably send the tailsman items to my alt - a tailsman maker - and see what I can make from the blues and purples.

Don't know that there is much of a mkt yet otherwise - and given this is not a stupid economy based game (like wow) with a lot of pointless grinding and time sinks - who cares if I can sell the better stuff or not really.

[Geekcheck]

Like others I am mainly using Scavenging to amass gold and banking all the mats until the economy has had a chance to develop. While I have Talisman Making I really don't se a point to it yet, as it is too difficult to level without fragments.

[Nerissa]

I vendor it.


I send curios to the guild TMs, because it's helpful to do that. The rest of the stuff is as common as dirt and gets vendored as a result.

I can't go to Altdorf because Altdorf crashes my client. Yay for single core clunker PC, I get to live with it for another three weeks

[Arcnite]

Put it up on the AH for the default values, even the green ones. It will sell for more than you'd get from a merchant and stimulate the economy.

[Lykurgos]

I can say as a keen crafter that I would love to see certain things up on the auction house:

Apothecary main ingredients (skill 25 and above)
Shattered and Sundered equipment (for salvaging)
Goldweed seeds (anything other than skill 1)

There were very few such things up on the auction house over this past weekend, and where they were the buyout prices were very high (50 silver for a single piece of shattered equipment for instance)

I think the fact that the auction house can only be accessed via the capital cities has a major impact upon the volume of trade conducted via it. What I have now done is set up an alt that I leave parked in Altdorf by the mailbox/bank/auctioneers. When I have anything I want to auction I mail it to the alt and every now and then log in via the alt to create and bid on auctions.

This is quicker, easier and not much more expensive than travelling to the capital with my main.

[Radiozo]

I sell everything to vendors. Im at rank 19 with 40 gold so far and nothing to spend it on.
I am getting mount next lvl though but other than that there is nothing worth buying I think.

[Trinus]

AH green ones and higher. They actually DO sell for decent silver and even gold and It's great to have a decent AH with many items.

[Kraka]

I agree with Heleos. You have a large bank vault so store everything that is significant there. When the economy picks up go ahead and auction it off. The other junk that you scav can be sold to the NPC. I have 15G already in my account just by doing this. Almost everything you kill can be scav.

hummm... where is this large bank vault - and how do i get access to it ?

[heleos]

hummm... where is this large bank vault - and how do i get access to it ?

go to your city...and the bank will show up on the map after you walk around a bit....the AH will appear in much the same way.

[Geekcheck]

I have recently begun selling my scavenged items on the AH and am starting to see a nice profit margin by doing so. Because the economy is still developing and people do not know what is valuable or what they need in terms of crafting materials, the initial phases of the economy will be rough. But if you are persistent and use a little common sense, you can not only make extra money, but help strengthen the economy.

A few days ago, I began selling Seeds, Water, and various TM materials at prices based on what I see on the AH. In conjunction with this, I also use common sense and base my prices on availability of the item on the AH and whether or not it is frequently bought. For instance I recently found out that Fizzling Water (http://www.wardb.com/item.aspx?id=83359) and Mineral Water (http://www.wardb.com/item.aspx?id=83361)tend to sell well in stacks of 10 or 20 because the Apothecary Skill needed and its effectiveness in low-level crafting. While other items such as Seeds dont sell too well, although I find myself selling some from time to time. At R16 I have around 26g and 6g came purely from the AH within the last few days.

One primary mistake people make is that they are basing their prices off the rarity (color) of the item rather than demand of the item. Many of the green items will sell for more simply because players haven't acqired a high enough skill level to use them and don't know what items are useful to them. I have seen people trying to sell blue/purple mats for ridiculous amounts of gold and it never sells.

Playing the AH requires alot of though and patience if you want to earn money. And with the economy in its infancy, patience is the key requirement. Those like myself who understand this, know that we are probably selling items for lower than they are worth, but the goal is to bolster the economy to the point where we can sell all the stuff we are banking (and yes I am banking all manner of specific items) until such time where the economy is flourishing and trading is at an optimal level.

[Bashan]

I started vendoring almost all items (banking only greens / blues / purples). For some unknown reason, I thought I should try the AH to see how things were.

Since we are only in the begining of the game, economy is not yet developed enough. That certainly is a major problem since you cannot be certain wheter or not you are selling your items for the right price. On the other hand, this under developed economy presents a major interest: since people do not know exactly how much each item is really worth, you can sell to whatever price seems fair (or profitable enough :twisted:). Add to that the fact the population has its skilled mostly low leveled yet and you get a high demand for any basic item. And this situation is the dream of every rational vendor.

So, I went to the AH and discovered that "Water(s)" is (are) a very selling item. I sold in a matter of minutes 10g worth of distilled water, which is a white item (a total of 30 if I remenber well). Overall, any item used in Apothecary seems to sell well (remember most people picked this as their crafting skill).

I currently have 50+g on a level 17 character.

P.S.: sorry for spelling and gramatics (English is not my native language)

[n0iD]

i scavenge all i can then sell it to the vendors. i just like to see the skill go up, i dont even know why or how i got the scavenging skill (lol must have been around 7:00 in the morning of one of my all nighters with this game....) but the money doesnt matter to me, unlike WoW, this game is poor-friendly, and by that i mean that it doesnt take 25g to buy a nice item at level 20. its like 5 brass to train also. money is not a problem in this game and thats one of the many reasons i unistalled WoW for it. (still had 2 months of time on WoW). Anyway.... if anyone wants my scavenging supplies i will be glad to give them to u for free. my character name is Noid and im on Bechafen

[DJ Speed]

Never vendor greens.

I sell all of the crappy greens you get on AH for over 15s each. Fizzling water is great, selling at 30s each. Everything sells, just make sure to sell them seperate.

Also, if you do a PQ and get a bag with nothing you need, take the thick glass vial, they sell for 1g each. level 6 with 11g.

[Gnorbie]

If you take the time to list the white and green items in the AH you will make good money from it. Pure and simple.

Unfortunately a couple factors impede the average player from doing this consistently...

1. AH only in capital city - if you are out questing from a hub that does not have a flight master than you will not want to make the trek to the AH every time you need to empty your bags.

2. one item per mail at a time - The fact that I can only send one item every 20 seconds to a bank alt makes it a HUGE pain in the butt to transfer items to a city bank char. (this is still the most effective way to do it though)

3. misunderstanding of the market - This doesn't specifically prevent you from listing the items but it lowers someones motivation to relist items when they don't know why they didn't sell. As it was mentioned here already, the market has not developed to a point where people have the extra cash to spend a lot for a few purple or blue items. Grey, white and Green items will sell for quite a bit more per unit right now than they will when the market evens out. That doesn't mean people will pay any price at all.... but people may pay 15s now while supply is still lower. Later the price might even out to 5s for the same item.

Personally, I think the best strategy for making money would be to store the blue and purple items for the time being, and sell the lower quality items now to capitalize on their scarcity.

However, the best thing to do for the server and the economy would be to list everything at a reasonable price so that crafters can get up and running faster. This increase the influx of crafters, thereby creating a larger market, and thus creating a scenario where even greater profits could be made.

[dwarvenmight]

sweetest coin from scavenging love it, anything apothecary goes to my lowbie camped by a mailbox to make potions I sell and use. Everything else gets sold to the merchants (blues/purples are banked til I get 10+ of a kind to stick on the AH).
I'm at rank24 and 60g is usually what I hover around, it'd be a lot more than that but ironbreaker toughness gear on my server costs a load.
I already got a mount and buy a lot of rare dyes to store in the bank for endgame gear too.

[Makreth]

I'm rank 7 and got 6 gold by just selling scavenged items to a vendor.
I scavenge every mob and kill alot, do PQ's and scavenge almost everything
Found like 20 purple scarabs and allot of green dice/pocketwatches but haven't ever been to destro city so... perhaps I should? :p

[heleos]

I have 60g as a level 23...big deal....

Since there isn't much requiring gold at this point, whether I have 1g, or 200g, is relatively meaningless.

[Warin]

I can say as a keen crafter that I would love to see certain things up on the auction house:

Apothecary main ingredients (skill 25 and above)
Shattered and Sundered equipment (for salvaging)
Goldweed seeds (anything other than skill 1)

There were very few such things up on the auction house over this past weekend, and where they were the buyout prices were very high (50 silver for a single piece of shattered equipment for instance)

I think the fact that the auction house can only be accessed via the capital cities has a major impact upon the volume of trade conducted via it. What I have now done is set up an alt that I leave parked in Altdorf by the mailbox/bank/auctioneers. When I have anything I want to auction I mail it to the alt and every now and then log in via the alt to create and bid on auctions.

This is quicker, easier and not much more expensive than travelling to the capital with my main.

But the mailing system in WAR is retardedly slow, only ONE item per mail AND 5 sec delay? what the xxxx >_>

[scyld]

But the mailing system in WAR is retardedly slow, only ONE item per mail AND 5 sec delay? what the xxxx >_>

LOL.

There have been worse systems. I remember in WoW when mailing items to even an alt character in the same account would never be faster than a half hour.

Anyways, I just realized that watering cans for Cultivation are really only obtained from Scavenging, so I'm going to see if there is a market for them.

Right now I'm experimenting with selling the purple, blue, and green Talisman items, though I get the impression there will be more of a market for the green items while people are still leveling their skills.


I can say as a keen crafter that I would love to see certain things up on the auction house:

Apothecary main ingredients (skill 25 and above)
Shattered and Sundered equipment (for salvaging)
Goldweed seeds (anything other than skill 1)

Thanks for the info; I'll try to mark up these items as much as I can :twisted:

[Mesar]

I'm noticing that purple scavenging drops are often collecting 1g+ on my server.

It's very easy to do a quick scan and pick up anything that selling for silvers (the default price) and put them back at golds.

The purples are required for higher grade talisman making.

30 seconds for about a 300+% profit.

[TheAsmo]

I know this completely takes away from the MMO part of the game but I decided to make 3 alts and just send everything.

Cultivator gets the seeds, fungus, soil, cans.
Talisman maker gets all the BoE gear/shattered equipment, Curios, and gold dust
My main is scavenging/apocerathy 200/200.

So now, I can make all the potions/dyes/talismans and just sell them with no overhead other then the small fee to mail my alts stacks of materials.

[Psychoticus]

Put it up on the AH for the default values, even the green ones. It will sell for more than you'd get from a merchant and stimulate the economy.
Agreed! I always put green things on AH. 70% of it is sold to players.