2011-01-10, 12:04 AM
All those methods are good and I personaly am done with merchanting, I'm just hunting for stuff casualy now for money.
but to those who need tips I can proudly say I'm one of the best merchants around.
over the years the fundamental rules of merchanting have changed alot but the easiest ways to make money now require a good 250m starting cash and a 90day shop.
so supposing you have 250m and 0 items. ( unlikley )
you walk through fm and you have no idea whats worth investing in, first off you should scan the fm rooms atleast 3 times a day for a week before buying anything (unless you KNOW its a deal! )scan the rooms and learn the price of scrolls and the more popular items ( puacs , pacs , crimsonheart cloaks (and its variants ) , Ele staffs , DD staffs, Skis , Boards , Arcglaives, visitor equipment, Belts , Helms (non canon class helms or classless ones ) , maple bandanas and weapons , shields , special gloves ( flamekeeper cordons ) , Yellow snowshoes , chairs and event/itcg items. ) these are the main items you're looking to merchant because they're always in demand and because small variations in their stats means a huge differance in price people often missprice them ( usualy higher then their worth but occasionaly ( yet often enough ) lower then their actual worth )
the other option is riskier but involes greater profit but you can also do both of these at once
you can try scrolling certain equips with high demand ( karstans,Daggers and whatever weapon is popular at the time , for example Evil Wings right now are extremely hot, some guidelines to follow though , dont fully scroll anything . leaving a window of possibility for the buyer to make it even better tuggs on their strings and its cheaper for you, pulling off 2-3 30%'s on a weapon and leaving whatever slots are left open will yeild great profit, for example If I spend 100m on staff 30%s assuming that they're 5m each thats 20 scrolls, if you use 2-4 on each weapon and suceed in making 2 of them +3 with 4 slots left that can be sold together for roughly a 30,35% profit of the total money you spent ( ofcourse you should invest time in getting above average or near perfect clean equips to scroll and look for scrolls that are underpriced as apposed to buying them full price )
some items are worth a whole lot if you pull off 3 30%s with 3/4 slots left some like a karstan for example if you get an 88 attack clean one then that nets you 103 attack 9-12 str and 3/4 slots you can easily sell it for 200/350m ( give it a week or two ) if you have more money to throw away then potentialing items before dark scrolling them increases their value quite significantly sometimes.
there are also those items you want to keep but because you found them for so cheap you're dying to sell it, for example I found a clean branch nose for 30m and could have resold it for 300m at the time I bought it.
my advice is to sell it UNLESS! the chances of you getting it again are slim to none or if you don't NEED the profit then keep it because you'll probably never find it for that cheap again.
if you however can buy NX regularly ( I don't buy it at all ) you can ignore all this because your money will let you make tons of mesos in game by doing nearly nothing, just get 3 lined clean or above average gear that people need and are in demand (3 lined lvl 9x mage overall for example, cube it till epic or unique ) then cube it till it either has +6% of that jobs needed stat or it becomes epic/unique.
I suggest pirate equips because buccs need str% whilst sairs/mechs need dex% meaning you have a higher chance to obtain something profitable by cubing as opposed to warriors/thieves/magicians/archers who only need a certain stat bonus.
if you are going to cube pirate equips , the 8x/9x/10x/11x boots are great aswell as the gloves and 10x overall.
also cubing capes is great money , any 75+ 3 lined cape can be a great source of income if cubed.
I spent 400m getting 25k NX through MTS ( bad ratio I know ) , with 12 cubes I turned a rare 3 lined black giles cape into (Epic , Dex + 6% , all stats 3%,HP3% ) sold it for much profit :-).
these are just some tips I suppose, not a guide .
but to those who need tips I can proudly say I'm one of the best merchants around.
over the years the fundamental rules of merchanting have changed alot but the easiest ways to make money now require a good 250m starting cash and a 90day shop.
so supposing you have 250m and 0 items. ( unlikley )
you walk through fm and you have no idea whats worth investing in, first off you should scan the fm rooms atleast 3 times a day for a week before buying anything (unless you KNOW its a deal! )scan the rooms and learn the price of scrolls and the more popular items ( puacs , pacs , crimsonheart cloaks (and its variants ) , Ele staffs , DD staffs, Skis , Boards , Arcglaives, visitor equipment, Belts , Helms (non canon class helms or classless ones ) , maple bandanas and weapons , shields , special gloves ( flamekeeper cordons ) , Yellow snowshoes , chairs and event/itcg items. ) these are the main items you're looking to merchant because they're always in demand and because small variations in their stats means a huge differance in price people often missprice them ( usualy higher then their worth but occasionaly ( yet often enough ) lower then their actual worth )
the other option is riskier but involes greater profit but you can also do both of these at once
you can try scrolling certain equips with high demand ( karstans,Daggers and whatever weapon is popular at the time , for example Evil Wings right now are extremely hot, some guidelines to follow though , dont fully scroll anything . leaving a window of possibility for the buyer to make it even better tuggs on their strings and its cheaper for you, pulling off 2-3 30%'s on a weapon and leaving whatever slots are left open will yeild great profit, for example If I spend 100m on staff 30%s assuming that they're 5m each thats 20 scrolls, if you use 2-4 on each weapon and suceed in making 2 of them +3 with 4 slots left that can be sold together for roughly a 30,35% profit of the total money you spent ( ofcourse you should invest time in getting above average or near perfect clean equips to scroll and look for scrolls that are underpriced as apposed to buying them full price )
some items are worth a whole lot if you pull off 3 30%s with 3/4 slots left some like a karstan for example if you get an 88 attack clean one then that nets you 103 attack 9-12 str and 3/4 slots you can easily sell it for 200/350m ( give it a week or two ) if you have more money to throw away then potentialing items before dark scrolling them increases their value quite significantly sometimes.
there are also those items you want to keep but because you found them for so cheap you're dying to sell it, for example I found a clean branch nose for 30m and could have resold it for 300m at the time I bought it.
my advice is to sell it UNLESS! the chances of you getting it again are slim to none or if you don't NEED the profit then keep it because you'll probably never find it for that cheap again.
if you however can buy NX regularly ( I don't buy it at all ) you can ignore all this because your money will let you make tons of mesos in game by doing nearly nothing, just get 3 lined clean or above average gear that people need and are in demand (3 lined lvl 9x mage overall for example, cube it till epic or unique ) then cube it till it either has +6% of that jobs needed stat or it becomes epic/unique.
I suggest pirate equips because buccs need str% whilst sairs/mechs need dex% meaning you have a higher chance to obtain something profitable by cubing as opposed to warriors/thieves/magicians/archers who only need a certain stat bonus.
if you are going to cube pirate equips , the 8x/9x/10x/11x boots are great aswell as the gloves and 10x overall.
also cubing capes is great money , any 75+ 3 lined cape can be a great source of income if cubed.
I spent 400m getting 25k NX through MTS ( bad ratio I know ) , with 12 cubes I turned a rare 3 lined black giles cape into (Epic , Dex + 6% , all stats 3%,HP3% ) sold it for much profit :-).
these are just some tips I suppose, not a guide .