What is the best way to make money

[White Lion(-B_E-)]

What is the best way to make money ??

[Batabii • Suikoden I&II HD]

Depends on your definition of "best". Most vanguards just do nothing but farm FSC over and over and over, but that's boring as hell.

[White Lion(-B_E-)]

Ok Thx guys

[NovaGenetics]

Selling materials and high in-demand items. (Gear, Armor, etc, etc.) If you were to get your hands on a 5* weapon, which takes a unworthy amount of time. You could potentially make some good profit if it comes with bonuses such as: Attack Speed, Increased Health, so on.

[CDST_2Chill]

best way to make money is Vanaduke runs, sure it gets boring but gets you the most amount of money. period. If you want any additional money after that I would say pick up in demand recipes like kilowatt, I have done it many times and sell for double or more than double, while also checking the Auction House market beforehand, that will also get you a fair bit of extra cash.

[Shamanalah]

Merchanting.

Nowhere I can make thousands of CE in 30 seconds other than being a costume/accessory/UV merchant. Quite profitable too, I learned a lot about offer and demands, it's second nature now, as well as sniping auction (more useful in other games than IRL though) and bought 400$ worth of steam game from it.

The problem is starting. Once you have enough money then you are constantly trading stuff for other stuff. Crown of Winter for Crown of Summer then sell it for 7.5k ce with shadow valk wings, my friend who bought the crown of summer had a buyer for 46k ce. Everybody made profit (except the last guy)

Edit: I started with mats and recipe hunt then started selling accessories and picked up from there. I have several 10-20k ce items in my arsenal now, to sell mind you.

[Sebastian]

Originally posted by Manlet:

Getting a real job is the fastest method to getting rich in SK. 8 hours at your real job will earn you more energy/crowns than a month's worth of Vana runs. Merching is also a good strat, but it takes a long time to build your foundation til you make the big bucks, then comes the waiting game.

This isn't a popular option because people think it's a cop out, but it exists for a reason and it's the fastest method without question.

dont let batabii hear that, he wants to stop people from buying energy.

but yes, you are correct.
if anyone wants some more math, I can do that.
so lets say you can run FSC in half an hour and make about 12k. to make calculations simpler, lets say 25kcr per hour. that is about 250CE or, taking the most generous conversion, 80 cents per hour.
in comparison, minimum wage in the US is over 7 dollars.
so working the worst real life job pays at least nine times better than the best SK grind.
you can argue about this defeating the point of the game, but it is still the best way to make money.

funnily enough though, if you look at it from the viewpoint of radiants, the numbers change drastically.
grinding DaN gets you roughly 20 rads in a maybe ten minute run (if you know more exact times, feel free to tell me).
so very roughly 100 rads per hour. buying from the depot would cost 1.4kCE, which is about 5 dollars worth of energy.
so if you could grind rads at a rate of roughly 150 per hour (which is probably doable with teamwork), grinding rads is better than that minimum wage job.
so basically depot rads are overpriced, I would even say by a whole order of magnitude.

[Batabii • Suikoden I&II HD]

Originally posted by Manlet:

Getting a real job is the fastest method to getting rich in SK. 8 hours at your real job will earn you more energy/crowns than a month's worth of Vana runs. Merching is also a good strat, but it takes a long time to build your foundation til you make the big bucks, then comes the waiting game.

This isn't a popular option because people think it's a cop out, but it exists for a reason and it's the fastest method without question.

He's asking for the BEST, not the fastest.

[Hennils]

Originally posted by Batabii - Stop reverting!:

He's asking for the BEST, not the fastest. :p2chell:

Simply because that isn't what was asked for, there is nothing against proposing alternate solutions.
Also this comes from the person going into threads to "correcting" people about their terminology, which also nobody asked for.

Originally posted by Manlet:

Since when has making money slowly been better than making it fast when it comes to gaming?

Stealing and scamming are methods that i would never want to call "the best", even in the case of you gaining more wealth per time through these than through others.

[Sebastian]

Originally posted by Hennils:

Stealing and scamming are methods that i would never want to call "the best", even in the case of you gaining more wealth per time through these than through others.

well, those also carry risk. if you steal and scam ingame, you can be banned. if you steal and scam IRL, you can go to prison.
working a job has no risk, at least outside of possible stress related health issues.

[Brian!]

Lower levels, do Jelly king on elite

[󠀡󠀡Sekai]

Buying and reselling Energy/Crowns on the SK market is a good sideline too!

[Batabii • Suikoden I&II HD]

Originally posted by Sebastian:

Originally posted by Hennils:

Stealing and scamming are methods that i would never want to call "the best", even in the case of you gaining more wealth per time through these than through others.

well, those also carry risk. if you steal and scam ingame, you can be banned. if you steal and scam IRL, you can go to prison.
working a job has no risk, at least outside of possible stress related health issues.

In other words...
You can't gain anything without giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost.

So either be bored, get less money, spend IRL cash, take a gamble at the auction house/energy market, or risk getting banned. Pick your poison.

Originally posted by Asmouduess:

Lower levels, do Jelly king on elite

There is no entity in the game named "Jelly king".

[Shamanalah]

Originally posted by Batabii - GSC♦:

You can't gain anything without giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost.

You haven't done much merchanting.... Someone trash is someone else treasure

Best exemple:

Started with Crown of Winter (bought a box for 300k cr at AH), traded it for crown of summer during winterfest (so made double profit 10k ce vs 20k ce), friend traded me 7500 ce and shadow valk wings for said crown of summer. Said friend sold the crown of summer to a buyer for 46k ce.

D2 you usually traded a pul rune (who isn't HR) for the first tier of HR, people didn't know better unless they were merchant who charged 2 for 1 (which is the normal price)

Trading for equal value is net loss. You gain nothing, lost time.