Make 1500 Plats Per Day Easily

I know this may be simple and take a while to get started. But, once you get into it and stick with it. You can make anywhere from 100p-400p a day depending on the demand of the server. My highest amount I have made in one day: 1,540 platinum!

What you will need:
(You can do this at any level of these professions, at 300 you make faster platinum.)
300 Outfitter
300 Butcher
300 Runecrafter

27 Artisan Marks for Exotic Leather Belt from the Outfitter Merchant.


Time = Platinum

I normally use a Pyromancer, but Storm Caller works just as well. Any build that is full AoE DPS would work as well.

I pick a spot where it has high mob count/skinnable for leather. For this tut, we will be using Droughtlands and fighting the large Cat mobs in the area that let you skin Exotic Hide.

TIP: Many cats lay in the area North West of Droughtlands in the rocky area. And there are more in the open near the west of Lantern hook.

1) Gather as many Cats as you can and AoE them down. You can usually net anywhere from 10-40 Exotic Hide in 10-15 seconds. (Fill up on as many as you need!)
2) Go back to your Manufactory and process these Exotic Hides into Exotic Leather.
3) Now, with the Exotic Leather Belt Recipe learned. Buy as many Neatsfoot Oil from the Outfitter Merchant, as you have Exotic Leather. (IE 50 Exotic Leather, 50 Neatsfoot oil)
4) Now turn those into the Exotic Leather Belt.
5) Now with Runecrafting, break all of these down for mats.
6) Sell the mats! (You can make 25p-100p a day with this, if you gather for 1-2 hours. More if you get faster at gathering and getting a spawn rotation.)


Platinum to make Platinum!

1) Go to your auction house and buy a few stacks of Exotic Hide or Exotic Leather. (On my server the both sell for about 1p a stack of 50)
2) Go back to your Manufactory and process these Exotic Hides into Exotic Leather. (If you need to.)
3) Now, with the Exotic Leather Belt Recipe learned. Buy as many Neatsfoot Oil from the Outfitter Merchant, as you have Exotic Leather. (IE 50 Exotic Leather, 50 Neatsfoot oil)
4) Now turn those into the Exotic Leather Belt.
5) Now with Runecrafting, break all of these down for mats.
6) Sell the mats! (I can spend 20p on mats and turn it into 100p-400p a day!)

So there you have it. It may look like it takes time to get it going, cuz it does. But, once you do get it going. It works wonders. I have been able to buy the Guild I run, all of their level 50 mounts and what we call "Congrats Gear"! I buy them 3 epic pieces of gear from the auction house when someone hits 50. I have been doing this since about day 5 and made a killing. I have had to make a new account, to sell more again cuz I was starting to get hate mail in game about how I was controlling the market. So I still sell with the original character. But, all the people said they wouldnt buy my mats still buy from me, on a different account.

I know have a total of 8200p (as of today 5/2/2011) on my MAIN! And I can gaurantee I have spent more than that in mounts/gear/consumables/random stuff already in game. I have 2 accounts: 2 on my Main account and 4 on my other. Each alt has 500p on them (as of today 5/2/2011). You can do this. And it is easy, it just takes some time. but, you can get there.

Some useful TIPS:

TIP: Be VERY mindful when selling mats. Research your auction house. Make sure you are getting the biggest bang for your buck. Sometimes, 10 Kinetic Charges will be selling for 2p, when 10 Kinetic Bursts are selling for 4p. The Kinetic Charge sale is better, as you can break the Kinetic Bursts down into Kinetic Charges and sell more stacks of 10. Make sure you are doing this for Kinetic, Sentience and Perpetual.

TIP: Do NOT flood the market! If you do, you will get a spike of others trying to steal your "thunder"! Stay small and sell many over time!

TIP: Do NOT tell friends you have a ton of Platinum. They will start to watch what you sell on the auction house and start as well!

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Excellent Money gain/Power level a char 12-50 completely afk!

Clear CC, or atleast up to the third boss and kill her, accept the quest to collect the chicks remains, kill the elite in there with 152k hp.. and tada, don't complete the quest.

What this opens up.. is a room full of 6 little beetles, 1.7k hp each, that RESPAWN ENDLESSLY. Where is the good in this? Simple. You can zone a level 12 into CC, and have them sit at the entrance and gain experience while you kill the stuff. The beetles, drop random junk that sells for alot of gold, You spend an hour doing this and you will literally make atleast 18 plat selling GREYS. They also drop greens, blues, and EPICS.

They drop Minor Catalysts more than any other mob, simply because you're constantly farming 6 of them, Literally have over 100 of these things after a couple nights of doing this. NOW Whats even better is that EVERY single one of these bugs is skinnable, which means raise your butchering up to atleast 225. EVERY one of them drops atleast one soulhide, or Ironhide. Even if Soulhide doesn't sell on your servers AH, or the market is flooded with it.. it sells ofr 98 GOLD a stack, so you'll easily make about 600~ soulhide on average in an hour, which comes out to about 5.88 Plat, + the 18+ you'll make from vendoring greys gets you up to 23.88 Plat, assuming you get NO other drops, e.g green/blue/epics, so a baseline average will be about 20-25 plat without getting lucky.

The experience in this place is quite good as well, you can have people PAY YOU by the Hour to get them AFK experience, lets say you have 4 people paying you 5 plat an hour, thats an extra 20 plat/hour that you're making, so about 40+ plat an hour, with 0 drops.

What makes this EVEN MORE EPIC, is that you get Dragonslayer Rep. I leveled my alt here from 15 to 50, and am less than 1k rep away from being Glorified with Dragonslayer, this gets you a blue necklace at level 50, as well as an epic helm and a silly pet, as well as a pretty cool epic mount.

If this doesn't scream epic to you guys, then you should rethink your brains!

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New Rift Steal Farming Spot In Game

after the 1.1 Patch, stealthfarming in Charmer's Couldron isn't worth the time anymore (just one Twilight Bloom Node accessible)

But in Abyssal Precipice nothing really changed.
There are up to 5 easy nodes (Ore, Wood and Plant).
you can harvest _all_ nodes, except the ones after the first boss (wall)!
One run takes ~5 min.
i do this on non-expert (as far as i know, spawns differ per mode, at least this was happening in cauldron)

Run out, reset, rinse and repeat - profit.

After 5 resets, and the "cannot reset" message. Just log out and in again, this Exploit still works.

be aware, that stealth got nerfed, don't stand to close to a mob... learned this the hard way



Pics:
straight way to the first boss


First node, nothing special, just watch the paroling riptide


Second node, sap the first of this stone like mobs, and watch the pat


Third node, just grab, nothing can ever happen there


Near the first Boss, just avoid running into him, again 2 easy nodes


Last 2 nodes, right after the first boss. there aren't any mobs or whatever, so these two are the easiest here

EDIT:
finally found a way to get the last node:


on the way back out again, walk the green line, so the wolf will recognize you, wake up and he will walk a little to the left. sap the marked mob, loot the node

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Decent-Good farming spot.

So, been here off and on for awhile and have finally come up with something worth contributing to rift, a decent little spot that VERY few people actually farm.

The spot is Crown Hill in Stillmoor. What you're killing is all of the undeads/mathosian. I normally pull 3-6 of them as a Melee Cleric (Shaman) and AOE them down, normally netting me 5-7 Spellspun, a couple random grays, and the odd green with the ocasional blue popping up.

In about 30 minutes I ended up farming 200 Spellspun Silk, which on my server is 3.5-4 Plat, so that alone got me 14 plat min, + selling all the greys (which will be random, but so far It always ends up near the same amount) got me another 2 plat, and selling the greens got me 2 plat (vendored the blue as well, was lazy and it was a shit blue endurance peice).

So all in all, I'm making about 18 plat Minimum every 30 or less farming this spot, the respawns are VERY good, again I was pulling a minimum of 3 mobs and ALWAYS had another 8+ on screen to kill as I worked circles around the place.

Cheers, and have fun making easy monies .

The mobs are level 47-50 btw.

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Farm Orichalcum, Shadethorn and Twilight Bloom

This is both an exploit and a guide, I'll start off with the guide portion of this.

This guide requires:
You play a Rogue
You have a 31 point Assassin build for "Improved Stealth" and "Slip Away".
You have an 8 point Nightblade build for "Lost Hope".
Access to the following Instances: "Charmer's Caldera" (in Shimmersand) or "Abyssal Precipice" (in Iron Pine Peak).

My Example Assassin/Nightblade Build

This guide takes from the same concept of old stealth farming methods in World of Warcraft: Sneak around the mobs that can be easily avoided, crowd control those that are in your way. Abyssal Precipice and Charmer's Caldera are the only places to get these three types of materials. I do not have a youtube account, nor any knowledge of video recording/editing so I will use my limited knowledge of taking screenshots and Paint to, well... draw you a picture. Here is my farming rotation for Charmer's Caldera.

Enter Charmer's Caldera, stealth up and move passed the first set of 3-4 mobs and cross the first rock bridge. As you are passing it you will notice a Magma Elemental heading your way, use "Incapacitate" and keep moving along. Will you then approach this area:

You will then use "Lost Hope" to ranged CC the second Magma elemental.

Point A is an Orichalcum spawn point: Hide behind the rock to mine it.
Point B is a Shadethorn spawn point: Stay behind the same rock and gather it.
Point C is a Twilight Bloom spawn point: Move behind the rock and gather it, use your Incapacitate if you need to on the raptor closest to it if you're afraid it will aggro you.

Once you have gathered any spawns, continue on to this next area:

re-CC the elemental if it comes near you.
Point A is either a Shadethorn or Twilight Bloom spawn point: Move behind the rock near it to gather it.
Point B is a Shadethorn spawn: Move behind the rock to gather it.

Once you have gathered from those two potential spawns, move to the third and final area:

There are two very important things to note in this area:
1. As long as the hounds and imps are fighting the humanoid mobs, you can walk next to them and gather without any aggro, as long as you stealth up before the humanoid dies.
2. There are two wandering Magma Elementals in this screenshot, be careful. The first is in the top left-hand corner of the screenshot, the next is inside of a wall to the right of Point B.

Point A is a Twilight Bloom spawn. As stated, you can walk up next to the mobs and gather it without aggro as long as the humanoid is still alive.
Point B is a Shadethorn spawn. Wait until the Magma Elemental has come out of the way and started to fight the nearest pack of mobs, then gather it.
Point C is an Orichalcum spawn. Move to the right side of the rock to gather it.

Once that is done, head to the entrance, zone out and reset. Rinse, repeat. Use Slip Away to vanish anytime you might get aggro.

You may ask yourself, "Where is the exploit?". After 5 resets you will get the following message.

"Cannot reset your map instances yet."

At this point, log your character out to the character selection screen and log back in. Voila! You then right click to reset your instance and your instance resets will go back to 5 until you have to do it again.

Enjoy your farming, as this will be fixed in the first patch coming out soon. They are going to make it so all gathering nodes spawn passed the first bosses in these two dungeons, which are blocked off by invisible walls.

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Making Money via PVP Guide

In the current Open Beta, I leveled mainly by doing PVP. After I finally got my mount at 22, which is late compared to questers, I was constantly broke.

I then found out, that you can make money by spending Favor and selling what you buy. 

The Black Garden

Guardian/Defiant Name	Cost (Favor)	Sells for (Gold)	Silver/Favor
Vigilant Warden's Crest/Aender's Crest	994	25.76	2.59
Custodian's Baton/Declining Vigiliant's Scepter	994	23.42	2.36
Curator's Blazing Wand/Wanton Blaze	994	23.42	2.36
Vigilant Warden's Breastplate/Aender's Breastplate	612	11.25	1.84
Custodian's Coif/Declining Vigiliant's Coif	489	8.55	1.75
Watchman's Leggings/Last Gasp's Leggings	612	10.41	1.70
Curator's Mantle/Doomed Soul's Mantle	489	8.15	1.67
Watchman's Medallion/Last Gasp's Medallion	870	9.29	1.07

The Codex

Guardian/Defiant Name	Cost (Favor)	Sells for (Gold)	Silver/Favor
Tacit Arbiter's Wand/Lore Seeker's Scepter	489	13.62	2.79
Hushed Erudite Gloves/Arcanologist's Gloves	367	7.13	1.94
Mute Death's Bandoleer/Claimant's Bandoleer	367	6.24	1.70
Silent Vigil's Choker/Inquirer's Medallion	428	5.40	1.26

What Notoriety do I need to buy what?

Notoriety	Items that cost less than
Friendly	700
Decorated	1500*
Honored	5000
Revered	Everything

*Also, the tokens.

Missing Items

The Black Garden

Guardian/Defiant Name	Cost (Favor)	Sells for (Gold)	Silver/Favor
Custodian's Crest/Declining Vigiliant's Crest	2137	?	?
Gatekeeper's Knowledge/Decrepit Wardstone Fragment	10687	?	?
On Regulos, and his Domain/Forbidden Knowledge	2137	?	?
Overseer's Rage/Degenerate Wardstone Fragment	10687	?	?
The Black Garden Token	2500	?	?
Vigilant Warden's Vengeance/Aender's Guarantee	4275	?	?
Watchman's Authority/Last Gasp's Retribution	2137	?	?

The Codex

Guardian/Defiant Name	Cost (Favor)	Sells for (Gold)	Silver/Favor
Cavernous Nothing/Recaptured Knowledge	10687	?	?
Hushed Erudite Pantaloons/Arcanologist's Pantaloons	1243	?	?
Hushed Erudite Robe/Arcanologist's Robe	2672	?	?
Mute Death's Boots/Claimant's Boots	746	?	?
Mute Death's Shoulderpads/Claimant's Shoulderpads	2137	?	?
Silehnt Vigil's Great Helm/Inquirer's Helm	2137	?	?
Silent Vigil's Gauntlets/Inquirer's Gauntlets	746	?	?
Tacit Arbiter's Shoulderpads/Lore Seeker's Mantle	994	?	?
Tacti Arbiter's Mark/Lore Seeker's Medallion	1870	?	?
The Codex Token	2500	?	?
Whispered Silence/Words of War	10687	?	?

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