Stargrace: As an EQII newb who’s interested in the economic aspects of the game, this article is very much appreciated!

http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=421608

pretty neat if i say so myself.

Well keep up all the good work.

Chubby

And then on my 80′s I can go run a couple of TSO instances and come home with over 10p in a couple of hours and I’m left wondering where it all came from.

My personal wealth management plan was basically:
- Harvest everything
- Broker every non-loam rare (loams got turned into her spells, and only got brokered if there was literally nothing left in the tier that I was still using), and every collectable that I did not already have.

This left me with more than enough cash to buy health potions, food/drink, top tier non-rare boxes and backpacks (I did this sometime around T3), and handcrafted gear for every slot that I couldn’t craft my own stuff for. I had cash left over for buying rare loams if I had a spell I really wanted to upgrade right away, buying a complete set of T8 mastercrafted gear (I’ve never worn any of it previously) to sit in my bank waiting until level 72, and even to buyout the occasional collection item (e.g. the missing last piece of the Bristlebane collection that supposedly did not have a rare component).

My Sarnak Warden is technically an alt, but he’s been mostly self sufficient on largely the same model. His combat arts scale with level, and I don’t need to grandmaster his nuke spells, so I went with tailoring instead of becoming a sage. I have to buy him a 2-handed hammer every 10 levels or so (I may even spring for a MC one once I get into the tiers that take a little longer to clear out, it’s not even worth it in T1-3), and I guess there’s no reason NOT to turn any rare pelts I happen to harvest into mastercrafted armor. Beyond that, the bar on self-sufficiency is really rather forgiving on a new player, as long as they understand how to set their upgrade priorities. My most likely third character will most likely be either a brawler or a wizard, either of whom could get their armor from the Warden and make their own spells for even more self-sufficiency.

I will say that it is a bit disappointing that consumables – food/drink and potions – don’t have much of a markup to speak of. I took the time to level a provisioner into the late 20′s, but ultimately decided that it was not worth continuing the profession. The total amount of money it costs me to buy these items from someone else is trivial compared to the income I can make by harvesting during the time it would take me to level the relevant crafting alts. I’m sure it’s a very different picture once you get to endgame and can sell rare consumables to raiders, but getting there is more of the challenge. (Remember too that the time you spend harvesting, the time you spent NOT harvesting while leveling the profession, and the potential sale price of the rares you brew into potions all come out of your profits from selling MC alchemy products.)

Sounds like Tuvogg has a better plan. Maybe I’ll try selling potions and poisons.