ArcheAge - Formerly: "So I've been playing..."

Stranger · Post by **Stranger** » Mon Sep 29, 2014 2:51 pm

Are we going to try and decide what each of us should do for our professions? I think Cake is going the Alchemy rout and Scooty possibly the Metalworking rout. Troy are you going Farming?

These things are going to take forever to get up to level but we can start thinking what direction each of us are going. I think you can master 2 professions and go up to a certain level on the others. Not really sure what ones are the best for the long run.

Post by **Cakedaddy** » Mon Sep 29, 2014 4:44 pm

Ya. Scooty was going to make metal armor/weapons.
I'm training alchemy.

We need leather and cloth guy. I'm guessing cloth. Is cloth armor any good?

I'm probably going to cut my pomegranate trees down and go full Aspens. But before I do, I'm going to throw some more poms up at 1g each and see if they sell again. There are never that many auction listings for them. So there may be times when they all sell out. Don't know. But at 50 silver, lumber is more profitable.

Turning in the Pom pack for salt. It didn't get me much more gold than if I had just sold the ingredients on the market. Was not worth the risk of losing it, in my opinion. If 10 poms sell for 5 gold, or more, then. . . I dunno. I think there's a more profitable way to spend out time. And it might be sitting under water with an air tank on waiting for other people to kill reds. Then we are already under water waiting to grab the packs!

Post by **Cakedaddy** » Mon Sep 29, 2014 4:50 pm

Also, Leisher. We are still learning the game. Think early UO days when everything killed us. That was the WORST I've every seen the water (only been on about 7 times though). And after you were gone, we did a fair amount of sailing and didn't see many monsters. So, maybe it is you that's the problem. And the dock area. . . you don't know what you are getting into until you are close enough to see it. And then it's too late.

Lastly, for a scout, someone can start a free account, create a character over there and park him at the docks. He can scout for us. Level him to 15 and he can take our packs for us. I was able to run from the res point, all the way to the docks, as a red, without a problem. So, we probably don't have to go very far to do the hand off. Lots of people talk about doing this.

TPR - Once you are in the game, you will have queue priority. If you crash, as long as you log back in within 10 minutes, you will insta connect. No new queue wait.

Post by **Troy** » Mon Sep 29, 2014 7:52 pm

Yeah, scout the dock just like we used to have to scout EC or the Brit bank

I guess i'm rolling some East alts

The south Two Crowns to Sandeep gold trader route is a really nice quick moneymaker. You craft next to the water and deliver it a region away on the water, whole thing couldn't have been 10m for 7g + (maybe more at 130%?)

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Post by **Troy** » Mon Sep 29, 2014 8:19 pm

don't mind me, just treading water in my plate armor

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Post by **Cakedaddy** » Mon Sep 29, 2014 10:20 pm

When do you know the actual amount? Is that the pomegranate pack?

Post by **Troy** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 12:36 am

http://forums.archeagegame.com/showthr....of-crap

re: pack - 22 hours later

Milk is selling at 17 silver a piece. 9 per cow every 7 hours. Good money. better than olives so i'm switching my small to that.

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Stranger · Post by **Stranger** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 7:25 am

i got on to get some farming in before work, cut lots of trees then when i went to replant i discovered i didn't have enough money to buy more aspens to replant. So Troy and Sugar..i mean Cakedaddy will have to replenish. I haven't come across the gold like you two have, nor have i had the time to play as much over the last few days. I'll be on this evening to catch up tho.

Cake, sent you what iris' you had planted around my house, i needed room for some turkeys. I need turkey for pelts for leather working. If anyone is on this afternoon could you slaughter them and gather the pelts for me? And if ya want maybe replace them, they only take 4 hours to complete, also, if you feed them ground grains they end up giving more pelts when you cut 'em to bits.

I noticed Troy has a zoo going on too, bunch of crazy wildlife going on there. If you happen to slaughter any of those pets and get some pelts i'd be happy to take them from ya.

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Post by **Cakedaddy** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 9:40 am

Other than trees, I'm trying to keep quick stuff on your land so it can be picked up and you put down what you want. I would like the quick stuff (iris) for alchy, the trees I'm planting for money/house. So keep some wood as a land tax to help replenish your gold supply. I replanted all the trees. Turkeys were not ready when I was on. But I'll try to keep them going for you.

Stranger · Post by **Stranger** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 10:00 am

by all means, use all the land that i have. I can't always be on to use it properly so plant away.. I would like to know what you guys are planting so i know if i need to know if you want me to send them to ya in the mail. Its pretty easy to figure out for the most part, but it helps to know.

Also, i don't ever sell wood. At least i haven't yet, i figured we still need quite a bit for the farm house. Have you guys been selling wood for gold or keeping it?

i do believe we need stone first for the farmhouse, i haven't been mining lately to get any. What are the supplies looking like for that?

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Post by **Troy** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 10:17 am

I've been selling it because I've watched lumber nose dive in price the last week. From 65 silver/unit to below 30 or whatever it is now. I always figured there was plenty more where that came from, but the margins won't last for long. Similarly, I cut down my olive trees because the market is totally flooded with olives. Put cows there instead.

I can produce Ground Grain and Combined Food. (ground grain is the easy one but i have a ton of it)

My animals are for money making. Cows are for milk, which has a smaller footprint but cost 2.5g upfront per cow. The other ones are for making thread. Thread for beds. Beds for heads.

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Stranger · Post by **Stranger** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 11:17 am

Ill see about selling, but i tend to be a horder by nature and prefer not to sell. But i do have 2 companion crusts that i got thru the merchants box from the loyalty points. I put one of them up for sale this morning, the cheapest one was going for 19gold! i put mine up for 18 to see if i could move it. If it does i might consider selling the other one and maybe even buying them every three days just for the extra income, thats a lot of gold.

Post by **Cakedaddy** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 3:27 pm

I have not sold any wood either. Probably should have. But we've been building farms and boats and stuff, so I kept it. I sold a stone pack a while back for 25g, and that has funded the rest of my crafting. I did some trade runs and sold the prizes. My alchemy makes money, but there's a ton of grinding that goes into it. I sold mushrooms a while back too. Planted and harvested a ton of them. I think I planted 50-75. Was turning them into medicinal and saw how inefficient it was and how many knives I was wasting doing it. So, I sold them, unprocessed for about 10 gold. I was surprised at how profitable they were as just mushrooms. Lastly, I did a dungeon thing last night and got a piece of armor that I sold for 3.5 gold.

For the farm house, there are 3 stone packs on it now. Need 7 more of those. Stone is easy and fast with mining, but, you burn all your labor VERY fast doing it. I get about 180 stone in 20 minutes with 1000 labor points. If we had unlimited labor, we'd have the stone by now.

I have about 900 iron stocked up as well. I get that faster than stone, so, I have a lot.

Post by **Cakedaddy** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 3:29 pm

And I'm growing Aloe and Ginseng for Medicinal, Iris for potions. I need tons and tons and tons of iris. Buying and planting 100 at a time. Alchemy is VERY VERY grindy.

Post by **Troy** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 3:55 pm

I'll keep shooting Med Powder at you.

At some skill point, all the vocations let you bundle 10 of a crop/animal/whatever and plant it/harvest it all at once. I'm at 3k out of 15k from being able to do this with seeds.

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Post by **Cakedaddy** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 4:25 pm

I'm at nothing out of 10 billion from being able to do shit!

Thanks for the 400 earlier.

Also, I need someone to buy my pomegranates! I put 10 on the market to see if I could sneak another 10 gold out of them. Market continues to drop and there's no demand. So, they aren't selling. But, since people have bid on them, I can't cancel it. So they are sitting there at a couple of silver! Need someone to bid 5 gold on them so I don't give them away.

Post by **Troy** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 6:05 pm

So people that already have the alchemy, farming, whatever skills to these high levels have been shotgunning labor potions from day 1, huh?

I should have bought a million of them when they were 3g.

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Post by **Troy** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 6:41 pm

Hey! So this post is going to teach you how to quickly convert your labor into exp while simultaneously levelling an armor crafting profession. It’s easy as pie.

This can be used to get you fast levels while you’re leveling to 50 or to quickly level alternative skillsets. This is by far the most efficient and quick way to level alternate skillsets.

So the item you’ll want to craft is:

Tailor – Sleeves -> Apprentice’s Ocean Sleeves
Leatherwork – Guards -> Apprentice’s Typhoon Guards
Metalwork – Vambraces -> Apprentice’s Quake Vambraces
Each of these Bracers requires the following materials:

1x Moonlight Archeum Dust
1x Fabric (Tailor)/ Leather (Leatherwork)/Iron bar (Metalwork) – (You can either farm these materials for yourself or acquire a large stack of them off the Auction House for a small handful of gold)
3x Blue Salt Wedge (A vendor bought item for 5s each)
When you break down the bracers using an evenstone you have a 100% chance to get the 1x Moonlight Archeum Dust back, which is the main cost of the craft refunded every time!

Everytime you craft 1 set of bracers it burns 100 labor. At level 50 this awards you roughly 5,200 experience.

If you add in Patron status and a Vocation Tonic (Which increases XP gain from Labor Consumption by 100% for 1h) this amount is roughly 11,400 experience for every bracer you craft.

Labor dummies

Min-max elite mode (How to get a million exp in under 30 minutes):
This is for people who want to gain the most out of this labor dump. This requires you to have a decent amount of gold or gems to buy Worker’s Compensation (Labor pots) pots.

You’ll want to get 3 additional characters above level 15 (Primeval – Archery/Shadowplay/Auramancy and Reaper – Sorcery/Occcultism/Shadowplay are awesome specs to quickly rush to this level). This allows those characters to consume workers compensation thus adding labor to your account wide labor pool.

Important thing to note: Labor Pots have a 12 hour cooldown.

Pre-checklist:

8x Worker’s Compensation
270x Blue Salt Wedge
90x Evenstone
90x Fabric/Leather or Iron Bar depending on which profession you want to power.
At least 1 Moonlight Archeum dust (Ideally 10 at least 10 tho so you can craft x10 -> break down x10 instead of craft x1 -> break down x1)
So once you have 3 additional characters above level 15 you’ll want to ensure you have at least 2 labor pots on each character. This is roughly how your day should go:

Wake up at 9am and pop labor pots on all of your characters (4k labor account wide)

Log back on at 9pm onto your main character. At this point you should have 5k labor so pop a Vocation Tonic (100% labor xp increase) and craft and break down roughly 45 bracers (Which should burn almost all your labor)

Once your labor is all burned quickly log onto all your characters and pop labor pots. This should shoot your labor right back upto 4,000+.

Then continue to craft and break down bracers and congrats you’ve just earned over a million experience in under 30 minutes. You do that 3-4 more times and that’s enough experience to max out 3 alternate skillsets at once (Just make sure if you’re doing this to level alternate skillsets that you equip them before hand via chatting to a Skill Manager!)

Enjoy your phat stacks of exp!

e: This is why Worker's Comp Potions are 15g on the auction house and climbing

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Stranger · Post by **Stranger** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 10:30 pm

why is Cake declining party invites? it does it right as soon as I invite like you got a setting on..

THATS IT! YOUR OUTTA THE FAMILY

Post by **Cakedaddy** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 10:30 pm

I have the game minimized. I'm multitasking and wanted to maximize labor regen.

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