getting back into tradeskills (2024)

Not sure if your on live or TLP so this may not apply

If you have loyalty tokens saved up and are all access you can buy "bags of plat" that contain about 14-15k plat. I think they cost about 436 Loyalty tokens.

There is also the Gold Ticket which may sell well in the baz on your server. They are 960 tokens but since they are part of the Casino Mount thing they sell pretty good sometimes.

At your level go kill in Serpent's Spines zones, such as blightfire moors, the mesa. All the rare mobs drop loot that sell very well to vendors.

In the moors, there is a large treant in the center swamp that is on a timer and drops a nice sellable.

On the mesa, there are several giants in the caves and several centaurs that are on a timer and their items sell for 200ish-500ishpp.

In North Ro, in the southwestern corner, right by a zone line into South Ro, there's a group of about 5 or 6 sand giants that can be single pulled, if necessary. Zone into SRo, and head towards the dark elf camp past the oasis...next to that in the corner is a group of 7 or 8 sand giants (not sure of the exact number). Sand giants drop exactly the same thing regular hill giants do in terms of plat, fine steel, defiant gear, tradeskill stuff, and vendor trash. Kill the ones in NRo, kill the ones in Sro, sell at the inn, and run back to Nro. By the time you get there, they most likely will have respawned. (thank you Velisaris for this)

Grieg's end is pretty good for pp drops.

Pretty much anyplace you can kill fast will be beneficial.

What tradeskills are you working on and what skill levels do you have?

If you're starting from zero, there are tradeskill quests in Cresent Reach that gets you to 50 skill for free.

Tradeskills are not very profitable. So many people do them just because of the other benefits, such as the artisan's prize, or to make armor containers for their guild, that there isn't really a margin. You are very unlikely to be able to have a resulting profit. Maybe on a TLP when you are staying out infront of things? Any profit is small, on the back end, and the most tradeskill profit comes from selling the materials people need to level up their tradeskills, materials you yourself need.

The best way to earn money to tradeskill is to level up while hoarding everything that says "this item can be used in tradeskills". The costs associated with leveling up are a lot less impactful at 125 than they are at 50. Plat inflation comes with leveling so the high you level, the more plat you earn naturally.