Money Making

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Contents 1 Basics 1.1 Money 1.2 Basic Methods 1.3 The Money Tree 2 Tips 2.1 Advertise 2.2 Discern 2.3 Be Frugal 2.4 Work the Market 3 Specific Methods 4 See also

Basics

Money

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1000 = 1
100 = 1

Basic Methods

There are a few basic ways of making money in Fiesta.

• Sell mob-drops to NPCs and Player-Shops.

Selling drops directly to NPCs is the easiest and fastest way to get money, though it will likely also net you the least profit. NPCs 'buy' most materials and items for far less than their potential value in the market. The only items you should vend to NPCs are items you know that noone will buy (eg- low grade materials/poorly-statted equipment/copper/silver/gold lumps) and items that are too much trouble to find buyers for in comparison to their price.

• Set-up a shop and sell drops directly to other players.

A better alternative to selling to NPCs, setting up your own shop lets you dictate the price you can get for your items and gives you more control. Bear in mind however, that buyers won't necessarily buy at the prices you charge, you have to set a price that you can both agree on. Don't bother trying to sell items that players don't want, you'll only waste space that could have been better used for a better-selling item.

• Completing quests rewards a small amount of money.

All quests reward an amount of money upon completion along with the Fame and Experience. Though the amounts of money may be small, the number of quests you will undertake will add a not inconsiderable amount to your purse.

• Develop your Production Skills, refine materials into more useful products (stones/scrolls/potions etc.) and sell to other players.

One of the most time-consuming methods, Alchemists take raw-materials and turn them into stones/potions/scrolls etc. There are five Production Skills that a character may undertake, but only two possible per character. Good use of Alchemy gives you more moneys worth out of your materials.

• Cash-Shop Method = requires large amounts of real-life cash and a willingness to use it.

Buy large amounts of red and blue enhancement stones and trade in-game money for enhancement 'services.' An 'easy' way to get large amounts of in-game money quickly, but one that costs heavily in real money.

The Money Tree

The Economy and its sub-divisions.

• Farmers - The lowest branch of the tree. They farm materials; since no money is spent acquiring the mats, whatever the revenue from their sale is pure profit. This is one of the best ways to make money.
• Decomposition - The second lowest branch of the tree. Involves buying materials to decompose and sell. Also provides good profit.
• The Middleman - Buys mats for a high price. Uses them to create new products, then sells those products for a low price while still pulling a small profit. The goal here is to constantly move products, upgrade your production skills, and sell better products for a cheaper rate so you are constantly buying and selling. It's low profit in the beginning, but only improves with time.
• The Vendors - People who vend for long periods of time, selling things at retail price. Receives good profit per sale, but sales are generally slow. Similar in profit to the middleman, although much less work is involved in this area as no gathering or making is needed.

Though there are four distinct branches in the tree, no player is purely one or the other. It is very likely that one will adopt a combination of said methodologies and change depending on circumstance.

Tips

Advertise

• Use the Party-Matching window as a Bulletin-Board.
• Advertise. Use /shout though don't become too much of a bother.
• Have a distinctive store-title. Or you'll get lost in a crowd.
• Establish a network of frequent buyers/sellers. Make a name for having good prices and a good reputation in general. No one wants to deal with someone who may cheat them.
• Set-up shops where it makes sense. Watch for areas of high traffic-density or choke-points through which lots of people pass. Sell stones and equipment near weapon NPCs, scrolls near portal gates, materials near Storage/Item Merchants etc.

Discern

• Use Material Composition and Decomposition wisely to aid your other Production Skills.
• Vend items in shop instead of selling to NPC when you can. Only NPC items you know players won't buy.
• Develop and use your production skills. Refining materials into a finished product multiplies its value.
• Learn the values of statted-drops. A good rule-of-thumb for the maximum stat-bonus an equip can have, is to take the level requirement of the item and halve it. Thus, a level 50 statted-drop would have a supposed maximum +25 DEX, +25 STR, +25 INT, +25 END and +25 SPR. Equips that reach the thresh-holds of their respective highest possible bonuses can sell for very high amounts, their value multiplying if enhanced. You must of course take into account which stats are on the equipment's bonus, a Mage for example won't pay as much for STR as he might for END. Familiarize yourself with the market and see what you can get away with.

Be Frugal

• Haggle if you can.
• Save money. Don't buy equipment or skills you don't really need.
• Make wise use of your storage. Store valuable items and equipment and NPC low-value items.
• Keep most of your money in storage. Helps prevent impulse and accidental purchases.
• Browse Shops while on a mount. You cannot buy anything on a mount so this prevents impulse purchases and accidents.
• Make multiple characters and use the extra storage. Assign different production skills and use the common storage to move things around.

Work the Market

• Know the price of things. Do not under-price or overpay.
• Buy cheap. Sell high. Be on the lookout for bargains and blow-outs, sell for a reasonable but higher price later.
• Undercut competition. Check who else is selling what you are. Sell for a few coppers lower. Make sure everyone knows it.
• Some items are more in-demand than others. Certain materials/items are needed to complete quests. Players are usually willing to pay a premium when in a hurry.

Specific Methods

• Harvest gold ore from Golden Cave in Uruga. Sell to NPCs.
• If you don't use/care about your fame, you can 'buy' alchemy stones and sell them.
• Use the compose/decompose combo. Buy vanished signs, compose and sell signs of trace. Buy dim dusts, decompose and sell old dust.
• KKP KQ gives good rewards. The scrolls in the chest can be sold for a good price and the materials in the chest can either be sold or made into scrolls.
• First, get to level 47. Then talk to Blacksmith Karl in Elderine. He will give you a quest (repeatable) to kill Goblin Captains and obtain 30 helmets.(Helmets are not so rare) Every time you complete this quest, you get 2 concentration(T2)s, they sell for at least 7s each.( in Bijou-US it could go as high as 30s) Keep on doing this quest and you will keep on getting concentration(T2)s.
• A very good way to make a lot of money with lix[1] is to buy 150 elrues[1](Any more will be very hard to hold or store since there are only stacks of 10). Each elrue you should buy for no more than 100c. At 100c each, almost anyone will sell to you. The 150 elrues should not cost more than 15s total. Then go to Echo Cave and mine 150 lq copper ore. You usually get a lot of topaz and other copper ore so this isn't a waste of time. If there is no one there and you don't get attacked by Phinoflies (after level 25 or so), 150 copper takes 25-30 minutes. Then you go back to Roumen or Elderine (Depending on if you want to sell to new players or not) and make your 50 Lixes. In the process you get 200 skill points for stone production and at the same time you can sell the 50 Lixes for 1s-1.5s. Anything higher than 1.5s isn't worth trying. Already at 1.5s you are making a net profit of 60s (75s - 15s for elrues). At 1s you only make a profit of 35s. This process is still relatively efficient and profitable. Xir are a loss because you need three times as many Elrues to make the same amount of Xir as Lix. You also need Topaz which is relatively uncommon or even rare in some cases. So just stick to lix until you get up to tier 2. Then the process is kind of pointless because more profit is available. (especially in Elderine).
• Upon reaching lvl 12 you will get access to the Disease Carriers Quest(repeatable) from Ancient Templar Maria. After talking to Ancient Templar Maria, run off the bridge and find the portal guard. Go to Forest of Mist. Walk past the bridge and you will find an area filled with Ratmen. Defeat 5 of them (should take 30sec-1 min depending on lvl) run back to guard. Teleport back to Roumen and go back to Ancient Templar Maria. Claim Reward. Roumen Scrolls will sell for 1s each, Elderine Scrolls sell for 2-4s each. After doing it for the first time, skip to step 3 and as you walk to the portal guard, stack your return scrolls from the reward.
• Duo in Tower of Iyzel as far as Dust Golem. Kill only the Golem - ignore the other mobs. Collect the drops and NPC. At ~20s per run, and each run lasting 3mins, you can get about 400s per hour. Just make sure you can easily take the Dust Golem suffering little or no damage.

See also

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