how to get 150-250 clusters per ephemeral node. Money!

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Originally Posted by Vespar

To be honest, its actually good we get several clusters and crystals from the moraines.
The prices on some of the servers I have seen is downright ridiculous. The pricing needs to come down. Its shouldnt cost 3-4k in crystals (not including the cost of materials) just to make a level 51 piece of armor etc...

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Eh, considering my profit margin on HQ gathering and crafting equipment, the crystals are pretty negligible, even at their current prices. As it is, I can scrape together maybe 30k in mats, and turn them into something that will sell on the market board for 200k (yeah, Siren is a little stupid, bless its heart).

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Originally Posted by Ashkendor

But it's not trivial... no matter if you use the refresh trick or not, getting back 600 GP is no joke. You can't get back 600 GP in the time it takes you to go tag two nodes and walk back to the Ephemeral unless maybe you have a hi-cordial. Those have a cooldown of several minutes on them, so this isn't really spammable per se and the fact that you can make the Ephemeral node repop almost instantly is pretty much a moot point.

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Well yeah, but regular Cordial costs peanuts in Grand Company, 300 gp on 5 min Cooldown, plus your idle GP regen rate. We are still seeing a very good Cluster income per hour =P

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Originally Posted by Jinglybell

With fishing you cant refresh the node though, so youre getting about the same because its slower to mooch them up. Using that one new skill that increases hq (helps with mooching) takes 470 gp. So yes I agree completely with you. I have reduced some of the tupuxuaras and pteranodons.

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Right. It's regulated by different rules than the other two jobs, and yes you can use GP to ease the process along.

My point is I'm not using some sneaky combination of tricks or skills that the developers didn't plan for.

I'm just fishing up a fish and its giving me a ton of clusters. No tricks. It's completely intentional.

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Originally Posted by Kyomagi

Basically you have turn ins for your crafting jobs through leves, people took the lvl 45+ leves and pre made all the items in HQ to get double the exp.

So you take a leve with the triple turn in, HQ getting 800k per turn in. 2.4mil in one leve.

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Working as intended. You made it sound like players were generating exp out of thin air while doing nothing, while only available only to players that know of the exploit. You have clearly explained they put work into it, are consuming leve allowances (limited resource), and that all players are free to do this so they choose to use their leves.

NOT an exploit.

Servers are up. Checked out a node. Working the same as ever, to the surprise of no one who actually knows what an exploit is.

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Originally Posted by XLauncher

Servers are up. Checked out a node. Working the same as ever, to the surprise of no one who actually knows what an exploit is.

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^
This

wish i could give you 100 likes

lol @ ANYONE who even considered it to be

Glad everyone enjoyed my video, even if it got trageted as an exploit :(. Hope i was able to help the crafters and gathers. :)

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Originally Posted by Fitz_

Glad everyone enjoyed my video, even if it got trageted as an exploit :(. Hope i was able to help the crafters and gathers. :)

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So just another update, alot of people seem to think you need to "touch" all 3 nodes around the empherearl spawn point. All you need to do is touch two, one of the two points of the two nodes of your choosing.

I think the term exploit came into play when the leve quest exp for sub lvl 50 quests for over 50 players got brought into play

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Originally Posted by XLauncher

Servers are up. Checked out a node. Working the same as ever, to the surprise of no one who actually knows what an exploit is.

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by your logic running coil with echo would be an exploit too...

As a crafter/gather who is just now getting around to doing the 3.0 stuff this is good to know.

If you actually want to make MONEY doing this, though, as the topic title implies, better jump on that bandwagon quick. Crystals were pricy due to low supply and high demand. If there's now an easy source of supply and no change in demand, those prices are gonna drop fast. Sell while you can!

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Originally Posted by ServerCollaps

by your logic running coil with echo would be an exploit too...

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I think you're addressing the opposite of the person you think you're addressing.

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Originally Posted by Kyomagi

well thats neat. But too bad this will

A.) kill the market and drive the price down for clusters
B.) Get patched faster that ninja first did

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A) good there to OP any ways.
B) No it will not get patched bc it's not a bug it was put there to give players a eagd over RMTs and to make the market on RMTs farming lower and players one higher.

I wish there was a way for other players to make money. -.-

Im coming out with a battlecraft video today. :)

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Originally Posted by Oscura

I've heard someone saying you can resell things you buy from NPCs for more than they sell it for, thus making it a profit.

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Only in the MB to other players. i doubt it work on NPCs.

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Originally Posted by Oscura

I've heard someone saying you can resell things you buy from NPCs for more than they sell it for, thus making it a profit.

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Originally Posted by Felis

Only in the MB to other players. i doubt it work on NPCs.

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If you ever DO see an NPC selling an item which you can then sell to another NPC for more than you bought it for, tread carefully. This is undoubtedly a BUG, and if you use it to make a lot of money, you stand a good chance of having your account banned. This actually happened once in FFXI; an item was accidentally introduced to the game with an NPC sale price higher than the price the NPC was selling it for. People figured this out before SE noticed and bought and sold a ton of that item. Once SE corrected the problem, they then went ahead and banned a number of players for exploiting it.

But yes, buying stuff from an NPC and selling it on the Marketboards for more than you bought it from the NPC is a common way to make money. There are a lot of people who don't do the research to figure out where items can be bought cheaply from NPC, and just blindly buy off the Marketboards for whatever price it's sold for there - and even in the case of folks who DO do the research, they may buy from the Marketboards simply for the convenience of it. It saves them a trip to the NPC. Sometimes, too, items are gated; there's a number of Dyes, for instance, which can only be purchased after advancing sufficiently in Beast Tribe quests. Folks who want the color, but don't want to bother with the quests, are going to turn to the Marketboards.

Buying from NPC and selling on the Marketboards is a great way to make money, if you take the time to figure out what sells well and what does not!

I find selling npc mats is a slow gil making idea and not recommended

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Originally Posted by Felis

Only in the MB to other players. i doubt it work on NPCs.

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Originally Posted by LineageRazor

char limit

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I was talking about buying it from the NPC and selling it back to that NPC or any NPC.
Has nothing to do with the marketboard, thought it was pretty blatant I meant it was a bug, hence referring to it being a reason for emergency maintenance. It was a rumor but my ultimate point is not to believe everything one hears or thinks without proper context.

Everything you said is basic common sense and has nothing to do with that.

Too all the people worried about cluster prices drop. Fear not cluster prices are still steady around 1k on my server

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Originally Posted by Fitz_

Too all the people worried about cluster prices drop. Fear not cluster prices are still steady around 1k on my server

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Cluster price is steady a week later.. Hope people are making bank