200 Armoring - Turning Tovium/Cinnabar into Asmo/Ori Ingots;
Step 1; Operate out of lowest tax settlement. I focus out of First Light as I stacked tax reduction perks in this town.
Step 2; Check prices of Ori Ingots (let’s say it’s 40)
Step 3; Obtain either Cinn/Tolv at 1/4 cost of Ori Ingots (so 10 or lower using example above of 40 coin ori ingot) you can replace ori ingots with this as a T5 metal.
Step 4; Obtain the Laz/Gen mob drop (spectral dust/sticky vines) Often you can buy at 0.01
Step 5; Obtain linen and coarse leather
Step 6; Craft the replica gen/Laz gauntlets. These give 9k+ armoring each. About 180 give a full wheel of aptitude.
Step 7; Salvage the gauntlets and open the aptitude chests.
Each salvage gives 1 Ori Ingot plus about 11% chance at a second ingot. You should be able to profit/break even from the ingots alone. The aptitude chests are just extra gravy which yield high value crafting mats, patterns, and cool down materials like Asmo, Runic, Phoenix.
Thats kind of a crappy way to make coin. You could just farm the ore and smelt it into ingots. The AP boxes you get would give you enough rares that you would never need to buy them. Sell the ingots. 100% profit if you want something simple. You could farm the stuff for phoenix weave cooldown in like a half hour and just sell that. There are a lot of things you can do to earn coin much simpler than whatever that is you tried to explain.
Everyone has their own methods, just sharing mine, I am not on as much as I used to do I spend less time farming in SM.
I am able to process about 50k coins a night into 15 Armoring levels - some of the mods sell for over 3k each. The mass craft/salvage takes me about an hour and I usually pull about 15-30k profit overnight.
I used to also mine Ori, smelt SM ingots as the 40% bonus via obsidian flux made it better than buying ingots. But this isn’t profitable anymore on my server, even factoring the tolv/cinn/flux I get from aptitude
Wrong on every level.
To make money armoring, join 33tz company, take over ww and everfall.
Jack up tax rates to max on everything.
Profit
Well, sort of profit, since you run out of people (like walrus, who freely admits it’s not profitable anymore due to lack of buyers)
But hey, stealing gold from other players just requires going to town hall and clicking ‘give me my phat lewtz’.
Eventually it will just be your company and bots. But I’m sure you can afford to advance your skills in armoring when there’s only 100 people left on your server (50 company/50 bots).
You make more profit selling high lvl materials to players than selling crafted items. Servers are not highly populated, thus you dont have many buyers. The markets are dominated by players belonging to currupted companies and bots and maybe a few rich gamers. Fact.
You never had a real chance to earn money with crafting, since AGS is not interested to care about this feature. Prove: Last patch made crafting useless. Salvaging or boosting gearscore is not the intended use of crafting.
As tolvium/cinnabar is around 17 gold on my server this doesn’t seem to work out completely for me… but as I’m currently only level 164 it is a very cheap method to get to 200. I’ll have to see what the ap boxes contain and if the amount of asmo is enough to compensate