*BIG* Easy Money

[gandalf333]

There is an easy way to make BIG money fast in TOEE.

You'll need a thief or a rouge with good slight of hand skills for this to work properly.

From the world map menu, select Hommett East.

Go inside the tower, have your rouge/thief stand next to Burne.

Press F12 (Quick Save)

1. Now, using the radial menu on your rouge/thief, select slight of hand, then click on Burne.

2. It may take you a few trys, but eventually your picking of his pocket will be successful. If at any time your rouge/thief is discovered (battle starts), hit F9 (Quick Load) and try again.

3. The first time you're successful, you'll get 14 blue gems, worth over $5,700 gold pieces.

4. Now just click on Burne normally with your rouge/thief and get into the dialoge for bartering. Sell your recently acquired gems back to Burne. They return to his inventory. Once you have a successful sale, hit F12 again and repeat steps 1-4.

You can do this as many times as you want. I've got over 100k in just a short session.

[mussetassen]

I will counter (we meet again!) with a tip how to make small money through furious clicking:

Select a character with the scribe scroll feat (typically a mage) and create a scroll of a cantrip (level 0 spell) of your choice. This costs 6 gold and 0 experience. Do this as long as your money lasts. Then go to a church or a mage shop and sell the scrolls for 7 gp and 6 sp each.

[taltamir]

Originally posted by mussetassen
I will counter (we meet again!) with a tip how to make small money through furious clicking:

Select a character with the scribe scroll feat (typically a mage) and create a scroll of a cantrip (level 0 spell) of your choice. This costs 6 gold and 0 experience. Do this as long as your money lasts. Then go to a church or a mage shop and sell the scrolls for 7 gp and 6 sp each.


I noticed that one... except i sold it for MORE...
You want easy money? max out the appraise skill for one of your characters, give him headband of int +6... (+3 to appraise)

All transaction prices are determined by appraise, you can litteraly double the amount of money you sell stuff for, and the best part is that it automatically uses the best apraise of any of your character, so you dont need to get it multiple times...
And ofcourse after level 10 you can just craft stuff and sell it... always remember that when you sell stuff there are two modes, each merchant has desired and undesired items, undesired items will be bought for half the price they would pay otherwise.. so if your appraise lets you sell for 80% of cost, undesired items will sell for 40%, if it lets you sell for 90% then undesired sell for 45%... just find out who wants what, on high paying items it could mean alot.
If you sell him for 7 and it only costs you 6, then your appraise is really low, because scrolls are desired commodity for him, you would sell them for 3g and 5s to someone else, thats not good... get it up so you could sell them for much more much...

also selling an item for 10000 gold more just cause of a skill is really satisfying

[ordinaryjones]

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There is a lot of money to be made, right after you get the skull. just make sure you have a scroll of teleport on you, burne has one to sell, then head down through the throne, and through the teleport (there are almost no creatures on this level so looking around for it should be safe.) that drops you right near the temples head priest and his small arm. Between you and hedrack there will be a group of fungi. they are pretty easy to destroy, and reward you with four chests each filled with 1000 p ( i think), and a few other items. then just teleport out. You should even be able to learn teleport and then scribe it to a scroll, regardless of level.

[psiekier]

Originally posted by mussetassen
I will counter (we meet again!) with a tip how to make small money through furious clicking:

Select a character with the scribe scroll feat (typically a mage) and create a scroll of a cantrip (level 0 spell) of your choice. This costs 6 gold and 0 experience. Do this as long as your money lasts. Then go to a church or a mage shop and sell the scrolls for 7 gp and 6 sp each. I discovered today that you can actually combine this second trick with the first!

I had my wizard scribing up big batches of "acid splash" scrolls - about 300 at a time - and then I'd take them over to Burne and sell them for a few thousand quid profit.

On a whim, I decided to pick Burne's pockets, so I cast "cat's grace" on my rogue and let her do her job.

Not only did I get Burne's blue sapphires and black pearls, I also picked up over 1,200 "acid splash" scrolls. I don't think I have to explain which of these was worth the most money when I sold it back to him.

[Goongyae]

>I had my wizard scribing up big batches of "acid splash" scrolls - >about 300 at a time - and then I'd take them over to Burne and >sell them for a few thousand quid profit.

LOL, in the PnP game it would take 300 days to do this.
Hommlet would be overrun with demonic forces by the time you scribed all those scrolls :)

BTW, to boost your Appraise up by +3 take a level of Wiz/Sorc and summon a Raven familiar. For another +3 take Skill Focus [Appraise].

To boost Sleight of Hand, take Skill Focus [Pickpocket] ("Pickpocket" is yet another bug.. sigh..) for +3 and Acrobatic for +2 more.

[Goongyae]

Another way to make a lot of money quickly is to exploit the Craft Magic Arms & Armor bug.

I had a Glaive +3 Keen Icy Burst Shocking Burst Holy and when I added Mighty Cleaving the enchantment cost was -100,000,000 copper (-10,000 platinum). So when I enchanted it, it gave me extra money. I didn't want to carry so much copper (I was afraid the game would crash), so I converted it to platinum. Converting it to platinum required selling + buying an expensive item (e.g. an enchanted armor with Brother Smyth).

This is always reproducible for me. Side note: If I try Anarchic instead of Holy it reportedly costs -200,000,000 copper but the game ALWAYS crashes whenever I try Anarchic.

[ShadowDragon8685]

Very easy way to make a metric arseload of money.

Steal the rubies from Burne. Steal some MORE blue rubies from Rufus. Take them to Nira the jeweler. He buys them for even MORE. Then you just keep pickpocketing them off him and selling them back to him for a metric arseload of platinum. :)

[Keolander]

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Just kill Rannos and Gremag. Sell the Amulet of Proof against Detection to Burne. You'll get 17k for it.

[ShadowDragon8685]

With a high enough appraise, you get 1009 GP, 6 SP *per gem* from Nira for Blue Rubies.

1009*19 = 19,171 GP.

And you can do it. As many times as you like. Just keep pickpocketing it from Nira (this guy has a HORRIBLE Spot check,) and selling it right back to him.

This is another example of how badly Atari forced Troika to drop the ball. You could NEVER do this in Arcanum - one run, maybe two or three (and EVERYONE around you got a Perception check Vs. your pickpocketing, not just the person you're pickpocketing,) and then you've run the vendor out of money, and he'll say somthing comical like "Others would maybe give you 17,829. Will you take 0?"

[taltamir]

WILL YOU TAKE 0... hah, that brings back memories...

I have encountered the same when crafting super items, but i find it cooler to just craft such items to all my chars and be done with it... when you get enough money to reach the point at which crafting gives you money, then you are so loaded money is worhless, the tricks here should be for people who actually need it.. IE low levels...

[Necroticpus]

This is really amusing to me. Next run through, I am so going to rip off Burne of everything he has. I've never really played with pick pocketing before. I've never really needed the money. I wonder if Terjon or Jaroo have anything worth stealing?

Just thought of something else too. What if you open Jaroo's chest and teleport out of there? Will he be hostile to you if you go to see him again?

[wizgeorge]

Console up Excalibur several times and sell for several hundred thousand GP. Your set for the rest of the game moneywise.

[GuardianAngel82]

Console the money in directly.

[Necroticpus]

No, I'm not a fan of using a console. I haven't used one yet. I want to see how the game reacts to different ways of play.

[General Ghoul]

The only times you really need money is in the early game to properly outfit your party, and late in the game when you need the money to craft things. Their are not that many magic items to buy, yes you may want the holy mace from Tergon or some scrolls from Burne, but there is no magic merchant like you see in most other games, what you find is better than what you can buy.

By hitting a few random road encounters early, you can rack up some decent XP while collecting some looted equipment to use or sell. Nothing like hitting a few easy skeletons or pirates to gain some need arrows and bolts, and some swords and axes to sell.

Late in the game, just rest in the temple, I particularly like level 3, the round room you start in for ettins & hill giants, the gems they drop are well worth the effort, and you need extra XP as well as the gold to craft most things.

[sirchet]

Cast holy water and sell the bottles, you can do that very early on with a cleric and it pays good.

[chiech22]

How do you console in gold? I know that for most games you press the ~ key.

[Necroticpus]

Search for the thread called console cheats, or the politically correct term, console commands. ;)

[GuardianAngel82]

Try "Give 7003", IIRC.

[The Royal Canadian]

Hi
For what it's worth (pardon the pun: I didn't mean it. Honest :yes: ) You really don't need to do any fancy tricks to get enough money to craft whatever items you need. I just finished crafting the last items for my party before going into the Fire Node. Below is the list of crafted items that my party member have. For weapons and armor, notes in ( ) indicate what the item was when acquired. After all crafting was completed my party still has 42,326 GP in the "Bank".

Elmo
+3 Holy, Shocking Burst, Icy Burst Battle Axe ( the +1 Battle Axe he starts with )
Large Shield +3 ( The +2 Shield he starts with )
Blue Elven Chain
Vest of Escape

Fighter
+3 Holy, Shocking Burst, Icy Burst Ranseur (the +1 Holy Ranseur from the Air Temple)
Purple Elven Chain +3 (Purple Elven Chain (+2) )
Mithral Buckler +3 (Mithral Buckler)
Belt of Giant Strength +6
Gloves of Dexterity +2

Cleric
+3 Holy, Shocking Burst, Icy Burst Longsword (+1 Holy Longsword from Fillikin)
Mithral Plate +3 (Mithral Plate)
Metal Tower Shield +3 (Masterwork Metal Tower Shield)
Belt of Giant Strength +6
Helm of Reading Magic

Druid
+3 Holy, Shocking Burst, Icy Burst Sling (Masterwork Sling)
+3 Holy, Shocking Burst Scimitar (Masterwork Scimitar)
Moon-Ivy Armor +3 (Masterwork Moon-Ivy Armor)
Darkwood Buckler +3 (Darkwood Buckler)

Wizard
+3 Holy, Shocking Burst, Icy Burst Repeating Crossbow (IoIo's Joy: +2, "Sonic")
Gloves of Dexterity +2
Wand of Break Enchantment
Wand of Stoneskin
Wand of Mage Armor
Wand of Identify

Rogue/ Wizard
+3 Holy, Shocking Burst, Icy Burst Composite Longbow (MW Composite Longbow: STR 12)
Gloves of Dexterity +2

Meleny
+3 Holy, Shocking Burst, Icy Burst Repeating Crossbow (MW Repeating Crossbow from the Tailor in Hommlet)
Gloves of Dexterity +2
NOTE: At the moment Meleny has a suit of Small Masterwork Studded Leather Armor and a Darkwood Buckler that are not enchanted (I could if I wanted to, I'm still trying to decide).

I was able to get the funds to do the crafting from sell items found in Welkwood Bog, the Moathouse, Emridy Meadow, Nulb, Hickory Branch, The Moathouse Respawn, The Temple and the Air, Earth, and Water Nodes. I did not do any "Exp. Farming", but I have fought every Random Monster I have encountered (not many, and none of them were carrying the Bank of England on their shoulders). As you can see, you can do a lot of crafting with the money you get in the regular encounters in the game (it might be interesting to see how much crafting you can do without the "New Content)

The Royal Canadian

[Avatar_do_Grafite]

its intresting to see, too, that if ya have some character with the Appraise skill and have skills points to keep it growing up, just keep some itens that are expensible in the beggining of the game, and sell then later, when the appraise of the char - and maybe his Charisma - becomes higher. Itens that worth more than 1000 gp (I keep all and any itens that worth more than 500 gp) in the first levels of the game - as capes of elvenkind and some jewells, if I shall remenber - will become much more worthfull after in the game, that is when ya really need the founds. I usually keep that magic chest form the moathouse zombie full of jewells and magic stuff to sell, but before to get it, I have the habit to use that barrels around Hommlet as temporary deposits!

[sirchet]

Note to self ... barrels around Homlette = storage. Brilliant!

How come I never thought of that?

[General Ghoul]

Note to self ... barrels around Homlette = storage. Brilliant!

How come I never thought of that?

I love to dump the junk you can't sell, but never know what to do with, into the barrels and the well outside the jeweler's. I find just dumping stuff on the ground slows my load time, so I never leave anything lying around, unless its a random map.