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    A few months ago I made a goal for myself to earn 100 million credits in SWTOR, this week I achieved that goal.

     

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    How I earned the money:

    -Playing the game naturally

    -Dailies in the early months of SWTOR, but rarely in the last few months

    -Crafting

     

    I did not ever buy any credits from credit sellers or buy items from the Cartel Market to sell on the GTN, every credit I own is from in-game activities. 

     

    Crafting made up the bulk of my earnings, here are the professions from most profitable to least profitable:

    -Cybertech - Rank 26 and later Rank 27 Armorings & Mods

    -Armstech - All 3 Rank 27 barrels and 5 types of Rank 22 Purple Augments

    -Artifice - Rank 26 and 27 Enhancements and Rank 27 Consular hilts (still haven't learned the Knight hilts) - there was a huge gap from Armstech to Artifice, I think there are a lot more Artificers on the server than Armstech, making it harder to make money with this profession

    -Armormech - 4 types of Rank 22 Purple Augments

    -Synthweaving - 3 types of Rank 22 Purple Augments

     

     

    Notes and tips:

    -All 5 crafting professions on their own earned millions

    -I never tried to make money with Biochem, as the selling prices are too low to be worth the time to try to craft for profit.

    -Slicing - I used this to try to get Neural Augmenters for all the augments, never for lockboxes

    -All the items I focused on were items that you get 2 items for the material cost of 1 when you get a critical result crafting - you can still make a profit on these items even when the crafted item sells for less than the raw materials, you just have to mass produce

    -While I supplied my own materials as much as possible, the majority of the materials used I purchased from the GTN; if I only crafted with materials I obtained on my own, I would only have a fraction of the credits I do now

     

    My crafting routine consists of logging into 5 different crafters 3-5 times a day to keep them productive, each time listing new items and relisting expired sales, always undercutting the lowest price on the GTN by a small amount and mass purchasing materials for new batches of items.

     

     

    I started tracking my credits in August last year, here are my credit totals over time:

    8/13/12 - 24.9 million

    9/20/12 - 34.1 million

    10/27/12 - 36.2 million

    11/26/12 - 38.3 million

    12/20/12 - 41.2 million

    1/22/13 - 62.8 million

    1/31/13 - 30.9 million - I spent nearly 40 million this day buying Rank 27 item modifications to try to learn schematics

    2/23/13 - 76.7 million

    3/7/13 - 107.7 million

     

     

    If you have any questions or want advice on how to make money crafting, feel free to post them here or ask me in game.  I've shared the basics here and have shared them in game as well. I would love for everyone to have the same success I've had. 

     

     

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    Arlan's Total Time Played: 123d 3h 37m

    Arlan's Net Worth: 107,744,385

     

    ScicleX's Total Time Played: 121d, 22h, 6m

    ScicleX's Net Worth: < 1,000,000

     

    I think I'm doing it wrong... >.<

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    Wow! Way to go Arlan! That's some serious dedication along with having the time to log in and keep those grunts turning out stuffs!

    Working from home helps - I normally do crafting rounds right before starting to work, at lunch time, first thing when starting to play for the evening, and then last thing before logging off for the night. 

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    you wouldnt want me to post my stats up here....it looks more like the US deficit.

    Didn't realize SWTOR let you spend more than you had.  :dash3:

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    Arlan's Total Time Played: 123d 3h 37m

    Arlan's Net Worth: 107,744,385

     

    ScicleX's Total Time Played: 121d, 22h, 6m

    ScicleX's Net Worth: < 1,000,000

     

    I think I'm doing it wrong... >.<

    What do you spend your money on? Or do you just not make any to begin with?

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    Arlan's Total Time Played: 123d 3h 37m

    Arlan's Net Worth: 107,744,385

     

    ScicleX's Total Time Played: 121d, 22h, 6m

    ScicleX's Net Worth: < 1,000,000

     

    I think I'm doing it wrong... >.<

    So is everyone else sciclex don't worry your not alone

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    I make enough credits to support my habits, don't have much spending money, which is why my sentinel is usually the first end-game geared toon in guild when a new tier comes out :D.  But the only thing I've kept on the GTN since launch has been Color Crystals and extra Cartel items.  I'm going to try to start pushing out some 26 stuff soon just to see what happens...

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    Congratz!!! That's awesome!!!

     

     

     

    My main "Mavrek" is currently an armstech. Should I look into buying the barrels and REing them? Since I can also make augments should I try purchasing the neural augmenters in large quantities? 

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    Congratz!!! That's awesome!!!

     

     

     

    My main "Mavrek" is currently an armstech. Should I look into buying the barrels and REing them? Since I can also make augments should I try purchasing the neural augmenters in large quantities? 

     

    2 months ago the answer would have been yes, with 2.0 just 2 weeks away, you won't be able to recoup your investment before then. 

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    And some crafted items cannot be RE unles you crafted them...Someone correct me if im wrong

     

    You're wrong - if you buy a crafted mod/hilt/barrel/armoring/enhancement, slot it into a piece of gear, then pull it out of that piece of gear you are then able to RE it. 

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    I put all of my mats, on all of my toons on the GTN this week.  People are buying to finish leveling alt crafting skills and I won't need them after 2.0 hits.  Although they are reduced profit with a pending expansion, it's been a nice little boost to my overall bank totals.  Some people horde mats for expansions, and some people dump mats.

     

    In WoW, people would keep their high-end mats to start their crafting leveling at the next expansion.  Since I don't even worry about my crafting skills until after I finish leveling, this strategy was just never important to me.

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    That is quite an achievement and I congratulate you on it.

     

    For the information of others, if you consider the membership of both SWTOR chapters, Arlan is not the most financially successfully, there is a member in the Pot5 chapter who is but a wide margin.

     

    It is not my place to name name's but take the time to talk with our fellows members in Pot5 and they let you know.

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    That is quite an achievement and I congratulate you on it.

     

    For the information of others, if you consider the membership of both SWTOR chapters, Arlan is not the most financially successfully, there is a member in the Pot5 chapter who is but a wide margin.

     

    It is not my place to name name's but take the time to talk with our fellows members in Pot5 and they let you know.

     

    This is obviously an old post, I just bumped it because someone was asking in chat last night how to make money, so I bumped this post so they could see it. At one point I was up to over 250 million credits, my current total is somewhere around 125 million.

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