Arlan Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 A few months ago I made a goal for myself to earn 100 million credits in SWTOR, this week I achieved that goal. 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. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steelcamp Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 Good write up and Nice Achievement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PopsSciclex Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 (edited) 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... >.< Edited March 8, 2013 by ScicleX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steelcamp Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 your spending too much on beer and smokes!! And Bacon!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldonis Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 you wouldnt want me to post my stats up here....it looks more like the US deficit. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drekken Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arlan Posted March 8, 2013 Author Share Posted March 8, 2013 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arlan Posted March 8, 2013 Author Share Posted March 8, 2013 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arlan Posted March 8, 2013 Author Share Posted March 8, 2013 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luxord Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tao Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Congrats old man!! Next stop: 500mil !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcturys Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 Congrats old man!! Next stop: 500mil !! Pfft. Underachiever. Next stop: Billionaire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PopsSciclex Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 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 . 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luxord Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 money money money! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odisse Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 Can I borrow some??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mavrek Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 (edited) 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? Edited March 25, 2013 by Mavrek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arlan Posted March 25, 2013 Author Share Posted March 25, 2013 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steelcamp Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 And some crafted items cannot be RE unles you crafted them...Someone correct me if im wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arlan Posted March 26, 2013 Author Share Posted March 26, 2013 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steelcamp Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 Oh! thats good to know...but sounds expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmrscreamr Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arlan Posted September 29, 2014 Author Share Posted September 29, 2014 bump Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ztuke Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arlan Posted September 29, 2014 Author Share Posted September 29, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fyckis Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 I know who big daddy is now.... So about those millions lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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