big noob question about d hides.

[arbitor519]

ok well i havent played for about 1 year now and i was wondering how do you make money off d hides? can someone please explaine to me, what lvls you need and how much money you need to start off with. and how much you get per hour?

[Lodewijk66]

first of all, your question belongs here (I think): Help & Advice

 

 

 

second: I think nothing's changed. I think the hides only rose in price due to a massive less amount of them on the market.

[Vincent]

i think they're talking about tanning them. the price of dragonhide increases after it's been tanned.

 

 

 

people buy untanned on the ge and tan hides in al kharid. crafters buy tanned so they dont have to tan the hides themselves.

 

 

 

but i dont like the idea of making things easier for the lazy rich people and you would make money but you get no xp doing it; but that choice is yours to make i guess.

[green9090]

i think they're talking about tanning them. the price of dragonhide is increased when tanned. people buy them untanned on the ge and tan in al kharid. and crafters buy them tanned so they dont have to tan themselves.

 

 

 

but i dont like the idea of making things easier for the lazy rich people and you would make money but you get no xp doing it; but that choice is yours to make i guess.

 

Lazy rich people, or people who can make money fast enough that it saves time in the long run to buy tanned hides? #-o

[Vincent]

Lazy rich people, or people who can make money fast enough that it saves time in the long run to buy tanned hides? #-o

 

 

 

still lazy. and personally i think powercrafting with dhides is overrated.

 

 

 

doing work for others that gives you no benefit to your skills isnt the way to go; when you could make money while gaining your own skills. such as killing drags for hides and bones. but, people do what they need to do and if he's been gone a year, i guess he needs money to buy the latest gear or whatever.

[green9090]

Lazy rich people, or people who can make money fast enough that it saves time in the long run to buy tanned hides? #-o

 

 

 

still lazy. and personally i think powercrafting with dhides is overrated.

 

 

 

doing work for others that gives you no benefit to your skills isnt the way to go; when you could make money while gaining your own skills. such as killing drags for hides and bones. but, people do what they need to do and if he's been gone a year, i guess he needs money to buy the latest gear or whatever.

 

If I need crafting exp and decide to craft dragonhide, is it better for me to tan my own hides (which makes about 400k an hour), or buy tanned hides with money made from double crafting astral runes at 600k an hour AND makes me Runecrafting exp? That's not being lazy, it's just not being an idiot.

 

 

 

Similarly, if a lower level who doesn't have a better way to make money wants smithing exp, should they mine gold ore (brutally slow exp and money at lower mining levels) or tan dragonhides for an hour and buy 5x the gold ore they could have mined in that time?

 

 

 

It's all about time management. You don't seem to be very good at it.

[Vincent]

If I need crafting exp and decide to craft dragonhide, is it better for me to tan my own hides (which makes about 400k an hour), or buy tanned hides with money made from double crafting astral runes at 600k an hour AND makes me Runecrafting exp? That's not being lazy, it's just not being an idiot.

 

 

 

Similarly, if a lower level who doesn't have a better way to make money wants smithing exp, should they mine gold ore (brutally slow exp and money at lower mining levels) or tan dragonhides for an hour and buy 5x the gold ore they could have mined in that time?

 

 

 

It's all about time management. You don't seem to be very good at it.

 

 

 

bla bla bla. you come on here and insult people you dont even know. i explained it;

 

 

 

work for other people and get 0 xp (tanning hides, running laws, nats, that kind of thing) OR train your own skills and make money doing it. ie runecraft, combat, etc.

 

 

 

you cant do both at the same time. and fwiw i already said powercrafting dhides is overrated and so are rich lazy people. :P

 

 

 

buying supplies to train skills is good if you know what to buy and what not to buy. and as for what i think of powertraining with dhides; i think it's overrated, so tanning hides isnt really an issue here.

 

 

 

and IF i were to train with dhides i'm sure with the infinite run from oog'log some super energy pots, a pack yak some needle and some thread and maybe some alchs; i could tan and craft them fairly fast. :) and the time is money argument is whatever if you get burnt out just trying to max the money you make per time spent. take some time to think outside the box.

[green9090]

I like how you can act like you're winning without even refuting any points.

[Vincent]

I like how you can act like you're winning without even refuting any points.

 

 

 

i dont know all his skills or what abilities he has to make money. I'm saying, working for others and gaining 0 xp for his own skills IS something he should consider before doing something like that.

 

 

 

as for time management; people do what works best for them. with the number of training options the only thing holding people back sometimes is limited knowledge and, as you said, some options only become available at the higher levels.

 

 

 

as for the time management thing that argument could be made but basically it comes down to how you want to play the game; what you enjoy and what your particular interests are and are those interests furthered by a particular training method or action? there are multiple factors that could affect particular training methods and those factors would negate or affirm them as good or not so good or bad training methods.

 

 

 

the bottom line is if he wisely spends his time furthering his own character in the long run he will benefit more than if he were to further someone elses. the argument could be made that he is benefitting his own character by gaining gp but again ask any high lvl and they will tell you gaining gp is not difficult and spending time working on your own character is what they do. IF he has other ways to make money and at the same time develop his character my opinion is that he do should do that rather than spend his time working for someone else and gaining zero xp on his own character.

 

 

 

you could argue that the time he spent working for someone else he gained gp and he could use that gp to advance his character. that's true but IF he can gain the same or more gp, or enough gp to make it worthwhile, while training his own character; the answer is obvious what he should do. a win win situation and there ARE ways to make good money, even at the lower levels, which do both; gain money and levels.

 

 

 

any lvl 3 off tutorial island could make the same amount of money as him if they are using this same method of making cash. are you saying the skills HE HAS developed to this point in the game are worthless? and that he should do the same thing as a lvl 3 off tutorial island to make cash. i think not.

[RayOxide]

I'm gonna agree with green, about the skills part of this.

 

 

 

One can use no skills to gather money, since not using a skill usually gives MORE MONEY, (usually alot) than using skills,unless the skill is roughly.. level 80?

 

 

 

For all we know s/he could be tanning them for money to train a skill itself =/

 

 

 

But this is definately a good way to get money, I tried this at 2m gp and couldnt seem to buy enough to keep me occupied for long, took me barely anytime, so around 5m+ i'd say if you dont wanna go to the ge every 45 mins.

[green9090]

Skilling very, VERY rarely makes enough money to be very worthwhile. It can be done, but if this is a low level looking for some equipment for bettering his character (like a whip), he's going to be better off here than fishing lobs, chopping yews, or mining coal. He'd waste so much time on a skill that will NEVER give comparable gp/hour to tanning hides. I'd bet he could get the whip in 1/4 the time here, and then be back to training something that actually matters.

 

 

 

I'm not saying skills are a bad idea- look at my sig. But if you have a specific goal in mind, it might be nice to let yourself think outside the realm of exp you don't really want at the moment and go for the goal with all your resources.