DOFUS:How To Earn An Income

General Notes on Good FinancesThe purpose of this guide is to help newer players get to grips with the basics of maintaining a relatively good flow of Kamas.Basic RulesThis is every day common sense, but it Is surprisingly hard to get through to newer players when they ask "How do you get so much money?"Rule 0:Learn to be good-hearted. - The rule to rule all rules of ruledom or The Sarc Rule for short.Much of the money-making in this game is down to luck, no matter how you think about it there is a random number generator somewhere on the server (or client?) that is deciding if you are going to get certain resources or items. There are things that you can do to increase your chances of getting certain items (or Kamas) but in the end they will always be chances very little is certain in the Dofus world. If you can learn not to get too worked up over other people getting drops and congratulate those who get them then it will be much easier to persist in (long and seemingly unrewarding) hunts for special items until the gods of Dofus Kamas reward you.Being sociable will help a lot too, if you have people who like being around you theyll party with you and help you hunt for items (and Kamas). Some of those people may also help you with large purchases or give you generous gifts.Rule 1:Learn the characters - seriously learn how to build your characters up and understand what characteristics and spells you should invest and those that you should avoid.How will this make you rich?You will make informed decisions on what spells to level and unlike players who did not understand their character avoid painful spell unlearning fees or spell scroll fees at later levels when they realise how much they fockd their character up.Strictly, a bad build does not prevent you becoming rich but it can and probably will put a dent in your wallet sometime in the future.Rule 2:Learn the calculations - understand damage, shield, healing and prospecting calculations. It will allow you to make decisions about equipment.How will this make you rich?If you do not understand how these things work, not only will you make mistakes building your character, you will make mistakes buying equipment. Inevitably you will spend more money on junk equipment than decent equipment.Rule 3:Learn the price of everything - in your Dofus kamas career you will have thousands and thousands of different items. If you do not know how much each one is worth you wont make as much money as you can from it.How will this make you rich?Youre reading the answer to this? Jesus. Anyway when you know how much something is worth you can get the best price for it.Theres also another angle on the above rule: It goes something like - Know the price of everything, and know how much more people will pay for it.Example: The server Shika started recently, and as a lot of powerlevlers moved to the server, people needed to heal a lot. Ankama in their infinite (lack of) wisdom added to a popular NPC Wholemeal Bread for 20kamas per unit! This is when on the server where Baker cant be taken up as a profession and where the few alchemists selling potions sell them for 45-50 kamas each for something less effective than Wholemeal.Personally I benefited from this by buying as much Wholemeal as I could and placing it into sellrooms and my merchant for 50 kamas each. (The standard price on most semi-developed server - certainly something most people would pay) - This allowed me to quickly make a profit doing very little work, just by knowing that people WOULD buy the product.Rule 4:Now you can view associated recipes from Items you drop so there is no excuse to not follow this rule. Just make sure you learn the useful hidden recipes. Smoothitch, Desire Ball etc...Learn the use of everything - this rule follows on from the last one. If you know what every item you have is used for you will be able to get the full worth from the item.How will this make you rich?I think this will be best said with an example. For a long, long time (relative in Dofus terms) Tohlo Hammers sold for much more than their principle ingredient (Megacrackler Megastone) and the price of the other ingredients was insignificant.The Megastone cost around 50.000K and the hammers around 100.000-120.000K. It was very easy to get the ingredients for the hammers and get it crafted by a L100 crafter for around 10-20.000K. Instead of making 50.000K from a Megastone drop you would be making 80-100.000K just because you knew the use of the resource.You can also use your knowledge (from this rule and the one above) to buy products that are underpriced and either resell them at a higher price or use them in a craft and dramatically raise their value to you.Rule 5:Learn that alternate characters are evil - they will take Kamas away from your main character, if you must make another character make it on a separate account and team it with your present one.How will this make you rich?I think thats answered already, youll just drain your own Kamas away from your main character. At least with another character following you - youll get double prospecting and the extra character will eventually pay for itself.Rule 6:Learn to bleed areas dry - commonly after updates (or maybe not) you could find an area that you can collect enormous amounts of items that are worth a good deal of Kamas. Stay in those areas until the items lose their value.How will this make you rich?If you can collect a lot of very expensive items, you can sell a lot of very expensive items. I think thats pretty simple. Hardly rocket science at any rate.Good past examples of these areas include:Kwaks nests - where my Lvl6X Enutrof earned around 300-400.000K every six or so hours.Pandala (when new) - Kitsou Nakwa (1 minute fight) were amazing for me and a friend of mine, we levelled on them constantly for a week or so (until mobs were mixed) and made good Kama drops and got hundreds of rare equipment and resources.Halloween Event - a lot of people made a lot of money from this controversial event. Ive another thread describing how, but it was eventually ruled as a bug by Ankama (even though nothing functioned unexpectedly) and some people were reprimanded for it.Rule 7:Learn that prices fall - act fast and you can make money off items that become relatively cheap soon after.Why will this make you rich?If you are first to drop an item and the first to sell it, there will always be buyers and there will be no prices to benchmark yours. When the Pandala update came out I only had about three or four fights in the first week the island was open but I dropped a Skin from one of the new monsters. I sold the skin for 100.000K - a week later I saw the same item on sale in sellrooms and merchants for 5-10.000K.Above was an extreme example but most items in the Dofus world do fall in price. Id recommend that you sell something whether it is a resource or a piece of equipment that you are unlikely to need anytime soon - 95%+ of the time the price will fall so if you need it in the future you will have made some sort of profit. - Its usually worth the risk.Rule 8:Learn that people suck - EVERYONE IS OUT TO GET YOU!How will this make you rich?It probably wont, even so its important to be mindful that there are player who will try to scam you out of your money and who will generally make it difficult for you to play the game to enjoy it and make lots of Kamas. Just develop ways to deal with them.Rule 9:Learn to be efficient - Zaap fees can eat up a surprising amount of Kamas, as can healing items such as bread and potions. Get a profession producing healing items, or drag a healer everywhere with you and consider your Zaap usage (and how to make it more efficient).How will this make you rich?It wont but itll save you money in the long run. I have probably spent between 1.000.000K and 2.000.000K on Zaaps, potions and other "necessities".Rule 10:If you dont need it, dont buy it. - Dont buy an item that youll only use once or use only for levels 21-26. Try not to buy equipment too far before you need it, you may never reach the requirements for it, or the price may drop by the time you do.How will this make you rich?Itll eliminate unnecessary spending almost entirely - 70-95% of the money I have wasted on this game has been on items I dont need.One of the best examples I can think of was spending around 800.000K on a craft that had recently come into the game, then a few weeks later it was worth about 30% of the original value and in the end I got sick of the character I got it for and didnt even level it up high enough to wear it.Rule 11:Dont always buy what you can hunt - This isnt really as cut and dry as most of the rules. Like if you really want a Aerdala Amulet or something, you know it drops from Firefouxs or some junk, jesus christ dont go hunting them for it. Then is more of a buy before hunt. Anyway there are certain items that can easily be hunted from common monsters relatively painlessly.How will this make you rich?It wont, but then again youll save money from hunting these materials and also be able to get some extra money and experience from the fights themselves, not to mention any other drops you may get.This list will probably grow over time but Ive just started it off with a common one, while I think.Pre-Pandala Alloys - All are 5% drop from Dark Smiths, Dark Miners etc...Rule 12:A recent update added average prices to sellrooms, this means that most bargains you find will probably be in Merchants instead of sellrooms. Also it is possible to get bargains just talking to players. Ive been offered good at around 15-30% their actual worth recently.shop around (Buy low then sell high) - This is a possible continuation of rule 3, but Danimoth has made a fantastic point that bargains can be found on merchants if you know what things are worth elsewhere.In her experience she has made a 100.000K profit on an initial 40.000K spend, which can help build a fortune quickly if you find enough of these kinds of profits.Rule 13:Beware of Ankama. Seriously, they have become much tighter on inventing and enforcing rules. This includes retrospectively going through tickets from months ago and punishing you for things.Im happy for people to be banned for botting etc... or at least knowingly cheating. Still Ankama have screwed up a lot of things in recent updates and players have paid for it (and have been banned) because they wont do the work to fix it.Rule 0 talked about being friendly.... pay attention to that.To avoid the ban stick:Never aggress someone more than once per dayNever take advantage of something that is too good to be true (even if it is true)... this will grow, but Im in a rush and lazyHow will this make you rich?It wont, but if you get banned for a BS reason then you wont be earning any money for the duration of the ban. Plus youll miss out on potential drops, hunts etc... Well... being banned for anything sucks.Rule 14:Dont tell anyone your secrets before theyre useless. Or (if you want to avoid anger directed at you) never reveal them... EVER!If youve got a method to money-making, especially a sure-fire one, you shouldnt share it for fear of it losing its effectiveness. If too many people exploit your methods, they become useless. Of course ability plays a large part here - if theres no-one who can really do your method / devote enough time to it. Then who cares if they know about it...Also, if you find something too good to be true its best not to mention it ever... youll risk getting nasty labels thrown around at you. Of course, if youre about making money, not friends, tell all how youre rolling in the cash. Let their jealousy? or rage? at your money-making skills come at you.Money MakingHere Ill try to give some ideas on how to make money in this game. Im sure there are many more creative and knowledgeable players around who can probably put forward some better ideas than I can. I hope this post will get some responses suggesting some.Soul StonesThese arent exactly the best kept secret of the Dofus world. Fighting the perfect mob with a high prospecting group over and over again. Need I say more? Yes?Well say youre running around near Jellies, and see an extremely rare mob of 6 Strawberry Jellies. It can be somewhat troublesome to get a hunting group (with decent PP) built up on the spot without another group coming in and taking the spawn. Seeing as the mob is relatively easy to solo, you could always just solo it, Soul Capture the mob, and get a full group to tackle it in the Arena later on.Thats a awful example, there are much more profitable monsters that can be caught in a Soul Stone. Remember you dont have to be the one to fight something you catch, there are sellrooms for those things and anything that can drop a Dofus is bound to sell (for a fair price).Either way, on time spent vs. profit made, soul stones rate very highly.Control SellroomsThe recent update that added average prices to sellrooms has made this harder, although it is still possible. It may become less effective longterm.If you can master the use of sellrooms in the game you can make unthinkable amounts of money with relatively little work. If youve read and followed all of the rules above you will probably be very good at using sellrooms already so Ill only give an outline of what you should do.Actively look for low prices and learn what items are commonly mispriced - check them more often.Find items that other players will pay much more than their true value for, and raise the cost of them yourself.If you find something that you think looks underpriced, but arent sure, buy it now - check it later. Someone else may be thinking the same thing and if you hesistate you could lose it. At worst you can resell it at the same price (or maybe slightly above) - after all someone was stupid enough to buy it first time.Know the difference in sellroom price between the different cities, sellrooms in Bonta may have items you can buy and sell for more in Astrub.There are a few examples of the above I can give:I have found many pieces of equipment that have been underpriced: a Gob Lining for 10.000K that I sold for 80.000K and a 8/19/35 Gellining for 15.000K that I used for 17 levels and sold for 175.000K.I have repeatedly paid 15.000-50.000K for forgemage potions that I have later sold for 90-120.000K at a later date.Help CraftersThere are three main ways to help crafters (and in turn help yourself).The first is to give donations of resources (that are useless to you) but useful to the crafters leveling. Most crafters will remember this kind of thing then at later dates either count the donations towards crafting fees or may decide to waive their crafting fees entirely for you. This may not always happen but in the long run, even if they dont give you free crafts you will have (hopefully) helped another crafter become a master of their trade, which may lower prices to all crafts for that profession over a period of time due to the increased competition and flood of extra items into the game world.The second way is usually the most profitable, and always the most shortlived. Surprisingly often when a crafter is needing huge amount of resources for their craft they will be paying a set fee for resources. The fee they pay is generally the one they initially pay when they started the profession and over time it can be possible to find crafters paying up to double the price for a resource that it is in a sellroom. Obviously you can take advantage of this oversight on the crafters part, many times, and buy lots of the resource from the sellroom and sell it to the crafter (quickly doubling your money) you can then go and buy even more of the resource and sell it to the crafter (doubling your money again).The downside to this is that you will probably buy the crafter all of the resource they need to get L100, and therefore need to find a new crafter. The other downside is that you may have to wait a few days for the crafter to get the money to pay you if they have been buying large amounts from you.Apart from that this is a relatively safe way to generate some Kamas. Just make sure that you know exactly how much of the resource the crafter wants (buying too many can destroy your profits).Doubling your money on the second method is relatively rare but it is still generally possible to get some worthwhile profits doing this, and if you need to justify yourself (to your conscious) you can always take into account that you are searching out the best prices for the product for the buyer.The third way is to find a crafter that is leveling up their profession and a cheap recipe that will yield them fairly good experience, be cheap for you to provide ingredients for and sell for a fairly decent price. Make a deal with the crafter to provide the ingredients to them for free crafting and all of the succesful crafts back to you.If you can find a decent recipe to take advantage of you can make enough money from the succesful crafts (in sellrooms) to make an overall profit and buy even more materials for the next batch. Go back to the crafter and arrange the same deal, hopefully youll bring back a higher percentage succesfully and be able to sell them on again for a decent profit. You can do this as many times as you or the crafter wishes.This tactic is risky in that if you keep providing many of the item, other crafters may catch on and compete with your prices or you may out-supply the demand and be stuck with a load of items that you cannot sell.I have used this tactic enough to prove that it works several times and even had it backfire on me when I have run out of demand.Example:I was getting free crafts for Pinted Wands, each wand attempt cost me around 5.000-9.000K and I was getting around 80-90% of them back. Each wand was selling for 21-35.000K and I was generally doing these in batches of 10 to 15.From each batch Id make a profit of 100.000-300.000K the problem I had was that after one really large batch (around 30) the demand died, and luckily I sold just over the amount I needed to make a profit, but I was still left with many that I couldnt sell.If you are unluckier than me you may make a loss doing this and misjudging the demand.PetsIf you really have to spend the extra bit of money that you have you should consider raising some pets.It is not a way that will bring you instant riches, and should not be your only form of moneymaking. Though, its nice and easy, youll have some relatively decent money come at the end of it. This is a very expensive investment in time.Almost all pets will bring you a high income compared to the investment you have put into raising them. For example, if you were to raise a Bow Meow to be +80 Intelligence it would probably cost in the region of 20-25.000K to raise it and would probably sell for around 120-180.000K.I believe there are few better ways to generate money than this, if you have the patience. Obviously you are somewhat limited to how many of these you can raise because it can get confusing (and very time consuming) to feed more than 20-30 pets at once.Best of all about this tactic is that you can also use it as a money-saver by raising your own pet and you are also benefiting the community as a whole by introducing more decent items into the economy.Double FeedNot everyone knows about the double feed tactic but it basically allows you to skip a feeding for each stat that your Pet gains. If your pet gains a stat at a feeding. Immediately feed it again. You will get the message that the pet was already Sated but the feed will still count as +1. Then you only need the +2 and +3 feeding to gain the next stat. Youll get the pet raised much faster and it doesnt become obese because you are feeding it regular meals apart from the single double-feed per stat.Quests and DungeonsIf you have entrepreneurial (I hate that word) skills then you may consider the money you can make helping other people benefit from your ability to complete certain (repeatable) quests and dungeons.I dont feel like going into tremendous details but you can make a large profit from quests such as the Nomoon (pet) quest. Simply buy the materials and then do all the relevant exchanges to obtain the pet which can easily be sold at a profit. Another decent Moon Island opportunity is charging people to help them obtain the Moon Hammer skill, although if you are able to complete that quest I am quite sure you do not need the help of someone like me.Various dungeons can be profitable if you can solo them or have easy access to a group that can complete them. You can charge Kamas or items for a guarenteed completion of a dungeon (easy to do if there is a one-time reward for it). Although an uncommon tactic it does have some sort of potential.ProfessionsNot sure if this could be classed as money making or not, or if it should be included as one of the rules but I think its important to think about professions.Being a master in a profession can have two main benefits, the first is the huge pod carrying bonuses. The extra 1500 pods per L100 profession will massively reduce the frequency you need to make trips to the bank. Therefore youll reduce both travel cost and bank fees.The next benefit (how beneficial it is depends on the profession) is that you can get a decent supply of customers who are willing to pay for your skills in the trade - then again, even if you dont have customers you would have no reason to ever go to anyone else for your trade and save money that way.Anyway when choosing a profession you should be careful, because most of the crafting ones will be leveled at a loss until you get to the higher levels when you can begin to charge for your crafts or even make relatively decent Kamas off your leveling crafts. There are a number of crafters that have spent astronomical sums of money just to level their profession and have reached L100 and begun to make their money back over time (and some even making a profit).For each crafter that reaches L100 though, there are probably 50-100 (if not more) who are stuck at mid-levels in the craft with little hope of leveling it quickly and having spent hundreds of thousands if not millions of Kamas leveling the profession.I wont say dont level a craft, just plan how you will get to a high level in it first, and what it will cost. Then attempt to work out if (and when) youll make a profit from it. Generally I think most players will find it hard to justify a serious crafting profession (weapon maker, tailor, shoemaker or jeweller).Recommend ProfessionsFarmer - This profession is hilariously easy to get to L100, although I believe the new Scarecrows will significantly slower your progress. The first time I maxxed this profession it took me six days. The second time (after deleting my original Farmer) it was around three days.Baker - Only learn this if you are already a Farmer (ideally a L100 Farmer). It is probably even easier to get to L100 than Farmer. This is a fantastic profession combination to have, it will increase your pods to 4.000 base if you max both and if leveled properly should leave you with healing items for most peoples character for a substantial amount of time.Alchemist - If you are too lazy to level two professions to create your own healing items then this is a great profession. As it is also very good for energy restoration I would probably recommend it alongside Farming and Baking (to most casual Dofus players) again because of the pod bonus and also the fact that it gives you another alternative to paying for essential items.Lumberjack and/or Miner - I do not know what the current bot situation is on Rushu (or the other servers) but when it is not too bad these professions can be quite rewarding (financially) and also are commonly a prerequisite (in the absense of Kamas) to level a crafting profession. If you are not planning on making a crafting profession I would leave these well alone.New Servers, and UpdatesIf you have read this post, you should be well set on a newly launched server. If you play smart you will be fairly well-off compared to most.Remember to read the change logs on each server being launched and on each update!! Most people will not read them. This gives you an advantage, as they can give you insight to new potential profits and also resources that will be in demand.If something has an increased drop rate in an upcoming update, its price is relatively likely to fall. If you have an item like this, it might be worth selling before the update hits. Then again it might not... if the spawn of the monster that drops it falls. Be smart.The same goes for drop rates falling: buy it up before the price rises. Then prepare to sell after the update hits for a potential profit.Check for new recipes, ask yourself will these be popular? Can I buy in-bulk the ingredients for them, before the price changes to react to the demand?On new servers, if you are the first to do something, you can make money from it. High level professions, exploiting markets , getting a rare drop. The longer a server exists, the less ways there are to make your fortune, plan what you want to achieve, and do it quickly.
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