The Whats And Hows of Making Kamas

The Whats And Hows of Making Kamas
There are five basic ways people make money in Dofus: 1) Gather Ore/Wood/Wheat & Cereals/Herbs & Flowers/Fish2) Farm for drops3) Craft Wands/Daggers/Capes etc... 4) Buy low/sell High 5) Control the market ------------------------------1) The GathererThere are many things to be gathered in the game. This includes Wood, Ore, Wheat, Cereals, Herbs, Flowers, Fish and so on. Moreover, there is alot of kamas to be made here. There is something to be said for those that gather - they spend a lot of time making their money. Many players begin to make their money by gathering - and I encourage it. And, later on, finding rarer spawns/drops alone can bring in several kamas. There isn't too much to say here but go to and check out the resource maps. The benefit of being a gatherer is that you don't ever have to buy supplies. Moreover, you may just find the things to mine/gather/chop/fish while leveling.Note #1 - ALWAYS sell your gathered items at the sellrooms - always. It costs next to nothing to put them up. If they don't sell, just put them up again. Note #2 Constant Buyers, find them, they are out there. Read on into the crafter section to learn more about constant buyers. ----------------------------2) The FarmerThis is a profession usually taken on by characters who can quickly kill there mark. To do this, you simply do dungeon runs or kill monsters multiple times or do multiple runs through the dungeon in the chance of getting a drop.Things to note:This takes more time than being a gatherer - and the payoff *may* be higher. The *may* is the 3% chance, or .03% for some items, that an item worth x amount of kamas will drop (check http://www.mmogoldservice.com/ to see the drop rate of items). So, with this type of way to make money, you may make 20k in a day or 200kk or 2000kk depending on what drops - pure chance. Now, some like this idea for the high potential. Like I said, always sell the item at the sellrooms. If you don't know what it is worth, look at items similar to it and price accordingly. DO NOT ALWAYS TRUST THE SUGGESTED PRICE! If you still don't know, put it up for some absurd amount - there's a chance someone may buy it. Do this on the weekend as well, as more people are on (at least 3x) during the weekends. Drawbacks:It costs a lot to put those items up for bid. And if it doesn't sell, you have lost that money. To compensate for this - first, always sell on Fri/Sat/Sun. Keep the items you get in the bank until the weekend. Also, put the item up around 7pm on Friday eveningAdvertising isn't a bad idea as well - once every 30 minutes (once every 5 - 10 mins if you are on a high population server). You can do a /b [item][item][item] in Bonta/Brack Sellroom. People will click on those boxes to see what they are, just out of curiosity, almost always. To make the [item] that people can click on, shift + click the item when you already are entering text in the chat screen. Last note - sometimes going for the lower level item may be more profitable than the higher level item. The higher level item will definitely be worth more - but you will be able to do more runs through the lower level area. ----------------------------------------- 3) The Crafter This is for the players that say "forget the gathering, I want to make things." To do this, you better have a good amount to a lot of kamas ready to spend. The first 65 skill points into any craft, you will most likely lose money. In fact, I can almost guarantee it. The items below 65 aren't worth much or in demand enough to make serious cash. This can be said even with items up to level 90. However once you are 100, it can bring in a fair amount of kamas, be it Sword Smelting, Wand Carving, Alchemy, Tailoring ect..Note: After you have reached level 65 in a crafting profession you have the opportunity to become a magus of that profession. Often you will find more business in maging items.So, how do these people get their supplies? One of two ways - Either at the sellrooms or from a supplier. Often times, the crafter will find a gatherer and work a deal with them to constantly have incoming supplies. This works well for both parties. And, sometimes one gatherer can supply several crafters with what they need. The gatherer and crafter also set a standard price for x amount of a certain item, this never changes once set in most situations. Having a constant buyer/supplier is more important and convenient when getting the most for your kamas. I suggest you try to set up a system like this - either if you are a gatherer or crafter. To contact them, try your guild, or go to known locations where someone would be gathering the goods your looking for. When you find someone say you'd like to become a constant buyer. This is VERY attractive to the gatherer as suddenly gathering x item becomes a constant reliable income for kamas. It is also VERY attractive to the crafter as they can normally negotiate for it to be cheaper than the Sellroom price and they have a constant supply to make their items. ---------------------------------------- 4) Buy Low / Sell HighThis is getting into the more complex of the ways to make kamas. To be able to buy low/sell high, you will need an initial investment. I suggest at least 100kk if not 500-1000kk. But, 100kk will get you started. The strategy is simple - buy an item at a lower price than it is worth or can be sold for, and then turn around and sell it for that higher price. To do this, many players will watch the trade chat. They watch for S> [item]. Players selling like this want to sell their item now and not want to wait for the sellroom- this is the perfect opportunity for the low/high buying player. You simply send them a private message asking how much or by saying I will give you x kamas for that item. From there, you negotiate. The idea is that you try to get the item as low as possible. Make sure you always buy lower than it can sell for - this means watching the sellrooms like a hawk. You have to know what it is worth and how quickly it sells. Supply vs. Demand. So, now you have your item. Let's say you were able to buy it for 20kk and it can sell at the sellroom - ON the weekend - for 60kk. You've just made 40kk. Now, all you have to do is wait until about 7 pm on Friday to put your item up, or any time will do on Friday. Just do the same thing here I suggested for the farmers. Someone doing this may turn anywhere from 500kk - 1000kk in a day depending on how much they buy and sell. However, a rough way of figuring it out is that you can only make twice as much as your initial investment. Sometimes you may make less, sometimes more - but never expect any more than twice what you invested. One last note: If you see an item up for less than it sells for, you know this by watching the market, IMMEDIATLY buy the item without a second thought. If you don't, someone else will. ------------------------------------------ 5) Controlling the MarketThis is by far the most involving way to make money in Dofus. In this, you have to have a monopoly on the market - our example will be Chestnut Wood. To start off, you will need a good bit of money, at least 500kk if not 1000kk , of initial investment. What you do is identify a market, Chestnut Wood for our example, and start to up the price on it. Let's say a stack of one 100 Chestnut is selling for 2000kk. To control this market, what you would do is completely buy out all of the Chestnut wood (granted the prices in there are not to obscure). Then, you would go back and sell them for any price you decide as you are the only supply for Chestnut Wood. Let's be reasonable and only sell them for 4000k. Now, people are used to them being 2000k and will not buy them for the first week. Also, you *must* have at least 10-15 items up at any given time for the price you have set. If they are not yours but are at 4000kk, no problem. If someone puts them up for less, immediately buy them out. After about a week of doing this, people will start to accept that the price of Chestnut wood is 4000k. Also, the people selling the Chestnut Wood will think that they have been selling at 4000k, so they will put them up for that amount as well. Now, all you have to do is sell off all of your Chestnut Wood at 4000k - you just made a nice profit. Now, it may seem that the buy low/ sell high would work better - but, where it differs is that you set the price. Make sure to no more than double it at first. But, once the price is accepted at 4000k, then you could do the same thing, this time at 8000k. All the time, you have more and more Chestnut wood. Sell those, and you have made 3x what you invested in the beginning. Also, control more than one market. If you only control Chestnut wood, then you will only sell at a certain rate. Instead, control several markets. It can be anything - fish, herbs, items ... You could even decide to control the market for items level 30 - 40. That is, you buyout every item within that level range and then double the price. The people that level will need items, and they will have to buy from you. Two things to note:First - other people will see the rise in price in that market and decide to start selling the item as well. If too many people do this, which ALWAYS happens, abandon the market - sell what you have left for more than you bought it for and be done with it. So, you will be controlling a market for roughly 2 - 3 weeks before you move on to another market due to increase in supply. Secondly - people will NOT like you for doing this. In America (in the corporate world), this is considered illegal. You ARE monopolizing a market and giving people no choice but to buy from you.One Last Thing - this method eats up a lot of time. You will have to check the sellroom at least twice a day to make sure everything is fine and at your price. You may end up doing this over leveling even. So, only go for this method if you want a challenge. Remember, you cannot just buyout all of a market and expect the worth to change in one day - it takes at least a week of monitoring.
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