A really basic, often asked question - making inf at 50! =S

Hi folks,

Jax the newb here, with perhaps my most important question to date - with lots of IOs to buy before I've got my 'complete' build, and a fair amount of money to funnel into the Incarnate system (once I get to tier 3+, of course), what is a good way for a 'general' level 50 to make money? Of course, I know this differs from AT to AT and powerset to powerset, but if you were to give advice to a generic level 50, what would you say?

While I appreciate answers which are along the lines of "do X tf/st/trial with a group", my primary focus with this post is solo options for someone looking to make inf, as I don't want my profit margin to be dependant on other people also looking to do the stuff I need to do.

My first thought is AE. I used to do pretty well with this while levelling, with my 3 CoT boss in a casino setup, thereby making for quick, easy tickets. Is this the best option right now? Are there better 'farms' already set up for a generic player (ie. non X/FA brute)? Beyond that, if this is the best choice, gold roll recipes are the best option, correct? While I'm aware that rare salvage is more stable as you can actually choose the good sellers, one rare recipe is going to more than make up for that, right? Keep in mind I'm a newb so I may be way off the mark. =P

Another thought I had was farming merits - are there any arcs I can do via Ouro (ie. repeatable) that offer fantastic merits/hour (potentially with some cheesy method like rushing through and killing important targets, or stealthing - I have no qualms about changing one of my builds to include stealth if it makes cash generation significantly easier)? It seems like with the right arc this could be the money maker; after all, being able to choose the rare recipe means that we'd be able to squeeze maximum inf out of each merit. This would also help out with my villain merit conversion; I've been doing this as much as possible and in a few days I'll be tapped for reward merits. =S I did read someone saying they could get about 10 merits every ~15 minutes via a RWZ arc in Ouro, by stealthing missions - is this a profitable way to go?

I read in a post by that same player that he'd solo the Mender Silos arc (first 4 missions) with his dom, and get about 1.2m every 10 minutes without even considering drops. Is this something that only a dom could do, or is it another viable way to go for level 50 players?

Or should I just try and power level my own SS/FA brute to 50 and start AE farming with him? I kind of don't want to as I want to invest as much time as possible into my main - but I don't mind if it will ultimately make my main that much stronger.

I'll stop with the suggestions - but please, please help if you can. This is an area I don't want to end up getting stuck with (constantly not having enough inf to do 'smaller' things in the game like villain merit conversion or creating incarnate components).

Thanks in advance for any help; I really do appreciate it!

Jax

The The Market & Inventions is a good place to start. They make millions, even billions and are always willing to share their "secrets".

One good example that started there is Fury Flechette's A Market Journal: From 0 to Millions. A step by step listing of how FF went from nothing to about a billion in a week.

Hero/Villain merits are another way of gaining money. Just 5 quick missions a day and you can quickly buy and sell expensive recipes for lots of profit. A lot of people use LotG +recharge but currently there seems to be too many on the market and the prices have dropped. Myself, I have a character locked at level 33 and have done nothing but random rolls with him. You can see my results in the link in my sig.

For less work, take a look at Organica's The Lazy Marketeer's Journal and Daemodand's I Hate the Market: a Random Roll Log.

Thanks heaps for the reply - after I posted this I started looking hard for some good threads and came across Fury Flech's, which even if I don't do fully (ie. don't bother playing the market heavily) it gives me a better idea about what I should be rolling for with AE tickets.

In regards to your Hero Merit rolls - which rank and level did you choose? 30-40 bronze?