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[Ryuudou]

I used all of my novice potions to kill spores in the training grounds. After my job change I sold my drops for about enough for 9 red potions. I used them to kill rockers and only gained 275 zeny.

Without potions how can I ever kill things to get items in order to.. buy potions? I'm stuck. Killing porings or fabres doesn't seem reasonably fast enough to get any potions unless I spend a day doing that, but they have incorrect exp values anyways.

[Sammier21]

Hit and Pray
Then sit and wait.

Or you can make a merchant.
and max overcharge. Then NPC all your loot. You can Max dicount too and buy pots cheaper

Edited by Sammier21, 30 June 2012 - 04:32 AM.

[Ryuudou]

Hit and Pray
Then sit and wait.

It would take over an hour to afford 20 potions that way.

[sirAFKalot]

I buy potions and still make a profit on my little merchie. To be fair though, I did buy a light epsilon =<

[Ciel]

Make friends or kidnap an Aco? I know the Pots thing is normal of starting up a new new sever, so I'm sorry that you aren't profitable yet. ;(

[JennieLemon]

you could also make a Thief class, Auto steal is a great way to double your loot and with high Agi you probably wont get hit much, kill Roda Frogs and such, they have a chance to drop emeralds. Merchant and Thief classes are a great way for you to get the items you need for you main classes that get hit to hard, and kill to slow. so its worth it to put in time on those other classes first. :]

[Doddler]

The best part is that every monster in the game weaker than a rocker right now only gives 1exp 1job, so you can't even level properly.

[Unifan]

join a party, and loot some loots = profit = use less pot.

[Tirasu]

Who uses pots. Just eat meat.

[mintypudding]

The best part is that every monster in the game weaker than a rocker right now only gives 1exp 1job, so you can't even level properly.

Wtf, is that true? It did seem like it took even longer than I remembered for myself to hit job 10 this time around, haha.

Edit: Oh btw OP, there's an NPC in Al de Baran that exchanges 1 Worm Peeling for 1 Red Potion, so even a fairly short time spent snooping around the Culverts will net you quite a nice amount of potions (though teleporting to Al de might be a little expensive, so be sure to gather enough for the trip to be worth it).

Edited by mintypudding, 30 June 2012 - 05:54 AM.

[SirDouglas]

use MEAT

[kiiwi]

Can always go where everyone else is leveling and pick up the loot they leave behind.

There's a ton of people in wolves which drop meat, monster feed, and strawberries. Then you can sell the rest of whatever you pick up and afford some potions of your own~!

[AmonRA]

Meat and Milk FTW! Wuahahaha old and gold times xD

[Zinja]

meat costs the same as red pot - 50 z

[Tirasu]

meat costs the same as red pot - 50 z

It also heals the same as a yellow pot near enough.

[Facekiller]

eat foods dropped and gather empty bottles and herbs to make pots in alberta using the pharmecist in the merchants guild

[EvilLoynis]

I used all of my novice potions to kill spores in the training grounds. After my job change I sold my drops for about enough for 9 red potions. I used them to kill rockers and only gained 275 zeny.

Without potions how can I ever kill things to get items in order to.. buy potions? I'm stuck. Killing porings or fabres doesn't seem reasonably fast enough to get any potions unless I spend a day doing that, but they have incorrect exp values anyways.

I really am not sure which class you are playing so perhaps your should mention for ppl to better help.

Also keep in mind that Swordies got HP recovery for this very reason, as Thiefs have double attack for faster killing. Aco's get Agi/Bless/Heal. Archers get Double Strafes.

I cannot think you are very experienced though as I my Mage hit level 11/10 so quickly in training with only 1 Str/Vit/Agi and still had over 200 red pots left. If you do the training right you can actually get to like level 9/7 before needing to kill anything and even get 1 more base level by dying 1 time.

I remember before I did a quick list ranking of the easiest chars to start with and I believe it went like so: (Without any outside help from other players or even gears)

#1 Mage - Max Fire Bolt ASAP and it's smooth sailing for quite a long time
#2 Thief (Most profittable if paired with Merchant with OC)
#3 Swordies - Bash & Increase HP reduce resting times
#4 Archer (although rest times can be annoying)
#5 Acolytes (Heal Bombing can be boring though)
#6 Merchants (mammo is not worth using when it's your first or second char)

Edited by EvilLoynis, 30 June 2012 - 06:44 AM.

[Ryuudou]

I really am not sure which class you are playing so perhaps your should mention for ppl to better help.

Also keep in mind that Swordies got HP recovery for this very reason, as Thiefs have double attack for faster killing. Aco's get Agi/Bless/Heal. Archers get Double Strafes.

I cannot think you are very experienced though as I my Mage hit level 11/10 so quickly in training with only 1 Str/Vit/Agi and still had over 200 red pots left. If you do the training right you can actually get to like level 9/7 before needing to kill anything and even get 1 more base level by dying 1 time.

I remember before I did a quick list ranking of the easiest chars to start with and I believe it went like so: (Without any outside help from other players or even gears)

#1 Mage - Max Fire Bolt ASAP and it's smooth sailing for quite a long time
#2 Thief (Most profittable if paired with Merchant with OC)
#3 Swordies - Bash & Increase HP reduce resting times
#4 Archer (although rest times can be annoying)
#5 Acolytes (Heal Bombing can be boring though)
#6 Merchants (mammo is not worth using when it's your first or second char)

I'm a thief. The reason I used them all is because I was tanking spores solo as a novice, and then I also tanked some for my friend while he got job lv10. I tried to make another novice to get more potions, but after I got into the real-world I realized they were account bound.

[Blueflight]

Novice Red Potions aren't storable either. Makes leveling a fresh character a pain, this was one of the main things that Renewal fixed.
Currently while leveling on spores as a Swordman/Merchant/Thief your Novice Reds run out around the time you turn base level 15 and you're stuck farming for zeny.

Edited by Blueflight, 30 June 2012 - 07:05 AM.

[Krispin]

You could store novice potions pre-renewal.
Guess they changed that?

[Zinja]

yeah asked heim about it. he said they were made character bound.

[SniperJoe]

That always made me mad. I can see making them account bound, but character bound? What am I going to do? Hoard novice pots and become an unstoppable killing machine?

[Witch]

That always made me mad. I can see making them account bound, but character bound? What am I going to do? Hoard novice pots and become an unstoppable killing machine?

I used to do that on Valkyrie when I was still a first class. Except the server wouldn't let me spam red potions fast enough at Mi Gaos and the time it took to get red potions outweighed the benefit I got from just sitting down and waiting for regen.

[Samias]

I took all my empty bottles and exchanged them for milk in Prontera. You can also buy fruit from the vendor for early leveling, or save red/yellow/white herbs and bring them to Alberta for potions as well. I've had very few troubles actually buying healing items knowing that there are cheaper methods.

[TheSquishy]

Find aco, get free heals, make a friend, save money.