Monster Loot

[Jorixx]

Let me preface by saying that I've only been here 10days or so, and I'm well aware there are plenty of ways to make cash in the game, however ...

The gold from monster kills seems way low, 160gps for an Ice Fiend?? Or at least unbalanced as other monsters that are far easier give almost as much.

Is this by design? and if so what's the reasoning?

Just for my understanding as a new player on the realm, thanks.

[Gaara]

Those thingies are in Ice Dungeon right?

[Jorixx]

lol, right, I feel an and coming?

[+Nyx]

All Trammel dungeons were overhauled to add more spawn. As a trade-off to prevent too much gold being too easy to farm and harming the shard economy, all new spawns were added with reduced gold. So, you might see 3 ice fiends, and 1 has the normal gold but the other 2 have less because they are the 'bonus' spawns.

[Jorixx]

While that all seems logical I'm not sure it's accomplishing the goal based on the prices of things I see on vendors and based on the ability to gain gold in other ways. For example, the average escort gives between 500-900gps, available every five minutes. So in an hour I could do almost nothing and earn about 10,000gps. Or ... I could go out and kill things (a lot of things as I've yet to see more than 275gps drop off anything) for that hour and accumulate roughly the same 10k? okay probably more but not significantly more.

For the record I'm just having a dialog, not trying to start anything.

[Cornbread]

As a new player you are mostly correct. The first couple of weeks are pretty tough. Once you stick it out for a bit and pick up a set of cheap mules your gold per hour will go up drastically. Following that it will continue to go up with either imps or relayers. It depends on which route you want to go and if you donate and how much. When you play and actually earn a bunch of you stuff and struggle for a bit it helps you to actualy play instead of getting everything real fast and quitting like so many others who go that route. So enjoy the struggle, because one day you'll complain that there is no real challenge and you'll banksit while sitting at the computer and not only afk.

[Jorixx]

I agree with everything you said ... except the bank sitting. Didn't do that 15 years ago and I ain't doing it now.

[+Nyx]

I didn't say that the lowered gold drops on the extra monsters was a single fix for the economy. Just that it's that way so it doesn't hurt the economy regardless of what else is going on with said economy.

Cornbread is right, once you've put a little work into your character, gold will not be difficult to acquire in whatever way you choose to do so.