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Vindictus Episode 10: Forked Tongues and Broken Hearts
Episode 10: Forked Tongues and Broken Hearts
Episode 10 has arrived! With the Fomors’ sinister shadow looming over the horizon and fulfillment of the prophecy drawing ever-closer, Keaghan sets out to save Tieve from her grisly fate. Desperation leads him to make a choice that will decide both of their futures forever, and Keaghan will have to take action before the Pontiff’s men arrive and Colhen falls to a sea of burning torches meant for his head.
Attack Episode 10 head-on to unravel the dramatic conclusion to Keaghan and Tieve’s story!
Supply Depot Changes
The Charge NX button has been removed from the Supply Depot window. In order to charge NX via the Vindictus client, you will need to click the new button located in the lower right corner of the game user interface. The button is labled "Charge," and is located just above the Supply Depot button.
Metallic Inner Armor and New Hair Styles in the Avatar Shop!
Turn some heads with the sexy new Metallic Inner armor. You'll be leaving jaws on the floor as you strut by mercenaries in Colhen. Make sure to check out the brand new hair styles as well! Each character has two new cuts added to their repertoire that will help you make your character truly unique.
For more details on Metallic Inner Armor and new hair styles, CLICK HERE!
Skill Reset Capsules in the Supply Depot
Did you lock yourself into a build you're no longer happy with and wish you could start over without really starting over? Now you can! A single Skill Reset Capsule will reset a skill rank all the way to Rank F and refund you all the spent AP.
Learn more about the Skill Reset Capsule HERE.
Surprise Supplies Updated with Episode 10 gear
Another Episode, another set of Surprise Supplies! Both Armor and Weapon Surprise Supplies have been updated to reflect the new gear that has been introduced with Episode 10. Grab a few Surprise Supplies for your chance to recieve pre-enhanced and pre-enchanted gear without having to do any of the work! You're sure to strike fear into the hearts of the dragons you'll be facing by wearing hardened steel that looks as if it were torn straight from their own hides!
Check out the gear you can get by reading MORE HERE.
Quiz Event
Starting June 14th through July 11th, the Strange Traveler, Self-proclaimed "master of knowledge," sends an invitation to challenge you Mercenaries to partake in his quiz event. Prove to him that you’re not all brawn and no brains; beat him at his own game and win a prize!
The more your participate, the better the prize pool gets! Check out the event post here for more details on what you can win
Due to the release of Ep 10, WeTheProud will now begin changing its raid schedule.
Starting next week, WTP will change its raid schedule to:
1. Ice Dragon/Electric Dragon/Keaghan
2. Extras (Glas, Thor, etc.)
Ep 10 will take priority as raids because they have the best drops and are worth the most. Ep 10 also has the best equipment sets in the game (Personally, I believe the weapons are the best as well, but this is debatable).
You can read Z's Gold Guide on the Guild Thread in the Forums. If you wish to aid Z, please give the thread a 5 star rating!
Z's GG WP Gold Making Guide finally finished!
Z's How To Make Gold Guide
: Note:
Due to popular demand, this guide will be split into different parts that are prolonged among several posts. Whether you find this information useful or not, please take into consideration that there are certain requirements in order to execute the following strategies. Hence, I hope you will appreciate the time and effort I put into this guide as I've been very reluctant in creating.
A TLDR will not be included.
Phase 1. Introduction------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
So you've become desperate enough to read this guide of how to make gold because the economy of anti-bots has totally ruined your wallet and thus you must resort to reading forum posts eh? Just kidding, hope you enjoy it
Allow me to point out a few factors before we get started here:
1. The majority of making actual gold requires the player to buy NX. If you're not willing to fork over cash, you probably won't make much.
2. This guide is simply a means of suggestions and ideals that I have used to a certain extent, where I am confident enough to say it DOES show results, if done properly. Hence, there is still room of error, perhaps losing all your gold you have ever made, or maybe even the instance of making ten fold of what you have ever made. The risk is yours.
3. I am not responsible for any damages, penalties, deaths, debts, medical illnesses that result from the reading/application of this guide's ideals.
4. I will not choose the best diction/syntax format, nor will I care much about grammar here. Although I will try my best to not butcher my sentences, rendering my thoughts to sound completely illiterate, I cannot guarantee a perfect essay.
Phase 2. The Actual Content.
Part 1. Rumors and Myths.
As I stated before, it's very difficult to make a large amount of gold without the help of NX. The reason being is mainly because you will not have unbind potions at your use, which is a HUGE part of trading big ticket items. You will also not have enhancement/enchant runes at your disposal, so the best weapon/armor you can make is a +8 with rA scrolls. This also contributes to the fact that when you are done reading this guide, you will realize why Vindictus is Pay2win.
Rumors that I must eliminate from people's thoughts due to past lies and myths:
1. I made all this gold through trading dyes. I snipe dyes for low prices and resell them for high.
2. I farm mats and try to resell them. I also sometimes make armor sets and sell those.
3. I farm scrolls and try to sell them. I also sometimes place them on my armor/weapons to make them more valuable.
As you guessed, all the above are false, fake, or rather complete horse *****. Here's why:
1. It's probably a +15 chance that you'll actually get a 25/25/25 or 230/230/230 dye for 200k granted that the seller makes a wrong input. As a result, it's natural to assume the dye seller would probably have to buy junk dyes for 1m, and try to resell them for 2-8m.
So you buy a 130/130/130 dye for 1.5m thinking it's a great deal. To what extent can you resell this? 2m? 3m? 4m if you're lucky. But here's the problem. Not only are you wasting time, but most of your transactions will be dealing with the listing fee of having to put up the dye constantly when it never sells. And if you become impatient, you begin to ragequit and start lowering your prices, which is a big no no on a sundae carriage pumpkin soda.
2. Sure, farming is the natural way of making money. You try to get mats, take about 1-2 weeks, 10 hours grinding to get a few [Shiny Leather] or [Willy's Clawfoot] and try to resell them for 100k or so. Congrats, you made the same exact amount of gold I make when obtaining Bonus Gold from Missions.
Your eyes are bloodshot, you're tired, your girl/boy friend breaks up with you because you lose your entire social life, and I'm sitting here like a fat douche who plays 1 hour in 3 weeks.
3. Repetitive.
Note: I insert in crude diction because I try to make this huge wall of text more entertaining. I apologize in ahead of time if I offend anyone, this is to make the guide more fun and easy to read.
Part 2. Making Gold Without NX
Everyone needs an initial boost of gold. Just like any investment in the market out there, you need some sort of stimulant package to get started. Luckily, if you've been grinding from 1-70 as a legit player, you'll probably have 1mil or so saved up if you were careful about your gold.
I will now split this into budget parts.
1. I have about 1-10mil
2. I have about 20-50mil
3. I have about 100mil
4. I have above 500mil and I really don't know why I'm reading this guide when I'm filthy rich. I just like feeling superior. Who doesn't? +Haha
1. Starting out in the market with this amount of gold is extremely hard to make gold without the use of NX. However, it's still possible, but will take a great length of time. The concept in making any gold without NX is to buy a weapon/armor, enhance it, and try to resell it. This is the best chance you have. For example, Recklus luminaries cost 1-3mil to craft. However, not everyone knows that these level 60 swords require Epic stones to enhance.
You buy the luminaries. You +6-8 it. You resell it for 5-10mil. Bam.
Say you're unlucky. Say you're down to 70 dura because the RNG system is absolutely unforgiving. At this point you have 2 options, you can either try to go for +8 because the lower the dura, the less value its worth, or you can try to resell it for half its price. Please, please, pleeeeeeeeeeeeease don't think you can resell a 50 dura weapon for 100k less than a 100 dura weapon. Humans have eyes and a brain. Depending on the dura, you need to cut the price down by the percentage of the dura.
For example, 100 dura Dreamwalker staff is 8mil. You would sell a 70 dura Dreamwalker staff for 4-6mil.
Note: You have to consider that you MUST sell this weapon ASAP to reduce your losses. The reason its so cheap is because the listing fee will KILL you. Time is a factor in money, always remember that.
Your best friend is the RNG system. Enhanced weapons/armors are ALWAYS in demand. The reason is because there is no set price for equipment. Equipment always changes in price.
2. Alright so now you can start affording level 60 weapons. Let's go with Sabers. Sabers cost about 9-12mil in order to craft. Due to the seal system, if you're patient enough to grab a Colru Stone, then you're in an even better position. Empowered stones are about 50-100k. You need to make sure you always have a backup here, never go all out or you will cry like I have tons of times. By this I mean, never expend all your funds and know when to cut your losses. You only have one consistent income and that's missions like raids that give random drops.
Sabers at +0-+5 will cost about 9-12mil. Nobody cares that it's +5, it's not a big deal. It's where you either +0 or +8 that you will actually make money.
Grab your saber and begin enhancing. 24 empowered stones are the exact amount needed to one shot +8 granted you don't fail any enhances along the way. If you're an RNG expert, you know that enhances are based on streaks, so know your timing.
Alright, so you have a 40mil budget, you spent about 15-18mil on making a +8 Saber. Cool, you're good to go. Now this is where you can get a bit greedy. Sell that sucker for about 30-40mil and you'll get something like this.
Sometimes you may not sell it because you have others selling around that price, so try to sell your +8 weapons when the market is absolutely empty.
Alright, so you made 40mil, cut about 20mil from your expenditures and you profited about 20mil. Not bad for one transaction. Continue this route.
Numero Uno: Make your own level 60 weapon
Numero Dos: Make it +8
Numero Tres: Sell it for an absurd price
Profit.
3. Time to enter the big leagues. And by this, I mean you're going to begin what I like to call MASS ENHANCING. That's right. Grab about 5-8 level 60 weapons, let's go with Dreamwalker Twin Swords which for example are 10mil a piece.
So you invested about 80mil in making 8 Dreamwalker Twin Swords and you have the rest of your cash to spend on empowered stones.
Let's be realistic here, not all swords will reach +8, it's pretty tough.
Out of the 8 dreamwalker twin swords, if you're smart with your enhancing, you'll probably hit 5 or 6 out of 8 dreamwalkers to get +8
So you have high/low dura 5 +8 Dreamwalker twin swords. Sell those suckers for about 30m a pop. Then, you'll have about 150mil as profit, and the leftover exchanges of dumping the low dura DWTS. In the end you'll have about 180-200mil on AVERAGE. Congrats, you doubled your wallet.
Phase 3: Making Gold With NX
Part 1: Pros and Cons
Pros:
1. Enhancement Runes will be the majority of spending your NX, these babies will allow you to reach enhance levels of +10 easily, IF you know how to enhance properly. (Refer to Enhance Streaks in the previous posts)
2. Unbind Potions will be at your disposal, allowing you to buy and resell weapons, which for the most part is an actual strategy of making gold.
3. Durability Potions are a HUGE factor in enhancing. As most people already know, dura affects the enhance rate of the weapon, higher dura in my experience has increased my enhancing chances. However, the real question is whether a player should invest the funds of risking certain % chance. In this case, combine Enhancement Runes with Durability Potions in order to get the best bang for your buck.
4. If you're willing to dish out extra cash, Enchant Runes are also your best friend. Never enchant weapons when they are at +0, IF the player plans to enhance it later on. Enchanted weapons have a lower rate of enhance success.
5. (In the future, Bind potions that come out will allow players to re-trade 0 bind slot weapons. If this is your case, then congratulations to you)
Cons:
1. Depending on how much gold is seeking to be made, the player will have to invest quite a large sum of cash in order to make some hefty profits (On an average of making 300mil, it would cost around $20-30).
Once again, this is only possible if you're an expert at Enhancing and by this I mean you know EStreaks.
2. Even with NX there is still the slight chance of losing a large sum of your assets, and as a result can be quite frustrating both mentally and physically (Driving down to the store for Karma Koins, Lol!)
Part 2: The Actual Content
Now that I've cleared many aspects of gold making, pros and cons, pay2win, I will be addressing the actual content.
Note: There are other factors in gold making that I cannot control and depend entirely on the player. For example, how the player markets the item.
Ever see those megaphones of selling MULTIPLE +10 this and that, +11, +12? Well these are probably the richer side of players in the game, primarily because they know how to market their items. By this, I mean that they probably follow the same ideals of this guide.
At this point, I've probably bored you to death enough that you went to grab a snack and decided to begin picking your fingernails or even sucking that fat zit on your arm. So in order to entice your patience once again, I'd like to show the results of applying all of the strategies in this guide.
Still interested? If so, read on.
The picture above depicts a sale quite a while ago selling +13 Relentless Maelstrom Dreamwalker Twin Swords (Forum link to auction is provided).
If the player attains the right item and knows how to sell it, the player can make quite a hefty sum of profit.
There are two ways to go about making gold with NX.
First Method (The Safest Main Method):
Assume the player begins with an initial investment of 100mil and expects a return of about a two-three fold profit increase within a certain time span.
Immediately begin studying the market, what is in demand? what is not in demand?
For one thing, Dreamwalker weapons have always been in demand, due to the high ATT, Bal, and SPD.
At around the +10 Price, the player can sell a +10 Dreamwalker CLEAN for about 80-100 if he markets the swords properly.
Let's begin with something simple as buying 10 Dreamwalker Twin Swords (The price is about 6-8m, again, this is another factor I cannot control and will rely on the player's patience)
1.Enhance ALL to +8. How? This is where Durability Potions come in. Clean weapons require 2 Durability Potions to increase by 20 Dura. This will cost about $1.20 on the player's side.
2.Boost each weapon's dura to about 140-160 Dura (Overall, it should cost $12, again Dura pots are a Safe net, but can be quite pricey)
If you boosted your weapon's dura, it's almost guaranteed you will reach +8. IF not, you'll have to cut a few losses, again this depends on the player's initial investment funds.
At this point, the player should have invested about 100mil with $12. Empowered stones are a small calculation assuming you used dura pots.
If the player did not use dura pots, he would have probably invested about 200mil or so without the $12 factor.
The items held should be 10 +10 Dreamwalker Twin Swords all with boosted dura, average dura, or even low dura.
The path stems again:
1. The safest route is for the player to sell all these swords because a +10 DWTS can go for about 80-100m. If he sells all these weapons, he's in for a gross sale of about 800m-1bil gold. Unbind pots will cost a bit of money as well.
2. The player can try to be greedy and shoot for +12. +12 is by far the best enhance level to sell and use for a player. An expert enhancer would probably reach 6/10 +11s, and 4/6 +12s. Sell each +12 for 300-400m (Add Enchants to raise the price because Relentless and Maelstrom are 20-30m each)
This is by far the riskiest method, but if done successfully, the player can make a gross sale of 1.5bil to 2.5bil gold.
3. The player can try to trade for different weapons. For example, the player can trade 4+10's for a +12 or 2 +10's for a +11. I do not recommend this method, but I've seen players do it. Probably the only reason why a player would do this is if he wants to keep and use the weapon throughout the game.
Whichever route the player chooses, the player must keep in mind that patience and timing is virtue in becoming financially successful.
Second Method (An Alternative):
This method relies primarily on the player's social, timing, and patience skills.
As there are weapon sellers, becoming a weapon buyer is also an option. By this, I mean the player has the option of marketing.
A player sees a clean +12 for sale, try to lowball for 200-300 due to no enchants, add enchants, and then resell for 400+.
A player sees a clean +13 for sale, trades a +12 and additional gold for it as a clean weapon, adds enchants, and then resells for 800+.
A player sees a clean +14 for sale, trades for multiple +12 or +13s, adds enchants, and then resells for 1.5+.
To be humorous, a player sees a clean +15 for sale, chops off his organs, trades +14,13,12, ALL gold ever made, adds enchants, and then resells for 5+.
Overall, making gold with NX is a pretty simple method, most players choose not to approach making gold with NX because they're afraid of spending money in the game. However, the player should realize that probably all the time spent in the game is actually time and money wasted. In the end, it might be better to just become satisfied in the game and end up quitting. After all, it's no fun spending 3 months trying to earn that 1 Glas Pants and then end up booming it on a Leopards ES.
Final Notes & Conclusion:
Whether the player decides to make gold with NX or without, there are numerous factors that affect transactions and overall, the financial strategy. Sometimes timing may be bad and the player invests in Dark Crest armor, but now, Apocryphal is just as cheap, so why would anybody buy DC?
This brings me to the factors that I cannot control for a player:
1. His language and comprehension, albeit this may sound a bit rude, these two are actually life skills that involve successful transactions.
2. The knowledge of the game. The player needs to know how to COD and not accidentally send a weapon for free.
3. The marketing scheme. The player needs to know to advertise his weapons, make them sound delicious, and put up his prices as 1,999,999 and not 2,000,000.
4. The demand and supply. The player needs to know what items are in demand, what their prices are accordingly, and set them to counter supply.
The reader should know these are not all the strategies that involve gold making, there are other strategies as well, but these are solid ideals that I have personally stuck to, and as a result have been quite successful financially.
I'm not going to release ALL my strategies *wink* because these are exclusive only for my guild members whom I love and cherish with all my heart.
Closing Statement:
I hope this guide has helped you, the reader, realize that making gold is a bit tough, but if done efficiently and with logic, it can be done.
I also hoped this made the reader realize how pay2win this game actually is because compared to making 100m within a few weeks, an NX spender can be making 1-2bil.
Now go out there and destroy any chance I have of ever making money again! T__________T
Credits:
Shoutouts to Ikame, visit her Art page that I occasionally stalk! emikame.deviantart.com
xAltenna and Alkemist who are our current Administrators recently selected and hired.
Bandage, whom I love to pester in the megaphones.
Bravio, for sharing his wonderful stories with the guild.
Hikoosaki or was it Hanamiki....just kidding!
VictoriqueDB for being my personal VindictusDB.
IceWitch, Storm, Tenalo for always helping host our Guild Raids.
Angelaeckert, my personal mentor and advisor.
Lizee (Future wife), Hotori, Phyrene, Rakesh as Senior & Retired Administrators.
And finally, everyone else in the community that I cannot mention right now because this post is about to expire!!! Thank you for reading~
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