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 Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 3:15 pm
If you're here, 9 times out of 10 you're probably questing something, and
there's something you think you need to know in order to do it well.
Well, before you start reading, please, get all thoughts of 'The item
is too expensive! I'll never get it!' out of your head and just STOP,
take a deep breath, and calm the heck down.
How much is 'expensive'?
Expensive on Gaia means different things to different people. If you're new,
you might be wondering why something so simple is over 100k. However,
to more experienced people, 100k is cheap, sometimes even dirt cheap. Heck,
some people even consider 1 million cheap. The longer you're on Gaia and
the more you learn about the effective ways of earning gold, your idea
of expensive might change.
The price of my dream item keeps rising!
Item prices fluctuate from day-to-day. Plus, some people will try to sell
items that aren't worth much for way more than they should be. More often than
not the prices of that item will fall back to normal because let's be honest, no one
will buy an item like Wind Halo for 500k. (Unless they're like, horribly misinformed or
just plain stupid.) Protip: When an item comes out (Like the newest MC or an item
from the newest CI/RIG) don't buy it right away! I know you want it badly, but
hold your gold and wait for the hype to die down! The item will still be there
a few weeks from now, trust me, and it should be cheaper than when it first came out.
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Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 3:40 pm
Know the item you want.
Find a steady 'income source'
When you ask someone how to earn gold, many people tell you the standard
'Oh, there are so many ways! Posting, commenting on profiles, games, blah blah blah blah...' and
they'll go on and on about it, right? Right. Lemme tell you right now, posting and commenting
endlessly is not a good income source. 'Income source' is just my way of saying 'how you're
earning your gold'. Good income sources are steady, reliable, and effective. Hoarding, for
example, is a good income source (If you do it right, of course). Other ways can include
mini shops (Things like avi art and banner shops are good ones), Booty Grab (although it gets tiresome quickly), zOMG farming (not always
best for those with slow internet/computers) and, once in awhile, getting a job
from Gaia Job Center or even opening up a quest thread. Just remember that
if you do open a quest thread, you'll need to affiliate/bump/advertise quite a bit
to compete with the larger and more popular quest threads.
Find a way to save your gold
No matter how many times you whine in Site Feedback about how
Gaia should make bank accounts, it's just not likely to happen. If you really,
really think that you can't handle saving up your gold on your main account
because you think you'll go spend crazy, hold it on a mule and transfer
what you earn each day to it. As long as you don't name it something
stupidly obvious like '(Insert Name) Gold Mule' it should stay safe, too.
Prioritize
General Tips
These are just tips that I've slowly learned over the years. They may
not work for you, but they work for me, so I'm hoping they will be of some use to you.
1. Dream avatars are tools to help you, not tools to rely on.
Why? Many times when I see dream avatars, they're mostly random items
of matching colors slapped on together. Most of these items by themselves
are not very versatile, and I guarantee you that once you do get all the items for it
and yell 'Yay! I did it!' you will get bored of it pretty quickly. Then you'll make a mad
dash to sell all the items and buy new ones, and a never-ending cycle of item
buying/selling ensues. Even if you think you're the kind of person that will keep
the avatar forever, I don't recommend relying just on questing for avatars themselves.
2. Quest for individual items that you really, really like.
If you absolutely love the item and would keep it for a very long time, you're more
likely to hold onto it and build avatars around that one item and be happier with what you have
while you quest for more items. Items like Secret Retreat and Gogh Reed especially are
very versatile and useful because they contain cool poses in many colors and are
more likely to be used again and again over something with few poses and one color,
such as Chill of Artemis. Although both Gogh Reed and Chill of Artemis are cool
looking items, Gogh Reed is far more useful and will keep you entertained longer.
3. Evolving Items are your best friend for two reasons.
If you can snag a late-gen evolving item of something you want, even if it doesn't
have the poses you want now, wait a little while. The poses will be unlocked when
it's finished, and once it gets all those poses, the price will rise to be nearly equal with
the 1st gen version of the evolving item. I'll provide you with an example to help: Awhile ago
I bought Case of Pietro 10th gen. At the time, Case of Pietro was not finished and no one knew
when it would be completed. At the time, it was about 230k, so I bought it. Now that the
first gen is finished, the poses on the 10th gen I have are slowly unlocking, and the price is steadily rising! It's currently about 600k now and is almost halfway through evolving! In the meantime, I
just play with the poses I have until I get the rest. Lesson learned: Have patience with
your evolving item, and you will be rewarded.
Secondly, if you have a long list of items you want, I say go for the evolving items first. Many
desirable CI prizes are only about 3-5 poses for a large sum of gold compared to evolving items
which can have more than 30 poses for far less. If you have any evolving items on your
wishlist, go for those first, you will be satisfied for longer while you quest for the other items. Plus,
evolving items tend to stay around the same price forever once they're done evolving and there's
no more hype around it. Sometimes they even drop in price after awhile due to less demand for it or
it being re-released.
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Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 3:41 pm
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