Spiral Knights - Is It Worth It?

Is It Worth It?

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Mon, 05/19/2014 - 18:25

Laughing-Zaza

After hopelessly rinse and repeating the R.J.P. mission over several times, (almost losing my interest in playing the game entirely and settling on arcading for crowns and a little more variety.) I've heard and seen a few people making cash over the method of "Buying low, Selling high" on items at the Auction House. Please inform me about the viability with this plan and how effective it really is between arcading or rinse and repeating missions the entire day.

I just want to know which method for getting a decent amount of crowns is more viable.

Thanks,
Kris

Mon, 05/19/2014 - 18:42

Dibsville

This is a risky type of merching, and quite honestly shouldn't be done unless you have lots of spare money. It's also not that effective if you aren't buying really high priced items in the first place. Making 200 Crowns off an item worth 2k isn't really worth the time it takes, for example. Making 10k off an item worth 80k is better, but still low-balling it.

Either way, it's risky business. But hey, if you've done all those jelly runs, use the tokens to buy 3* items, then sell them to a vendor like Vatel or Greave for 3.5k each.

Mon, 05/19/2014 - 19:34

Bopp

three ideas

Ever since the Hall of Heroes was introduced, you can't make money on most recipes. When you're at Basil, seek out the recipes that let knights upgrade boss items (Antigua, Sealed Sword, etc.). But beware of the recipes that don't sell well --- for example, Dark Briar Barrage for some reason. You have to study the prices ahead of time.

Maybe it's time to do other missions --- for crowns, for fun, and for access to higher levels. The guild Lancer Knightz has detailed data on the crown payouts.

You could also search Google for something like "earn crowns site:forums.spiralknights.com". For much of the history of the game, "how to earn crowns quickly" has been the most popular question on these forums. Good luck.

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 00:20

Drischa

Recipe selling

Stear clear of the 4* recipes, for some reason they sell for the same price of 3* recipes on the AH but cost 4k more to buy.

5* recipes have the highest raw profit, 3* have the highest percentage thing.

Sealed sword lines and polaris line recipes are the best sellers. Barbarous Thorn Shield and Barbarous Thorn blade recipes are very good also.
Antiguas aren't as good, lightning capacitor and Dark Briar Barrage lines don't sell super well either.

I've personaly never tried the method you mentioned in the OP - I can't imagine it working very well though. Generally speaking people pay for things that take time, and going on the AH doesn't take time.
You could give it a go though, and see how it turns out.

Tue, 05/20/2014 - 06:58

Plancker

Maybe you can try doing the

Maybe you can try doing the prestige mission along with some arcade and mix jelly runs in for variety, after all you get quite a few advanced orbs so you only need to farm money to buy the last few ones from Depot. I personally dont like buying recipes for profit, because you need to be lucky to find a buyer. If someone doesnt buy your recipe, you lose the listing fee. And even if they do buy it, it has to be for 20-30% more than what you paid before you start making a profit that is actually worth your time and risk. I prefer the certain method of doing X amount of runs and get my money that way. Id say bear with it for a little longer, and try doing some other missions if you get bored like prestige, you'll hit full 3* in no time and be able to continue the missions up to roarmulus twins. Then you'll probably get stuck there looking for elite orbs, but at least then you'll have 2 missions that you can farm...

Edit: doing snarby runs is actually quite fast for crowns as well. Even better is when you find a speed run partner to do it with, running past the monsters and only killing those you have to kill in order to advance. That method still gives you 1500 cr + tokens per run on elite, with a chance for advanced or simple orbs, and the best thing of all is that it only takes 5 minutes or so.

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