How much gil per hour can you do farming as RDM main?Follow

I've been wondering this for awhile now, and while I know what some other jobs can produce, I really want to know what rdm can do to see if I stack up, or if I could be doing better.

Now I'm not asking for you to tell me what you farm or where you farm... unless of course you want to share that information. Also, I don't want to know about how much gil per hour hnm hunting or bcnm-ing or anything of that nature, as that stuff is hit or miss. I'm talking about real, grind it out farming. Like staying in the same zone and killing the same mob(s) over and over again to generate either gil or drops.

Right now as 75 RDM/THF I can produce between 80-150k per hour depending on drops... The area I farm nets straight gil drops off some NM's plus scroll drops. I make 60k GUARANTEED in just gil alone in one hour plus really nice scroll drops. Most can be NPC'd for 4-6k and some go for upwards to 50k on the AH.

My own personal rule is I need to make 100k a day. If I can make 100k in one day, That more than covers consumables I will use for the day, and tele's and what not, plus a large portion to my "savings" account mule, and obviously allows for the random purchase of desired gear. So the faster I can get 100k in one day, the faster I can go on to other things.

So I'm able to do 100k/hr for the most part on average although I've hit for more, and I've hit for less... in the grand scheme of things, how good is this for rdm? I know other jobs kill much faster than rdm therefore DD's can probably generate many more drop opportunities (kills) in one hour than I can, therefore allowing them to generate more gil per hour... in theory. So comparing myself to a DD isn't really an apples to apples comparison.

So basically just wondering what some of you guys can produce on a CONSISTENT, per hour basis as a rdm main.

Until I ran out of IS's I'd solo isnm's for my main source of gil, took about 50 minutes including travel time. Averaged a pathetic 80k gil/hour and averaged about 1/10 khroma's which I'm not to happy about. If you get the reported 20-25% drops on khroma that wiki says, you'd be better off.

Now I'm running enm's. But currently I'm at a negative gil/hour on those.

I average about 50k/hour on Up in Arms bcnm (duo) and 150k/hour (duo) in Double Dragonian ksnm (400-500k loot pool not uncommon). Although, being seal based you can't spam those.

I tend to duo sky nm's instead of solo like rog. So I only get about 100-150k/hour doing those. Much more if we get a lucky despot pop or dio drop. The other problem with sky pops is they sell slow.

I have horrible luck with most pop nm's, so I haven't made hardly any gil from gration or golden-tongued tonberry (I've actually lost gil on him, 50% drop rate my ass! 0/8).

Yeah, easily... IF they're up... and IF you are even good enough to kill them...

Had a lot of fun duoing rapido for drops mind we went 2/35 and those were bows that we kept.

The ENMs are a good source of gil both Brothers and Hagun are easily duoable used to be soloable but also no more. I'd say grind farming is a waste for a RDM be better off on THF main.

Despot and diorites are nice for sky triggers but depends on how busy your sky is. Zippi as repviously said is probably the easiest kill there is up there and you can always solo merc genbu's and sell Abjs etc.

^^ GILZ

Edited, Mar 9th 2010 1:09pm by poisonsenvy

I just happen to run into random NMs doing random things.

For instance, going to Tavnazian Safehold for Promyvion-Vahzl CS's, I ran into Yal-Un Eke, 120k beacon cuffs.

Then, today, going to the Safehold for 3-paths CS's and I ran into padfoot. drops astral earring, 1/1, yay 300k.

Edit: Just made another 120k from beacon cuffs in Lufaise <_< Was close to spawn for Yal-Un Eke after I got my Cs's so I went to check up on him. yaygil.

Not even trying.

Edit: also on the despot topic, idk if its just my luck, but I tend to pop a despot within 6 groundskeepers every time i do the page3 there. I tend to go to sky whenever theres no LS's up there (Which is usually between 12AM-4AM)

Edited, Mar 9th 2010 3:53pm by SakkaofValefor

Edited, Mar 9th 2010 4:02pm by SakkaofValefor