Miner's Guide To Money Making
Opening
First of all, I apologize for my really bad formatting since this is my very first Wiki Page, I hope you'll understand :)
Okay. Let's begin.
Hello Miners of MapleStory! I am RoyalArchos. And today, I am going to show you how to get a heckload of mesos(I'm not talking thousands. But millions IN A DAY) very easily AND effectively through one of the jobs we can get in Ardentmill, which is Mining.
What To Do, What To Do
Pretty much what miners do. Mine. But you can't just mine every kind of veins, you'll end up filling your Etc. Tab(Unless you use NX to expand your inventory. Here are a couple of veins which I recommend you to mine:
Silver Veins: They drop Opal ores, which if refined into Opal gems, can sell up to around 100k per since it is used a lot of low lvl equipment smithing,
Blue Veins: They drop Sapphire ores, which can also be refined into a Sapphire gem. It can sell up to around 300k per becuase it is used a lot for lvl 50 or so equipment smithing.
Brown Veins: These veins drop one of the most bought ores/plates, which is Adamantium and Bronze. Adamantium Plates can sell 200k per while Bronze for around 150k.- AQUAMARINE VEINS: Valuable. Apart from their Aquamarine Ore which are used a lot of lvl 60~ item crafting, they also drop Diamond Ores. 1 Aquamarine Gem can sell around 200k-400k depending on the buyer, and Diamond Gems can sell maybe around 600k or so, 700k-800k if your lucky. Your Mining lvl should be around 3+ to be able to mine it successfully
- EMERALD VEINS: Mine these babies ON SIGHT. You might need a high mining lvl in order to mine Emerald Veins successfully, but the results are worth it. Their prized drops are Emeralds Ores. Which is refined into an Emerald gem, can sell up to 500-700k depending on the buyer.
GOLD VEINS: Also mine this ON SIGHT. They drop the 2nd most expensive ores on MapleStory(according to what I know at least), which are Gold Ores. Note, Gold Ores rarely drop as Gold Veins tend to drop Topaz Ore more often. But no worries, Topaz gems can sell up to 200k which is not bad, but Gold Plates...... Can sell up to ONE MILLION MESOS PER. Note, also needs a high mining lvl.
BLACK VEINS: Drops Black Ores and Dark Crystal Pieces, which if refined into a Black Gem or Dark Crystal, can sell up to 700k per, maybe more. Note, also requires high mining lvl.
PURPLE VEINS: Mine these babies in ALL COST. They drop the most valued ores in the whole MapleStory. The valued Lidium Crystal. Lidium Ores can sell up to 200-300k and their Crytals can sell up to 2mil(I'm not sure, I've never ever successfully collected enough ores to create one). Note, these veins are the hardest vine in MapleStory and even with my Lvl 6 Mining Skill, it tends to fail, or even drop any Lidium Ore.
Selling
And now, the actually money making part. The selling.
It is highly recommended to sell around Ardentmill around 9pm Server Time as that time is when the most people are online(on school days, people pretty much goes online all the time on weekends). But note, all of you have probably known the irritating ads by GAME KU .COM(or whatever is that, I don't have the memory space in my brain to memorize that rubbish site) or other sites which claims to sell NX for a low price(FAKE), can disturb your selling process as they use bots to repeatedly fill the chatbox, pushing your chat out of the chatbox limit. The only way to tackle this is just to also repeatedly say your chat(For example: " S> GOLD ORES FOR 900K EA) by pressing up every time your about to chat as it Copy/Paste the chat you sent before.
So, you can either sell on FM(but use a shop, rarely anyone hears manual selling chats) or go to Ardentmill and sell to the other players who are maybe in short of plates for their smithing needs.
Why
Why use this method anyway? Well in my opinion, this way is the most effective way to gain Mesos quickly. And why is that? Here are some of the reasons:
- Veins are everywhere. You can collect them while you walk past them when you're hunting or such.
- There are always people who are willing to buy ores, plates, and crytals. You just have to find them.
- The combination of Mining-Smithing. Mining makes you money while Smithing saves you money(you don't have to buy expensive equipment when you can make them yourself, but you are given free equipment smelting recipes until up to lvl 100 equipments, you have to find your own recipes after that).
But what's puzzling me is.... When this is such an easy way to make money and so staright-forward, why don't many people do it? I can only see 2-4 ore sellers at a time AT MOST. So there's not a lot of competition which is another advantage of money making through mining.
Ending
So formal. Opening and Ending lol. But this is just to show respect to you guys :) I hope you enjoy the guide and makes a lot of mesos with it!
Additional Info & Requests
- The most I made a single day is 50mil mesos. A combination of 80% ore selling and 20% Scroll selling. Quite a lot huh? Took me around 2 days to collect 50mil of materials(WORTH IT)
- I may need an experienced editor for this page, as I don't have any experience at all on formatting, if any of you are kind enough to re-format this guide or even teach me how to format a good guide, please contact me :)
- Finding someone who will upload a picture of Emerald and Aquamarine Veins for me :) Thanks!
Best Wishes to you all, RoyalArchos.
--RoyalArchos 09:06, 28 September 2011 (CDT)
Thanks to ToaArrol for uploading those vein pictures
To those who require a guide on mining itself, here it is: http://www.maplewiki.net/index.php?title=Mining_Guide