Auxentius

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My secret is grinding a lot, really hard. It's a ton of work, and there just aren't that many big money makers on FR when compared to such a huge goal. You're basically scraping all day every day for dragon pennies. It's easier to generate treasure than gems, but there has been a LOT of gem inflation very quickly lately which has made grinding treasure to sell for gems much less effective.

My general strategies were

- Bond with all familiars every day. (use two windows to speed this up.) Often overlooked, but this was a really great source of free gems and items to sell.

- Max fairgrounds with glimmer and gloom ever day (man I hated that game already when I started this, and my opinion of it did NOT improve over all this time. But it's the fastest fairground earner so that was that.)

- Sell swipp items while the swipp trade was up, this is the only time these items really sell.

- Reduce items down with baldwin constantly, but be aware that most items (excluding holiday items or brand new hot items) are not worth brewing to sell. Fun fact, if you compare the price of the materials to the sell price of a poi/tox scroll, you are actually losing money trying to sell it. Check the material vs final item price- even during new baldwin item releases, it may be more profitable to just sell materials.

- Take advantage of events going on. This is probably the biggest one. Elemental holiday? Grind until your arms fall off. New clothing item that can drop in the coli? You live in the coli for the next 3 days. New venue? Clear your schedule, it's coli time all the time now. Might also be worth saving up some of your chests from familiar bonding for new items coming out, as many of those can come out of chests. But basically when anything new has come out or there's an elemental holiday going on, you don't stop grinding.

- You know how I said to grind events hard? Grind them harder than that. NotN is one of the most profitable times of the year, grind at the Christmas party. Grind after Thanksgiving dinner. Grind before your date on Valentines day. Grind on your birthday. Grind on weekdays. The grind does not end, the grind is eternal. Some times are more profitable than others, but you grind hard every day all the same.

- Hoardsell common coli food/material/trinket items once every month or so. Try not to accidentally sell baldwin or swipp items. Leave a stack or so of a cheap common item unsold to feed to baldwin.

- You will get many drops in the coli. Old clothing, battlestones, familiars, all sorts of stuff. Sell them. Might mean sitting at the auction house for hours listing familiars one at a time, but money is money and that stuff adds up.

- Specific tips for selling things: If the price of a battlestone is almost the same as the hoardsell price, just hoardsell it. Sell in gems when possible to avoid the tax, but be aware that many items just won't sell for gems or may be worth less in gems than they are in treasure. Once you have a good idea of what clothing items and familiars are common (and thus worth "fodder" price for that item), don't bother looking up the price for each individually, just look up the "fodder" price for that item type and list all the known low price items for that. Much faster.

- Ever buy a duplicate of a festival or limited item in hopes that they would be worth something to sell later? Well if you have a big goal like that, it's now time to sell.

- Fill your hibden with baby dragons so they grow up in to strong adult fodder. Also, breed as many dragons as you have nest room for to generate new babies for free. Train them if you can, but just sell them if you need to be grinding in a venue that's too low level to train in. Contrary to popular belief, training to exalt really doesn't generate that much profit. I only did it once I had exhausted all of the above tips for that day's dragon pennies. That means I still did it a LOT though, because I needed a whole bunch of dragon cash. Eternal grind forever.

- Putting on Netflix or Youtube or something while grinding can help, once you've been doing it a while you won't even really need to look at the coli screen anymore while your hands go through the motions. I watched almost every new show, series, or anime I picked up in the past year or so while coli grinding. Got the the point where I felt weird if I was watching anything and didn't have a coli window open.

- Learn how to exchange treasure for gems on the forum, and do that. I usually converted once every million treasure. I would also vault my gems once I hit 1KG, just so I'd have a nice flat and even number to judge my progress by. Being aware of the exchange ratio can also help you determine when to sell an AH item for T or for G.

With these tips you too can be a dragon gajillionaire. I started with just 10KG and some cycled out items. Though I wouldn't recommend going for such a big goal unless you have good reason. Grinding that much is just... really not fun. 0% fun. Easy to burn out on fast. You have to consider, is being imaginary dragon rich really worth that much to you? Maybe it is and maybe it isn't, but either way you should think about it before burning yourself out with infinite grinding.

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I sell Sprites and other familiars and that's what gets me the majority of my income. (Though I don't count any of those sales towards my daily quota.) I also sell grab bags and on a good day I can get a bit of money. The thing that's nice about the grab bags is that it contains things I already own (genes, fest. fams/skins, gem marketplace things) so I don't have to spend anything to get money.

I actually have only made 56,294 treasure today, so I'm very behind on my daily quota. I try to make the 900g so that I can afford a light sprite that's being held for me (I have ~44 days to get the money).

I also actively seek sales on the Items for Sale forum and then flip them later on.
Also, luck helps a lot.
Example: I bought a Water Sprite about a week ago for 200g + a Nature Sprite. That was when the Water Sprite's LAH was about 1,700g and the Nature Sprite's LAH was ~1,200g. Now, somehow, Water Sprite prices shot up (In a week they increased by over 300%!!) and LAH for 1 Water Sprite is 6,300g!!! I'm holding my water sprite to sell to someone for 4,100g. That's a massive profit just from dumb luck.

Edit: In regards to Sprite Prices, a lot of them are going up quite fast. Most notably the Water Sprite (previously mentioned) and the Ice Sprite. The Ice Sprite's LAH was just around 6,000g a few days ago. Now, most listings for it are 7,500g.

Edit no. 2: TL;DR An easy way to make profit is to flip items. If you see and item on the Items for Sale Topic, and it's below LAH by a lot, purchase it! Especially if it is a retired item (Eg: Sprites, Downtime Fams, Fest. Fams/Apparel). You'll be able to resell it and make profit. Also, it's better to have items then pure currency. Currency doesn't increase its value overtime, retired items do.

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lol I sold like 16 nocturne eggs that I got during NoftN during the summer one year + lots of NoftN apparel.