Best ways to make money in this game?

In-game money, of course, don't want confusion.





I'm level 44 and currently struggling with solo Act 2 in Cruel. I can probably get through it, but the game seems to be scaling a lot harder than I am. Act 1 became relatively easy once I grabbed a few survival items and skill points. But things are hard again, and being a Shadow, I feel that I am pretty gear-reliant.



Anyway, my real question here is... What's the best way to get the big bucks coming?


Buying and reselling?

Farming/leveling and randomly getting high Orbs?

MF run for rares & uniques? (If so, what level should I, where, and how much MF?)

Quest/farm in groups for the bonus drop amounts?

What am I supposed to go for here?

When I'm stuck I stack up iir and iiq and do bossruns. even with only 50/50 iiq/iir and some support gems, I get tons of rare drops and an occasional unique which results in tons of alteration shards, couple of alch shards and an upgrade here and there.

Per bossrun (Merveil and Vaal take me 2-3 minutes to kill, I usually get rares worth 1-3 alteration orbs.

Identify and vendor all dropped blues and (worthless) yellows for Alteration Shards. Once you save up 50 Orbs of Alteration, try to sell them for one Gemcutter's Prism or equivalent. Unless you get lucky and get a lot of high end orbs or items to drop, this is the best way to steadily build up currency.

To be expected: You're probably going to remain broke most of the time during normal/early cruel. What I can say is that you will just have to farm cruel for gear to get yourself set up. Alternatively if you get rares and uniques, the good stuff I mean through lucky RNG, you can start with a seed that will eventually grow as your luck keeps holding.

But unfortunately finding and selling gear is the only way to make big bux considering the huge prices paid for some 5ls and 6ls and many uniques.

You can make a little by IDing items and getting alterations and selling in bulk though, enough to keep you in orbs. Nothing fancy however.

The real money is in trading and scamming new people.

Farming only pays with high mf gear.

And to your question you´re level 44? Rush the content, farm items in merc ledge/fell till you can do maps. Group if necessary.

A good way to make money is opening a shop in trade forums. It is much more efficient than spamming wall of texts in trade chat. Although, as for level 44 you probably won't get any good rares or uniques from mobs. You can make nice cash from quality gems you will drop.

Some people stack iir and iiq and farm low level unique bosses. Rare drops are crap but you can sell them to vendor and get alts and shards. Or you can save the rares drop and sell them altogether for a chaos orb, 2 if all unidentified.

Also take a look at vendor's shop in each town when you level up or finish a quest. Sometimes there are 3 linked GRB items that you can buy and sell back for chromatics. There maybe a 6s items too which you can sell for 7 jewelers. Actually yesterday, I bought a 5 link chest from one of them :)

Also, you'll want to use the PoE wiki's vendor recipe list as your bible for what kind of orbs you can trade the gear you're finding for. Like I pick up all 3 link RGB items, white or whatever as they are automatically a chromatic orb from the vendor.

TL;DR version of advice:

Low level farming by stacking IQ/IR for rare items to turn into chaos orbs.

Stack alts and chromes and sell them for chaos/gcp etc.

Trade up your jeweler's/fusings/chances etc. for more manageable currency.

This tends to help a lot on its own.

I really disagree with alot of what u guys are saying. all are decent ways to make money yes but I find the "real" money is in smart crafting off high level gear from maps.

eg.

a 6 socket ES vaal chest drop with a bit of curency used to make it "apeling" to players u can offten make a killing off a sale to the right buyer, gear dose not have to be godly to sell, just somthing that a player of that level can use, and has apeling stats.

another EG.

Say u get a 5 link chest drop of any ID level above 55 , alt it till it gets close to or max base stat ( say it's a ES chest so get % ES with + ES roll on it with alts ) then regal and sell it, let the buyer play the exsulted game on it , u will make MUCh more selling it like this then selling a wight 5 link or if u try to craft something goddly u may end up spending way to much to make a profit selling.

also when farming in 6 man partys watch the wight drops like a hawk, 6 socket are good for 7 jewlers and alot drop in 6 man partys, also keep your eye open for potintal items for crafting even if it's blue sometimes if the item is of the right type ID it it could dropp with a roll rdy for regaling.

best of luck

P.S. getting crazy rich in this game is not really something u should strive for so much the mechanics make it so u will always be spending ( or want to spend ) more than u are making. Just learn to get your hands on good gear for your build

@above: all this is pretty much true, but there is still a yawning abyss between what you can get at 44 and when you can get out of a map. :P