Money-making opportunity!
No, this isn't email spam, despite the title!
I'm playing an untwinked drummer (dual wands) barb in a classic tourney and I noticed something I've never thought about before as a means of getting gold early in the game untwinked. The three-chipped gem recipe gives an new weapon (such as a wand) with new staffmods and 1-2 sockets. So just by accident I've developed the following money-making scheme for converting chipped gems into more serious amounts of gold:
1) buy a cheap blue wand (with no staffmods)
2) cube it with 3 chipped gems.
3) if it gets a staffmod, sell it back for much more than just paid
4) if it doesn't, try rerolling it with 3 more chipped gems
An example: normal Jamella is selling a Crimson bone wand (8% fire resist, no other mods) for 1541 gold. (Commonly for sale are "of the leech/locust" for about 5k gold.) 3 Chipped gems plus that gives"Bone wand of the wraith" with 2 sockets but no staffmods (could sell back for 2532 gold, but instead after 3 more chippies, it rolls to +3 Blood Golem, +2 Golem Mastery "Emerald bone wand" which Jamella will give the max 20k for. So in this example, 6 chippies and 1541 gold and some time turn into 20,000 gold, which is a pretty good return on investment and certainly better than just selling the chippies back!
It's not wonderful but it is a source of gold (early-game gambling isn't very expensive.)
Nothing earth-shattering, and maybe this is already well-known, and of course it takes some patience, but this is just a hint/tip for early game play.
No, this isn't email spam, despite the title!
I'm playing an untwinked drummer (dual wands) barb in a classic tourney and I noticed something I've never thought about before as a means of getting gold early in the game untwinked. The three-chipped gem recipe gives an new weapon (such as a wand) with new staffmods and 1-2 sockets. So just by accident I've developed the following money-making scheme for converting chipped gems into more serious amounts of gold:
1) buy a cheap blue wand (with no staffmods)
2) cube it with 3 chipped gems.
3) if it gets a staffmod, sell it back for much more than just paid
4) if it doesn't, try rerolling it with 3 more chipped gems
An example: normal Jamella is selling a Crimson bone wand (8% fire resist, no other mods) for 1541 gold. (Commonly for sale are "of the leech/locust" for about 5k gold.) 3 Chipped gems plus that gives"Bone wand of the wraith" with 2 sockets but no staffmods (could sell back for 2532 gold, but instead after 3 more chippies, it rolls to +3 Blood Golem, +2 Golem Mastery "Emerald bone wand" which Jamella will give the max 20k for. So in this example, 6 chippies and 1541 gold and some time turn into 20,000 gold, which is a pretty good return on investment and certainly better than just selling the chippies back!
It's not wonderful but it is a source of gold (early-game gambling isn't very expensive.)
Nothing earth-shattering, and maybe this is already well-known, and of course it takes some patience, but this is just a hint/tip for early game play.
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