Trade Runs and You

[lightsenshi6]

I'd like to request information on doing trade runs. Specifically:

1. What's a good starting trade run to do, if you only have a donkey (and only one pack at a time)?

2. What's a good intermediate trade run to do, maybe if you have a rowboat?

3. What's the best trade run to do to make money?

Thank you in advance for sharing.

 

[Flipsy]

1. If you only have a donkey, any run would work if you combine your usage with the carriages that move from place to place. Two Crowns to Dewstone is feasible with that. But you'd probably be better off joining a guild and asking if you can piggy-back a hauler to buy up a Thunderstruck Log off the AH so you can make your own cart.
2. Literally no trade run should ever use a rowboat. If you're limiting yourself to a rowboat, you're playing this game wrong.
3. The best trade runs to make money are ones that involve you needing more than just a cart/hauler/wagon/freighter. Do you mean money in the gold sense? Do you mean money in the material sense? Do you mean "best way" as in a completely safe run or a run through contested zones? There's not a lot of information here because you asked the broadest question imaginable for the topic.

 

[lightsenshi6]

3. How about the best in terms of gold and the safest?

 

[geololj]

Hey Lightsenshi,

Solzreed --> Two Crowns and vice versa is the fastest with boat or clipper. Just stick near the shore while you travel.

I suggest you use a farm cart or wagon (the first one you get fast) and do Ahnimar --> Two Crowns.

You can find the value of the trade packs here: (on ArcheRage I think you get double or four times the gold)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...Sji_bdgHP7Gx1uyxZrYpKqxro2nSJTk#gid=865721447