So it’s about end of ride of TERA for me, as I am readying my transition to Black Desert Online in a few weeks.



For reference, I started on Brawler patch (Dec. 8?) and I acquired my first Starfall Weapon on January 3rd (1.2million gold). Afterwards, I continued to get 1.4mil more by Feb 7th, which I ended up giving away to friends.







The first 200k:

Each of these character needs to be made on a separate account - as it exploits the buddy-up system and ‘elitefreedays’ account code for free elite buffs.

With the introduction of Brawlers and Buddy-Up codes, you can now level up from 1-65 in 14 hours of game-time playing EXTREMELY casually.



With buddy-up, upon hitting level 60, you should have about 5k gold from the gems. Doing quests from 61-65 (level 61 scroll applied) will give you another 11k gold and exactly 3.2k reputation credits (buy crystals with these) which sell for 1k to 1.5k each (translates to 8k-12k gold). But what gives the most gold is the 1000 federation bills. A lot of people like to use this for dafi mount(sells for 6k on MT right now), but in reality, thigh/height/chest changers sell at about 1.5-2k per 100 federation bills. Depending on the prices, you can get about 40-60k per character.



I did this 7 times for 200k and fully geared dreadnaught lancer&brawler over 10 days.

During the winter EMP sale, I actually bought a bunch of boxes and opened them. I had average luck and made about 70k. If I kept the items and re-sold, I would’ve tripled (210k). Point is, 1) Buy EMP items whe they’re cheap and 2) don’t try to RNG boxes for profit. Do it because you enjoy the mystery prizes.

I also bought 4 seasonal (snowbelle) costumes and made 15k on each sale. (Generally buy 10k lower from the lowest price on release of costumes and then re-sell for the lowest price for profit.







Brokering and Doubling up (Going up to 500k):

You can double up on your money almost every week until you have about 700-800k. A lot of other players say ‘play broker for easy money’ and that ‘you need to buy low and sell high’. I’ll tell you right now, that this isn’t really all that rewarding, unless you get really lucky. Most of the time, the profit you make will be anywhere between 5k to 40k depending on how cheap you buy, and how dumb the buyer is. when you re-sell. (For this, follow what Kamizuma does. but to do this, you have to have much more gold than a few hundred k’s)



What you ACTUALLY need to do is catch the Pay2Win players. For example: Every weekend or every other weekend, you will see elite scrolls get listed at around 20-25k on MT. (Current market price for these are 45-50k).

I repeated this with around 200k gold about 4-5 times and I had my first million gold. (Sometimes the gold seller was on weekdays, every other day, so I was able to snipe all of the elite scrolls and made banks)





What to do when millionaire?:

As you see in my guide above, you don’t need to have a ton of gold to make more gold. If you wanted to make more, you’d just leave about 200k and use the rest. So this would be the point when I would usually end up using (SELLING?) the gold. But what if you want to go higher??



First source of income is playing the market. (Different than brokering, it’s not about buying cheap and selling high, its all about predicting where prices will go). A lot of people are anticipating Strongbox Key event, so they are stocking up on strongbox keys. I actually sold all my keys, because I bought them all at 400g each, and they are going for 700each right now, effectively doubling their worth. (I doubt there will be a strongbox key event for next 2 months)



Events cause a huge fluctuation in item prices because they give an excess supply (before during golden xmas box: celestial spirit 35k / legendary innerwear 80k. During double drop: Kalivan 400g/Desolarus 900g chests now: titan’s ember 150-200g ) The item prices are when I bought them. Check the price now on broker and I bet they’ve gone up (or will go up) at least double :)

I guess the other part IS playing the broker. By holding a godly amount of gold, you actually now have the pressure to change how the broker list looks like. (For example, I bought ALL instance reset scrolls on the broker at some point at 25 gold each and re-listed all of them for 50g each) Be careful when you do these, because there are always bigger whale than you are in the ocean (unless you’re Kamizuma, then proceed buying everything)

I like to play broker with larger items (i.e. +15 starfall weapons, +15 tensus weapons) because they are rare and you probably won’t see duplicates. I’ll hint and let you know that you should buy slayer weapons because they are getting a huge buff soon. Alternatively, you should get rid of some of the brawler pvp weapons, because you will see more of them on broker soon.

You can also choose to gamble a bit of your money away by either trying to +15 a weapon at a cheaper price (it costs about 200k for Lucid/Tensus on average) or you can try to buy EMP and either open / re-list them for higher.





Other ways to make money:

Once you have about 1 mill, you can start investing into level 60 scrolls and elite scrolls as well as character expansion. At 12 alt chracters, you can make about 50-60k gold a day with elite, doing ghililglade ( 25k pure gold ) plus 30 mob dailies (1.2k MWA + 2.4k feedstock) per day and corsairs (sea chest 2k each x 12) But I stopped doing this after a while, since if you just broker a few hours, I can make 40-60k just by clicking a few buttons.



If you find grinding fun, I guess you can do dailies.