Newish player help

PyroAmos

So... I made this elf scout (now silver ranger) in Beta (so naturally it is on Bartz now), and played it off and on mostly solo since. I never really learned the market well enough to make money at it, but did get lucky in halloween event last year, and made enough money to get a drake set and +6 emi bow (cheap shot), which lets me solo w/o alot of soul-shot useage. So, now I'm faced with a problem, I've been reading about gracia, and it looks like c weapons are gonna tank in value so I started playing again this weekend, and went lv45 to 47.5, was pushing for B-Grade before gracia so I could dump my emi bow and get a low enchant b-grade bow. Problem is, as I do more research, it apears B-Grade will be dropping in value significantly to, which puts me in a bit of a bind... should I try to sell off my weapon and just play something else and wait 'til gracia when I can replace it for 1/100th the value of it now. Or should I just keep my +6 emi bow (cheap shot), 'til A-Grade, although since I havn't really found a way to make money (I've been within 100k of 4.5mil adena all weekend, lol, although I have manored a little over 1500 great cobol i should be able to make a little adena off of, although I don't really understand the manoring system past seeding/harvesting, lol.) I've heard the Ep1/2/3 release weaps that make music notes when u hit stuff with 'em, and hair dyes ect that were put in my storage while account was inactive are worth alot to, so I might be able to sell them off and get a A-Grade weap to, dunno really.

 

A few more things.... with changes coming to wolves, should I ditch the lv43 hatchling I've been lvling and lvl a wolf instead, or will strider still be worth it later on?

 

Should I get dyes? I've been looking at +3str -3con, but, I dunno if its worth it, as its pretty expensive to get 10 of 'em... are these obtainable solo or you need a party to hunt area or do quest that generates these, and is it worth the money in your opinion? I havn't been able to find very much information on where you can get these at short of buying them

 

KK think thats all for now, thanx for any help you give.

isurus

Defnitely sell it if you can. Key words here are if you can.

Hard to say how much you should ask for it (since it's +6), but I would start at 45m* and go down from there. Shout in Giran as much as you can, leave a shop open overnight. Check other Emi prices in Giran, ask your clan members if you have any.

Once you sell it, use shadow weapons until Gracia (this will suck but be worth it).

When Gracia hits, if you are <52 then buy a new Emi from the NPC shop for 5.5m.

If you are >52, buy a Dark Elven Longbow from the Luxory shop and upgrade to a Bow of Peril at the Blacksmith of Mammon. Do some research on this, the DELB will be 10-15m + however much AA it costs to upgrade to BoP. You definitely want a BoP because DELB sucks in every way and BoP is an awesome B grade weapon. Maybe stock up on AA now because it will most likely go up in price considerably once CT2 hits.

Once you get your BoP, put CS on that mofo and you will be good for a while. Work on collecting adena (or crafting materials) for a Soul Bow and do some mental relaxation techniques to prepare for the long grind to 76 (Drac Bow).

*I get this number from l2wh.com. +6 Emi w/ CS went for 44m 16 weeks ago, and although that is a long time, l2wh's G20 index is about the same as it was back then and nothing much has changed to upset the value of an Emi bow, so that's probably an accurate number.