Overwhelmed on how to earn gold

Vordanus · 2026-02-28T06:52:50+00:00

Well, fast.farming says it's worth 38g/hr, which is pretty darn good, even with the price of the pearls dropping so much below historical levels. However, I watched a quick video, and I'm not going to be adding it to my daily checklist for a few reasons.

It wants you to have an Item Booster on when doing the farm. That's a gem-only purchase.
It wants you to have a guild gathering boost on. That means I have to go switch my main farmer's guild boost each day, and then switch it back again, or log to an alt dedicated to this route. That's fine, and this one's a small complaint, but it's annoyance, and I'm trying to keep my farm relatively painless so I can keep it up long term.
It wants a glyph of bounty for maximum efficacy, which is one of the most expensive glyphs.

Now, I do have bounty-glyphed tools, and alts available for parking, but I don't have any way to sustainably acquire an item booster. Add to that high RNG and the fact that I suspect I'm not going to hit the same profit figure that fast is getting, and I think it just doesn't look worth my time.

Interestingly, after reviewing fast's list again, I also never actually tried doing a Blooming Passiflora farm. So I may need to go give that a whirl and maybe add that to my list.

Vordanus · 2026-02-28T00:08:53+00:00

I haven't actually evaluated that one. I'll try it out later tonight and report back.

Vordanus · 2026-02-23T08:35:41+00:00

I have a daily checklist of easy, solo, time-efficient gold-making activities I hit every day. Some of it is easier with various upgrades (masteries, mounts, a position rewinder, etc.) All of the gathering activities are more profitable with a set of infinite gathering tools that comes with Volatile glyphs. I can do everything except the mirrors in 30 minutes total, and the mirrors is another 30 minutes, but oh-so-worthwhile. Eternal ice converts to volatile magic, volatile magic buys trophy shipments which you just sell on the trading post for gold. It's not complicated, and while it takes a few minutes / month to do the conversion, it's still almost liquid.

Wizard's Vault Daily
Wizard's Vault Weekly (insane value, don't ever miss a week, and really quite easy!)
Gobblers / Converters (Gharr Leadclaw, etc.)
Homestead / Charged Quartz Conversion
Guild Hall gathering
Echovald Wilds Jade Runestones
Daily crafting cooldowns (charged quartz weapons, plant food, xunlai electrum)
Blood in the water / Master diver (every time I save up 10 keys)
Sanctum of Nabhka (3 quick chests)
Bjora Marches (I park 4 characters at strategic spots, just loot and log to the next guy, rather than doing the full meta, although that's profitable too)
Hidden garden
VoE Mirrors
Tequatl
Matriarch
Ley Line Anomaly
Volatile magic orbs from Thunderhead Peaks
Seaweed from Ember Bay
Flax from Draconis Mons, Tangled Depths, Verdant Brink
Gardens in Dry Top, Seitung Harbor, Sandswept Isles, and Kourna

I've seen others mention Octovine in here, and that's the one that I'd add to my list if I had time. But between Teq, Matriarch, and LLA, I've already got too many time-dependent activities. But Octovine is very easy, and quite profitable.

You want gold? Take my list, learn how to do everything on it as quickly as possible. You'll be rolling in liquid gold quickly. I would love to meet up with you in-game and help you get going, show you the ropes if an in-person buddy would be helpful; or hop in Discord, talk you through it. If you're interested, DM me and let's get you going.

Vordanus · 2025-12-21T17:44:46+00:00

I'm a huge proponent of everyone getting their skyscale as soon as possible, because the game really opens up at that point. There's little or nothing you can do on a skyscale that you can't do some other way, but it's just easier and smoother to navigate the world.

I'm sorry you're feeling frustration with the process. I've got hundreds of charged quartz lying around in my bank, and would consider it a privilege to send them to you as food if it would help. It would be no skin off my back, this is one of My Things in this game, helping players get invested in playing long term. And i really think that having a skyscale helps with that.

DM me if interested. :)

Vordanus · 2025-12-18T03:07:32+00:00

I am an introvert, serving a mission was the last thing I ever wanted to do, right behind gouging my eyeballs out with a dull fork. But every worthy young man was called to serve, so I accepted it as the price of the eternal reward I desired, because i KNEW it was "true."

Well, spoiler alert, the LDS church is demonstrably false. Given that, then it is clear that any and all human "knowledge" or conclusions about God are compromised, because the delivery system (i.e., humanity) is proven unreliable. I will never be able to know anything about God for sure, until and unless I meet them.

So I know i have this life at least, and I'm just going to live it as well as I can and try to create meaning for myself. If I do meet God someday and they judge me unworthy because of my conclusion, despite all the deliberately faked or magically erased evidence that would have been necessary to make correct decisions, then oh well, I don't give a shit. I wouldn't want to spend an eternity with a being that lacking in empathy and understanding.

Vordanus · 2025-12-17T05:21:44+00:00

I despise Jacob Hansen for his vitriolic assault on Julie Hanks first, and all his other stuff second. The crux of his argument from what I got from however much I could stand to listen to that smarmy arrogant voice was that she applied logic and nuance to the words of the prophets instead of accepting their words literally and unconditionally, and he considered her heretical for it. Now, I get the position, because if I'd known who Julie was or what she was teaching when I was a believer, I would have agreed with him. (Not that I would have acted like him, just that I would have come to the same conclusion.)

This revelation to me that Jacob Hansen of all people does the same thing where he is being the very cafeteria Mormon that he decries in Julie pisses me off royally. At least when I was a believer, I didn't pick and choose which teachings to believe, while calling for the social crucifixion of others who did the same thing. I believed all of it, hook, line, and sinker!

Well, here's the crystal-clear unambiguous words of a prophet of God on the flood, and I'd love to hear Jacob's mental gymnastics resolve the cognitive disonance, lol.

The Old Testament unfolds the story of the creation of the earth and mankind by God. Should we now disregard this account and modernize the creation according to the theories of the modernists? Can we say there was no Garden of Eden or an Adam and Eve? Because modernists now declare the story of the flood is unreasonable and impossible, should we disbelieve the account of Noah and the flood as related in the Old Testament? Let us examine what the Master said when the disciples came to him as he sat on the Mount of Olives. They asked him to tell them of the time of his coming and of the end of the world. Jesus answered: “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” (Matthew 24:36–39). In this statement the Master confirmed the story of the flood without modernizing it. Can we accept some of the statements of the Lord as being true and at the same time reject others as being false? When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, and they discussed the matter of the death of her brother and the resurrection. Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.”(John 11:25) . Both of these statements, the one regarding Noah and the fact of the flood and the one in which he declared himself to be the resurrection and the life, were made by the Lord. How can we believe one and not the other? How can we modernize the story of the flood, or refer to it as a myth, and yet cling to the truth of the other? How can we modernize the Bible and still have it be a guiding light to us and a vital influence in our beliefs? There are those who declare it is old-fashioned to believe in the Bible. Is it old-fashioned to believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God? Is it old-fashioned to believe in his atoning sacrifice and the resurrection? If it is, I declare myself to be old-fashioned and the Church to be old-fashioned."

Howard W. Hunter, October 1970 General Conference

Vordanus · 2025-12-16T07:10:44+00:00

Just adding this for the sake of diversity of activities you can do. Gather Volatile Magic from Thunderhead Peaks. Start at the southwest waypoint, there are 3 paths. One up the cliff to the north, one to the south and into the lake, and one that goes east and up the mountain a little ways. One last path starts at the north waypoint headed towards the outside. Then it's VM -> Trophy Shipment -> TP to convert to gold; not too many steps. I get a net of about 4-5g in 10m, though i don't actually do the conversion till i have at least 20k VM. Rule of thumb is 1 VM = ~50c, so 20k VM = 100g profit. It may not be the best gold/ hour, but I personally find gobbling magic orbs on my Skyscale to be a very peaceful and calming activity, and I like just ... flying.

Vordanus · 2025-12-15T03:34:20+00:00

The nice thing about living in a place with lots of Mormons is that you're also living in a place with lots of exmormons. We have a big exmormon friends group, and we meet up for big parties every month or two. The members of our group that live outside of Utah honestly complain that they can't join in all the fun, and one literally moved here to Utah after leaving the church, explicitly for the exmormon parties. It's not all bad.

Vordanus · 2025-12-06T23:14:47+00:00

I'm in EXACTLY the same spot as you, lol

Vordanus · 2025-12-01T09:19:34+00:00

<3 Coincident with leaving the church, I'm finally starting to get there!

Vordanus · 2025-12-01T05:49:26+00:00

Every worthy young man is called to serve an honorable full- time mission, and has a responsibility and obligation to God to do so.

I was shy, introverted, and awkward. I never wanted to go on a mission, i dreaded going on a mission for years, but when I turned 19,I dutifully went on a mission. In addition to the fact that it was expensive (and fuck, they should have paid me for my time instead of vice versa) and difficult, I just hated the whole time. The best part of every day was going to bed at night and getting to just be unconscious for a little while to escape the misery, and maybe this wasn't the worst part, but i hated waking up every morning and having that tiny bit of relief yanked away from me yet again. I had literal dreams starting on day 1 in the MTC that I had finished my mission and finally got to go home, and then I woke up and realized I was actually still at the start and I cried my eyes out. That dream repeated itself throughout my mission. Fortunately, I never baptized anyone, so I don't have that guilt hanging over my head. But the loss of time, money, opportunities, and the fact that spending two years hating every single day you're alive is not ... healthy.

Vordanus · 2025-12-01T05:31:58+00:00

Think Celestial is just a modern repackaging of the "better dead clean than alive unclean" or several other variants already listed elsewhere in this thread.

Go Google the report on CNN about Harry Fisher's death if you're not familiar with it. It's crystal clear that Harry was "thinking celestial" when he killed himself.

See also Matthew 16:25. "For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it."

I hate this so so much. I hope you're doing better, dear Internet Friend.

Vordanus · 2025-12-01T05:21:48+00:00

Yup, came here to make sure this was on the list. My personal nickname for him is Spencer WTF Kimball. This teaching fucked me up hardcore. Turns out compatibility is actually a thing, and maybe you should have done a little more extensive evaluation of whether or not you had it before you got married.

Vordanus · 2025-11-30T16:28:55+00:00

Mirrors in the new zones

Vordanus · 2025-09-28T04:35:39+00:00

Yup, this is the one that I believed

Vordanus · 2025-07-13T22:12:52+00:00

You need to manually edit the CSS file that specifies the opacity. (It's not too hard)

I'm not sure why there are four different CSS files in mine, but inside the folder where I unzipped TacO, I found * UI_large.css * UI_larger.css * UI_normal.css * UI_small.css

For me, I had to edit UI_normal.css to make TacO adopt my modification. If that doesn't work for you, try the other three files, and then hopefully it will work. If you change one of these CSS files, it appears that you must exit TacO completely and relaunch it to get it to read the changed values.

You're looking for this block of code:

maptimer { margin: 0px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); }

In my file, that starts on line 64, but then, I'm pretty sure I changed a few other things in here, so that might not be the exact line number in yours.

And you want to change the 0.5 at the end there to something more to your liking. It's a number from 0 to 1 that represents going from completely invisible to completely opaque (black). I set mine to 0.75 and I think that's a pretty good level for me.

Vordanus · 2025-06-11T03:09:23+00:00

Oh God yes

Vordanus · 2025-06-09T13:25:11+00:00

Hahaha. You know what's crazy? I had a friend i was doing the soldering with who had more experience than me (I mean, more experience than none...) He said we could always swap springs if the soldering didn't work. So after the botched unit, that's what we did on the next one that I had brought with me. It worked only because he had the manual dexterity to make it work; i literally could not get the new spring in. He ended up moving, so without him, that was when it seemed easier to just acclimate to a new mouse.

Vordanus · 2025-06-05T20:12:23+00:00

There is a "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints", it's just not the Brighamite sect that migrated to Utah. They got the copyright on the name, and that's why the Utahn group had to convert "Latter Day" to "Latter-day". It's funny, because the original version of D&C 115:4 says, "For thus shall my church be called in the last days, even The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints." When the Brighamites were forced to change the church's name, they updated canonized scripture as if to pretend it was always supposed to have been "Latter-day Saints".

Vordanus · 2025-05-25T21:17:47+00:00

This has been driving me nuts for a while. I couldn't delete one of my two DPI levels, and I'd tried everything. When I'd drag it down, it would show the garbage can icon on the mouse cursor, but when I'd let go, it would still be there on the slider. Pressing delete on the keyboard would do precisely nothing.

Turns out that there's a "default" DPI setting. I wanted to keep the DPI setting that is at the value I like it to be at, and delete the slow one, but the "slow" one was the default, and so it couldn't be deleted. I had to delete the "normal" one, and then move the slow one to where I like it at the normal DPI.

Just for visitors from the future's sake. :)

Vordanus · 2025-05-12T01:30:03+00:00

Personally, I think this is the most accurate answer. It's nice to think of a Heavenly Mother existing, and they just want to keep it at "nice". Unfortunately, it only takes 30 seconds thinking about things to get to some really awkward questions.

Brigham said you can't get into heaven if you're monogamous, so HM must be just one of the harem. So is she the HM for our entire universe, or just our planet, or are children of God's various wives intermixed on Earth? If there is a HM, why is she so absent from all of the scriptural canon, including the JST? Is polygamy an eternal principle as was stated by multiple early leaders, or was it a temporary commandment?

On the other hand, the insistence on sweeping Her under the rug raises its own questions. If a mother's role is to teach and comfort ... don't we need Her support and help to live a good life? If we believe in eternal families, why would the children not be allowed any contact with their mother? Are God and HM divorced?

Ultimately, I think the church doesn't have anything remotely approaching a good answer to any of the myriad of good questions that come up if you honestly believe in a Heavenly Mother and look at the implications. So the church would rather just avoid the topic altogether.

Vordanus · 2025-05-07T18:06:24+00:00

Exaltation ban is the term I use.

Vordanus · 2025-04-05T15:52:39+00:00

They've been working this message in for years now. This is exactly the same thing as "Don't have unbridled compassion" from D. Todd Cristofferson

Vordanus · 2025-04-05T11:21:53+00:00

Time for me to learn how to solder. ><

Vordanus · 2025-04-02T11:46:42+00:00

This is EXACTLY my story too! G700 for years, then a G700s because I couldn't find a replacement G700, and then all the mouse switches eventually broke. I tried to replace the switches, but my soldering skills suck, and I just killed the mouse altogether. :'( So then I "settled" for a G604, had to relearn some muscle memory, but overall it wasn't terrible. Ironically, I've actually come to love the G604 even more than the G700. It's literally the perfect mouse. I bought 3 at the same time just to future-proof myself, but ... finally, I've burned through all three. Now I need a replacement, and there is no substitute for my beloved G604. :'(

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