When you first began to play Perfect World, you probably had a very easy time collecting enough money for skills and gear. Even if the most expensive legendary gear at those low levels was out of reach, great gear was easy enough to come by. By the time you approached late game, however, the sad reality began to rear its ugly head. FC squads and high level BH squads started expecting you to have gear worth millions of coin. Even at those levels, getting the coin for the gear was still feasible.
Once you hit endgame though, squads start rejecting you if you lack certain skills or don’t have gear equal to or better than the gear you are trying to farm. Some classes simply can’t farm well at all. Many are also unable to cash shop their gear either. Well, I may have a solution to help you either get to the point where you can get into farming squads to or to replace farming entirely. The best part is you won’t feel like you are wearing NPC gear anymore. (Please excuse the shiny daggers. I had an accident with industrial glue a few months back and they refuse to come off now)
The answer? Instead of cash shopping your gear, cat-shop for your gear! All you need are a few things to become successful at cat-shop merchanting. First, you need to be able to dual-client or leave your computer on while you aren’t playing. You get bonus points if you can do both, but you just need to be able to run a cat shop for a decent portion of the day. If you are unable to, you are better off buying and selling gold or items in the AH or between cat-shops. For you, there will be a guide on this at some point in the future, but this is meant for those that can use kitty shops.
Second, you need to be able to use your brain. I am only able to teach you how to merchant and tips on finding what to merchant. You’ll be able to follow my advice in this guide with little thought but on what to merchant, that is a different matter. What is good or bad to sell can change weekly or even daily for some things and through the months some markets die while new ones appear. For example, stocking up on reputation as a sale ended used to be great for investing your money but now the sale is permanent which makes that tactic useless. Blindly following all the examples I will give on what I did without first checking if its still a good thing to do will result in either poor profits or actually losing money. If you don’t want to think for yourself, I am unable to help you.
To begin, we have to ask ourselves why cat shopping is profitable in the first place. The reason is the same thing that keeps the game alive…cash shoppers! PWI profits because cash shoppers do not want to put the time and effort into farming gear. They want their gear and they want it NOW. People buy from cat-shops on the same basis. They want what you are selling without the hassle of getting it themselves. For them, it takes too much effort to set up a cat-shop to buy or sell what they want or to use the Auction House to buy or sell gold. This is where you can get rich. Want to learn where to start? Read the merchanting basics!
Perfect World Merchanting 