So they released that spiffy new outfit, but.... you don’t exactly want to buy endless cartel packs to get it. Or you don’t have the CC to afford endless cartel packs (like me).
Here’s my basic guide to credit farming (note: these are just suggestions and i can’t promise anything except that it works for me)
Dailies: Section X, Ziost, Iokath (note: Iokath has a ten-mission bonus mission, so if you pick that up, about once a week or whenever you do 10 missions, you get a bonus) CZ-some-number (it’s the Czerka planet), Oricon, etc...
Do all the missions. Some missions have bonus missions. Do those too. I know on CZ-###, there’s a mission that requires you to do all the others (available once a week). Do that one. Most daily areas aren’t that bad if you’re level 65+, or if you’re in a group.
If you max out your influence/reputation thingy, you can sell the medallion/reputation things to vendors. For a decent amount, too
Heroics: I know, I know, ugh. Heroics. Grinding. But I’ve got a couple that are favorites because they’re very quick, and/or are right next to another. A lot of these have bonus missions (which provide EVEN MORE CREDITS) So here they are:
Imp Side:
Starter planet (either Hutta or Korriban. These you can cruise through unbelievably fast.
DK: Personal Challenge. No hunting through the ran for little artifact bits or waiting for that one boss to spawn in the tomb. This one is fast, you literally run down a hill killing mandos and then the boss. You can finish it with killing less than 10 enemies. Speedy.
Balmorra: Toxic Bombs. There’s a bonus mission to kill all the bomb makers. And if you want a little bit of a challenge or an extra couple thousand in creds, there’s a group of 3 gold-star enemies at the other entrance to the heroic. You can make 40k+ credits on this one mission.
Balmorra: Project Hexapod. I can’t remember if there is a bonus in this one, but you’ve gotta kill about 50-ish colicoids. Who drop loot. Loot that you can sell for credits. And to make it even better, there’s an adorable and friendly colicoid at the end. Yes please.
Voss: All of them. Plus the mission that you finish by essentially doing all the Voss heroics. I highly recommend doing with a friend because one of these missions triggers everyone’s favorite glitch of the companion lying on the ground. If there’s a bonus, do it
Optional: Corellia. the first two Corellia missions (not the wookie revolt or prison break, the other 2) spawn in the same area and you can knock them out real quick. It’s optional because.... well... I’m not the biggest fan of corellia because I get lost easily there
Pub Side:
Starter planet (either Ord Mantell or Tython). Once again you can cruise through. do the bonus missions. Pls. that’s like 14k credits a bonus mission. Why not
Coruscant: All of them. Seriously. There’s four. 4 easy ones. My biggest suggestion is to do the back sun one, face merchants, first. If you can’t get the bonus of killed the 15 enemies, then DO NOT go into the mission area. Do the other heroics. Teleport/quick-travel back to the area, finish the bonus, then go into the area.
Taris: Knight Fall and Mutations. Both of these spawn in the same area, and you get a bonus with one. Do the bonus. Since they’re in the same area, it goes quick.
Alderaan: Proof of Treason. This one is also a quickie. run down, touch the probe droid, kill enemies, boom youre done. fast.
Voss: All of them. Plus the mission that you finish by essentially doing all the Voss heroics. I highly recommend doing with a friend because one of these missions triggers everyone’s favorite glitch of the companion lying on the ground. If there’s a bonus, do it (and yes I copy-pasted the same Voss thing from above)
Crew Skills: the Gathering crew skils (slicing, archaeology, scavenging, bioanalysis) can let you dissect or collect from things you’ve killed. For example, killing silver or gold star Rakghouls with bioanalysis lets you get compounds that you can sell to vendors (scavenging works on droids). The higher-level the thing you’re scavenging/dissecting, the more each compound is worth. You can make some nice spare change.
Note: Slicing is the best. You can send your idle crew members to literally get credit boxes. You can turn a 1k profit with each at level 9 (about-ish, it varies). There are also wild credit boxes that spawn on planets. You can easily get a couple thousand creds from those (and once again, the higher the level of the box, the more credits)
Locked Supply Crates: Have you gotten to level 60 and realized that when you complete a heroic, you don’t get gear that you can sell for a nice profit, and instead get these.... crates? that you can’t open? To open these, you need to have completed Ch 9 of KOTFE, where you get Odessen Base. Take the crates (must be in inventory, and they’re also transferable across legacy) to Sana-Rae, Doctor Oggurobb, Admiral Aygo, or Hylo Visz. They’ll unlock them. Each box has -about- 2k credits, plus another 2-3 items. The items vary from gear to decor to speeders to comp gifts. Sell the speeders (they’re worth 25k each!), and any gear you don’t want (there’s 5 outfits per type of character, i.e. 5 trooper outfits, 5 warrior outfits, etc... and most are ugly. you dont need them unless you LOVE collecting things you’ll never use *cough me cough*). I don’t suggest selling the companion gifts, you’re better off actually giving them to your companions.
Warzones: If you can stomach PvP stuff (and it’s really nothing hard about it, you just attack other players and might have a jackass on your team who insults you for nothing), it can get you a pretty penny. I don’t suggest ranked unless you’re hardcore. There’s also warzone missions, like ‘complete 4 warzones’ where wins count twice. The warzones are straight-forward, and if someone is mean or being a bully, just tell them to go to ranked. It’ll shut them up.
Flashpoints: I know, playing with strangers again. If you want to run through with a friend (pick me, pick me!), it’s better. And comps are great healers. Some you can get through on story mode with just you and a comp, but others... you’ll need another person. the queue is good at balancing groups (usually... if you’re a healer/dps, unclick ‘healer’ otherwise you could be the sole healer and that usually doesn’t end well). Do the bonus missions (obviously, i sound like a broken record). If the bosses drop decor that you don’t want, sell it on the GTN.
Multiple Characters: You can run through and do all these with multiple characters, too. Do all the imp-side heroics on one character, and switch to another. The bonuses are still there. The bonuses are only available once a week, so being able to get them multiple times on different characters help. And the higher-level your character, the more credits they make on heroics (up to the current max level).
So that’s it.
If you’ve got any other advice, suggestions, feedback, whatnot (or more questions about my deep dark farming secrets that i’ve kept to myself), please feel free to let me know!
Seimeni, Ceres. The best place to fuck around for money in mid game until you get your ass strong enough to go to the damn arena tthhhhingy. fuck idk what it’s called. I Want My Money and I Need It Now!™
Bungie have once again handed out credit bans to "several dozen" users found to frequently exhibit AFK behaviour. Bungie have pointed out that some users may be unaware of the reason for this ban, and so are allowing those affected to dispute the ban, however they do also warn that if someone does dispute when it is pretty obvious they know exactly what their crime is, more serious punishment awaits.
So our question is this; do Bungie have the right to do this. On the one hand, it could easily be argued that once you've bought a game, what you do with it, and how you play in order to level up is totally up to you. However, looking at this from Bungie's point of view and even that of the wider gaming community, a huge amount of work was placed into the Reach credit system, and as such, Bungie moderates this system to make sure that the points system works fairly.
The credits system is intended to be a single 'currency' that can easily measure one player against the next. However, this system becomes a flawed system when a player wanting to 'honestly' achieve ranks and goals is compared to one who 'cheats' to obtain these goals quicker. In effect, abusing the bigger and more serious credit farming tactics (such as the internet disconnect trick) destroys the 'credit economy', hence Bungie's strict policing of the service.
But, what we want to know is what you think. Should someone who has purchased and owns the game be allowed to exploit it, or is Bungie right in it's strict policing to protect the experience of other players? ...what do you think?
