How to quickly gather money? | Hints on making a good start Sword Coast Legends Guide
Last update: 11 May 2016
Gold is a great trouble at the beginning of the game, when the best equipment can be only bought from merchants. Crafting is even more troublesome, as the price for forging obtained materials is few times larger than the amount of gold you posses. So, how to quickly gather money? From where can you get the gold you need? Most of all, ask yourself the question whether you really need the items offered by the merchants. Usually they don't offer anything exceptional, just behind the corner you might find a chest with much better items. Due to that, you should ignore the urge of having everything, especially the items that after gaining few levels you will sell for a small part of the money you spent on buying them. This rule doesn't apply to crafting. Crafted item can be used by you during the majority of the game. You can find better equipment once you reach the third act. Because of that, instead of buying mediocre items from the merchants, you should rather focus on crafting legendary items. The equipment you craft is of course constant and it doesn't need to fit your game style. In that case, you can consider changing the skills of your character in order to maximize the profits from the item. Now, as you know the rules of spending and you know that money is hard to get, below you will find advices related to quickly gathering the gold:
Search each corner of the game world - Looting chests, trunks, corpses, catacombs or looking for secrets is the main way of quickly gathering gold. This is how you gain most of your gold, items and potions. Sell each part of the equipment that you aren't using. The same goes for potions and scrolls. In order to effectively search for secrets, you must buy the Search ability. Buy this skill for your rogue. Combined with large value of Wisdom statistic, this will allow you to find each chest or secret door. Remember that with higher level of Search skill not only your perception rise, but your movement speed as well. On fourth level of the skill you no longer receive any movement speed penalty.
Complete every quest, even the smallest ones - Completing jobs, side quests and main quests is another profitable development. Depending on the quest, you will receive various amounts of gold coins. During such quests, many times you will face an elite enemy who will have some unique or legendary equipment, which is worth much more than the reward for completing the quest.
Invest in charisma or strength - During dialogues, sometimes you can bargain when accepting quests. By doing so, with one click you can increase the reward for completing the quest. With charisma or intimidation you can also avoid unnecessary expenses on pushing the events forward.
Theft is profitable - When exploring cities and houses, try to break into chests and boxes that can be found there. The townsfolk hide quite some valuables there.