Making money as a bard?

[Lucky Strike]

Well, I'm a 33 brd/whm and I tried farming but hell even wadi goblins were kicking my ass with songs. I'm using the level 30 dagger with 12DMG and +3 accuracy.

Am I better off just crafting? If so where would I go to find simple items for the early levels since when I kill the easy stuff they don't drop anything since I'm to high.

Just the fact that I am weaker than a WHM and I'm not even a mage makes me want to quit bard for something that can farm.

I live in bastok so either gold/black smith would be ideal since I'm in the process of doing M10. (Guild quests and materials aren't worth a hour+ trip just to get there)

Any advise on farming or crafting as a bard would be appreciated.



P.S. I got 4 Centurian Visors(LVL30 headgear) from CP and sold them to hold me over

[Poupouf]

Hey Lucky =],
I personally get most of my money from mining ^^.
But I guess you could always do a little bit of guilding. By the way if you are intending on farming monsters I would suggest getting a nice 1-handed sword (if you have enough sword skill) and subbing thief. Also bards dont need top armor (I am still using some lvl37 armor ;_;...) just try to get top of the line instruments and useful songs (Madrigal+Minuet+Ballad are the 3 most important support song at your level... also dont forget to get Magic Finale, Battlefield Elegy, all the Threnodies and updated Requiem).

Dont quit bard ^^, I personally think its a really great job, and the muffin hat is just so cool =p.

[SSJ3GoHaN]

i getmy money from farming qudav. right now i am a lvl 35 bard and i use a staff as my main weapon. and with the area effect ws i can getlike 200 gil per group of them + teh backplates which sell for 800 each inmy server (leviathan) if i stay there for about a hour i can get likr 4-8k gil