Easy Way To Make Money In Swtor

Guide to the art of making credits in SWTOR. Some methods are simple and fast, others are slow, but more rewarding. Find the best one for you

There are several quick and easy methods of earning Credits in SWTOR. Some of them are lightning fast, but require more experience, such as playing the GTN Game. Others are a lot simpler, but less effective, like the Heroics way. This quick guide will help you sort things out.

The most effective methods to make credits in SWTOR fast is changing from time to time, based on the game's development, patch updates and occasional bugs or economy spikes. Let's take a look at some of the best ways of how to earn credits and get rich.

Let's start from the bottom and work our way up to the top. In other words – in the next few paragraphs I will list and explain for you a number of different methods to earn credits in SWTOR, ordered from least effective to most effective.

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Farming Heroics
Playing Conquest
Deconstructing Gear
Crafting and Selling Items
Playing the GTN Game
Honorable Mentions
- Farming Daily Missions
- Selling Crafting Materials
- Selling Cartel Market Items

Farming Heroics

One of the simplest and most effective ways to make decent amount of money without spending too much time in preparations and research is to farm Heroic Missions. You can do that as a low level too, but will earn less money from each quest, of course.

At level cap each mission also rewards you with Command Experience Points (CXP), which is a side-bonus to the main goal here – making money fast. Teaming up with a friend or two will speed up the process.

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You can pick up the Heroics from the Activities Window, which currently is the fastest way to get the missions. They are all sharable, so if you are bringing a friend along, they don't need to be picking up the same missions on their own.

Pick up the main planetary mission for Heroics and travel to the destination planet. You will land usually right in front of a Terminal, from which you will be able to pick up all Heroics at once.

SWTOR now allows you to quickly travel to your Mission Destination. Take full advantage of that feature!

You will not get stupid rich from doing Heroics and it's very likely that you will grow to resent this activity quite soon after several repetitions. This is probably the easiest way for you to make good amount of money through simple gameplay and it works on any class and character. It is however far from the "best" option you have.

Playing Conquest

Conquest is one of the main systems in SWTOR. In Update 6.0 BioWare introduced one of many revamps that the system has seen over the years since its release.

Conquest literally happens as you play your game the way you want and enjoy it. There are so many Conquest objectives that it'd be hard to have any activity in the game without earning Conquest points.

While Conquest itself will not make you rich, the weekly rewards for your Personal and Guild Goals yields incredibly rare and valuable crafting materials used to craft EndGame Gear.

Completing your Personal Goal is incredibly easy and fast. If you have multiple Level 71+ Characters it would be very simple to make money by selling the Solid Resource Matrix items you earn from Conquest.

There are a few easy and quick Conquest tasks that you can do in literally no time and earn some credits from them. These include (but are not limited to) crafting something, using your companion (send them on a mission, give them a gift, send them to sell your Inventory junk) and a few more.

If you are newer to SWTOR or not sure what I am talking about, check out the Conquest Guide for the full details on how this system works and how to get the maximum out of it!

Deconstructing Gear

If you are already in the EndGame, you are likely farming Flashpoints and/or Operations or doing PvP regularly.

The Group content at level cap drops insane amounts of loot thanks to the Spoils of War Gearing System, introduced with Onslaught.

All items you do not need as upgrades (most of them wont be better than what you have equipped, anyway), you can Deconstruct.

Deconstructing has a rare chance to grant you a Legendary Ember crafting material. This one is also used in high-level crafting and is very expensive.

Sell the Embers you earn from deconstructed gear on the Galactic Trade Network and you will make easy money while playing the group content you enjoy and gearing up your first character or n-th alt.

Crafting and Selling Items

A much more effective, but also dangerous is the next method – crafting various items based on your character(s) crafting professions and gathering skills and then selling them on the Galactic Trade Network (GTN) or directly to other players.

For this to be effective, you would most likely need to have more than one character with maxed out Crew Skills levels. You will also need to devote more time to placing your crafted items onto GTN.

It is of great importance to know which crafted items sell well at any given time. The meta doesn't change daily, but between patches it's often the case that the best-selling item may tomorrow become completely useless and unmovable.

How to make Money in SWTOR - Crafting and Selling

You have to do your research and find out what sells well and start crafting it. Remember that your time spent into gathering the resources and crafting the items should also be taken into account when calculating your profit. The more time you spent on an activity, the less productive it is in the end.

Crafting for profit can be very tricky. You need to find your niche and stick to it for as long as it is profitable. If you become known for making a certain type or types of items, the community might actually start pointing out to you.

To be noticed and stand out from the crowd, however, you would need to be able to make the more complex items – the level cap raiding and EndGame gear. Sadly, to really profit from such crafting, you also need rare and expensive materials. If you buy them, your profit is thinning by the amount you pay for the ingredients.

If you can participate in End-Game activities and gather those rare materials by yourself, this will make your profit larger, but the process will consume more of your free time.

It's of vital importance to place items for sale with short duration. Other players will surely attempt to undercut you in most cases, unless you are selling items in your own niche and are offering prices nobody is willing or able to beat (which is incredibly rare).

Playing the GTN Game

There we go. We've reached the most interesting and also most dangerous segment. What does "Playing the GTN Game" means? This method only requires one character, but it will take a lot of detailed knowledge of the current meta-game and awareness of what is being made, sold and purchased on the GTN.

The basic idea is for you to check regularly multiple categories and types of items being sold on daily (and even hourly) basis. After a certain amount of time, you will start remembering what certain items are usually being sold for.

How to make missions of credits in SWTOR - play the GTN game

Desperate players seeking quick money are everywhere on all servers, so valuable and rare items often appear for prices much, much below their regular target. The reason for that is some times sloppiness of the user – example: an item being sold for 10k instead of 100k, because the seller typed one less "0" by mistake.

As soon as you see an item available on GTN for a lower price than its standard one, pick it up and put it up immediately (or not) for sale again with a much higher price.

When you are an experienced GTN player and veteran of the game in general you are expected to know what items are rare. If you spot a single instance of a rare item that you know the community is looking for, placed on GTN for a low price, snatch it right away and put it back up for a much higher price.

Much like when you are crafting and selling your own items, It's important not to put them on the market for longer periods of time.

Honorable Mentions

The above mentioned might be the current top three best ways for you to make money quick and easy in Star Wars: The Old Republic, but there are a lot of other options. Here are a few that are far less effective, but will still serve a good purpose – not letting you go broke and begging for credits on the Fleet :)

Farming Daily Missions

There are a lot of daily missions, which at level cap can be completed in no time. I have detailed guides for SWTOR's daily areas that will teach you the best approach to each mission and order in which to complete them all to maximize effectiveness and minimize the "walking time".

Selling Crafting Materials

This one is simple. You can have fun enjoying some vistas, have your companions busy 100% of their time and be able to collect huge amounts of raw crafting materials from planets and various missions.

Pick up three gathering skills from the trainers on the Fleet and start collecting materials from the planets. Good examples are bioanalysis, scavenging, archaeology and slicing.

Make sure you have the maximum number of companions available to be sent to missions all the time.

This category is separate from the Selling Crafting Materials one above, because here we talk about the more common and regular Crafting Materials.

While not too hard to obtain, the hardcore crafters often can't find time to gather the required ingredients for their next job and would conveniently use GTN to buy a stack and speed things up for themselves.

Selling Cartel Market Items

This one could make you an insane amount of credits, but it is very closely tied to you spending real life money. However, if you happen to have more money than you ever need, purchase unique items from the In-Game Cartel Market Store and resell them on GTN.

A good alternative is to purchase Cartel Packs and Hypercrates, but then you would have to rely on your luck to pull rare and expensive items out of these crates.

I hope you found my guide on how to earn Credits in SWTOR useful! If you have a question or want to share your personal tips and suggestions, please, use the comments section below the article. Thank you!

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