Lothering - Free XP and Gold

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In Lothering there is a NPC who needs traps. You can sell her 3 traps as many times as you want. You get 50 silver for selling 3 traps and XP to boot. It cost only 9 silver to make the three traps. You end up making money and earning XP. The only downside to this is that you have to make sure you purchase equipment that matches the character level.

 

It's an exploit, yes. You'll need to keep Lothering alive to use it though by not finishing the Sacred Ashes/Treaties and not entering the mage tower, unless you already have a character with the trap-making skill.

 

How so?

 

I somehow never seem to have anyone in my party with trapmaking at this point in the game, so I always lose access to the quest. I may have to ensure that next time someone has this, to make a little extra cash early on. I never seem to have enough $$ in this game.

 

You are right that there never seems to be enough money. I tried this exploit and I used it until I had over 150 gold pieces. By the time I had the gold I wanted I was level 10 or so. Without doing any other quest in Lothering.

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If you have a level 10 character using rough or cured light armor will not provide the right protection since the enemies auto level according to the PC leve; buy buying light armor made from Leather or Hardend ligh amoror you will have the protection is more appropriate to the character's level.

I ended up purchaing a full studded leather set of armor for the PC and upgraded everyone else up to steel armor with the expection of Morrigan.

Overall though I don't recommend using the exploit unless you really want to buy all the unique equipment later on in the game.

 

There are mods that can help with building up followers differently or changing shop prices. No need for exploits.

Armours are IMO overrated (except for tanks of course).

 

Agreed. You'll want to keep your armor rating up but defense should be your top priority, probably unless you're fighting something like dragons (their grab attack doesn't miss) or unless you're a two-hander... they won't have much defense to begin with so there's little point I guess, might as well max out strength and make every hit count. Heavy/massive armors usually don't have good defense bonuses.

 

Armor is very important for tanks; it reduces the amount of damage taken from any weapon. If you have very good armor you receive less damage in combat. I find defense to be important for ranged characters, rogues and mages. As I said in one of my post about my mage she was walking around with 100+ in defense and rarely got hit.

 

Also the enemies are coded to attack the character with the highest armor first (untill you generate more threat with another character). So high armor should be top priority for your tank.

 

The most lucrative money exploit/cheat I've found is...

Spoiler

...the dragon scale armor trick in Wade's Emporium.

It comes a bit later in the game, or whenever you decide to do Sacred Ashes. Still, this is the only place I've found that makes up for the distinct scarcity of gold early on. The problem is though, by this point in the game, gold is less of an issue, since you've likely already found pretty decent equipment. Yes, I'm aware it's very cheatery. But it's the only way to afford the cool items from the collector's edition and stuff, and darkspawn don't drop loot for sh*t. In fact, few encountered enemies have decent drops (unlike BG2).

 

Does this work on the PS3? I heard it didn't work?

 

Since you're having fun, just be wary of a few bugs:

Don't duplicate and sell items too much on a single vendor. Vendors have a maximum capacity of 500+ items (I think). If you try and go further than that, your save gets corrupted.

Don't duplicate skill tomes too much, particularly warrior skill tomes. If you run out of skills to take I think your game can get bugged.

 

In one of my games I had 140 or 150 inventory slots. I don't remember how I did it but I had a lot of inventory slots.

As for making 100 gold with the armor, how do you do that?

 

That is why the trick does not work on the PS3. You only have one button to sell an item, the X button.

 

I never had anything more than 125 at a time. Hmm...

As for the console and the junk section; yeah it stinks in the junk piles some times...