Marcus of the Mangrove College
Posts: 157
12/30/2014
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Currently I'm a Trickster *taps fingers together* But I was curious about what other people thought about professions...in general, and for money. Specifically, what professions do people consider to be the most "profitable"? If not directly in echoes, perhaps in items usable. Trickstering comes with a bunch of miscellany which could be useful, but I'm wondering if pursuing this line will still give me such usable items in the future, or if I should perhaps change to something that offers more...value.
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Zeel
Posts: 257
12/31/2014
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Mirrorhouse wrote:
I think Correspondent is quite good because you get +12 watchful and persuasive. However I have realised that the best thing about Author is Night on the town which is very good for making waves.
Job description-wise though I have to say Glassman seems most interesting to me.
Wonder what the 5th tier professions will be and which 4th tier profession they correspond to...
Crooked-Cross: Unbishop
Licentiate: Strangler
Glassman: Oneironaut
Monster-Hunter: Lacoonian
Midnighter: Echoist
Correspondent: Speaker
EDIT: Typo
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1/1/2015
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While I do consider the rewards and items in regards to Professions, I also consider the RP motivations. My main is a clever chess player of life, so the Great Game seemed like a great fit. However, after seeing so many people killed for others' petty schemes, he is becoming jaded of it. Whether he seeks absolution through Mightnighter or the truth through Correspondent, or another path is yet to be decided. As for my alt Bohemian Hedonist future reporter, that's simple: Author, and then whatever gets her the most power and burn any one or thing else in her way. It's good to be bad 
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Frensus
Posts: 102
1/2/2015
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I will say that being a two-faced self-serving wildcard Crooked Cross/CVR member is delightful. Each week I get a bundle of contracts and after a while I have enough to eliminate all my menaces if I do a bit of soul-grinding. Then Devils buy the souls again, and the cycle continues.
I would love to see opportunities for the professions to do things throughout the week though, like a profession specific card. Having a shadowy/persuasive challenge to blackmail some NPC using the blackmail material and contracts from the weekly payments (which is implied to be what I "do" but I don't....I just sell the blackmail material) would be a nice addition.
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Currently targeting: NiteBrite's Fabulous Diamond Diversion (1/50), Breath of the Void (3184/3200)
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Gillsing
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12/30/2014
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Despite halving the number of Use of Villains every week, Enforcer is still the best paying profession as long as you're going to use those Use of Villains for either a Gang of Hoodlums or a Swift Zee-clipper. Because it takes at least 34 Actions to get two Use of Villains through the War of Assassins, so that's 17 Actions times your Echoes/Action for your go-to PoSI-grind that you get for free each week.
And Author is good for as long as you're struggling to make waves. Once you've got all the Notability you need, just about any of the highest tier professions would pay more. I have so many Nights on the Town, and I don't think I ever used a single one, so eventually I just switched to Correspondent. Reducing the weekly Nights on the Town from 2 to 1 helped make that decision, but since I wasn't using them anyway I should probably have upgraded my profession sooner.
Correspondent is probably the best profession, since the special item gives bonuses to both Watchful and Persuasive, which are the two qualities that have almost all of the super-difficult tests. Shadowy and Dangerous are currently pretty pointless to raise to very high levels. I calculated that paying 400 Echoes for Far Khanate Lacquered Armour would only get me an extra 110 Echoes per year if I used it for the most profitable action in The Listing Tower, three times every day. So it would take almost four years before that investment would pay for itself, unless I just like having nice stuff.
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