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Grinding premium shouldn't feel like a second job
Every week someone posts that grinding for premium with silver feels like a second job. I want to reframe it, because the problem almost never the time, but the rate.
If premium feels like a job, your silver/hour is too low. Here's why:
- For most players, PVP is a silver sink. You're paying to PVP.
- PvE averages ~1–2m/hour for most players. Ava dungeons are the exception.
If you're at 1-2m/hour, it will feel like a job, because it basically is! The fix isn't to grind more. It's to add ECON into your routine. The 2 easiest way to get started are:
- Black market flipping, your profits should easily skyrocket to ~5m an hour for low risk transporting
- Cooking & potions, these can get you huge profits in 15 minutes a day and are easily accessible without focus.
At a good rate, premium pays for itself in a few days.
What's your silver per hour and what's your main way of achieving it?
Edit: Since people cannot read, I've never complained about the cost of premium. Genuinely surprised at these replies.
u/Common_Director5373 — 12 hours ago
A crafting trick that made me hundreds of millions without focus
Today I wanted to mix it up and give you a market tip that got me 100/100 in most of the Chef and potion brewer specs while making hundreds of millions of silver.
A lot of crafts are only profitable when using focus. This is especially the case for enchanted crafts (.1, .2, .3) which require Fish Sauce to craft. However, I have a solution for you, non-premium user who's just looking to get into crafting:
Non-returnable crafts
Some recipe ingredients are NEVER returned by RRR (resource return rate). This is the case, for example, of Rugged Dawnfeather, Avalonian Energy or faction cape crests.
Since these ingredients usually represent a majority of the crafting cost, and aren't returnable, focus has a much lower impact on margins. Therefore, people almost never use focus crafting these items, as it wouldn't increase their profits a lot. This means these items are often a lot more profitable when crafting without focus than most items.
For example, I found out that over 96% of the time, crafting a T8 Avalonian Beef Stew is profitable after usage fees and market tax. On average a 10-20% margin is to be expected. When enchanted, .1 is only profitable ~12% of the time, and .2 and .3 are almost never profitable.
Current profit for crafting an Avalonian Beef Stew in fort sterling, West server.
As usual, please check your maths before blindly following my tips, and enjoy the profit!
tldr: focus matters less when the expensive ingredients are non-returnable anyway.
u/Common_Director5373 — 3 days ago
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[WEST] [DAY 6] Make 3.1M in 10 minutes
Day 6 of proving you can become rich in Albion crafting only 10 minutes a day without being a billionaire. If you've been applying my crafts since day 1, you should have made ~24.5M silver in profit.
Mutton sandwiches are VERY expensive right now. You can craft them with 0 focus for 1.9k/ea and sell for 2.5k. Since this items sells a ton (over 8K daily volume), i recommend crafting 6630 (around 80% of daily volume).
This is a huge amount and you will gain a TON of fame / spec up cooking a lot. But it will be very annoying to sell, you will need to undercut often. I recommend you put them in batches of 500 and relist one batch at a time to undercut. You are very likely to end up with a good profit and tons of fame.
(If you want to make another quick 2mil, 7.1 Roast Pork has basically 0 units on market, so you can manipulate the market and set the price you want. I recommend taking the craft price, adding 15k as profit, and selling for a very healthy margin on a daily volume of 153.
As usual, remember to check your math. Today's craft is a little riskier and will take longer to sell, but should net you a lot more fame.
Have fun!
u/Common_Director5373 — 4 days ago
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[DAY 5] Make 5m in 10 minutes
Day 5 of proving you don't need to be a billionaire or have max spec to make money crafting.
This is a Fort Sterling craft. No focus needed.
I'm going to make it quick and easy: Invest into 385 Expert's horse, 3270 Ornate Cloths, and 6531 Titanium Steel Bar, for a total of 24.7M silver.
Sell for 31.6M at minimum price.
Each T5 Armored Horse will cost you 64.2k and sell for 82.1k.
After taxes and usage fees (assuming maximum of 1000), you will end up with a profit of ~13k/horse.
Please let me know if you end-up making money! And as usual always double check the maths!
u/Common_Director5373 — 5 days ago
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[WEST] [DAY 4] Make 10m in 10 minutes without focus
Day 4 of showing you focus-less money making crafts in the west server.
This is following the day 2 and day 3 methods which are STILL very profitable right now.
Today we are going to be crafting... Major Hellfire Potions!
I wanted to show off how higher-tier items can still be crafted with lower margins, even without focus! (Excellent for building spec, but slightly more risky).
In Lymhurst, the potion costs 24.9k/unit to craft, and sells for 29.9k. That's a small profit, but it's an item that sells over 1800 times daily!
Potions are crafted in batches of 10, but this is what you need to craft 680 potions
Right now at current volume, i recommend crafting 680 potions, allowing you to make 2.1M silver very quickly (it's only ~38% of the daily volume in Lymhurst).
Scaling this with the methods from day 2 and 3 which still make profits, you can make around 10 million in a single day without flooding the market (hint: T5 riding horses and t6 avalonian mutton stews sell for a LOT in Fort Sterling right now)
As usual, remember to always double-check the maths and go make some money!
Edit: This is not profitable anymore, but yesterday's craft still is!
u/Common_Director5373 — 6 days ago
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[WEST] [DAY 3] Make 3m in 10 minutes
Day 3 of showing you focus-less money making methods in the west server.
Here's the day 2 thread (it's still very profitable): https://www.reddit.com/r/albiononline/comments/1tv0def/west_part_2_make_35m_in_10_minutes_fort_sterling/
Today we are going to be crafting... Avalonian mutton stews!
I love this item because it barely scales with focus and spec, making it a reliably good profit maker with huge margins.
In Bridgewatch, the stew costs 8.9k/unit to craft, and sells for 13.5k. That's a HUGE profit for an item that sells over 1100 times daily!
Right now supply allows you to craft 450 stews, allowing you to make 1.7M silver very quickly (it's only 40% of the daily volume in Bridgewatch).
Scaling this to other cities, you can easily make over 5M silver by simply buying the items from the market (its profitable in every city right now), and reselling them after cooking them.
As usual, remember to always double-check the maths and go make some money!
If you want more crafts, I post profitable crafts every day on my discord https://discord.gg/8N9dKcfjrk
u/Common_Director5373 — 7 days ago
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[West] [Part 2] Make 3.5m in 10 minutes (FORT STERLING EDITION)
Following my last post, i wanted to share another very profitable craft you can do right now.
https://www.reddit.com/r/albiononline/comments/1tubryn/west_lymhurst_make_3m_silver_in_10_minutes/
Tier 5 horses are very overpriced in Fort Sterling. You can:
- Buy 143 Expert's Horse on the FS market
- Buy 1217 Ornate Cloth
- Buy 2429 Titanium Steel Bar
For a total of 8.9M silver
Which will give you 143 armored horse that you can sell for 12M at the minimum price (assuming all of them are normal quality!)
With usage fees, market tax, etc. you end up with a 2.3M silver profit at a very healthy margin (25%).
You can also saddle normal T5 horses for another 1.3M of profit (although if you chain them the profits for the second one will be a little smaller due to the market prices of t5 horses being slightly higher)
For a total of 3.5M in ~10 minutes of work.
For those saying this will never sell: If you were to craft 143 armored horse and 68 t5 normal horses, you only be crafting 37% and 23% of the daily volume for normal quality only!
If you get good, outstanding and excellent horses, you can make even better profits.
I’m going to post one profitable craft per day to prove it's easier than it looks. Albion’s economy is one of the coolest parts of the game, and more people should get into crafting instead of thinking it’s some impossible billionaire-only activity.
u/Common_Director5373 — 8 days ago
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There is no reason to gatekeep crafting.
Yesterday, I posted a reddit thread showing off a quick craft you could make to earn silver. The reaction from the community was... interesting.
https://www.reddit.com/r/albiononline/comments/1tubryn/west_lymhurst_make_3m_silver_in_10_minutes/
Some people appreciated it, but a lot of comments were basically:
- "You’re supposed to keep this secret."
- "Now the market is ruined."
- "Everyone will do it and kill the profits."
The funny thing is, a full day later, the craft is.... still very profitable!
Even after ~11,000 people viewed the post, Gathering Potions are still sitting around a ~33% margin in healthy competition (no one overcrafted it). The market absorbed it completely fine.
I think this shows something a lot of players misunderstand about Albion’s economy: the market is huge. Reading about a method is NOT the same as executing it profitably.
And even if people try it, a lot of them will undercut wrong, panic sell, or move on after one batch.
A profitable market does not instantly disappear because information becomes public. Markets in Albion are constantly moving. Margins compress, expand, rotate between items, cities, and tiers. That’s normal.
People also underestimate how much daily volume matters. A craft moving ~2,000 items/day won't be dead because someone crafted 500 items.
Honestly, I think the community would benefit more from people openly discussing econ systems instead of treating every good craft like a secret.
The market is bigger than people think.
I'm thinking of posting a new profitable trade every day to prove my point. Would that be something people are interested in?
EDIT: posted another profitable craft
u/Common_Director5373 — 8 days ago
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[WEST] [LYMHURST] Make 3m silver in 10 minutes
I found this craft today. You can craft 1120 Gathering potions for 7.8M and sell them for 11.1m. Daily volume is 1400 so they shouldn't take too long to sell. Price is 21% over weekly average but still a good deal even if it comes back to normal (33% margin).
Let me know if you end up making money!
u/Common_Director5373 — 9 days ago