Alts

If you insist on making an alt then it should share the damage type of your main. Since adventure handbook stats are shared this is very convenient so increases to atk or matk affect both classes so you don't have to split your funds between raising both stats when your main may only need MATK. Another perk of this is that some of the gear should be useful to both classes so you can pass the gear between them to save you from spending additional zeny on your alt unless absolutely necessary.

The most common classes for alt farming on brand new accounts are usually Blacksmith or Wizard for two reasons. They both have Area of Effect (AoE) skills and there are a few mobs between levels 40 and 80 that spawn in the same exact location in groups of three every few seconds. This allows you to stand still using the Stay Alert adventure skill and kill 3-4 enemies every 3 seconds. This is a low effort grind and your alt can quickly become strong enough to do this without consuming any buffs.

The issue with the two farmers above when they start to get into the 80's and 90's mobs become spread out and AoE skills are no longer reliable for multi kills. Wizard can eventually switch to Chain Lightning but this needs heavy investment to keep going. To avoid this you'll have to come to terms with deleting your alt every few months to avoid major penalties to your drop rate.

If you really want to take your alt further and don't want to delete them then consider making an archer and working your way up to Stellar Hunter if you're adamant about not wanting to multijob for it. You'll probably waste a hundred million zeny or so on that road that could have been invested in your main but eventually it will make a ton of zeny for you and is well worth the expense.

Most older guides will suggest farming steam goblins until level 60 then leaving for Orcs. These are great targets for a newbie that can easily be one shot. These guides are also severely outdated. You no longer have to leave at 60 and can stay for much, much longer without being penalized. With the penalty capped at 50% when you're 71 levels over you could stay here for a long, long time if you can't handle tougher mobs. You'll probably want to delete and reroll when you hit a 70% penalty if you're so inclined which is about 61 levels over the mob.

The general farm path in most guides for alts is usually as follows:

• Lv. 1-40: Use exp potions or farm something you can one shot that drops a card you do not have the unlock for

• Lv. 40+: Steam Goblins

• Lv. 70+: Orc Archers & Orc Warriors, or Kobolds

• Lv. 80+: Anolian, Sting, things in the Culvert

Mobs beyond this point no longer spawn in packs and are spread out like crazy making most AoE skills terrible on auto. This is where SH and other auto attack class builds begin to shine for zeny farming. This means these AoE alts are only really good up through the Culvert and even then, culvert mobs may spawn in packs but they are spread out so blacksmiths cannot farm there with stay alert since spawn patterns are unpredictable.

The mobs you're been farming up until now most likely drop Coal, Abyss Flowers, Glass Beads, and other things priced at 200z or some minimum price. Since everyone is farming these things on their alts they are almost always at minimum value and as a new player this is ok because the raw zeny you're getting is most important, as well as any refinement materials you can farm up like Elunium and Oridecon which will sell. These are the best spots for new players to farm because you just don't have the power to farm much else using other builds without much more investment.

Once you're much, much stronger you may want to try an alternative build to mix it up a bit, something to farm either different mobs, or that can outperform the 3 kills per second the other alts have been getting.

Alchemist

Utilizes plants that act like turrets to kill mobs all throughout the area allowing you to farm multiple packs at once

• • Requires you to hit second job (around 70) to even start farming since this is when you unlock Hell Plant making this a terrible choice for an alt for a new player

  • Requires you to hit third job (around 100+) to unlock Demonic Fire, another tool to increase your kill count

  • Can place two Hell Plant's by default, with a third unlocked after some Aesir Monument investment, costing you gold medals

  • Can place up to three Demonic Fire pools that damage mobs that spawn in it causing them to run towards you

  • Requires you to spend zeny on crafting bottles, a reagent for summoning hell plants

    • You'll also want to use up two slots in your Ymir Book so you can respec between crafting and farming builds to reduce the cost of crafting bottles

  • Has the passive zeny gain bonus from Merchant, increasing income per kill

  • Has the passive zeny boost when selling all those junk gears to NPC's after a farming session

  • Requires you to either play actively or make macros in an emulator

    • Placement of Hell Plants and Demonic Fire is paramount to how quick you clear mobs

    • If you don't use macro's your income is unstable, likely wasting tons of bottles

  • Expensive to get off the ground due to low hell plant damage without heavy investment

Wizard Auto Attack

Utilizes a rune that has a chance to proc chain lightning on auto attack allowing for low level access to chain lightning

• • Requires that you roll a chain lightning rune with a good probability roll, RNG

    • The rune causes auto attacks to sometimes cast Chain Lightning Lv10, extremely powerful for low level characters

    • Probability range is from 1% to 15% on attack. Not having a high probability means this is not viable, do not use this build unless you roll 10% or higher otherwise you'll spend 30-40 seconds every minute doing nothing but extremely low auto attack damage, very wasteful

  • Requires unorthodox gear for a wizard, focused on attack speed for more procs but just enough MATK to one shot when it does cast

  • Chain lightning bounces from target to target, allowing it to excel both when mobs are in tight packs, and when they start spreading out

  • Adding cards to gear that cast other spells on hit may help when you're not getting chain lightning procs

Priest Shadow Wave

Utilizes a rune that gives you a new skill that behaves like chain lightning

• • Requires you to roll a Shadow Wave rune with a good damage percentage roll, RNG

    • Grants you a new spell, Shadow Wave, that is darkness based that bounces from target to target

    • Requires a good damage roll or it will feel extremely weak and will be worthless to farm with

  • Requires MATK gear investment

  • Shadow Wave bounces from target to target, allowing it to excel both when mobs are in tight packs, and when they start spreading out

  • Only deals 25% damage to undead, poison, and shadow mobs, many mobs in Glast Heim

  • Only a couple mobs in the game are weak to darkness, none of which are primary targets