8day – Earning credits in Star Wars: The Old Republic isn’t as difficult as it might seem – in this video, we’ll be going over how to earn credits efficiently at level 80.
Earning Credits at a Low-Level
If you’re on a low level character, one important thing to know is that all quests in-game reward you with less credits the lower you level is. If you’re looking to save up for something expensive, you’ll first watch to level up as high as possible. If you’re on a free-to-play account, that’ll be level 60, and for recent subscribers that’ll be level 80. Quest rewards scale with level and most of your credits will be earned once you hit max-level – you shouldn’t be worrying too much about earning credits until you have at least one character levelled all the way. Don’t forget if you are preferred or free-to-play your credits will be capped at 1,000,000 credits and any additional ones you earn go into an escrow until you are subscribed – so make sure to deposit you credits in to your legacy bank before that point so they don’t go in to escrow.
As you level, make sure to pick up and sell any items you don’t need. You’ll receive gray-bordered items, these are specifically meant to be sold for credits, and you can easily sell them to vendors that have the yellow and green box icon over their head, by clicking “Sell Junk”. If you get lucky and pick up any blue-bordered or purple-bordered items that don’t say “Bound” or “Bound to Legacy” when you roll over them in your inventory, you can often sell them on the GTN to other players for more credits than NPC vendors will buy them for. Don’t forget you can also sell any low-level bound gear that you don’t need anymore to vendors for extra credits.
While you’re levelling, you can also pick up the gathering crew skills from the fleet. Slicing, Scavenging, Archaeology and Bioanalysis all let you pick materials up off the ground to sell for pure profit on the GTN. You can also start crafting and gathering with your companions as soon as you finish your first planet, which we’ll cover in the crafting section.
Earning credits in Star Wars: The Old Republic is incredibly easy if you know what to look for.
Step 1 – Earn Tech Fragments through any method you’d like
Step 2 – Exchange them for rare crafting materials
Step 3 – Sell the rare crafting materials to other players on the GTN
Step 4 – Profit!