I'm not trying to make profit
There's the problem
You should
try to make a profit. It won't always work out - and that's fine - but making a profit isn't a bad thing.
You won't make a profit from MA. You can make a profit by supplying materials other people are looking for. People here are assumed to be adults, and they can make their own decisions, don't feel bad for profiting! By agreeing to buy a given product, it's can be assumed they're better off by having it than the PED they gave up.
That means searching for MU.
If I were come up with a plan for you it would look like:
In general:
A) Commit to not depositing for 6 months. It is not hard to profit, but it takes a different mentality.
B) Set up a nice excel spreadsheet where you track your hunts. Each tab would be for a different mob type. This would track your TT & MU for Offence, Defense, and Loot.
C) Accept that you are approaching EU in a different way. You'll want to start over from the basics. It will be dull at first, but once you start to get the hang of things, you'll change your definition of "winning" and it will get very fun.
Specifically:
1)Put
every thing (Including PED) except for 300 PED, an S.I. Heart, cloths, a quad, a TP chip & ME ,and a full TT UL Viper whip into Calypso storage, (or sell it). Owning CLDs / AUD are ok, but don't transfer the PED.
2) Get a skill scanner account and record the current TT value of all your skills
3) Go to RockTropia and cycle 2 viper whips on the 10 HP Vixens*. This will be be 400 PED TT, or about 120,000 HP. That would be around 12,000 vixens I think. Record the results, every time you put loot into storage.
4) Sell the loot from the 12,000 vixens. Sell 1/2 of the TT value of the skills you gained on the vixens.
5) Find another mob that you think looks like the loot will have over 115% MU on average,
and that you will have enough PED, (after the vixen sales are final) to be able to kill 10,000 of. This will take some research, and talking with people. If you cannot find anything, within your PED range, repeat on the Vixens untill you've profited enough to move on.
6) Kill 500 of the mob you looked at in #5, with appropriate gear, and record the results. If the MU isn't over 115%, repeat steps 5&6. Ignore the TT return for this sample.
7) Once you've found a mob that qualifies for the 115% MU,
and you have the PED on hand to kill 10,000 of them, Grind it out: Repeat steps 2-7.
8) For every batch of 10,000 mobs cycled (From the 3rd set on), figure out how much you've profited from it and withdraw an equal amount from storage, or deposit it.
If you lost PED, you make a mistake - you don't get to add anything to your bank-role! Find a different mob, and don't deposit or withdraw from storage until you've profited.
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This may seem like it's way under your skill level - and it is. The point would be to re-train yourself to be looking for, and expecting, opportunities to profit. Your skills
will help you. You will have much lower defense costs, and you will more mobs to choose from.
As you climb the ladder of mobs you should, fairly soon, get back to hunting things at a level that you are now, but you'll make your choices differently.
EDIT: There is a difference in just playing EU, and playing EU with the target of profiting. Profiting is
much more challenging, and I think fun. You already know how to play at a high level, but are you ready to step up the difficulty and profit while playing?
*I don't know for sure that these drop the gears. If not, there are other profitable low level mobs.
take it and might be a game change for you.
