Just started this game today, level 13. Haven't seen much gold. Does it get easier to farm gold?

Should I be grouping? Do you get more drops with Groups? I've just been soloing hard modes.

Beginning quests don't give gold as you get higher in lv the quests will start giving gold.Grouping make quests go a lot faster and easier.If you can find someone to group with do it and stay with them
as long as you can. Atm there is an event which gives double ap and xp during 8pm-10pm eastern make sure to be on at this time. There is also a fishing event in which you can get chests which drop items that
give you more ap or temp storage and some other stuff.

For event check Vindictus site maybe important events for u exp / ap / any items etc

Thanks for the advice, kind sir.



You aswell.

Thanks both of you

Gold
Until roughly the mid to late 20s, you won't get much gold due to the latest patch. They're trying to curb the effects of low level bots so they've made almost everything prior to that produce 0 gold. You can buy trainee items until roughly level 20 from Ceara at the Mercenary Outpost.
Gold also isn't farmed in this game. Most of the gold has been generated by bots and still is in circulation. You'll be farming some specific mats/enchant scrolls/raid boss mats for the bulk of your gold later on. A quick collection of tips related to this is:
Sell value is the amount an NPC will give to you.
Marketplace Standard Price is the average an item sold for between players (on the Marketplace) over the past day. If this value is EXACTLY the same as the above, this usually means the item didn't sell on the MP (and is likely a rare boss mat, but not always the case).
Most common items are sold over the marketplace, but most rares are sold using the COD function via mail.

Grouping
Drop rates are independent of whoever is in the party. Each party member, regardless of party size or contribution to the success of the run, gets the same amount of loot (but the loot is completely randomized. Rares are not limited to one drop per run or player). Advantage of soloing is boss HP is lower and you don't have to wait for a boat to fill, but advantages for groups are overall faster clear times for the missions. Loot amount for Season 1 is mostly dependent on the difficulty level of the mission.
-Mobs drop one core if they drop loot
-Bosses typically drop 3 cores on Normal, 4 cores on Hard, and 5 on Hero.
-Bosses on Hard Mode can drop Gauntlet tickets, and ONLY on Hard mode. Mostly irrelevant for a typical player.
-Additional boss loot is available on Hero mode. Enhancement Elixirs, higher quality enhancement stones compared to the base level of the mission, and specific/rarer Enchant scrolls typically are the bonuses.

How difficult is Hero Mode vs Hard Mode?

Is it soloable?

I've got a ways to go before I can even do Hero's but just wondering.

Thanks for the information, Lotonite.

Yes it is soloable. The main difference is there are a lot more red named mobs that spawn as well as a different loot table.
The end game content would be the S2 Raids such as Kraken. Also how do you like the game so far?