The grind between post-"Laputa" and pre-darklight has been pretty bad. 5+ runs of an area and still short on money to buy the gold stuff I want.
Idk if this'll help anyone, but I ran some numbers of selling silver ore vs selling silver bars (in milk town):
Silver (N): 6K vs 6.8K
Silver (R): 9.6K vs 13.6K
Silver (SR): 36K vs 27.3K
Silver (L): 120K vs 109K
Thus, if you're tryna make money from silver, sell the SR and L ore, but melt and bar the N and R.