when i started i played maybe 3-4 weeks hunting meteors on my archer then spent a week and half using the meteors in Twin City upgrading the lowest lvl item i could find in the storekeeper in each town only 1 time over and over......in a week and half i made 13 normal socketed items....which i traded 4 to get 62 dbs.....that left me with 9 socketed items to use those dbs on......man i was a *** at making sockets but yet they screwed this game again and reduced socket making to almost non-existent!!!!!
so now u are left with the problem of having to buy sockets and not being able to make them.....if u want to be able to make max cash in short time i suggest u lvl an archer to 90+ then head to Adventure Zone and start scattering......mets fall like rain and there is always a noob there botting to kill for extra mets or dbs.....chances are on a day or 2 of hunting u will have at least 20-30 meteor scrolls, elites, supers(maybe), dbs(maybe)......if u keep that rate u will have your 4 socketed items and enough money to buy the super gems and the weapon also the armor which now is chump change compared to how it was before lottery.
so in total just try hunting it is fastest way to make money.
also u can try buying the normal fury,violet,moon gems for like 300k and selling meteor scrolls for 1.1mil or something this turns a profit of 500k per scroll but you wont be hunting much if u do this only doing blue mouse( which is how i invested my meteors after the weeks i hunted. i just sold them all and then bought the gems....ran the then sold and repeat......i had to have 4 market ppl selling them at all times but i got good gears before i lost them all.
so just rob market noob prices or play the fn game ffs.