Question - Best F2P DPS

[Tone]

Updated Main post... with DPS ranking based off parsing / testing / etc...

 

[DarkPaladin]

SK
Chanter
Bst
Mage
Wiz
Cleric

That's my goto group.

 

[Hambam]

Will say sadly the FTP model is phasing out of EQ. Don't think anyone really realizes it yet but they will be falling behind big time this next xpac.

 

[alacalle]

Why ? Is all the gear in the new RoS expansion going to be Prestige ?

 

[turtlepower]

Even if it was it would have to have huge H/M/E increases/content requirements to matter. So long as you are willing to grab the expansion and 1 krono you still can have 110s, capped AA, and rank II spells for the rest of the year/expansion. Melee could fall a little behind if the prestige weapons are insane but not that many run f2p melee as it stands.

 

[aspire2008]

Seems like the standard 450-500HME bump per slot to me. Its been like that for quite a few expansions now.

 

[EQbackagain]

Your main problem as FTP is going to be going back and getting all your tier 2 visible items so that you can convert the group gear in RoS. As a FTP you're likely to not have bothered getting those items as they are prestige.

 

[turtlepower]

Your main problem as FTP is going to be going back and getting all your tier 2 visible items so that you can convert the group gear in RoS. As a FTP you're likely to not have bothered getting those items as they are prestige.

At work and haven't watched beta much so I cannot check but are the RoS T1 nonprestige? Moot point if not heh. People using Seb HH gear are in the same boat. I certainly have 3 in Cohort's but still have to do all of EoK progression anyways so I'll pick up some Selrach's where I am able.

 

[EQbackagain]

Pretty sure they said that group gear was non-prestige

 

[Eltai86]

T1 is non-prestige, T2 is IIRC

 

[aspire2008]

For group there is :

T1 - which is non-prestige (same stats as HH Sebilis heritage gear), i.e 4400HME values 10% better than Tier 2 EoK

T1.5 - this is Tradeskill gear, non-prestige as well, 4750 HME values

T2 - Prestige - 5100 HME values



Rough calculation - I'm averaging the HME values, so some slots might have 5300 HME (i.e Breastplate), but some slots have like 4700 for the same tier.

Its about a 21k HME value bump from EoK Tier 1 to RoS Tier 2 (subtract about 250 HME per slot for the lesser tiers), if you account for all 21 slot gear, which the way mobs hit, isn't going to make any bit of difference 95% of the time whether you wear EoK Tier 1 or RoS Tier 2. A 25k-30k quad combat round isn't going to make any difference from EoK Tier 1 vs RoS Tier 2.



So if your purpose is to buy the expansion for just solely for the gear upgrade for your f2p toon, you are shit out of luck for the most part. This isn't accounting for 10% spell power or AA power bump, but then they always bump mob power by 20-25% to compensate!


Also all augments are Prestige, including Tier 1 augments. So you are out of luck on that as well.

 

[turtlepower]

Food for thought for sure. Utility aside do you happen to know how dps mercs fall in to these calculations? I doubt the new 2% dps AA would make or break them but I wonder how a 110 merc would compare to a 105 wizbot etc.