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Guide - Buy eok, grind some aa, profit with ftp

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The game is finally viable from a buy the expansion move to ftp ala gw2/eso style.

Tank Gear Comparison
Currently Eok group gear is 30 ac greater, and 400 hp ish lesser than the current raid 1 tbm gear.
It is indeed not prestige.
This is def a bigger increase then the previous 5% caps we have seen each expansion. The current group tank bp offers 631 ac and 4405 hp for a sk, with an ac aug from tbm(Bile).

Type 5
The type 5 augs so far appear to be a net gain of not worth the hassle(+1 all and +2 respectively) if you have stockpiles of rems from tbm. I don't think 1 heroic stat is going to be the end all for anyone. You can however buy a bag from the guys there which is 36 slots and lord knows everyone wants bags.
These new type 5 augs are prestige only.

Augs
Augs are more or less nothing new. What we got in tbm with the non prestige tags plus heroics or cotf ha farm is currently it. This still yields enough to deck out a toon.

Augs from eok are prestige only from t1+. Refer to the link to raz's guide to augs below to gather ftp augs.

Purity
Still very limited towards prestige, can still pick a couple up via random things, aka
Priceless Diamond of Ethernere from cotf things if you want to be the hero everyone knows you are.

Eok Offers a removable 30 and 35 purity aug with solvents, this is huge.

Limitations
The big limitations are still going to be rank 2 spells, which obviously can be thrown off as meh or purchased with some station cash. I still dont have much info on this portion for anyone to be of any use. I saw maybe 2 spells of which I didnt care about.

Ancients
Ancient farms are awesome kill quests in fm. Kill 50 bears spawn a named, turn in for items. Those items are considered group 2 loot and wont be anything but prestige.

AA
The increase of aa's IS VERY VERY steep. To rock a viable toon you want to grind another 8K+ aa's if you have kronos to burn or wanted to invest in a month of game time on a group to max them out.

Other threads
Make sure to use the guide by raz which should give you more insight on how to acquire all of the augs that were mentioned here and not listed.
 
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Are named camp-able from Day 1 in EoK with full TBM group gear? Or do they just hit way too hard and will significant AA'ing be necessary, first?
 
Completing progression results in a purty rhino mount. This might help make all them ogre asses look a little smaller.
 
I was sitting at a max aa'd group in tbm group gear going in to it and was able to take things down.

Thanks dude... that's the exact same position I'd be in. I haven't had a chance to login, yet. I also need to buy the expansion (or consider buying) on a few more accounts. I'm bummed they didn't open TDS on day one, but I'm hoping its coming.
 
Sum1 I loaded up max aa toons this morning and cleaned up all the chardok names. No problems, just long fights...

Also, the T2 armor is prestige. EQResource is wrong. I went to go grab t2 nonprestige armor on my ftp alts, and was surprised when I clicked the armor.
 
Are there any circle affects in EoK?

New Circle of Power, Life, Guardian lines? Last time they were updated is COTF in Plane of War, its been awhile so I would be surprised if we don't see new ones any time soon

Tank Gear Comparison
Currently Eok group gear is 30 ac greater, and 400 hp ish lesser than the current raid 1 tbm gear.
It is indeed not prestige.
This is def a bigger increase then the previous 5% caps we have seen each expansion. The current group tank bp offers 631 ac and 4405 hp for a sk, with an ac aug from tbm(Bile).



Also is there any proof to this or links?

They've never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever made group gear better than the raid gear from 1 X-pac ago

http://items.eqresource.com/items.php?id=148007

http://items.eqresource.com/items.php?id=147422


Apparently you're right... Well that's the weirdest shit I have ever seen. They literally made TDS and TBM completely pointless X-pacs by doing that raid-wise
 
I just looked at the achievments on my SK for Alt experience...OMFG. He dinged 18000 AA when I spent his carry over cap of AAs. Only issue is that the last achievement is 30,000 AAs, so only 12K to grind out.

Anyone know where I can grind out several thousands AAs? /sarc

I guess DBG makes up for a small expansion by charging 100 AA for 2% increase in a skill.

Oh well, back to the grind I guess.
 
I'd be surprised if they were done tuning this stuff. Stand by for raider uproar on the forums, followed by nerfs to the group game.
 
Yeah no doubt Sum1. I was thinking the exact same thing when I went from beta to live and nothing changed and just had to post something because it was way too crazy.

I think even if they downgrade some gear, it will still be better than tbm so it will be worth getting, and the huge boost is the ftp aug choice is massive at this point without having to camp neriak 4 and dh runs for some semi decent things.

All in all, the old school people will keep crying as per usual but this transition for them might be a really solid choice. I am of the opinion the sub model in mmos is just dead.
 
I am of the opinion the sub model in mmos is just dead.

Blizzard agrees with you. They said in a press release a year or so ago that "We are no longer tracking our subscription numbers because we don't feel that is an accurate representation of our business as a whole" or something along those lines. Here is the article: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/blizzard-will-no-longer-report-world-of-warcraft-s/1100-6431943/

Essentially meaning they found a better way to make money. Which is....

http://kotaku.com/who-are-the-whales-driving-free-to-play-gaming-youd-1197333118
 
Changed main post to reflect some ninja changes they made in the last couple days.
All new augs group 1 or group 2 are now prestige only, listed where/what to shoot for to remain ftp and viable.
Some gear received some prestige tags from tier 1, super weird. Will post if it changes.
 
The gear from all the Frontier Mountains Ancient events is now prestige, as well.
 
Guide - Buy eok, grind some aa, profit with ftp

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