Question - gear path from rain of fear gear or even heroic gear to current expac

[mroutlaw]

whats best way to gear up gear paths wise from heroic char to present content, id have to farm most myself since on a server with no economy.

 

[gse7en]

http://almarsguides.com/eq/navigation/Live/ Answers all your questions.

 

[Birdman]

whats best way to gear up gear paths wise from heroic char to present content, id have to farm most myself since on a server with no economy.

Here is what I did when I started 6 fresh accounts. I think the first question is what classes and how many are you running?
what I did was I went to house of thule and if your server is dead you can afk their to and all fun stuff, but I set up my stuff their and on my server the grounds is packed so I stayed away for alittle, but set up everything in house of thule (in the courtyard its open and full of mobs in heroic gear should be able to do it easy) and level up about 2 levels or so and what I did was once everything was set up I went to the grounds until level 95-100 and yes I know it takes forever but in heroic gear it wil get the job done, and at that point I had put my account gold to get the AA that are autogranted to 100. then I went to the beach!!! that is by far the best fucking place to go, go to Morrells Castle in HoT T4 and kill the fuck out of the beach, now if you some how cant do that then what I would do is farm some gear in like T2 or T3 HoT zones. or find out if their is someone just someone to hook you up with some voa gear. then from their I was between 97-100 on my toons and you wanna make sure that your tank is I mean in the way I was learned you want the tank to be BEAST MODE I mean crazy you want him to be TOP of the game, because if you cant tank it you cant do shit.. 99% of characters can support the tank easy as long as you can not die doing it. I used to run warrior cleric necro bard and 2 mercs and my warrior was tanking raids on xegony so he was pretty good but my dps was just not their but I could kill up to tbm and stuff because I had the tank just kills were slow. but if you want to maximize doing gear I would do this...

lvl 85 Heroic gear toons- go to HoT lower kill and get a feel- move to grounds lvl to 95-100
95-100 Heroic gear toons - while in grounds pick up a few pieces of gear that drop randomly. and loot n scoop
100- make sure you autogrant your aa or whatever to get the max what you can
100 mix grounds gear and heroic gear- head to the beach and lvl to 105 hands down the option
105- go to voa and get gear what I did was killed in Argath farmed that gear and stuff that could sell, and then moved into Valley and farmed some T2 stuff then I went to RoF and can kill nameds and their is a big difference, and in rof gear you can do heroics pretty good then boom latent gear, then go to tds and kill and get castaway. that is basically at the point I'm at, trying to get some castaway shit, taken me about 3 months to maximize what ive done.

or you can run DH heroics from 85-105 people do it and then at 100 you can buy gear from vendor and be in cotf T1 gear and should be able to kill in TDS T1... up to you
105

 

[eqtrader74]

Almar's guide is good, but I'm going to write the abreviated version I wish I'd had after upgrading to Heroic toons.

Three things to consider: What class-type? All-Access? How fast are you leveling?

Tanks should really be All-Access so they can augment for AC (prestige) and get the tanking AA's via auto-grant. Melee get decent atk/stats/weapons from prestige gear, but it's not make-or-break. Casters/healers can do fine in weaker gear, maybe grab the armor slot for nukes/heals or an Enhanced Minion ear if you need a pet tank. Sometimes I'll gear my puller up right after the tank, but that's more for lag surprises than a requirement.

Follow Maskoi's rules for multi-boxing: For your tank, upgrade often and focus on max AC. Next upgrade your group DPS so you can kill faster and give named a shorter window to spike your tank down. Finally use the trifecta in your group (tank/healer/cc) if available.

When I'm grinding toons up, I upgrade every 5 levels or so, since I know I'll wear the gear for awhile. If I'm powerleveling, I skip many levels of gear including taking toons to EoK/RoS with some empty gear slots. The 95 Fear Touched set or 100 Castaway are decent hp jumps, so I'd recommend one of those if nothing else.


Tradable & non-prestige armor sets, the pieces are random drops from named in these expansions, sometimes quest/chest rewards and sometimes available for instance tokens:

85 - HoT armor, HoT T1 not tradable and similar to your 900 hp heroic gear. Take it if exp'n there, otherwise skip it. T2/3 are 1000+ hp.
90 - Rustic armor (VoA T1) = 1400 hp gear
95 - Fear-touched armor (RoF T1) = 2200 hp gear (results are called Boreal armor)
100 - Latent Ether armor (CotF T1) = 2600 hp gear
100 - Castaway armor (TDS T1) = 2800 hp gear
105 - Glowing Seb armor (HH Old Seb - zone closed for 2017, Bazaar?) = 4200 hp gear
106 - Conflagrant armor/gear (RoS player made) = 4600 hp gear


If you're going prestige there are tier upgrades to some sets. Like Castaway has no-trade/prestige Tideworn & Highwater sets above it.

If you're full Free-to-play (no TBM/EoK) then the armor and weapons from TDS are tops until next expansion opens TBM for you. Castaway (100/tradable) drops from named in the first couple zones or the first TDS vendor, most of the Tideworn set is on Brother Island. Do not AFK bot on Brother Island. It's too small and too popular. To get the rest you'd need to work on your TDS zone flags to open more zones.

At 101 you'll want to start buying your TDS class type-3 spell/skill augs from the vendor in Katta Deluge (TDS)

If you have TBM:
75-105 - TBM Vendors. Bazaar shop or farm "remnants of tranquility" for TBM gear, augs & weapons. This set is interesting in that you can keep buying aug upgrades as you level to improve the whole piece. Remnants are rewards for finishing the various missions in TBM, they're tradable and re-covertable to trade items from your alt-currency tab. The 105 versions are a step below EoK T1 drops, so not too bad. Some vendors require faction, but you can build a full armor/weapon set without those vendors.

At TBM they add type 5 augs (+ heroic stats) and those continue to EoK, so it's easiest to buy your TBM vendor type 5's and just use them until you buy/find upgrades. The EoK upgrades to type 5 augs aren't that major.

105 TBM Vendor armor & vendor augs = 2700-3300 hp gear. Wide variety of options on aug'n it, so hp varies.

If you have EoK:
105 - Buy invis potions if needed. Head to Frontier Mountains. If you can kill the named, get to it. Otherwise learn your camp names and hang out/exp near Bi`f camp. Wait for rot calls in /ooc or /general, Bi'f will be the most common spot. You can get most of your T1 armor set in a week or so just from rot calls. Lcea works too, but will be a bit slower. Gear up until you can drop named, then finish out your remaining slots/augs. If All-Access you can head to EoK T2 zones for prestige upgrades.

105 - EoK T1 no-trade armor = 3900 hp gear
105 - EoK T2 no-trade, prestige armor = 4100 hp gear

If you have RoS:
105 - Head to The Overthere. You can buy your 106-110 spells/skills here and pick up your new type 3 augs. People are still gearing themselves and alts, but you will see some rot calls from time to time. Some of the named are boxable. OT and Skyfire named drop some non-prestige weapons & non-vis armor. If you are prestige you can also continue farming through the T2 zones.

The RoS armor sets are a continuation of the EoK T2 set, so you'll need to have the EoK T2 pieces to upgrade them to RoS T1 or T2.

If nothing else you can farm conflagrant ingredients to sell/trade up for conflagrant armor/weapons. If you get a chance, start working on your VP key in OT as that flagged RoS zone has the best groupable drops.

105 - RoS T1 no-trade armor (aka EoK T3)= 4400 hp gear
106 - RoS T2 no-trade, prestige armor (aka EoK T4) = 4750 hp gear

Non-vis slots and weapons tend to be every 5 levels, but there are a bunch available at level 92 specifically. So I'd Bazaar shop deals at 90/92/95/100/105 and then figure out where you need to go for the missing items. If you are named farming, that is straight forward. Otherwise fill those slots from ETWK vendors via CotF Heroic missions(75-100 with some lvl 100 gear being non-prestige), TDS Vendors (100-104 with Tempest Thule vendor selling non-prestige) or TBM vendors (75-105 with nearly all non-prestige.) Conflagrant weapons/gear become available at 106.

Augments will be nearly all prestige, but each expansion has quite a few. The AC ones can be competitive camps even a few expansions back. One benefit of going Heroic, is you can do Heroic Aug quests starting in Feerroot the Dream. They are a quick way to fill those slots and are non-prestige.

AA & Auto-grant: A Heroic toon gets 4k to 5k AA at level 85. If you have All-Access and turn on Auto-Grant AA, you'll gain free AA every level and wind up around 9-11k AA by level 100. A common strategy is to wait until 100, then go All-Access/Krono + Auto-Grant to gain all granted AA, then try to grind as much as possible while you have All-Access for a month. Auto-grant was a bit confusing, but what it does is give you every available AA that your level could earn, excluding AA from most recent 4 expansions. So currently it doesn't grant any AA beyond level 100.

Where the heck are my next spells/tomes:

1-90 - Plane of Knowledge Library
86-90 - Rank II are from Nebulous Dream Fragments.
91-95 - Argath (VoA) Note there is a special spell vendor for pets/auras. (Alaran Cantrips for Rank II)
96-100 - Shard's Landing (RoF) (Rank II for Dreadmotes)
96-100 - ETWK (CotF new spells) (Rank II on vendors for Marks of Valor)
101-105 - Katta Deluge (TDS, most of your spells) (Rank II for Briny Essences)
101-105 - Plane of Tranquility (TBM new spells) (Rank II for Essences of Life)
101-105 - Lcea (EoK new spells) (Rank II for Writs of the Combine)
106-110 - The Overthere (RoS) (Rank II for Clawed Tablet of the Ring of Scale)
For ports, they're often in the port-to zone but on a separate vendor. Try "find."

J5 Mercenary Quest: If you're using mercs, you might as well unlock the best available which is the Journeyman 5. Heroic toons get a fairly easy 15 minute quest in Feeroot the Dream. Alternatively there is the original "Rathe" flag in SoD progression for J5 access.


Further reading:
Get to the Beach (Great out of the way leveling spot.)
EQResource - Has the best general reviews of named/gear for each expansion.