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Discussion - Whats the easiest, fastest and cheapest way to gear a F2P 105 level toon? (1 Viewer)

Maskoi

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Looking to put together a guide just like the title says.

Whats the easiest, fastest and cheapest way to gear a F2P 105 level toon?

Please post all your ideas and strategies.
 
EoK, get your vis gear at a camp while PLing. Then go clear Plane of Hate once and buy the rest of the non vis slots from the PoT TBM merchant using Remnants of Tranquility.

Then from there you can upgrade the gear as you go.
 
Just killing all the non named mobs on the bottom floor should give enough faction and then you don't need to move to a ton of campus you can buy a piece for every slot.
 
This is a great topic and close to my heart as I have dozens of 105s in need of extensive gearing...

EoK rots/TBM Remnants of Tranquility purchases are nice but do not really work for F2P chars not on Firiona Vie.

For true F2P with just TDS and on a regular server you need a different strategy.

The best one I think is gather tons of Piece of Eight http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=120483
from the later missions which give more rewards.

You use well equipped farm toons with flagging done, then you purchase the cheap non-prestige gear with the farm toons and the resulting gear is tradable.

A mission like http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=7799 supposedly gives 389 Pieces per character, so a farm team can get 2000 Pieces in one run -> 15 pieces of Castaway/non-visible 2700-2600hp/mana armor from a single run.

Second strategy is to have the F2P chars farm Marks of Valor but that takes forever and COTF armor is getting really long in tooth.
 
If you already have pieces of eight on a toon, buying the Castaway visible armor (or buying through bazaar) will get your visibles. Else if you have already done CotF missions out the wazzu, or want to buy them through bazaar, getting latent armor will get your visibles filled out.

After that, you will need to either camp something or do missions. And of course, with TDS you may have to do progression to gain access to the higher reward missions. Best gear would of course eventually be TDS for the toon, but they may need CotF gear to accomplish it if their support is not good enough.
 
LCea has a ton of super easy yellow named that drop cohorts armor, get it! get it all! Look up the named on ala or EqResources and stay away from the ones with horrid strats like the spider and the giant krag! At least until you get some gear.

You should be able to get enough gear to go to FM and farm BiFaak/Delirious and grove guardian for Ears, Rings, shoulders, more armor and weapons. You should be set after that!

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Don't forget TBM! The augs from there are non-prestiege! and the gear is not bad!
 
Maskoi is sounds like you ought to be a bit more specific on if you mean a FTP account, which is restricted to TDS and earlier expansions, or an account with the latest expansion on it but is FTP (which, if you are gonna buy the expansion, why wouldn't you go gold?)
 
As far as I know there is no way to get TBM/EoK gear onto pure F2P TDS accounts unless you play on FV.

So that leaves the best way of getting TDS armor onto your F2P chars.

If there was a way to farm tons of ROF non-prestige gear (ie 2k hp/2k mana) that would work too but I do not know of any quick way.

One more tip: There are 8 slots that you can fill with non-prestige tradeskill gear (rings/primary/secondary/range/belt/hands/mask). It is quite decent for starting.

Just need a jeweler/tinkerer/tailor/forager(ahem Katta always have druid bots doing just that).

This is for casters mainly as melee will need weapons:

Rings: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=119693
Face: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=121367
Hands: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=120655
Belt: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=120656
Caster 2hander: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=113992
Range: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=118677

Primary/Secondary/Range: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=121354 (I love the double gun look!)

This stuff has a very high success rate with 345 skill.
 
IF I had a totally FTP account, I would get his ass to 105 with Kiss in group (I would have 6 FTP) then go to TDS and kill for gear until I could handle the HA there, then HA it up for your gear, done!
 
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