Hypothetical: You have 1 million plat to build a toon for farming...

[AexDestroy]

What do you do?

[radditsu]

What do you do?

umm buy everything you need and dont farm?

[Tikker]

if i've got a million plat, I've been done with farming for a very long time

[baalzy]

Buy a pre-nerf fungi staff, if one can even be found for sale.

All the rest will fall into place naturally afterwards.

[Asap]

If you're building a character to farm, how did you farm the plat to gear your farming character?

[Ravager]

Let it ride on one roll at an EC casino.

[lazcar]

Spend 100k on a ranger. Spend 900k on a shaman with puppet stringsx2, and the works for soloing stuff... Track and kill.. Also sell charges on puppet strings

[Zeonick]

Yeah, fungi shaman with two puppet strings, epic mq, other slots with bis.

[Ahldagor]

i wouldn't do anything. i would sit there, in the tunnel, and watch the day go by

[Tecmos Deception]

Buy a pre-nerf fungi staff.

I wish :(


Kinda related: http://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=119348 ... :)

[Ravager]

Buy a pre-nerf fungi staff, if one can even be found for sale.

Aren't these around 3 million now?

[Telin]

Destroy it to avoid hyperinflation.

[Pint]

Buy a 60 enchanter for ~250k, spend the rest twinking alts

[myriverse]

Gear my main warrior with about $20kpp worth of stuff.
Gear my secondary warrior with similar.

Blow a bunch on tradeskills.

"Destroy" button when I'm bored with tradeskills.

[Jizzebel]

Buy a 60 enchanter for ~250k, spend the rest twinking alts

And of course buying that character is totally legal right

[JayN]

troll/iksar Shaman, buy epic

[TAllen82]

How does one MQ the faction needed for the Shaman epic? Don't think plat buys that....just sayin. We're not Rogues.

[Zeonick]

How does one MQ the faction needed for the Shaman epic? Don't think plat buys that....just sayin. We're not Rogues.

You dont. You quest the.faction and then buy the tear/fight

[AexDestroy]

Ok Farming was the wrong word, how about just soloing?

Also, is a shaman with puppet strings all that effective, having a relatively low charisma? 10 charges doesn't seem like it would get you very far.

[quido]

RMT the plat and buy lots of greasy food.

[Pint]

enchanter is still the best option for farming or soloing consistently and they are not gear reliant imo. my shaman has strings and tbh i dont find them at all necessary unless im trying to kill something particularly nasty, like if you wanted to solo something like seb emperor. they are great for killing 1 or 2 named mobs but obviously not good for a consistent soloing/farming session of clearing lots of trash or farming ng for gems etc. if your just trying to drop a chunk of platinum on a toon to feel strong your best options are melee toons, specifically monks or warriors.

[Byrjun]

Also, is a shaman with puppet strings all that effective, having a relatively low charisma? 10 charges doesn't seem like it would get you very far.

Malo(sini) + cha buff is pretty good. Using strings to farm something like seafuries is extremely counterproductive because of the recharge costs, but for killing difficult mobs or oh shit moments strings are super strong (read:op).

[AexDestroy]

With winter approaching, Im just looking at making a new toon to carry forward into velious for solo/farming/having fun/challenge.

I'm considering the following:

Iksar Monk
Ogre Shaman
Enchanter, undecided race.

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I already have 50+
SK, rogue, pal, mage, necro, druid

[Zeonick]

Ok Farming was the wrong word, how about just soloing?

Also, is a shaman with puppet strings all that effective, having a relatively low charisma? 10 charges doesn't seem like it would get you very far.

Well the all time champion of the solo artist challenge is a shaman with puppet strings. Ahead of all the top enchanters on the server. So that says something in itself.

[webrunner5]

You can have the most twinked Shaman on the server and you still are not going to do what a Enchanter with fairly good gear can do. Now Velious that MAY even out a bit but I will still put my money on the Enchanter. :p

[quido]

Shamans and Enchanters each have their strengths and weaknesses soloing. Ask an enchanter to solo a crypt named and they'll gate half the time.

[Tecmos Deception]

Well the all time champion of the solo artist challenge is a shaman with puppet strings. Ahead of all the top enchanters on the server. So that says something in itself.

The way it works is, a shaman with grea gear can kill 99% of stuff. An enchanter might only be able to kill 97% of stuff, but the chanter can do so with normal gear and much less hassle than a sham can. I don't even want to try to solo emp with tecmos, but svenn has an equally powerful aversion to trying to solo in hs south.

[DrathMaximus]

I agree to "Let it ride on one roll at an EC casino."

[jaybone]

RMT the plat and buy lots of greasy food.

Confirmed RMT . Reporting.

[Zeonick]

The way it works is, a shaman with grea gear can kill 99% of stuff. An enchanter might only be able to kill 97% of stuff, but the chanter can do so with normal gear and much less hassle than a sham can. I don't even want to try to solo emp with tecmos, but svenn has an equally powerful aversion to trying to solo in hs south.

Totally agree. Don't mean to take any credit away from your awesome solo artist challenge resume Tecmos. When i'm working my way through a dungeon I just wish so badly that I could mezz / lull some mobs to make the process easier.

That's one thing, chanters can break spawns so much easier than shamans. All we have for CC is roots, and as soon as you cast one the whole room is on your ass.

[HeallunRumblebelly]

Totally agree. Don't mean to take any credit away from your awesome solo artist challenge resume Tecmos. When i'm working my way through a dungeon I just wish so badly that I could mezz / lull some mobs to make the process easier.

That's one thing, chanters can break spawns so much easier than shamans. All we have for CC is roots, and as soon as you cast one the whole room is on your ass.

CC park, log in log out (have ip exemption and log in with 2nd box if you have) and you can split it on the walk back, pathing willing. Does require you to be able to handle the initial rape, but there's also rechargable FD from sky. It's just a bit more hassle on a shaman :p

[Clark]

Spend 100k on a ranger. Spend 900k on a shaman with puppet stringsx2, and the works for soloing stuff... Track and kill.. Also sell charges on puppet strings

haha nice

[Skywarp]

Ask members of TMO leadership. They specialized in acct buying and gearing with hypothetical plat they never seen or knew about.

[Tecmos Deception]

CC park, log in log out (have ip exemption and log in with 2nd box if you have) and you can split it on the walk back, pathing willing. Does require you to be able to handle the initial rape, but there's also rechargable FD from sky. It's just a bit more hassle on a shaman :p

Trying to split groups of level 50+ harmtouchers and casters with roots? Recharging a 2-charge ring with a lore battery that you can only get in sky? Compared to lulling? That's more than "a bit more hassle" imo!

[Swish]

What do you do?

Easy... you sell MQ after MQ and try to lock people out of getting their epics, thereby pushing your own prices up.

That's what most people would seem to do.

notmad.gif

[baalzy]

CC park, log in log out (have ip exemption and log in with 2nd box if you have) and you can split it on the walk back, pathing willing. Does require you to be able to handle the initial rape, but there's also rechargable FD from sky. It's just a bit more hassle on a shaman :p

Fairly certain the using a second box to instant-poof yourself with an ip exemption is illegal.

[Andervin]

Silly question. Doesn't this happen every fucking day on this twinked out server?

[cyryllis]

hoard all of the plat until velious, then buy SoD x 2

[Pint]

hoard all of the plat until velious, then buy SoD x 2

Sod only 500k? Can I preorder some?

[cyryllis]

Well if no one rushes to wake sleeper they shouldnt be more than that after a while. Then again, with no training in st or another way to prevent waking or resetting the encounter, we may only have a sleeping dragon for a month or so.

[Tecmos Deception]

Silly question. Doesn't this happen every fucking day on this twinked out server?

Not really, no. Playing my sk lately I've been surprised with how few twinks there are. Even with rogue epic being so cheap and awesome, I'd say only half the ones I've seen the last week were epic.

[HeallunRumblebelly]

Well if no one rushes to wake sleeper they shouldnt be more than that after a while. Then again, with no training in st or another way to prevent waking or resetting the encounter, we may only have a sleeping dragon for a month or so.

Eh, Ventani takes a solid 40. Assuming you get every st key on spawn, a month only gives you like, 30ish keys. And getting every single st key dragon will prove a bit difficult. It'd be very doable for a top end guild in 3 months though.

Also important to remember that much of the loot we remember was in fact terrible until Luclin. SoDs/ BoCs being prime examples.

[cyryllis]

While boc Wasnt changed until luclin, SoD got upgraded months before luclin launched, during summer 2001 according to elethia

[HeallunRumblebelly]

While boc Wasnt changed until luclin, SoD got upgraded months before luclin launched, during summer 2001 according to elethia

Hrm, good to hear. Any chance you know the order on vulak / tunare loot upgrades as well? Tunare loot especially, she was changed a few times.

[JerSar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrGQwMGqE-I

[cyryllis]

I think people are still trying to figure out tunare loot and decide on which version of her we will actually see, since many of her forms were bugged and unfinished

[Zeonick]

Fairly certain the using a second box to instant-poof yourself with an ip exemption is illegal.

I have no idea how this works, but Im guessing its not legal. I do have an ip exemption for when my gf decides to play though. Which is never.

[baalzy]

I have no idea how this works, but Im guessing its not legal. I do have an ip exemption for when my gf decides to play though. Which is never.

If someone attempts to log in to your account while you're playing it instantly boots you (and your character) out of the game. If you have an IP exemption you can log into your own account to get yourself out of a lot of sticky situations. I know people used to use this to train raids because their character would poof out and be safe leaving all the angry mobs on top of the other party.

[Zeonick]

Then why is itwhen I got ld I cant log back in for a few minutes?

[myriverse]

It does not boot you if you're still logged in.

[Zeonick]

This makes no sense then. If someone tries to log into your account you poof... But dont you have to be logged in to get poofed? !

[myriverse]

When the server tries to reach your client and fails, it autopoofs after a certain amount of time. Someone trying to log into your account will not poof you.

[Elements]

Ask Supremacy and Nights Who Say Ni. They have some ~1 mil twink first toons on the server running around.

[HeallunRumblebelly]

If someone attempts to log in to your account while you're playing it instantly boots you (and your character) out of the game. If you have an IP exemption you can log into your own account to get yourself out of a lot of sticky situations. I know people used to use this to train raids because their character would poof out and be safe leaving all the angry mobs on top of the other party.

No longer allowed thanks to VP issues, but Aiaus was a master poofer :p

[ralph v2.0]

http://i.imgur.com/QdZoKAB.jpg?1?7346

get bored, twink a char and get him to ~20 then yawn. log main again and sit around ec bullshitting with old friends.

[pasi]

Shamans lack pacify and mez which makes them far worse at dungeon farming than enchanters. Strings aren't exactly designed for routine farming either.

With invis-pulling, there was a better case for shaman.