i really regret keeping my net worth in items. im worth about 1/10 the platinum coins i was at peak, all my BIS kunark droppables are worth shit.

Belt slot vs glove slot. Good gloves are pretty easy to get. Good belts are rarer and more expensive, generally.

But yeah, if you can find a solid belt (TBB, silken cat fur girdle, etc.) and your gloves are kinda mediocre, just get SCHW instead of FBSS. It's cheaper, even!

Never hold items, always have your shit for sale. Thats how you succeed in the tunnel.

The winner is Tolan's Bracer really. Im still amazed. Rangers are so cool..

Yeah but failing at the tunnel is kinda like succeeding at the game. TAI.

(This is how I rationalize spending an inordinate amount of platinum on my VS legs prior to launch.)

SCHW fucks up ya fashionquest game and is really only acceptable to be used on pre-epic monks

Is a true dilemma, for sure. Wear schw and get cheap, decent haste, or be forced to get a crappy fbss that has less haste yet doesn't gimp up your fashionquesting?

I'm not looking for them but there's threads where you're speculating on prices going up, or manipulating prices by buying multiples and holding onto them.

Meanwhile a player new to the game is going to be locked out due to inflation anyway but you're really not helping "first month" players have any access to anything half decent. Allow me to speculate. Without the tunnel rats we'd retain more new players who feel the mountain is worth climbing, and not something that's borderline only doable for the mentally ill.

How many Highkeep guards do you have to kill to "get ahead" these days? Working for the FCC isn't something I'd enjoy.

I'll say it again, shit's cheap nowadays. I would MUCH rather have to re-gear now as a noob than the way it was when I first did it. Prices have dropped enormously for nearly everything.

Total bullshit. A brand new, ungeared player can enter EC and start making plats simply by killing low level skellies, collecting their bone chips and then selling them.

One stack of bone chips is no less than 10pp.

HQ bear skins go for 30pp, with a little work a new player can get their tailoring up and make backpacks themselves that sell for 60pp.

There are so many ways to make plats on this server/game.

In no way are new players "locked out due to inflation" and being run off the game and server by "tunnel rats".

An interesting theory, but nonetheless ridiculous. :D

If you're willing to sit there for hours (6-7pp a stack is more reasonable). By the time you've done the tunnel time you could have probably leveled and been given better access to more profitable camps (Nybright sisters etc) which is still a bad idea because the most profitable stuff comes in the 50s and 60.

No substitute for leveling and then starting your shitty trader career at 54+