Need tips on gearing iksar sk with no outside help
 

So the main goal with this is just to have fun. Ideally I don't want handouts and I don't want to go out of my way to do something outside the spirit of the game to get gear. Ideally I want to just level with what's available on kunark, and just gear myself up and go at it for fun. So I'm looking to avoid any tricks to make plat and buy level 50 items for the time being.

With that being said, if you were to gear an iksar sk from scratch assuming there was no high level players in the game what items would you use? Atm I'm thinking curscail armor > banded armor, iksar targ shield and tarnished wep then try to do my sk quests for a better wep, then go for a fine steel wep or crafted iksar wep. Anyone have any suggestions on what's the best option for self gearing from scratch?

You could grab some burynai and reinforced rhino armor in kurns. It's not worth trying to smith the banded yourself really unless you have the money to burn. Also the burynai cutter and carrion queen spawns in field of bone you might want to look into.

Find a way to run to KC and wait for rotting Jarseth armor.

Yeah, just about the best gear there is for free, that Rots all the time. :eek:

did you happen to read his post?

There are bandits in LOIO that drop ringmail. They're in a tower or something. Wiki it and farm them for good AC gear when you get into your 20s.

He would be getting rots not handouts. Why let something rot if you can use it? But hey if he wants to make the game harder on himself then who am i to argue. ;)

It's not about making it harder, basically I want to attempt to play the game the way it was intended. I want to avoid using any tricks that I wouldn't have if this was a fresh server. I feel if I geared myself from scratch and played through and attempted to tank as a non twink it would be pretty fun and give a nice sense of accomplishment.

Not having a good weapon is the biggest challenge IMO
Decent armor is not that hard

Really do agree with you, I think my best option that I can find is the sk weapon quests but I'm wondering if I'm missing some other simple options.