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Originally Posted by abyssalstalker
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I didn't play too much in Velious. Which zones will require keys? I saw that there's a few tier's of questable armor in Veeshan's Peak and Kael but I'm unsure if groups can just walk into those.
When you say CS are you referring to Cobalt Scar? I thought that people could simply port there?
Very informative post on other items, Daldaen, thank you!
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Cobalt Scar requires a key from killing a mob in Skyshrine (he will be permacamped) or by doing the quest from this same mob (need okay dragon faction to do this)
Sleeper's Tomb requires a key and is a raid zone
You need portal teeth (no drop ground spawned items) from Velious port rings to get ported places. For CS particularly, this means you need to have your tooth before you get ported there. Meaning you had to have zoned in with the key and picked up the tooth. So you can't bypass the key by getting a port. Which I'm sure plenty of people don't realize and won't until the ports leave them behind in August.
There are 5 armor sets for casters:
Kael- Drops from group able trash, required kindly Coldain (dwarf) faction + armor gems
EToV - Drops from mini raid trash, required max ally Dragon faction + armor gems
WToV - Drops from mini raid trash, requires max ally Giant faction + armor gems
PoGrowth/PoHate2.0 - Drops from trash in these raid zones. All classes get sets from PoGrowth except Paladin, Druid, and Ranger (whose sets come from PoHate 2.0 after 3 month planar revamp). These drop the complete pieces, you don't need any faction or armor gems
PoMischief - Long quests from PoMischief. Unlike the previous 4 sets, these don't have unlimited charge clickies. Making them less valuable in many situations. However they have some unique/good stats on certain pieces. (Only Monks get a set from here, no other melee do)
Kael and PoG/Hate armor share equivalent mediocre stats (many are inferior to current Kunark gear)
EToV/WToV have the better stats but require more faction and drops from level 60+ trash in a raid zone (BP/Legs are best in slot for many classes even with raid gear factored in)
The armor gems drop rarely from 40-50ish mobs. Wyverns, geonids, Velketor kobolds, dragon necropolis trash and sirens grotto trash are the primary locations these drop. For each armor quest you need 3 specific gems (always the same type). Some of these are exceptionally rare and I wouldn't be surprised if some run 10-20k a piece to start off with (specifically the BP gems which drop mainly from raid minis like wuoshi and kelorek, or very rarely from trash). With this in mind, PoGrowth is a solid alternative because it doesn't require any gems as the trash there drop completed armor pieces.