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Originally Posted by Combo
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Being a new player on P99 this is definitely a great post and worth commenting on.
My "main," if you could call it that, is an untwinked Barbarian Rogue. He is currently level 11, equipped with a Puguis, some large cloth, and about 40 plat. The only "twinked" item I have is the Pugius. Some guy gave it to me for helping him transfer crushbone belts to his alt. Otherwise I'd be using a Tarnished Rapier.
The only thing I can apparently buy with this 40p is Banded, which is largely irrelevant to a class who shouldn't be getting hit all that much, and can't even pull aggro with his pathetic weapon.
I've tried to buy basic +2 STR rings, but the guy selling them wanted 25p for a pair. I remember these being 2-4pp each all the way into Velious.
I've tried to buy a new weapon. I dug through the EC forum and found someone had sold a Serrated Bone Dirk for 50p about a month ago. Running to the tunnel I find a guy wanting to sell one for 250p (he wouldn't list the price, I had to send him a tell). When I said, in so many words, "rofl, no fucking way," he went crazy and begged me to offer a lower price. It's the strangest thing I've ever seen. I just stopped responding as I didn't want to get into the whole back and forth where his feelings get hurt because he's not going to get the wild price he wants.
Gloomwater Harpoons go for about 200, and I don't know if that's reasonable or not, but 200p is a pretty distant goal at this juncture. My farming options are Bone Chips (~5plat a stack, in the EC region as a Rogue this is a horrible time:return ratio), High Quality Bear/Cat skins (what I'd been doing, mostly, before I headed off to gfay), and Silks (20p-ish a stack, but rarely any buyers). Over in gfay, I try to sell Crushbone Belts for 1p/each (which is normal). They sell, but the buyers are wildly erratic and further, I have to go back to EC to (try to) buy anything.
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If you look at the game by design, your Barb isn't really doing all that bad.
Both the SBD and the Gloom Poon drop off mobs in their 30s, so "realistically" you wouldn't have yet had the chance to earn these items yourself, and thus the prices
should probably be out of your current reach.
Back at release melees would experience a progression more like this:
1-10: patchwork/rawhide/leather, rusty/bronze (bronze if lucky) weapons
10-20: chain/banded/black iron/bronze armor, bronze/fs/combine (used to be leet!) weapons
-maybe a unique magic drop
20-30: +steel plate/rubicite if lucky
-handful of unique magic drops
30+: generally start to fill out slots with unique gear one by one
By my casual observations, more PP drops on P99 than at release as well. I know I had multiple PP before level 5 on P99, which seems inflated to me.
I had enough money for all my spells each level, which is not reminiscent of my experience on live at release. I remember my brother definitely budgeting and carefully choosing which spells he wanted when he reached a new spell level.
Anyways, I'm sure there is inflation, but there are plenty of us selling items for what we perceive to be fair prices. I started in April and didn't wear anything I didn't earn or make until my 20s-30s, and didn't really have expendable income until my cleric reached level 44 and I could farm solo. At that point, I just camped my little heart out and was on a mountain of cash within a couple of weeks.
I made it and so will everyone else. It might surprise some to know that EQ is in fact more fun on the way up than it is at the top. That bloodclaw stiletto will feel all the more sweet when you eek out a victory in Najena with camrades and it replace your tired old pugius.
... but, that's just like my opinion, man.