Failed Thurgadin MQ help

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Indecisive [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Level 5. You had a great write-up and it's all great advice, but it's hundreds of hours away from me currently.

I came back to the server a few weeks ago, and had a pre-nerf CoS I'd bought years ago on my necro, along with some other stuff I could salvage/sell to roll up my new character. When someone brought up velious armor with the clicky bp for a druid, I made the decision right then to tag mobs in Kael to get faction.

I was actually at your <Anonymous> open raid in Kael this weekend, and was the wood elf slinging fireballs at your giants during plate cycle. It was really nice of you guys to let me tag along on that, by the way. It was what got me my faction for thurg armor.

I really appreciate your post though. It's a good outlook to have. I'll take it to heart.

Glad to hear you enjoyed our raid [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

For what it's worth, I leveled my Druid from 1 to 60 with virtually no twink gear (I did throw a Fungi on him for some of the last few levels, but just because I happened to have it on him; it didn't help that much). For most of the time most of his slots were either completely empty or just something like "rough leather armor, 3 AC".

IMHO Druids literally need no gear at all, and could go from 1 to 60 completely nekid, except for the garbage items they loot while leveling and just two items: Goblin Ghazughi Ring (for animal charming) and Luminescent Staff (for quadding). And honestly you can charm all the way to 60 if you want, so really only the ring is "necessary" (and even it isn't, it just makes animal charming nicer vs. having to cast Invis vs. Animals on yourself).

Those two items, some jewelry I happened to have lying around, and the aforementioned fungi for a few later levels, were quite literally all I gave my Druid (even though Loramin could easily have farmed many other items for him if I'd wanted). Every other slot was crap I picked up while leveling or empty, and I never had any gear envy whatsoever as I sailed to 60.

So if you have any plat left, get yourself that ring, but otherwise you really don't need to worry about gear: I can attest that you don't need it at all to take your Druid to 60.