Low level gear drops/quests

[derpcake]

for real non-twinks i guess pal / sk would be some of the absolute worst choices from a power perspective

you'd drag down groups a few notches and you can't really solo for squat, fear kiting with a rusty 2h doesn't work

on a bard you could hit 60 naked, and even at 50+, having 12 plat worth of instruments puts your songs over 80% max efficiency

just play what you like, not like you can't reroll that lvl 17 naked dude later right [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

@above poster "fine plate is really all you need until later levels", that stuff has a trivial of 228..

[Daywolf]

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

@above poster "fine plate is really all you need until later levels", that stuff has a trivial of 228..

Banded coat is triv at 175, I made the above green dye set at ~195 after cycling some plate collars back to the vendor. Below triv doesn't mean you can't make it, just that there is a chance to fail. If you want to make plats selling sets (not my goal), don't start selling until you reach triv. Want to save plats on starting-armor account wide? Smithing is easy compared to most other trades to 200, and not much more expensive than buying a set of armor. To get to banded armor, I spent 150pp, which a set costs about 100pp. The above dyed fine plate set is worth more than I put into smithing all together to that point... less the actual material cost of that armor set. My current black fine plate armor set a little more (black harder to farm).

The reason newbies don't run around in fine plate at lvl20 (meh bronze bleh) is they are too concerned about leveling as fast as they can to bother with crafting, which can be time consuming. That and they see crafting as too expensive and time consuming, and not sure how to make plats to fund crafting as well. Though my fist post gives a general mention how to get the plats to do it (and while leveling mind you), it's still a bit of farming work (not too bad), though a vet is accustomed to.