How is P99 today?

[webrunner5]

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

I've only been playing for like 6 months, but here are my impressions: Premium items do not cost from 20k-80kpp. Premium items cost from 100k-500kpp. It is really absurd, actually. How I (and many other like me) am supposed to start on this server without any help, yet manage to accrue half a million platinum in order to be competitive with other level 60's is ludicrous. I've been saving up since I started, i'm level 41 now, and I can *almost* afford one pair of Golden Efreeti Boots for 5k -- but that is like ALL of my money. Something seems askew.... However, on the lower/mid-end, prices seem relatively fair and negotiable (and dare i say even cheap, sometimes!) and you shouldnt have any problems gearing up a toon with decent enough equipment to get you through your 30's and 40's.!

I have been on here for over 3 years. I felt the same way you do when I was here 6 months. But you are not going to get high end gear ONLY being a level 41. You have to be in the mid 50's 60 to even go to zones that have Killer loot. And be lucky on rolls if you don't have a Chanter that you are great at solo. And you have to be 46 just to even get into the Planes where if you are in a pretty good guild you will get some damn nice no drop stuff if you have DKP.

So you are just going to have to buck up, and level, and raid, and belong to a fairly good guild, and put the time in to get 500k. We all had to to do it. Nobody just gives it to you.

I am not picking on you, I am just saying how you have to go about it to make it happen. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Tecmos Deception]

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

Premium items do not cost from 20k-80kpp. Premium items cost from 100k-500kpp. It is really absurd, actually. How I (and many other like me) am supposed to start on this server without any help, yet manage to accrue half a million platinum in order to be competitive with other level 60's is ludicrous. I've been saving up since I started, i'm level 41 now, and I can *almost* afford one pair of Golden Efreeti Boots for 5k -- but that is like ALL of my money. Something seems askew....

What webrunner said. This is an RPG after all. D&D would have been weird if your party of level 12s could kill some ancient red dragon and pillage its horde of +5 holy avengers and piles of gold and powerful spell scrolls. And P99 would be weird if you had the same gear as someone who has invested 50x the time into their characters.

Also, you do not need a ton of money to be "competitive with other level 60's." Fungis and cloaks of flame and manastones (and the even more expensive items like puppet strings, bladestoppers, kunark breastplates/greaves, epics requiring VS/CT/Inny/etc) are awesome items, for sure. But they rarely make or break a class/group/raid, and the fact that something like GEBs cost you all the money you've saved in 41 levels just means that in a few more levels when you could throw together a group and go XP at freeti, when you get djarns rings and GEBs dropping there you're going to feel like you're rolling in the plat in no time.

1-45ish in EQ is about leveling up, exploring, making friends, learning how things work. Then beyond that point is when your character is powerful enough (basically regardless of what gear you have) that you can start worrying about continuing to XP at places where you can get nice items to use or sell.

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

Someone hook this noob up with some plat. Ill beg, i have no dignity.

You said you're playing a mage? That's like the single class that has the absolute lowest need for money! Your pets and spells are just as effective if you are naked as if you are wearing 500k worth of gear! Solo or duo or group up, earn that xp, and try to do your best to not care about gear until you're level 50+, imo [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[bOONDOGGLE]

Wow, Tekmos.

Fantastic insight. Thanks man. I definitely see what you are getting at.

[Dr. Edge]

Just be aware that you will never get your mage epic weapon on this server due to content blocking hardcore booger eaters

[jaybone]

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

Just be aware that you will never get your mage epic weapon on this server due to content blocking hardcore booger eaters

[Daldaen]

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

Just be aware that you will never get your mage epic weapon on this server due to content blocking hardcore booger eaters

Not true. You will get it quite easily once Velious comes out.

Power of the Orb (words/power of x) is easily solo able.
Element of Fire (Undertow/BW Wurm) is easily solo/duoable. Neh'ashiir in CoM is groupable and not permafarmed.
Element of Earth (Slixin/Broom/Shovel) is easily solo/duoable. Innoruuk currently drops the Staff of Elemental Mastery: Earth (the hardest part to get currently). Come planar revamp it drops off of forsaken revenants (males). Which you can group.
Element of Water (Tarbul/Overseer/Phinigel) are all trioable/groupable
Element of Air (Elemental Binder) is solo able. The Air crown is relatively cheap on this server due to how much people do PoAir. Quill mane sucks as always but you can pay someone to MQ it I'm sure.

All in all... Once planar revamp drops, the ghost in CoM becomes the hardest part of the epic. Most all of it is doable with a single group however.

[Dr. Edge]

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

Not true. You will get it quite easily once Velious comes out.

Power of the Orb (words/power of x) is easily solo able.
Element of Fire (Undertow/BW Wurm) is easily solo/duoable. Neh'ashiir in CoM is groupable and not permafarmed.
Element of Earth (Slixin/Broom/Shovel) is easily solo/duoable. Innoruuk currently drops the Staff of Elemental Mastery: Earth (the hardest part to get currently). Come planar revamp it drops off of forsaken revenants (males). Which you can group.
Element of Water (Tarbul/Overseer/Phinigel) are all trioable/groupable
Element of Air (Elemental Binder) is solo able. The Air crown is relatively cheap on this server due to how much people do PoAir. Quill mane sucks as always but you can pay someone to MQ it I'm sure.

All in all... Once planar revamp drops, the ghost in CoM becomes the hardest part of the epic. Most all of it is doable with a single group however.

someone told me this same thing 3 years ago,








still don't have epic,







still waiting for Velious