New intro thread: Sorry. Lv3 Paladin new to P1999.

[Eldaran]

great song! ill look for you in game. will probably be on tonight and/or tomorrow night.

[Eldaran]

blacksmithing is too expensive to do on your first character. you would be better to just grind and save money. If you go to Greater Faydark usually high level people come and give all kinds of armor away. my level 7 pally has full bronze almost from a nice high level Cleric.

[pickled_heretic]

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

I'm actually raising both my smithing and my tailoring so that I can craft newbie gear for my future toons, not just my pally. Banded for most of them, Wu's for the Monk.

100 plat for each new toon? 1k maybe for a set of wu's? you could make a monk and 5 new characters, suit them up with banded or wu's, and still not be even close to the amount of money invested into the skills.

i don't mean to be rude but let me point out something. you posted in the guild section that you are interested in progression. from the perspective of a guild, you have absolutely the worst mindset when it comes to progression. you want to take your time, work on tradeskills. you already have plans to gear out alts and you don't even have a character above level 3!

play the game how you want. but if you're looking for advice on how to play, and you expressed some interest in progression, you need to get out of your mindset. exploit this topheavy economy as much as you can and try to burn through levels asap.

[phobus]

Wu's Quivering Staff is Monk-only and way common. Oh, and it's cheaper than a Poison Wind Censer.

The PWC has an AE Proc (read: you don't want to use it anymore once you're high enough for the proc to work) and the negative resistance isn't very attractive either.

[Nirgon]

Sorry to say Sir Lucan is camped so people can have complete heal from inventory and not only tanks do it.

[Snaggles]

I wouldn't even dance down the road for the Soulfire until you know you will be in a guild for your epic. Otherwise it's a ton of time and heartache for a subpar weapon (regardless of the awesome 5 charges of win).

Sword of Skyfire is a nice trainer for a Sword of the Morning eventually. It's also about 10 times cheaper. You should keep a 1h and bash pretty high in skill. It just sets you up for a Ghoulbane (or SotM) later. In a high dps group having a shield gives you a mitigation edge and allows you to bash.

For a 2h the PWC is awesome. Also the Baton of Faith sells for nothing and seem even more plentiful because only a fraction of the classes can use it.

I'd prob go skyfire/ghoulbane till 20 and switch to a real clubber from that point out when your dmg caps lifts further. That or solo undead in Unrest 20+ like a p!mp. Most importantly just pick a class and start trucking, that exp penalty sucks but rerolling is the worst kind and you stay broke forever.

[Diggles]

ghoulbane god damn it

[pickled_heretic]

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

ghoulbane god damn it

can't believe i forgot about the almighty ghoulbane. yeah this is a solid choice over skyfire for a similar (slightly higher) price point. one of the few old world weapons that still remains useful with the release of kunark. however you suck.

[Flash]

I should stop relying on ZAM for my information then.

How much does it typically sell for in EC?

[Flash]

I'll keep an eye out for it then. But I don't expect to be able to afford it until level 15 or so, so I'll just have to survive until then.