Low level gear?

[burdenday]

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

learn to sit for med ticks, learn to play class more efficiently... a good player with no gear is better than a twinked to death bad player.... at least as far as casters go. Learn to time med ticks, learn to agro and fear kite, give your pet weapons, etc. etc.

All your gear will ever do for you is give you a large mana pool, which you won't need if you're playing efficiently.

Good tips. However, gear is necessary as you level up. Mob HP begins to exceed player HP and damage potential once you hit ~30.

If you're gearing up for the first time as a caster realize your spells start to cost real money real fast. I'd suggest trying to hoard bone chips from Kurns and sell them to a higher level player. Getting some 5ac 55hp rings will save your life and expand your mana pool as a necro too.

[Bodybagger]

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

Good tips. However, gear is necessary as you level up. Mob HP begins to exceed player HP and damage potential once you hit ~30.

If you're gearing up for the first time as a caster realize your spells start to cost real money real fast. I'd suggest trying to hoard bone chips from Kurns and sell them to a higher level player. Getting some 5ac 55hp rings will save your life and expand your mana pool as a necro too.

He's lvl 8, and an efficiently played necro could pretty well play naked or only in gear they farmed themselves from 1-60, and more gear would only make them more efficient a small amount of the time I'd wager.

Definitely is a large change of pace form constant gear whore games like WoW, Diablo, Borderlands, where you upgrade several times during each play session, especially in early stages. EQ is vastly different, and unless you meet very generous people, as a caster, you will do well to afford your spells until past lvl 20 or so. You also won't need the gear, as it won't make much difference, other than a mild edge in survivability in "oh shit" moments where things go south perhaps.

But gear won't make your pet or DOT's do more damage, won't let you melee successfully, etc. You'll just get more mana to cast the same weak spells, most of which for you are DoT so casting more does nothing. If you don't know how med ticks work, look into that and learn to sit between catss and time med ticks, you'll feel like you have endless mana and as a necro eventually you will.