What are the most cost-effective coin purses on the market?

[DeathsSilkyMist]

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

If you guys are looting so much crap that you actually need all 80 slots...because I don't think that happens in Planar raids. Or Kael or Skyshrine.

But what do I know. I have yet to raid.

Even when you dont raid, you build up a nice collection of clickies, keys, and resist gear. This is especially true for non gate classes. I use 40 slots on my SK for clickies, food, keys, and resist gear.

[Loadsamoney]

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

Even when you dont raid, you build up a nice collection of clickies, keys, and resist gear. This is especially true for non gate classes. I use 40 slots on my SK for clickies, food, keys, and resist gear.

Personally I would just keep most of that stuff banked until needed. I honestly don't get why there's such an emphasis on resist gear for raiding too. Wouldn't it be more important to cap the damage stats like Str, Dex, and max HP via Sta? You can't do that with buffs alone.

If anything, I would try to build a universal gear set that has both stats and resists.

[loramin]

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

I honestly don't get why there's such an emphasis on resist gear for raiding too. Wouldn't it be more important to cap the damage stats like Str, Dex, and max HP via Sta?

No matter what your stats are, you do zero damage (or healing) when feared ... or dead.

[DeathsSilkyMist]

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

Personally I would just keep most of that stuff banked until needed. I honestly don't get why there's such an emphasis on resist gear for raiding too. Wouldn't it be more important to cap the damage stats like Str, Dex, and max HP via Sta? You can't do that with buffs alone.

If anything, I would try to build a universal gear set that has both stats and resists.

Most characters use 8 slot bags, because most 10 slot bags are either expensive (Tink Bags), or have low weight reduction (hand crafted backpacks). Everything else that is good is lore. This means most characters have mostly 8 slot bags. This means a normal character has 64 slots, by default. Lets say that character has a Box of Nil Space, and a Large Soiled bag, for a total of 68 slots. This would be the most common scenario.

If you are a Ranger with a Tiny Coin Purse, and a Fleeting quiver, you have lost potentially 12 slots a worst, 8 slots at best. So you go down to 60 slots at best. If you use the quiver for it's purpose (holding arrows), you lose an additional 6 slots. This brings you down to 54 slots total, with just arrows.

Bringing resistance gear while soloing is important on Melees. It allows you to fight casters you would otherwise be unable to fight. Clickies are nice, for extra buffs and saving spell gems. They save mana, and can sometimes even give you a spell you don't normally have.

It is convenient to bring keys with you, so you don't have to run to the bank every time you want to group in a specific dungeon. This is especially true if a bank is far away from the zone you want to visit.

You can easily use up 40 slots for this kind of gear even when soloing, as my SK does. Even if you get that down to 30, you only have 24-20 slots left over after the calculations above. I am constantly running out of bag space when fighting monsters that drop gems and jewelry, for example. When I kill Goos in Wakening Land on my SK, I need to go sell every few hours, with 24 slots available.

[loramin]

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

This means most characters have mostly 8 slot bags.

Maybe you shouldn't go quite that far with assumptions. I have some Shralok Packs on my Green toon, and some regular backpacks on like level 3 alts ... and literally every other bag I own, on every other alt and on Loramin, is a 10-slot one. I imagine I'm not the only one.

I agree with all the rest though: Loadsamoney just needs to "grow up" (in EQ, not IRL! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]) and he'll start understanding how easy it is for bag slots to disappear.

Also, I'd add to what you wrote that on pretty much all of my characters I have JBoots/SoW boots taking up one inventory slot, and usually another inventory slot is used up on another right-click item (Quillmane cloak, mage focus item, etc.), or possibly a soulbound key (eg. if you keep your Seb key in the first inventory slot, it doesn't screw up your bag order when you loot your corpse)). It's really nice to be able to instantly SoW/JBoots myself, or convert my pet into mana, or whatever, so I find it's worth giving up those slots ... but that just makes other bag slots all the more precious.

[DeathsSilkyMist]

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

Maybe you shouldn't go quite that far with assumptions. I have some Shralok Packs on my Green toon, and some regular backpacks on like level 3 alts ... and literally every other bag I own, on every other alt and on Loramin, is a 10-slot one. I imagine I'm not the only one.

I agree with all the rest though: Loadsamoney just needs to "grow up" (in EQ, not IRL! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]) and he'll start understanding how easy it is for bag slots to disappear.

Of course, I also tend to have more 10 slot bags myself. Since I have a Troll and an Ogre, hand made backpacks are quite appealing, due to my high strength offsetting the weight reduction of Shraloks. By "most characters", I assume the 3rd-4th alts people haven't bothered to fully gear, new players, etc. Obviously veteran p99 players know the ins and outs of bags[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Loadsamoney]

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

Maybe you shouldn't go quite that far with assumptions. I have some Shralok Packs on my Green toon, and some regular backpacks on like level 3 alts ... and literally every other bag I own, on every other alt and on Loramin, is a 10-slot one. I imagine I'm not the only one.

I agree with all the rest though: Loadsamoney just needs to "grow up" (in EQ, not IRL! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]) and he'll start understanding how easy it is for bag slots to disappear.

Well, either that, or how crucial resistances are in raid fights. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I am very much a student of the game, after all.

[loramin]

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

Well, either that, or how crucial resistances are in raid fights. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I am very much a student of the game, after all.

Well I very much didn't meant that in a dismissive way. I just meant, I felt the same way as you for a long time ... and then I actually started raiding (and acquiring soulbound keys, and right-click items, etc.) and I changed my mind.

[Loadsamoney]

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

Well I very much didn't meant that in a dismissive way. I just meant, I felt the same way as you for a long time ... and then I actually started raiding (and acquiring soulbound keys, and right-click items, etc.) and I changed my mind.

I'll learn, one day. I'm inquiring about joining Kittens Who Say Meow when I hit 31, as I'll feel committed to my character by then (getting past the first hell level and all). The other guild that caught my eye is Azure Guard, but they're only taking 46+ right now, so that's a ways off. I know they have a pretty solid reputation on Blue as well.

As I understand it, the Hell levels are at 30, 35, 40, 45, and then 50 onward, with 53 and 58 supposedly being "Super" Hell levels?