Advice needed - how to gain traction as a truly new player?

[cavtroop]

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

There aren't many "new" players joining the server at this time. A lot of lower level players are usually 3rd/4th/5th twinks of higher level players. The people trading items are 50kpp+ are raiders and players who farmed a whole lot of manastones and items that no longer drop before these items were removed from the game.

I think this is primarily the cause of what we (as new low level players) are seeing. There is little to no market for lower level gear and equipment, as most everyone is a twink of some sort, or being helped along by a much higher level player. So players don't bother auctioning off the lower level gear - they either dump it or sell it to a vendor as it isn't worth their time.

Still having fun, just trying to figure out the server dynamics!

[Plyssken]

True to some extent. Don't be afraid to to look around in EC though.
I picked up a pretty decent necro earring for 85 plat and have picked up under 100plat piece upgrades here and there.

There's still a pretty good spectrum. You'll find "newbie super twinks" (Sorry old jokes, we had a couple of twinks called that once) but you'll also find folks like me scratching thru levels & celebrating every piece we upgrade from our handmade raw silk.

On the flip side when you pick up a group in a real camp (like Upper Guk) you have a decent chance of getting the loot if you actually need it. You'll also stumble upon those cool high levelers who see you killing something. Look at your equipment and hand you upgrades they happen to have in their inventory and were going to sell to vendors anyways ;-)