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

[Extunarian]

Gotta agree with Estu - unless you really want to blacksmith just start leveling up and wear what you collect, and then supplement that with the occasional trip to EC.

Your main role (as you surely know) is to hold agro and take damage. Your spells handle the agro portion for you, and below level 20 the weak mobs you are fighting could essentially be tanked naked by any knight/warrior.

Just use leather armor and keep your eyes peeled for bronze, and be aware of any money or xp generating quests in the area. By the time you are in your low 20's you should be able to afford a plate or bronze item in most slots, as well as some basic jewelry.

[pickled_heretic]

i'm conflicted. i think it's fun to make your own shyte. like blacksmith or tailor your armor, tailor your bags cook your food (like bringing vinegar and a skewer to guk so you can make froglok pickles as you kill frogloks). but it's definitely not the most efficient way to go about it, the fastest way to level is to spend 100% of your time grinding with only deviations being to acquire critical gear upgrades.

i respectfully disagree with the previous poster, imo you should save your money for a sick pally weapon like a poison wind censer. you will collect a suit of bronze anyway as you level up probably. that way you are contributing a ton of dps to any group you join which speeds your overall exp rate and saves the healers mana (per mob killed) too. after that, your gear upgrades should be a pair of 55 hp rings, then slowly fill out your empty slots and bronze with statted armor with hp, str, and good ac (in no particular order).

[Flash]

I already know about the 40% exp penalty for Hybrids. That I can live with.

Right now I'm using a rusty two-handed sword. My priority right now is getting my Blacksmith high enough to create Banded armor, and saving up enough money for a weapon, like maybe a Nathsar Greatsword. After that, HP55 rings.

P.S: It's alright, let pickled make fun of me. He's right, I've changed classes twice already. lol

[Eldaran]

I should be playing my human cleric named Eldred some nights between 8pm and 12am Eastern. Hit me up.

[Flash]

If you wanna get in touch with me in game, my characters name is Foxhound.

And this is my grind song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg8VF...eature=related

[Eldaran]

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

[Extunarian]

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

i respectfully disagree with the previous poster, imo you should save your money for a sick pally weapon like a poison wind censer.

I don't think we disagree, I was just saying what he can do for essentially no money. Once he gets the 700-1k for a PWC he should certainly buy that, as well as 5/55 rings.

Don't bother with the nathsar greatsword imo. I parsed my 20 warrior using a Poison Wind Sensor vs a 23 warrior using the nathsar sword and she only did ~22% of damage per mob to my ~60%.

[Flash]

I don't think I'll be able to afford something like that for a long time. I'm having enough trouble saving up money for small ore. lol

My blacksmith is going up nicely though. =)

[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 don't think I'll be able to afford something like that for a long time. I'm having enough trouble saving up money for small ore. lol

My blacksmith is going up nicely though. =)

what is your objective with raising blacksmithing? are you going to actually sell goods to make money or are you doing it just for personal use?

selling banded to make money is doable, but very time consuming. if you are doing it just to gear yourself up, it is a colossal waste of time and money.

save your money. you will have 1k by lvl 30 or so (or sooner, if you are frugal and know places to earn a few coins). then you get a pwc which you can use until 45 when it starts proccing.

if you are so insistent on that suit of banded that you must have it, you can buy one from a smith for 100plat. which is far, far less than what you'll pay trying to level up your smithing to make it yourself.