by tincts » Fri Sep 29, 2006 1:50 am
Eq can almost be considered "the other half of the journey" to xp. It takes quite a long time to develop your own eq plan, based on how you like to play, the place you find yourself filling in groups etc. Like leveling your character, you can start off getting basic eq pretty fast, but in the same way that higher levels start to become harder and harder to attain, so too eq becomes more work intensive. You find yourself working putting in a lot more work for relatively small gains in AC, MR etc.
My main character has pretty straight forward demands on eq. I'm Wa Cl Ma Th. I've aimed at getting AC primarily, then Mana regen, then healo gear. But because of the nature of my character, stats etc, AC/HP gear is number 1 (for tanking) then maybe a higher dam at less AC. After this, I've decided to spend my efforts on getting gear to give me a good running healo character in groups. In the dim future, I may aim at developing a stab dam and blast mode, but that's not the way I tend to play.
You'll develop your own play style, and with that come up with the modes you prefer to run. Point is, see it as a longer term project. Envisage how you would like to use your character, and aim at that. You'll start to identify needs yourself, then can use the eq list and the advice of others to fill those needs.
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