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Wow, a very nice weapon with 3 augment slots to boot.
#Steric,
Posted: Sep 15 2003 at 11:00 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Wouldn't exactly call this a "very nice" weapon with a recomended level of 65 on it. If you are 65 and still using something like this... you should probably work less on leveling and more on upgrading your gear. You could make it better by augmenting it, but you'll probably need 2 slots just to make it as good as something a level 65 would be using w/o any augments. In other words recomended level is WAY too high. If it was recomended lvl of about 55-60 it would be a pretty good weapon, as it stands its underpowered.
I dont ever plan on going to PoT, I actually think the gear comming out of there is rideculous(sp) 30AC on a friggen ring? give me a break.
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=21825
LDoN is a much needed improvement to EQ, I have long thought that Players should be making the best gear in the game with outstanding or relic gear dropping that has a historical value, or even tells a story unlocking an adventure. The fact that you can get gear the will grow in power with you (THANK YOU RECOMENDED LVL'S) is great, and since you can make items better now with augments is even better. It means that no 2 weapons will be exactely alike now. Now if we could only name out weapons and or augment them with graphics, and change their look. Its something I hope EQ2 addresses.
Besides, my Paladin NEEDS a castel ;)
Edited, Tue Sep 16 18:03:47 2003
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=21825
LDoN is a much needed improvement to EQ, I have long thought that Players should be making the best gear in the game with outstanding or relic gear dropping that has a historical value, or even tells a story unlocking an adventure. The fact that you can get gear the will grow in power with you (THANK YOU RECOMENDED LVL'S) is great, and since you can make items better now with augments is even better. It means that no 2 weapons will be exactely alike now. Now if we could only name out weapons and or augment them with graphics, and change their look. Its something I hope EQ2 addresses.
Besides, my Paladin NEEDS a castel ;)
Edited, Tue Sep 16 18:03:47 2003
The stats on PoTime stuff are not unreasonable. The problem is that the folks who think it is, for the most part, have no idea what PoTime or getting to PoTime is like. You simply can't comprehend how fast your average VT-ready toon would be looking at "PLEASE WAIT" on their screen. Getting to Time requires a massive guild that has spent a year or more gearing up for the Planes and a year or more getting through them.
The mobs are scaled-up versions of all of the toughest gods you had to face to get there. Thought RZ was hard in Drunder? He's a wimp! Try him in Time!
So yes, the ring that you link to is nice, but it requires a guild raid of 60+ post-elemental-capable toons to get it! This is not quite your usual farming raid through Growth!
By comparison someone capable of getting that ring should be able to get enough APs to get this sword (hey look, I'm back on-topic!) in a couple of days. Even with 4 people the adventures would pose no real challenge, and they could grind out an adventure in around 1 hour at normal difficulty (counting reset time for getting and entering the next adventure). Please, do not confuse weapons like this (which are very nice for those of us who still need to gear up) and PoTime gear... they're SUPPOSED to be orders of magnitude apart.
The mobs are scaled-up versions of all of the toughest gods you had to face to get there. Thought RZ was hard in Drunder? He's a wimp! Try him in Time!
So yes, the ring that you link to is nice, but it requires a guild raid of 60+ post-elemental-capable toons to get it! This is not quite your usual farming raid through Growth!
By comparison someone capable of getting that ring should be able to get enough APs to get this sword (hey look, I'm back on-topic!) in a couple of days. Even with 4 people the adventures would pose no real challenge, and they could grind out an adventure in around 1 hour at normal difficulty (counting reset time for getting and entering the next adventure). Please, do not confuse weapons like this (which are very nice for those of us who still need to gear up) and PoTime gear... they're SUPPOSED to be orders of magnitude apart.
Scholar
44 posts
Not All lvl 65's are running around in Elemental gear wielding the PoT weapons..
for a weapon that can be "purchased" by playing the game..
this is very nice indeed.
for a weapon that can be "purchased" by playing the game..
this is very nice indeed.
25 posts
Are you actually level 65 and playing with a worse weapon than this? Do you know anyone who is 65 with a worse weapon than this? If so then you really need to look up what is obtainable in a relatively small group.
Okay here are 2 weapons off the top of my head that have better damage per second than this sword that are one group obtainable: Windblade and Warmarshal's Bladed Staff. These are not uber weapons that are coming out of elemental planes or time these are easily obtainable, dropable weapons that most people have in their mid to late fifties. Even if you can't obtain these weapons by fighting for them, the Warmarshal's staff in particular has been dropping like a rock in price (less than 10k on my server) and will outdamage this sword (or the more expensive windblade) easily.
Basically all this weapon has going for it is the slots. LDoN is a blast and the slot thing is cool, but adding lesser weapons with higher recomended levels and just throwing a few extra slots on them isn't a great idea in my opinion. Now think about this why would a level 65 character spend hard earned points on this, then waste valuable upgrades in the slots to make it marginally better than something they had at 60?
Okay here are 2 weapons off the top of my head that have better damage per second than this sword that are one group obtainable: Windblade and Warmarshal's Bladed Staff. These are not uber weapons that are coming out of elemental planes or time these are easily obtainable, dropable weapons that most people have in their mid to late fifties. Even if you can't obtain these weapons by fighting for them, the Warmarshal's staff in particular has been dropping like a rock in price (less than 10k on my server) and will outdamage this sword (or the more expensive windblade) easily.
Basically all this weapon has going for it is the slots. LDoN is a blast and the slot thing is cool, but adding lesser weapons with higher recomended levels and just throwing a few extra slots on them isn't a great idea in my opinion. Now think about this why would a level 65 character spend hard earned points on this, then waste valuable upgrades in the slots to make it marginally better than something they had at 60?
10 posts
You are obviously in a guild that lets you get these items relatively easily. Or your friends are in a good guild with good gear. There are MANY folks out there that can't put in the 5-6 hour camps and the playing time in LDON allows them to get comparible gear. Yes there are better weapons, but this is not junk.
Menas Darkenwood
4 posts
i was thinking that the type1 slot would be a stam aug,type 4 slot would be a the 150dd aug, and the type 6 slot would be a +3 dmg aug. that would be hella nice. been thinking about this for awhile now , but i still have some tak armor that i need to get and fill the slots. got the bp, sleeves, 1 bracer , and greaves so far. so i still have a long way to go before i think about getting this weapon.
Alleron Swiftbow
Knights of the Aurora
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Knights of the Aurora
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