Upper tier gear

[Desiria]

<p>I was wondering if anyone had a list or forum post to point to in which I could find optimal gear pieces to acquire from level 70 to 80.  I know that I will need shard armor once I hit 80.  What I am looking for is a good list of upgrades to work on getting so that I don't get smooshed doing shard dungeons.  I was told that level 72 MC gear was ok for awhile, but I am finding it difficult to procure the rares without spending an arm and a leg on the broker.</p><p>If anyone has any suggestions, please post them here.  Thank you in advance for your time.</p>

[Zimrathon]

<p>Seriously, you need at least MC gear to start attempting the TSO shard instances, and more than likely need to get devout initially as you'll want to be maxing your DPS, no way will you be tanking any except the easiest of them.</p><p>As far as rares go, two options. Just either mentor down into the 50's range for easy kills through heroic instances and simply farm trash for cash or get out your mining pick and go get them yourself.</p><p>Another option is to form mentored groups to do the shard instances, you'd probably be able to tank them in part MC gear if you were instancing in the 50's range and I believe you at least get the mission shard if mentored but not the chest shard. So slower progress but progress nevertheless.</p><p>A final possibility is to get the Di'Zok recipes, although that doesn't solve your need for rares to be able to make them, they are slightly better than the 72 MC gear. They are in fact effectively 77 MC gear.</p>

[Uggli]

<p>72 MC</p><p>77 faction MC</p><p>Vendor bought drops</p><p>Also just run through ALL of the RoK quest lines for ALL the zones.  You can get some decent gear out of some of them, boots of the wastes hunter, Band of Thugga, etc etc.   You will need the AA points anyways.</p><p>After that run EF TSO instances as you are able.  Mentor down if you can't run them at 80.   You only need 38 shards to get a full set of T1 shard armor.</p><p>After that you can run all of the easier instances with no problems and start working towards T2 shard gear.</p>

[Desiria]

<p>Thank you for the tips.  Just one newbie question here... how do I know which quests are from the RoK questline?  Are they listed somewhere like EQ2i (I can't access any of the gaming websites from work where I am posting this, so no way for me to look it up atm)?</p>

[Uggli]

<p>Start in KP (Kylong Plains)</p><p><a href="http://eq2.wikia.com/wiki/Kylong_Plains_Timeline" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://eq2.wikia.com/wiki/Kylong_Plains_Timeline</a></p><p> Starting those quests and finishing them will lead you on to the other zones.</p>

[Nimbrithil]

<p>I would agree with the above, just do the quest lines. In MC gear which shold be hellishly cheap with all the poor SOBs looking for silicates, you can handle to KP quest lines. Unless you play in PVP its a joke and you can go from 70 to 72 or 3 in just KP. Then move the Fens than Jarsath wastes. I ALWAYS skip KJ unless i need faction for thyat classes epic. I can stand the KJ quest lines for some reason.</p>