Maximum AA per level?

[Searos]

<p>Hi guys,</p><p>I just started playing a few days ago and I'm loving the game so far. I have read a few posts suggesting that you lock combat/quest experience every couple of levels in order to accumulate AA and experience more of the game. This sounds good to me as I'm in no hurry to level to 80.</p><p>My question is if there is a cap on the amount of AA you can accumulate per level? I am 13 now and have just locked my xp. At what point should I unlock, go up a couple of levels and do it all over again?</p><p>Also, what would be a good amount of AA to shoot for when first turning 80?</p><p>Thanks in advance!</p>

[Rashaak]

<p>I believe it is like 1.5 AA per level, so at lvl 13 you would only be able to apply 19 AA but can accumulate more, just won't be able to use them until you level up a bit more.</p>

[Azzad]

<p><cite>Rashaak wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I believe it is like 1.5 AA per level, so at lvl 13 you would only be able to apply 19 AA but can accumulate more, just won't be able to use them until you level up a bit more.</p></blockquote><p>Pretty sure that can't be correct. Because then at lvl 80 you could only have 120?</p><p>I've never heard anyone say there is a per level cap.</p>

[Vitarga]

<p>The 1.5 lvl cap applies to pvp servers.</p><p>I have a character on AB that can utilize more than that amount of aa, so if there is a cap on pve servers it is a different multiplier.</p>

[Barbai]

<p>I don't believe there is a limit to how much you can gain but I do believe there is a limitation to how many you can spend till level 50 or something like that.</p>

[Jrral]

<p>On PvE servers there's no limit to how many AA points you can earn at any level. There's practical limits, based on there simply being only a limited number of quests and nameds within range of your level, but the game doesn't impose any arbitrary restriction.</p><p>Now, there's limits on how many points you can spend. In the first two trees (KOS and EOF, class and subclass respectively) you can only spend 50 points in each until you reach level 70. In the third tree, the TSO tree, you need to have spent a certain number of points total to open up each row after the first. The third row requires 120 points spent overall, and the fourth row requires IIRC 160 points, so in practice it takes a bit of doing to get the third row open in the TSO tree prior to 70 and the fourth row is all but unavailable prior to hitting 70 and then completely filling the KOS and EOF trees.</p>

[Lortet]

<p><cite>Searos@Unrest wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p> I am 13 now and have just locked my xp. At what point should I unlock, go up a couple of levels and do it all over again?</p></blockquote><p>I have been trying level locking and there are a few basic numbers to assist here.</p><p>aa points start at lvl 10, and are awarded for (many) lvl 10+ quests, collections and (unpredictable) named mobs, location discovery (tier two zones and onwards) and discovering certain items.</p><p>If you are level locking, you will be able to have time to appreciate mastercrafted etc armour/weapons which are able to be used from lvl 12. Getting some AD3's made also becomes a worthwhile option. With these I am able to do most quests up to and including those conning yellow, and a fair number of orange ones.</p><p>Lvl 10 quests and monsters stay green until you exceed lvl 15 - but you will not be offered the first round of writs from the various guilds if you are lvl 15 - and some of these offer aaxp. They are only offered to lvls 10 - 14.</p><p>I therefore usually lock at lvl 14 - until I have done all the first round of writs, then up to 15 to finish all the lvl 10 - 17/18 quests I can find around all zones. Some character classes aren't much different from 14 to 15 - depends on the CA's - brigands for example get two frontal attacks at 15 (an upgrade and a new one) which dramatically increases their already powerful state.</p><p>Hint - make sure you do not pick up any of the status point relics, stones, scrolls etc that are body drops prior to you levelling to 10 - they each give a good lump of discovery aaxp that is forfeit should they be picked up earlier. </p>

[Jrral]

<p>Also note that level locking to maximize AA is primarily a PvP thing. On the PvE servers it's not nearly as much of a benefit. You'll want the AA at higher levels, but the most efficient large source of it's quests and those give AA even when they're grey to you (and the amount seems to depend only on how many AA you already have and the type of quest, not on the quest's level). So do discovery locations and loot items. Only nameds cease giving AA when grey. So what I do a lot is blow through the lower levels and get into T4 and higher where the coin comes a bit faster to finance equipment, then go back and do those lower-level quests to top up the AA points. If you're starting out now, you'll probably easily accumulate 160 or so by the time you hit 80. That'll have you filling out the KOS and EOF trees and be working on the third row in the TSO tree, which is a good solid position to be in.</p>

[Reapicheap]

<p><cite>Hykaree@Runnyeye wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Hint - make sure you do not pick up any of the status point relics, stones, scrolls etc that are body drops prior to you levelling to 10 - they each give a good lump of discovery aaxp that is forfeit should they be picked up earlier. </p></blockquote><p>This is cleared if you hold on to them until you are over level 10 and turn them in at that point.  Confirmed repeatedly on my various alts.  AA XP is given if you don't try to turn them in pre-10.  Stick em in your bank and let them mature.</p>

[Lortet]

<p><cite>Reapicheap@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Hykaree@Runnyeye wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Hint - make sure you do not pick up any of the status point relics, stones, scrolls etc that are body drops prior to you levelling to 10 - they each give a good lump of discovery aaxp that is forfeit should they be picked up earlier. </p></blockquote><p>This is cleared if you hold on to them until you are over level 10 and turn them in at that point.  Confirmed repeatedly on my various alts.  AA XP is given if you don't try to turn them in pre-10.  Stick em in your bank and let them mature.</p></blockquote><p>That is so about the guild (fighters, scouts mages etc) status points which only register when sold to the relevant guilds after lvl 10 - I am referring to the discovery achievement experience which is only awarded the fisrst time you actually pick them up - and that must be after level 10 or it is forfeit.</p><p>My new berserker got his first aa xp yesterday from a blackened iron relic and then a parafin sealed document - at 25% of an aa point each one (of course the first point is easiest to get)</p>

[Trellium]

<p>Like others have said, there is no AA limit per level for PVE servers. I have a level 18 Wizard with 39 AA's.</p><p>What the large number of AA's do is make the heroic quests more accessable given that there are fewer players going through the newbie zones. You can do them with smaller groups, or even solo, and there is plenty of challenge to the playing.</p><p>I quite enjoy playing that way, and my wife and I are playing our level locked characters exclusively these days since they are a lot of fun.</p><p>Good luck and hope you enjoy it. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></p>

[Seidhkona]

<p>If you are playing on a PVP server, I highly recommend reading through some of teh stickied threads at the top of the <a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/forums/show.m?forum_id=2589" target="_blank">PVP Discussion Forum</a>.</p><p>That's where you will find specific information on starting out, including tips on level locking and such from people playing in the PVP environment.</p><p>If you on a PVE server, then level locking isn't really needed, unless you just want to slow levelling and explore more at your own level. But I personally don't level lock, even though I love questing - I just do the quests grey.</p>

[thephantomposter]

<p>On a pvp server you can keep earning AAs but only spend 1.5 of your level, 10 you can spend 15 AAs. At 20 you can spend 30 AAs.</p><p>I found out by mistake that there is a flaw in this system. If you spend what you need in the line you want and you have the prerequisite for the final AA choice which costs 2 AA points but becuase of your level limit of 1.5, you can only spend only 1 more AA, the last choice is still available and it will let you over spend by 1.</p><p>Here is what happens,</p><p>Everytime you zone, all of you AAs reset and your debuffed, poisons and all. You find yourself reseting your AAs every single time and the posion is used up.</p><p>So be careful of maximizing your AAs :0)</p><p>I hope I didn't confuse anyone with this.</p><p>It was a real pain to go through this and not realise the 1.5 limit to spending. </p>