lvl 30 gear

[Oakwood]

<DIV>I am about to ding 30, and most of my gear is blue and some green (link in sig).  I'm thinking to just get a full suite of pristine forged feyiron vanguard and pristine fasioned velium/opal gear.  I know there are other sets out there, like the demorte and the orc marauder, but the AC on those seems lower.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Any suggestions on gear that I should be looking for, quested or bought?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks</DIV>

[Damile]

I went with full feyiron except for my chestplate which is ebon eye and the velium/opal to start and have upgraded a few pieces of jewelry through quests. <div></div>

[Ichabo]

If you want to take on the big mobs I recomend saving some money (if you do not have it allready) or go to the starting area in the enchanted lands and farm for some feysteel and servered Oak, so you can get yourself at least a pristine imbued feystell BP and Pants plus a pristine imbued Towershild. With offlineselling and the permanent price undercuting you can get severed oak on my server (Innovation) for around 13g and with a little luck you find some cheap feysteel. As for a weapon, don't waste your money there. Just do the Ghoulbane quest and you will have a nice little sword that brings you to 40. <div></div>

[Xan Xen]

<P>Agreed.</P> <P>My little guardian has a full suit of feysteel vanguard, carries the Guard of Grumm (best shield in tier 4 IMO), an oak long bow, and an imbued feysteel longsword.</P> <P>Jewelry slots as follows:</P> <P>Neck is the collar of the obedient (can't use til 36 I think)</P> <P>Fishbone Earring</P> <P>Bracelet of Shiny Shards</P> <P>Opaline bracelet</P> <P>imbued opaline ring of stamina</P> <P>band of essence</P> <P>Velium Girdle  (replace with mud caked loincloth as soon as I finish that quest)</P> <P>My healers complain that they get bored, as they barely ever have to heal me.</P> <DIV>If you want a jump on tier 4, you really have to buy all player crafted gear at level 30.  This allows you to get out of all that old green and blue AQ armor (though some of it will still be better than feyiron at level 30), and ditch all the tier 3 jewels you're wearing.  Most of the jewelry I'm wearing is better than common player crafted stuff, but has level restrictions greater than 30, so having something to tide you over is good.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>If you're cash strapped, I would get stuff in the following order:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Full suit of feyiron vanguard minus the pants and BP.</DIV> <DIV>Imbued feysteel BP and legs (not imbued if you can't afford, not a big deal)</DIV> <DIV>Full set of tier 4 common jewelry (velium band, imbued opaline ring of stamina, velium torque, velium hoop, velium girdle, velium bangle, opaline bracelet)</DIV> <DIV>Briarwood Longbow</DIV> <DIV>Don't worry too much about shield, get yourself a briarwood tower or a sheer bone kite to tide yourself over until Nek Castle and the Guard of Grumm, which you'll use til level 40.</DIV> <DIV>Imbued feyiron longsword or one of the feysteel dropped swords.  I had a feysteel flamberge that was quite nice. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>If you can afford it upgrade the following:</DIV> <DIV>Rest of armor pieces to feysteel</DIV> <DIV>Imbued Feysteel Longsword (I LOVE mine, it is better than Ghoulbane IMO).</DIV> <DIV>Imbued Oak Longbow</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>After you have all this gear, the only remaining problem is:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>What do I do when I hit level 40?!  Ebon is very much more expensive than feysteel. :smileyvery-happy:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Ayeone</DIV> <DIV>36 Guardian/45 Jeweler</DIV> <DIV>Freeport, Befallen</DIV>

[Oakwood]

how the heck did you get the money to afford that?  On permafrost, imbued feysteel runs half a plat each, and unimbued is 40+ gold each =

[Xan Xen]

<blockquote><hr>Oakwood wrote:how the heck did you get the money to afford that?  On permafrost, imbued feysteel runs half a plat each, and unimbued is 40+ gold each = <hr></blockquote>I had 2 clusters I had found, bought 5 more. On befallen, raw feysteel can go as low as 15gp. I have a RL friend and guildie who is an armorer, so no cost there...Also,Notice the sig.Ayeone37 Guardian/<b>45 Jeweler</b>Freeport, Befallen

[Geothe]

<P>I"d suggest to start with, gettin a set of orc marauder armor.  That stuff is great in the lower 30s until around lvl 34 or 35.  And it drops very often in Zek, and is usually very cheap on the broker as well. (and as an added bonus.. all the stats are Agi Str and STA on it.  none of the pieces with just Int and Wis and whatnot).</P> <P>That will allow to have sweet armor in the lower 30s that is very cheap, and let you then farm money/harvest rares for a set of feysteel to carry you through the mid-upper 30s.</P>