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Xanthippe
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Yes, I ran into that yesterday. But don't forget, there's a 15000 planarite ascended ability to buy, so go buy it when you get close to cap. Once you've bought that, go to the Augments dealer in the main city (next to the Loom in Sanctum, don't know where in Meridian), and buy augments. Then sell them on the AH or give them to guildies or use them to stay under cap.
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Falconeer
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Ascended ability? Is it good for what? And where do you get it?
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Xanthippe
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Ascended ability? Is it good for what? And where do you get it?
It's a medic. It works like a healer (to restore your soul and those of your raid mates) for 2 minutes. It takes 3 charges to summon. On another note, it's surprising to me how infrequently people use their "Bless Wardstone" ascended power (assuming they even know to buy it). Considering how little planarite it costs and that it's available in Freemarch/Silverwood. That one and the open rift from tear I use frequently - the others, hardly at all. I don't know where Defiants pick it up - somewhere in Meridian. Guardians buy it from the merchant just below the artifacts dealer in Sanctum.
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Falconeer
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Ascended ability? Is it good for what? And where do you get it?
It's a medic. It works like a healer (to restore your soul and those of your raid mates) for 2 minutes. Aah, I see. Perfect for instances and raids I guess. Not really my thing. Hope they will put some new cool ascended powers with time.
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Zetor
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I got another 4+2slot sigil and some essences for my tank spec after hitting the cap the first time. After I hit the cap again, I bought the rescue medic and (more importantly) the elemental squirrels. 5k a pop and there's one for each element... that's one way to 'dump' excess planarite.
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Azuredream
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Yeah, I've bought 30000 planarite worth of squirrels, 22500 planarite worth of sigils, and 15000 on the medic power. Any more planarite I get is just going straight to master augment boxes. Not sure if they drop epic augments but the blue ones usually sell for at least a plat and the boxes are only 500 planarite.
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Lakov_Sanite
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ignore the edited complaint!
trying to farm any kind of crafting materials is a kick in the balls though.
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« Last Edit: April 17, 2011, 04:42:02 PM by Lakov_Sanite »
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Xanthippe
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ignore the edited complaint!
trying to farm any kind of crafting materials is a kick in the balls though.
What do you mean, any kind of crafting materials? I'm on a popular pvp server and thus far have had no problem farming cloth or hides, and often end up with a stack of each if I do dailies in Stillmoor and Shimmersand. As for farming the new cores or rare mats, well, that's why they're rare. I buy them from the AH when the price is reasonable.
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Lakov_Sanite
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ignore the edited complaint!
trying to farm any kind of crafting materials is a kick in the balls though.
What do you mean, any kind of crafting materials? I'm on a popular pvp server and thus far have had no problem farming cloth or hides, and often end up with a stack of each if I do dailies in Stillmoor and Shimmersand. As for farming the new cores or rare mats, well, that's why they're rare. I buy them from the AH when the price is reasonable. Trying to do the crafting apothecary dailies which require mats from iron peak and constantly getting dismounted and mobbed by things 10 levels lower, such that it takes an hour or more just to get the plants I need. Even without other players around, it's a needless time sink.
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Ice Cream Emperor
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Reading all these crafting dailies-related posts it really seems like I got off lucky picking Armorsmith and Outfitter as my main professions. Armorsmith dailies only require metal and Outfitters almost always only require leather, which made me wonder what people were going on about how dailies cost '2 plat' to finish. 16 carmintium sure don't cost 2 platinum, and soulbound hide practically falls from the sky.
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Segoris
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Depends on your server. On mine, 40-50g per carmintium isn't uncommon. So 2 plat isn't exactly an unheard of figure.
I'm with Lakov on this though. The alch (as well as the artificer one) daily sucks balls. I can farm a stack of carmintium in the time it takes to get about 15 sagebrush
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Slyfeind
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In my opinion, running away should always be a valid tactical option. My experience in Rift has thus far been "If you don't win, you must die." You can't escape your pursuers, and once you start running the mob desnity just means you start kiting more and more mobs behind you. Rift basepop parties like it's 1999.
Yeah that's been a common complaint. Other areas aren't as dense, but then they get super-dense again. In some places you can pull a whole sub-zone with a single mob pull. I think it's just a case of devs thinking they know their game better than the players. Of course they're going to want you to experience and see everything they did, and how dare you try to cheat around the lovely monsters, etc etc blah blah 1999 again.
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Xanthippe
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Trying to do the crafting apothecary dailies which require mats from iron peak and constantly getting dismounted and mobbed by things 10 levels lower, such that it takes an hour or more just to get the plants I need. Even without other players around, it's a needless time sink.
Ahhh, yes. From what I gather, apothecary dailies are practically impossible to do daily. Trion has promised to fix that next patch. I'm a butcher, outfitter, and runecrafter -- probably the easiest crafting dailies there are, I can get them done and delivered within 15 minutes. I do the zone dailies most days, and don't sell my hides or cloth (I make boots to runebreak for mats which I then sell) so I always have good stock of what I need for dailies. My mage alt is 29 now, and artificer, forager, and miner - so I have all the gathering covered (at least to level 29). I'm surprised that Apothecary made it into the game in the state it's in - it's pretty fucked up.
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Threash
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Depends on your server. On mine, 40-50g per carmintium isn't uncommon. So 2 plat isn't exactly an unheard of figure.
Heh at that price is more like 8 plat. 2 plat is actually when they are selling cheap.
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Jherad
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Beginning to see why the mobs are so densely packed now that I'm leveling a rogue assassin... When I played my mage, I had no choice but to kill my way through everything. The quests came smoothly, and I had no noticeable content gaps. Now as a stealther, I tend to kill what I need rather than every single critter - and I'm having to grind WFs to make up the XP gap to catch my levels up with the quest chains (finished all Scarwood having just dinged 33). Good thing I enjoy warfronts!
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01101010
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Beginning to see why the mobs are so densely packed now that I'm leveling a rogue assassin... When I played my mage, I had no choice but to kill my way through everything. The quests came smoothly, and I had no noticeable content gaps. Now as a stealther, I tend to kill what I need rather than every single critter - and I'm having to grind WFs to make up the XP gap to catch my levels up with the quest chains (finished all Scarwood having just dinged 33). Good thing I enjoy warfronts! Exactly why I was finding xp gaps between quest hubs. They mask that grind quite well... >.<
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Segoris
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Depends on your server. On mine, 40-50g per carmintium isn't uncommon. So 2 plat isn't exactly an unheard of figure.
Heh at that price is more like 8 plat. 2 plat is actually when they are selling cheap. Yeah, puts that 2 plat figure right into perspective of not being so bad. Though it did drop quite a bit over the last two days, so that is nice.
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Draegan
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Fuck trying to get Pristine Distillate.
Gah. I need that quest.
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Lakov_Sanite
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Fuck trying to get Pristine Distillate.
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Beginning to see why the mobs are so densely packed now that I'm leveling a rogue assassin... When I played my mage, I had no choice but to kill my way through everything. The quests came smoothly, and I had no noticeable content gaps. Now as a stealther, I tend to kill what I need rather than every single critter - and I'm having to grind WFs to make up the XP gap to catch my levels up with the quest chains (finished all Scarwood having just dinged 33). Good thing I enjoy warfronts! Yup, I did this too and hit big gaps where I was out of quests and had to grind.
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Xanthippe
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Fuck trying to get Pristine Distillate.
Gah. I need that quest.
How do you get it? Is it a drop from foraging, or do you get it when you do dailies, or when you make apothecary items or what? I keep getting cloth and hide recipes that I don't need, since I've already gotten them. They drop off mobs or from butchering. Did they have different development teams on different professions? The inconsistency is glaring.
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Nebu
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Yup, I did this too and hit big gaps where I was out of quests and had to grind.
I don't get it. I've leveled 3 toons to 50 now and have never had to grind mobs because of quest gaps. Never. I always have quests left over in Shimmer, IPP, and Stilmoor when I finish. All I can guess is that you're missing some quest hubs by not exploring the zones a little. Not every quest hub leads you to it. Some you have to look a little to find. I love this. It helps the game feel less on rails.
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Jherad
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Was one of them a stealther?
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Nebu
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Was one of them a stealther?
I see your point now that I scrolled up and read the post again. I may have to try leveling one just to see. My question back to you would be: Do you have all of the quest completion achievements for each zone?
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Jherad
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My question back to you would be: Do you have all of the quest completion achievements for each zone?
I believe so, yes - I certainly do for Scarwood. I'm pretty anal about picking up every quest I can find, and finishing story-lines (and as this is my second run-through, I know where to look for quests now). I was surprised at the amount of XP I'm obviously not getting when I don't have to kill everything. I suspect the problem is mainly going to be around the Scarwood to Moonshade/Droughtlands transition as the content definitely picks up again in the 40s, but it was an irritation nonetheless.
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Nebu
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I agree completely. There seems to be a content gap from 34 to 40 or so. I imagine that stealthing to avoid trash really exacerbates the issue.
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"Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other."
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Draegan
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Fuck trying to get Pristine Distillate.
Gah. I need that quest.
How do you get it? Is it a drop from foraging, or do you get it when you do dailies, or when you make apothecary items or what? I keep getting cloth and hide recipes that I don't need, since I've already gotten them. They drop off mobs or from butchering. Did they have different development teams on different professions? The inconsistency is glaring. It's a rare "drop" that you get from picking Twilight Bloom. It gives you an item that starts a quest that bring you to the forager in Meridian who in turn gives you a quest to craft some shit. Then you get a recipe for it as a reward. The problem is it's fucking rare. I have three fulls stacks of 50 Twilight Bloom. Nothing yet.
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Draegan
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I agree completely. There seems to be a content gap from 34 to 40 or so. I imagine that stealthing to avoid trash really exacerbates the issue.
Yeah there is a big problem, and always has been in that level range. Also mob experience is a very large portion of over all experience. Essentially you don't want to stealth to quest objectives, just kill kill kill. And do Rifts. Lots of them.
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Ice Cream Emperor
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It's a rare "drop" that you get from picking Twilight Bloom. It gives you an item that starts a quest that bring you to the forager in Meridian who in turn gives you a quest to craft some shit. Then you get a recipe for it as a reward. The problem is it's fucking rare. I have three fulls stacks of 50 Twilight Bloom. Nothing yet. Yeah, the practical rarity of these sort of recipes tend to be way out of wack. Even if you assume that each quest drop has an equal chance of spawning per opportunity, the fact that cloth drops off all humanoid monsters without the need for a gathering skill or action makes the cloth quest recipes hundreds if not thousands of times more common. I gather methodically with a wide variety of alts and I have never seen any of the leather quest drops -- I'm also missing several metal ore recipes in the middle level range. Etc. etc. I didn't even know there were foraging equivalents, but then again I don't make a lot of potions.
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Xanthippe
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It's a rare "drop" that you get from picking Twilight Bloom. It gives you an item that starts a quest that bring you to the forager in Meridian who in turn gives you a quest to craft some shit. Then you get a recipe for it as a reward. The problem is it's fucking rare. I have three fulls stacks of 50 Twilight Bloom. Nothing yet.
Is it an apothecary recipe or a forager recipe?
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Draegan
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Foraging.
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Draegan
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Ailion the Rogue Dev or Adam Gershowitz have zero idea on how to balance classes or at least rogues. They're nerfing Bards again.
I need the biggest facepalm graphic ever.
Jesus fucking christ.
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Tannhauser
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I know. I love bards so much I solo with one. I don't understand, what, are we still useful? I guess every rogue should have a pig and a gun.
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01101010
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Fuck bards... no one like hippies, no matter how bad ass you try and make them.
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Stormwaltz
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I've bought 30000 planarite worth of squirrels That statement is awesome to someone who has no idea what you're talking about (like me).
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