Comments on: Still No Shield, but lots of Fun!

By: stargrace

stargrace — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:44:06 +0000

Honestly, it depends on how well geared you are.
I run with two people who have their epics (though not mythical) and who are geared in T2 TSO gear. There’s three of us – but I’m boxing a coercer (who’s not level 80 yet) so there’s 4 total.

The experience is really nice, though we do it for the loot / aa and void shards. The buff set up (we’re a shadowknight, mystic, conjuror and the boxed coercer for power buffs / hate buffs / haste etc) is really important when you’re not running with a full group and are not raid geared.

It’s a great rush though. Doing the RoK instances in a trio, or any instance for that matter, is always a lot of fun.

By: Sisca

Sisca — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:33:27 +0000

I’ve noticed that you’re doing some of the TSO instances as a trio. How are they for experience? Lore and I are finding it slow going getting from about halfway through 78 to 80 and are looking for something to get us that last bit to 80.

Also, what instances do you find more suited to a trio? She plays a guardian and I’m running a monk with a fury on the second box. We tried one of the Befallen instances and died 5 seconds into the first pull.

By: Carmah

Carmah — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:01:13 +0000

As far as AA cap goes, I haven’t verified for myself but have read in a lot of places that SOE has changed it so you can get over 100 AA’s before level 70 but you can still only use 100 of them until you hit 70. Likewise, you can get over 140 AA before 80 but can only place 140 of them in your AA trees until you are level 80. So, no more lost AA if you hadn’t hit the established adventure level.

By: stargrace

stargrace — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:03:17 +0000

Actually, it ends up balancing out as you level up, and you’ll find that by level 80 you’ll have no problems (especially if you quest your way up) gaining 120+aa by that time. Most of my level 80 characters were nearing 140, and are hovering around that mark since I have not really ‘quest grinded’ since RoK released.

There’s not too much catching up to do, once you hit 120 though it seems to go a LOT slower, at least in my case. I feel way behind the curve at level 79 with only 70aa. I think the cap is 100 at level 70 until you level past there, I remember Kasul hitting that number easily on his assassin as he leveled up. It’s slowed down some now, but he’s still got a lot of points.

By: Green Armadillo

Green Armadillo — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:56:46 +0000

How many AA’s do you normally end up with by 80? I’ve been leveling by solo questing, and I’m at 39 AA’s, rapidly nearing level 45. The number was worse a few days ago, I recently went on an exploring binge, and discovered via a guide that I could get a ton of AA for all the nameds on the first quest in the D’Morte timeline. Short of doing more grey quests for AA’s (I will occasionally take a pass through the journal and complete the greys rather than delete them) or disabling one or both forms of exp, I don’t what I could be doing differently – it looks like, the way the exp curve is set up, you just have to plan on catching up later on.