Comments on: Preparing for Sentinel’s Fate

By: jaffa_tamarin

jaffa_tamarin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:44:49 +0000

The only thing I want to do is clear out my quest journal so I have room to pick up new expansion quests (currently I have I think 69 active quests on my main). Other than that, I don’t have any desire to prepare artificial means for jumping ahead on the leveling process. I don’t play MMOs as a competitive sport!

By: Akely

Akely — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:23:31 +0000

I’m looking forward to getting XP slow, so I can really dig deep in the experience of the new content. In no way do I feel I need to do anything to hurry the leveling speed, or get plats. Mind you, I’m not saying the above ways is in any way wrong. We all can play the game as fast/slow/effective/lazy we want. It’s part of the beauty of EQ2.

By: Gothun

Gothun — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:41:42 +0000

Not only getting collections to turn in, but I was also thinking about going through my journal and getting any/all quests to the completion step and have those ready to go too. Even gray quests still give some xp, and AA now, so regardless of level they’re still worth doing. 1% is 1%. /shrug

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Planning ahead and posting slowly. « Blackmoon’s Rising — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:30:34 +0000

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By: Nikadaimon

Nikadaimon — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:46:41 +0000

Im also colleting the shinies, (not really stockpiling, but definately saving them).
Apart from that im saving up plat and try to restrain myself to by loot rights for (alt)gear

Im also focussing more on getting the AA on alts up (main has 200 alrdy) to be up to speed on that..

By: Ferrel

Ferrel — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:34:39 +0000

I’ve been stockpiling shinies myself. I’ve also been getting level 85 quests that I know are big rewards to the last stage. Beyond that though I plan to just go about it my usual way. Putzing along through the levels!

By: Green Armadillo

Green Armadillo — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:07:58 +0000

Personally, stockpiling shinies is the very last thing I’d want to do to prepare for an expansion. Presuming that there’s enough content to go around – and in my case I have some of TSO’s solo content to supplement TSF if needed – I’d rather level by actually playing content.

The tradeskill front is potentially interesting. I didn’t actually need all of my first pristine bonuses to hit 80 in the first place, so I have a fair number of those available before I start on anything that would consume the new materials. I wonder how far we can get with level 80 recipes? That said, I’m probably going to take a laid back approach to crafting for the early part of the launch. The market should be flooded with handcrafted T9 gear, if it’s actually useful for anything, and any rares I do obtain will be so valuable that it might be better to sell em and buy em back to craft with once prices settle out.

In short, I’m not actually doing all that much to prepare for the expansion. I have made a slight shift away from working on my level 80 main – I can get exp for stuff I do with her if I wait a month – to getting my alts and their trades up and running while I still have the 10% bonus for one capped crafter. Otherwise, it’ll be here when it gets here, and I’ll be happy to see it.