What to do with all my pp?Follow

I'm just back to EQ after being away for quite awhile, so sorry for the ignorant questions. I've grinded my Ranger to 75, now, but have pretty gimpy gear. I do have the TSS hands and legs pieces, but the rest of my gear is MM or nice-ish bazaar gear (sorry, no updated Magelo, yet). But my real question is:

I've saved up about 200,000pp, but want some suggestions on what to do with it. I was thinking about buying some GM armor (and some nice augs), as I have somewhat a hard time finding TSS groups for the armor molds. I really don't raid at all, to speak of, so raid gear just will be VERY slow happening. So on to the question... heheh: What should I be saving cash for, if not for something like GM armor? I didn't want to spend it on a horse, since I have SOE. But what else do you spend money on, at the high end? I can't see myself spending all the time with tradeskilling (most of my TS's are between 150 and 200), but too much money and too much time... :)

So besides losing out on the money, can anyone tell me why I wouldn't want to spend the pp on GM armor/augs? Is there something else I should be saving money for?

Thanks so much!
Paerien

I think he means Grandmaster's armor pieces, right? I can't really help though =( I'm not really an armor expert, good luck though.

Thanks for the replies so far. To clarify, yea, I meant GrandMaster's armor. :)

Phistkuffs, let me address the points you've made:

1. As far as DoN augs go, I do have a decent number of those, and I do continue to do Nest and Creator runs sometimes. Stat Food/Water isn't too bad, as I keep myself force-fed on foraged yuck-ables like roots and radishes... ;) I do keep pretty well-stocked on potions, which do cost a little bit, but not a ton. My biggest thought is molds rotting. That's how I got my leg piece. I'm most concerned that I'll spend my money on GrandMaster armor pieces, just to get my molds later on. And that will likely happen sooner or later. A that point, unless I have really awesome augs in the GM stuff (since they can hold three), I'd likely be better switching out for the TSS stuff. Money gone down the drain. Another concern: All the money spent on dissolving augs... Those suckers are expensive! :)

2. Tradeskills are a question mark to me. Even if I get my pottery up to 300 (or higher), then what? Or Tailoring or whatever? I guess I could start selling stuff... I really don't know how much as changed/been added with Tradeskills in the last 2-3 expansions - haven't realy kept up.

3. I do this now, but not to the extent I could be. But most newbies I help end up disappearing after a week. lol. Only a few good online friends and they got multiple high toons. This is my only toon. :)

4. My only toon. Likely will be my only toon. EQ takes up too much time! :)

5. 200K on black, please!

Thanks so much for any and all suggestions!
Paerien

Thanks again for the advice. There's a BP in the bazaar right now for under 60K. OMW to buy it... :)

I don't mind losing the money on the GM gear if there's nothing major I need to save my pp for...

GM armour is great imho, but maybe the prices will come down a bit, once the energeian (sp.?) armor (if comparable to GM at all) has settled in...?

on the other hand, ye can't wait all the time, with mudflation etc...

Once you run out of thing to buy with plat there are several thing to do:

- Create an Alt, fill it with Deluxe Sewing Kits from the casino and then completely fill all available spaces with Blue Diamonds. Stipulations: you can use BD from drops or vendors but not buy in bulk from traders. Just in the bank space there is something like 24,000 Blue Diamonds and makes for one hell of a screenshot with the bags all open.

- Buy a copy of Hand of Tenacity RK II and put it on a vendor for 2 million plat for 24 hours and count how many people accuse you of ripping off the EQ Community. If you do this as a group mission, the highest number of complaints wins.

- Buy the other group members copy for 2 million each so your complaint number is higher and you win. ( of course, now you have 6 copies with a full group that afterwards you can hand out for free on a first /tell first serve basis with an apology that you accidently put too many 00000 in the price )

As you can see there are many things you can do with creative thinking. I just wish it was like the good ol days when you could /duel your friendly SK then give his pet 100,000 copper ( plat nowdays ) and listen to him wonder why his pet wont move. =p

Pal

For a level 75, you should get Epic Level gear, GM is only good for a level 70, you have to find a good raiding guild and kill some high level dragons etc.