Returning player gear questions (65) and Paladin infoFollow

I've been purchasing what GM armor I can in the bazaar and augmenting it with symbols. What im looking for is a decent charm and maybe "show" pieces that are soloable but will be improvements over what I have currently.

At lvl 65 with 60 or so AAs, I have about 6300hp unbuffed and 1560 or so AC. Most people tell me that is a bit low for much outside PoP so im looking to upgrade as much as possible before I get into a guild for anything outside of PoP raiding (actually Id love to raid PoP, but it seems few guilds on the rathe do that anymore :p)

My charm slot is the PoP idol with my adventure stone. The stats are pretty bad; about 4 ac 30 hp and 4 to each stat. Other charms I see in the bazaar are daytime active and that seems almost useless to me.

My head, one wrist, and boot are Jayla's armor from BoT quest. These pieces could be upgraded to GM armor but Im looking for a bit more AC that GM gear gives.

If you are curious about other gear im working with you can check out cactuszach on the rathe on eqplayers. Basically my goal is to get as close to 10k unbuffed and 1.8k ac before I do any raiding. I dislike being useless for the content people do now-a-days :p


Also on a side note, are there any resourses for Paladin discussion? Seems casters realm only has 1 guide and a spell list and most sites dont offer any specific pally info.

Edited, Feb 29th 2008 11:20am by tombiggy

Thanks for the tips, ill definately look into these. I bought a dwerium trio necklace and have it auged and really like the stats on it. One ring and one earring could be upgraded to these.

Charm looks nice too, seems like a lot of the items to upgrade it are soloable.

when a charm says gains power durring day or night... it means game time not real time juts so u know... i have Vestal Insigniafor my shaman and even when its not at full power (ie nighttime) its still a very good item.

Also, with SoF release there are a ton of droppable non-visible armor slot upgrades that coincidentally are either req65/rec75, or req75/rec80. You can buy most of the first group for anywhere from 5k to 50k and they are likely *huge* upgrades to whatever other stuff you've likely got in terms of neck, shoulders, waist, back, ranged, etc...

You may get more bang for the buck initially upgrading those slots then upgrading the main visible armor pieces you've got. I know that I did. I went from about the same as you when I left (during OoW), to about 11k, 2100AC. Doing *nothing* but finishing off a couple OoW armor quests, and upgrading those non-visible slots.