It is not that easy, now, to go around without being twinked. My experience
has been, without even asking, I have people I do not know giving me stuff.
And how can I say No? I, myself, tend to pass on raw-hide etc sometimes
instead of selling it just because it makes me feel good. (I've never gotten
to the point where I can get bronze myself.)
Sarah Heacock
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Cliff, Monty [mailto:mcliff@...]
>Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 8:21 AM
>To: EQ-Clerics@onelist.com
>Subject: Re[2]: [EQ-Clerics] Equipment?
>
>
>From: "Cliff, Monty" <mcliff@...>
>
>
> The game has changed a lot since I started (first week of release) so
> the items I had at various levels are a lot different that
>what people
> have today. I didn't know anyone that was high level that could help
> me out as there were very few high level chars and places like lower
> guk were largely unexplored. Not to mention that permafrost wasn't
> even itemized.
>
> When I was L10 I hadn't ventured out of misty thicket and was wearing
> patchwork/cloth with no magic items at all (except my hammer of
> wrath).
>
> By L20 I was fighting in oasis and was wearing mostly banded armor
> with a few patchwork pieces. Still no jewelry beyond dervish rings.
> The one good item I did have was the crook from lockjaw when we were
> actually able to get the kill.
>
> By L30 I think I had mostly bronze plate from fighting in unrest and
> lake rathe and possibly some +4wis +2st rings, BI medallion and
> polished bone bracers (can't exactly remember). Also might have had
> an enameled mace and mistmoor shield by this time.
>
> In the low 30's is when I started to make some money from
>mistmoor and
> when I moved to sol b at L34. Then the good stuff started coming in
> :).
>
> Now compare this to what people have out there today and you can tell
> it's a lot different and I'm not one to judge yourself on. I've
> always felt that it's not the items that make you a good cleric.
>
> I sometimes feel sorry for new players out there now. There are so
> many twinks running around in awesome equipment it must be
>hard seeing
> someone that con's green wearing way better equipment than you are.
>
> Just remember, A naked L30 cleric could beat the crap out of a L20
> cleric with awesome equipment :)
>
> Drogo DarkBane
> L50 Halfling Cleric
> The Rathe
>
> P.S. Were the other high level clerics on this list like this as
> well?
>
>
>
>>>Well, I consider myself to be under equipped for my level
>(getting harder to
>>>say that now that I have some purple stuff) as I have had a few
>items for
>>>almost 30 levels now. Anyway I'll give you a run down on the
>items I wear.
>
>
>>How about posting a list of what you were wearing at the milestones (lvl
>>10, lvl 20, etc) That way we could see what we should be looking for when
>>we reach those levels.
>
>
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