More noob questions

[Merklon]

More noob questions

So, i'm level 35 now. Solo'd up to act 3, found myself a bored high level and got powered through the remainder of normal difficulty.

So now i'm sitting at level 35 with complete crap for gear. Need some suggestions on what i need to be running in order to pick up some gear.

 

[Zauzich]

Sounds like your lead toon has hit a progression wall. What I do at that stage is start another character.

I find it effective to level 3-5 avatars to 20, gathering up low runes, and gems, and lucky drops, and charity, along the way, and whenever you can, as soon as you can, consolidate you wealth into “good” low level gear.

A set or two of decent low level items can carry ALL your characters through normal, one at a time.

First thing to “run” in NM in Countess for runes.

If your don't have the gear to run Countess yet, just keep leveling your “Lead” character. Level will eventually overcome modest gear if you want to do MF runs and as you find or trade for upgrades you can hand down any decent items to the next avatar in line.

 

[Merklon]

In so far as trading, what should i be holding onto? I've kept a few nice rares.

Do perfect gems hold value any longer? I also have quite a few of the nubcake runes ive picked up along the way.

 

[Teleportation]

Yes, perfect gems are the main currency for low level items.

 

[Ava]

I'd keep hold of gems (flawless and perfect). As far as runes, ditch el and elds and keep the rest. Tir runes work wonders at low levels with their mana after each kill and nef runes are used to craft blood gloves.

Unless you already have better, keep sets and uniques. When it comes to low sets, definitely keep items from the angelic, death and sigon sets. They're excellent for levelling.

 

[Zauzich]

I gather up All gems and all runes (even El) and cube them up religiously. I also keep an inventory of chipped gems that i do NOT cube up as some crafting recipes call for chips, most notably in cubing up runes from low to mid.

Also, If you are particularly pack-ratish "crap" jewels are also used in cube crafting. Once in a blue moos some rich crafter will offer nice stuff for volume trash is one man's treasure is one mans trash etc.

Getting back on-topic, though (this IS the assassin forum), are you following any particular guide for your skills? Some general and PvP builds are better than others for MF, and other builds focus on MF exclusively.

One last thing about "nice rares." If they are better than what's you have to use, use them. Holding onto items you suspect are good and offering them in a trade game, though, can be counter-productive. If they are not above and beyond available set/unique items you may be as laughed at as noob and loose the opportunity to barter. This is particularly risky when your trade inventory is spread over a number of characters.

 

[Merklon]

One last thing about "nice rares." If they are better than what's you have to use, use them. Holding onto items you suspect are good and offering them in a trade game, though, can be counter-productive. If they are not above and beyond available set/unique items you may be as laughed at as noob and loose the opportunity to barter. This is particularly risky when your trade inventory is spread over a number of characters.

I'm using a dual-claw phoenix strike build. Martial arts with 1-pointers in shadow skills.

The rares i was referring to were not claw weapons, thus all but useless to me. But thanks for the info guys, looks like i'm going hunting for gems.

 

[prion]

have you done baal yet?

If not, join baal runs games where the quest is already done. About half the time, everyone will skip him and go onto the next in the series. Kill him yourself for the quest drop.

Also consider crafting. You won't get anything godly, but consider it as a way to generate a new rare item.