Low level exp parties

[Hawklaser]

After changing to Sandoria on my main (which left me with 0 CP), I didn't have enough CP for more than a single rank 1 when I had leveled a new job to 10. At level 20, I had enough for maybe half a rank 2 item, because book exp increases a lot more between 10 and 20, compared to 1-10. That's pretty bad, considering you have 16 more slots to fill (although it is closer to 10 slots realistically at those levels, still bad).

RSE gear is pretty situational. For some jobs on some races, it's good. For other jobs on other races, you might as well be wearing a paper apron.

Note that I'm not actually complaining about not having any CP to spend here. I already had the gear I wanted to use while leveling, I just checked these things to get an idea of how fast CP is acquired nowadays after booking became the thing.

Though should not need a full suit of CP gear for a level, have to learn which pieces to prioritize for best effects when have limited resources. Usually that is the Weapon, Body and leg slots. Especially when can supplement those with the other slots from brown caskets and mob drops. Starter Zone brown caskets do have level 10 gear in them.

Already covered NQ armor from shops. It is unrealistically priced compared to the stats the gear gives you. As for shouting for better gear, that can take hours. I've spent quite a while shouting for crafters as well, even when I have all the items and offer a reasonable crafting reward. It's all pretty convoluted, especially if you're relatively new to the game. "Watching" AH could also take forever. Who knows when the items you want pops up? Who knows if you're even awake when it's put up? Maybe someone buys it before you get home from work? Asking people to buy CP gear for you is a fair idea, as long as you know people with some spare CP. I dunno about you, but I spend a very large amount of my CP on voiddust back when VW was all the rage, and few lategame-players gain significant amounts of new CP nowadays.

It would have been much more player friendly (especially for newcomers) to just get CP for their page bonuses as well. It would pretty much solve everything.

As to the armor being expensive, do you open brown caskets? Especially in the early GoV dungeons like Dangruf Wadi and King Ranpere's? Some of those items vendor for 6-10k, others can put up on the AH for 20k.(depending on server) A couple of either of those should more than cover armor needs up to 30 if invest well, and not buying new equip every other level. As do you really need to pay 5k for one more armor in a single slot? While I know there are some really nice pieces out there for lower levels(ie Battle Gloves) one does not really need them when dealing mostly with EP-DC mobs outside of alliances until get up into the higher levels. And if doing the EP-DC mobs for pages outside of alliances, get plenty of brown caskets to cover equipent costs, as well as more gil from page bonuses than alliance burning the pages.

[Mirage]

Though should not need a full suit of CP gear for a level, have to learn which pieces to prioritize for best effects when have limited resources. Usually that is the Weapon, Body and leg slots. Especially when can supplement those with the other slots from brown caskets and mob drops. Starter Zone brown caskets do have level 10 gear in them.



As to the armor being expensive, do you open brown caskets? Especially in the early GoV dungeons like Dangruf Wadi and King Ranpere's? Some of those items vendor for 6-10k, others can put up on the AH for 20k.(depending on server) A couple of either of those should more than cover armor needs up to 30 if invest well, and not buying new equip every other level. As do you really need to pay 5k for one more armor in a single slot? While I know there are some really nice pieces out there for lower levels(ie Battle Gloves) one does not really need them when dealing mostly with EP-DC mobs outside of alliances until get up into the higher levels. And if doing the EP-DC mobs for pages outside of alliances, get plenty of brown caskets to cover equipent costs, as well as more gil from page bonuses than alliance burning the pages.

I've never had any good luck with brown caskets. I stopped popping them after the 50th potion.