Post by xIrenexAdler on Apr 23, 2013 11:11:58 GMT -8
So, some people have been wondering how I can manage to gear my characters in a week to two weeks. This is actually a pretty simple process (I'm not promising this will work for everyone, but this is what I do).
What you need:
Okay, so the first thing you need to do is over nest quite a bit. This is made to be much easier if you have one character that is at lvl 50 already, but it's not necessary. If you have one already, you can have two character's farming the materials that you need.
This means you are going to have to set aside a few hours every week to run ABN and Titan, 5 times each to get the crafting mats and essences to suffix your gear. Depending on how much time it takes you to secure a clear, this can take somewhere between an hour and 40 minutes to do to three and a half hours. This is made easier by having a reliable party of friends (as opposed to randoms) who are willing to help you get these done; it's even more helpful if you have a party member who is willing to give you the mats afterwards.
You should also make a point of farming all of the chaos rifts during the week. This has dual purposes; the lower rifts can be used for one of two things- making money or creating technique rings for your characters (if you are creating technique rings, this will take longer than 2 weeks unless you have more than 1 character that can farm the tech fragments). Money will help with creating your gear if you are just short of what it is you need for your mats.
Padma you might need a party for if you are under-geared. However, this doesn’t mean you need a party of 4. I would personally recommend that you duo it so that you get more mats. Even under-geared, this can be pretty easy. Again, if you don’t need the frags, sell them off for 100-200g, depending on the market.
For dailies, I recommend duoing if you can (really you would have a friend carrying if you were severely under geared. I’ve also found ess 2 is easier to obtain when you duo). However, if you don’t have a person that can do that, a party of any size can work. On average, I usually get 2-3 essence 2’s per day, and the goddess’s mercies will get you another 1 every 2 days.
Finally, you really need to have faction points to make this go faster. Faction points allow you to more easily obtain both sparks and lustre’s or octagonal waters so that you can spark and enhance your gear. You should have already been building this from when you were lvling your characters. Collecting the bunny at the end of your abyss runs will give you more gifts to get more faction points.
Just as a note, this method only works if you are doing the totem/corrupt set (either fd or 5/2 totem/corrupt). If you are trying to do corrupt/victor set, this will not work since Titan does not drop as many mats (imo) as ABN does. Additionally, since we’ve been running ABN more frequently than Titan, guild storage has more crafting mats for ABN than Titan. Also, I'm not guaranteeing that you will be geared in 1-2 weeks. That is just how quickly it takes me to do so.
What you need:
- at least 1 lvl 50, preferably with decent gear (this is not a problem if this is your first 50)
- People who are willing to nest with you (if you are unable to solo nests, which really isn't preferred since you are likely to get fewer mats), preferably people who don't need the mats and might be willing to give them to you (Keeping in mind that you have guild members who could help you).
- A few hours a week to run nests and chaos rifts
- A partner who is willing to go with you for chaos rifts
- A partner or party to do dailies with
- Faction Points
Okay, so the first thing you need to do is over nest quite a bit. This is made to be much easier if you have one character that is at lvl 50 already, but it's not necessary. If you have one already, you can have two character's farming the materials that you need.
This means you are going to have to set aside a few hours every week to run ABN and Titan, 5 times each to get the crafting mats and essences to suffix your gear. Depending on how much time it takes you to secure a clear, this can take somewhere between an hour and 40 minutes to do to three and a half hours. This is made easier by having a reliable party of friends (as opposed to randoms) who are willing to help you get these done; it's even more helpful if you have a party member who is willing to give you the mats afterwards.
You should also make a point of farming all of the chaos rifts during the week. This has dual purposes; the lower rifts can be used for one of two things- making money or creating technique rings for your characters (if you are creating technique rings, this will take longer than 2 weeks unless you have more than 1 character that can farm the tech fragments). Money will help with creating your gear if you are just short of what it is you need for your mats.
Padma you might need a party for if you are under-geared. However, this doesn’t mean you need a party of 4. I would personally recommend that you duo it so that you get more mats. Even under-geared, this can be pretty easy. Again, if you don’t need the frags, sell them off for 100-200g, depending on the market.
For dailies, I recommend duoing if you can (really you would have a friend carrying if you were severely under geared. I’ve also found ess 2 is easier to obtain when you duo). However, if you don’t have a person that can do that, a party of any size can work. On average, I usually get 2-3 essence 2’s per day, and the goddess’s mercies will get you another 1 every 2 days.
Finally, you really need to have faction points to make this go faster. Faction points allow you to more easily obtain both sparks and lustre’s or octagonal waters so that you can spark and enhance your gear. You should have already been building this from when you were lvling your characters. Collecting the bunny at the end of your abyss runs will give you more gifts to get more faction points.
Just as a note, this method only works if you are doing the totem/corrupt set (either fd or 5/2 totem/corrupt). If you are trying to do corrupt/victor set, this will not work since Titan does not drop as many mats (imo) as ABN does. Additionally, since we’ve been running ABN more frequently than Titan, guild storage has more crafting mats for ABN than Titan. Also, I'm not guaranteeing that you will be geared in 1-2 weeks. That is just how quickly it takes me to do so.