Cheapest class?Follow

Magician, hands down. Not only do they need no gear, they can summon gear to use and sell.

edit: By level 20 a magician can summon (and wear)
Food/drink
bandages/daggers
backpacks
neck w/ reagent conservation focus
shoulder w/ extended enhancement
earring w/ mana preservation
back + shield with resists
ring w/ spell haste
bracelet w/ burning affliction
bracelet w/ improved damage


Edited, Sun Jul 4 11:52:18 2004 by Samatman

Spells can be a beeyatch though, I personally would say cheapest easiest is druid. Hobbit druid at that.

Don't forget a rogue.

Focus on your 2 weapons, and your evade key ;-)

If cheap is defined as not putting much money into a toon, then up to lvl 25 or so, Warriors are very cheap. Just Newbie armor, a Giant Militia Sword, a Shaded Sword (if you have the pp), and a cleric close by. :)

My Ranger, now 31, but true at lower levels as well, has been my consistant moneymaker of all my toons. Between Forage, which I have on ALL the time, and Track, also on all the time, it just isn't hard to bring plat in. If cheap is defined as (money in - money out = minimal), then the ranger is outstanding at least to 30. The ranger can farm 100-200pp an hour in several areas and has been able to do so since lvl 10. 50pp per hour at lvl 7. Biggest problem I have is sending the Ranger out to farm too often and not actually playing the toon at lvl.

Best Regards,
Aeelyn (31 Ranger) on A Ro

Agree monk is the cheapest. the only class that benefits from having no weapons and minimal gear.

Necros need equipment. They need int/mana/hp equipment and also it helps a lot to have some regen equipment to counter the hp to mana conversion spells. Especially until you start getting you hp regen bonuses at high levels. My iksar necro 65 doesn't wear regen items anymore, but until I got to about 51 the zlandicar's heart, frost-covered cape, and robe with regen 2 were priceless.

I think maybe you aren't killing the right things. Or maybe you never farm. I made 600pp today with my lvl 11 monk on MR. I just went out and collected Shadeling silks and sold them in the bazaar. I've got less than 3 months total EQ experience. My character is not twinked. As a matter of fact, his gear sucks ***. But it's good enough to get me by for now. And when I have enough money for some gear I want, I'll get it.

When I can collect up stuff that sells for 600 pp in approx 2 hours with a level 11 monk, a level 30 ranger with track should not have problems if you set your mind to making some money....

To this point, I have 4 characters in the 40's and 2 in 30's on one server but all of them have needed time farming plat to equip, yet the ones I have on my original server, 3 near 30, 4 lower with no twinkage, just looted items and under 300pp on the server, makes me think that a lizzy war could be your best bet. At 33 my lizzy is wearing netherbian chitin, which he looted, bronze brigandine pants from PC, and items looted from events or bought off vendors (not in the bazaar). Forage helps reduce food and drink costs, while natural regen helps a lot in combat, even soloing, against even cons.

Other combinations can help you farm plat and such, but for playing a poor character, my lizzy rocks. I still play him from time to time, leaving my higher level characters on the other server while I play a character with more "character" then gear. Other combinations can get higher stats, but even my other war with better gear, stats, and a higher level, has still been killed by a mob that I was able to kill with the lizzy, thanks to regen.

Where can i loot the chitin stuff and at what lvl? please include directions starting in pok.
Thanks

You can loot chitin stuff in velketor's labyrinth. From PoK, take the great divide stone. Head west from the stone and zone into Velk's. You can loot any monster at level 1 as long as the people killing it don't want to loot it themselves. Almost nothing in GD or Velks sees invis, so its a cake walk from PoK to Velks.

I'm not an expert on bards (having only played one on test) but once you get level 22-25 ish you can kite guards in misty thicket and make cash that way ( and kiting you dont get hit so it can be done named) and make cash there till u get enough to get yourself some good armor

I would have to say necro, though it does apply in some extent at lower levels to mages as well. A necro CAN, not that they should, get to level 50 naked. The tactics avaliable to them can be used so that they are never hit ie. fear-kiting, and DoT's are more mana-friendly (better ratio's) than a mage's DD's. The only thing that it is necessary to spend your plat on is spells. Equipment only makes a necro(again, early levels) more effecient, it is by no means required.

I would agree with the rogue as well, Str gear is cheap, get a good piercer and a Defenders Lightblade for 200pp and away you go.

I wonder who would be the most expensive?

I would vote for the ranger because we are always trying to fill roles that we were not really designed for, so we need our gear to compensate. Plus we normally need good weapon for primary, secondary, 2hander, plus Bow and arrows.

Runner up I think would be the Warrior, they are all competeing for those high ratio, low delay, proccing weapons that seem to be soo expensive in the bazaar. Also the high end droppable plate armor tends to be very expensive IMO.

Edited, Tue Jul 6 21:11:33 2004 by Reinman