Tolan's Darkwood Breastplate  

 

4. Worth 100k? I would say absolutly NOT

I mean come one, gate potions are what, 125pp a time to make thats around 800 gate potions before you reach that mark. Thats a LOT of gating

Yes it has nice stats on it to use from lvl 1 (I know the clickie doesn't) but there are better. By the time you can use it, you have better to wear also

Now you may well be able to argue why it is worth 100k, my opiniopn is its not. 30-50k MAX more like it, but then thats mu oppinion

wood elves can wear this.

Edited, Feb 9th 2010 7:34pm by Bethgin

I see one for sale right now in the Bazaar on Povar. A steal at a low, low 450K!

Yup, thats exactly what I got it for.. always wanted one but by the time I could afford one I had better so it sits in my pack till I need to port. Wonderful for the Ranger who has ventured far from civilization and needs to get back quickly. On a side note tho, it CAN be interrupted... the trick is to have your back to something solid, that will cut down the chances of it happening. The only time mine was interrupted was when getting hit moved me back a few steps. I found a nifty little combo to ensure it works is tap weaponshield right b4 you click it and you will parry every attack from your front buying you just enough time to port safely! This BP rocks if your thinking about getting one, then do its worth it. If you already have one grats you know how precious it really is. :)

I believe that the clickable effect is uninteruptable unless you move. That might be why the spell was not interupted.

lol...you're profile is great...a couple thing are lacking though...while you have plenty AC and ATK (hehe...magelo doesn't caluclate that, so you can enter any value you want)...but given the available equipment you have, you're wis isn't too great (should be 255). You're HP's not bad(could be better) but the resists are a little low. But once again, you said that you'd delete the tolan's darkwood BP if you looted it, like Percuno said, then why do you have one in your inventory? (guess with all your time being spent making fake magelo profiles, you haven't had time to delete the BP yet) = P

Then why in your magelo profile do you have it in your inventory?

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Ever heard of the Thurgadin Gate potion? Easy to do, and yes, it is just *one* potion, but I keep 10 others in the bank 1 step away from the final combine (result is LORE, NO DROP). I have a basicly "free" port to Thugadin (also VERY close to the Luclin/Wiz spires) off of the Planes, or anywhere else that I can't get out of. Added bonus: The cast time is about as fast as a gate spell to cast. I'm in trouble soloing? Gonna die with a nasty CR? Pray that my roots stick on the mob(s) beating on me, then *poof*, back to Thurg. I talk to one NPC (close to the bank), do one combine (haven't failed on it yet, the pottery part I have, but this is just adding an NPC item, not using the wheel) and I am good to go, have another gate potion.

Farming the stuff out of crystal caverns to make this potion is easy. Orcs for velium, crystal spiders for crystaline silk, easily soloed at my level, and easily grouped earlier, look up the forums on CC. For the level this zone has great loot, plus a bank in zone. MADE for farming this stuff, no need to carry heavy velium around.

Pottery skill needed for this potion is 120 trivial. Getting pottery to 122 is a joke. Has to be the easist skill to master (at least up to there). The guide I used said "pottery to 122 in Thurgadin in under an hour for less than 20pp". The guide was right. In under an hour, for less than 20pp, I was ready for the ability to gate to Thurg for the rest of my EQ career (already had done the farming).

I was able to stay in the Plane of Hate when everyone camped for the night at the safespot, even though I wasn't sure if I would make it back in time the next day to meet up with everyone before we left for good. I can run to the Spires for a port to the nexus in a matter of minutes, even in the middle of the night when I can't find a port. I can go into zones I have no way out of and do some exploring, and know I can get out at any time.

If your faction isn't good enough to talk to the merchants in Thurg, sneak works well, if you have it (if you are a ranger, you have it). All the items to make the potion are farmed out of Crystal Caverns easily, which the entrance to is just a zone away from Thurg, so when I see supplies running low, I hop in there for a bit. Loot isn't bad there, so no biggie. I even can get the Blackened Crystaline Robe to sell, or the herbalist pack, or a few other decent sellable items while I'm there.

If you have this BP, grats, you are either in a good guild that hits that spot often, or you have a ton of money. Either way, why not have a port to BOTH Velious and Faydark? If you don't have this BP, do yourself a favor and make this potion, over and over. The BP you won't see for a long time, if at all, this potion can be made as soon as you are high enough level (late 20's?) to group in Crystal Caverns.

For the complete guide to make the gate potion, go here:

http://crpg.freehosting.net/shakasta/ThurgGatePotion.html

Safe Travels

in a post a little way down it mentions "although the cast time wouldn't save yourlife" so I'm guessing rather the same as normal port cast time

twinking is a double-edged sword, and a practice that seems to have become much less frowned upon as the servers have aged.

on the one hand, the *real* victory of EQ, having reached 60, is suddenly finding oneself with amazing items, still slightly less powerful than currently weilded items, which are *not* no-drop. after spending many real-life months sitting in the sales zone of the server, bored, hoping for a "bite" on that high-end, mega-expensive item, eventually the temptation of bestowing a magnificent item upon one's own newly-created character becomes too hard to avoid. there's certainly something pimp about walking around, level 1-10, wearing a tolan's breastplate. (what's rarely realized however is that instead of magnanimous awe, the emotions observers over 30 are having are merely jealousy and a new sense of "well ***** this then, god, i work my *** off for a k-mart brand plywood lizardslayer and there's a level 10 over there with a geldarf's staff of amazing wondertude" and typically they log off and commit suicide.) to some that's not nice behavior. others like to inspire this feeling in others.

the other side of the coin is this. aside from causing others to look at you jealously, you now have a character without many goals other than leveling. since this character can be spoon-fed practically any item he or she wants by daddy, the art of the quest is now kind of boring. sure, it's an "all-new class" with "all new quests" but who cares? you're wearing tolan's darkwood chestplate. you sure you want to replace it with ivy etched once you easily complete the quest?

my ranger twinked my chanter at the beginning. i felt like i'd earned at least that much ability. i got him some ghostly robes, a staff of writhing, and a few other things. nothing uber certainly, but there truly is nothing like the utter awe on the faces of the literal newbies around you. for them the game is further inspired. they don't know what a "twink" is yet, all they know is there's a guy standing there with a staff with a SKULL on it! and the items certainly allowed for a faster leveling process through levels of the game which are NOT fun if you've done them before. there is NOTHING cool about getting killed by a fire beetle, okay? running away from a bat is LAME, alright?

anyway, there's my take on twinking. what the hell, right?

well you dont have to be a Super uber guild, i.e. one that does ST or VP or whatever but if you wanna kill a lvl 65 dragon like Trak you need a lot of 55+ people and many 50s period. My guild just took down trak last night and we had like 40 people on the raid. Oh yeah, its worth upwards of 100k, and that is you are lucky enough to find someone who would sell this to you heh.

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Saryrn

Trakanon would simply blink one eye halfway at you, and the skinwould fall away from your bones as you get hit for 999,999,999,999,999,999,999 points of damage. What would inspire you to ask if a 30 something character could get an item from a 60+ mob? Crack? An obsession with death? A yearning to see the afterlife before anyone else?

HELL NO YOU CAN'T GET IT AT YOUR LEVEL!!!!!!!

Unless you got tons of money sittin in the bank, and several years to sit in EC hopin to see "/auc WTS Tolan's BP, send tells." =P