Yeah, note that skills outside your chosen trait-line are twice as expensive so you won’t get nearly the return on your investment of points if you spread them out too evenly. The cap-stone skill you get in your chosen trait-line is generally crazy good so I think the way to go is to first concentrate on unlocking that, saving points back from skills that are less useful to spend in the other trait-lines once you unlock the capstone. With my 75 Hunter I was able to put the majority of my points into the red trait-line while saving back enough to dump into the first two blue-line skills.
When did the change the loot system from clickable corpses to the little loot bag you click to gather all your haul? That’s kind of a cool improvement. Seems like it would be handy when you run out of inventory space as well.
That was with the last major update. I’m not sure how I ever got by before that change.
I also received a bunch of what used to be pure vendor trash, only now it says they have tasks attached to them. I found the task board in Bree, but it was way below my level (42). I assume I can mail one olf my lower level alts all this stuff and they can turn it in for tasks much the way I mail them the faction items I don’t need?
instant0’s plugin sounds like it will take some of the guess work out of it but, in general, check the task boards in the on-level areas where you quest. I’ve mostly stopped bothering except in cases where the task gives hard to get reputation, such as Limlight Gorge. I am trying to power level my Champion though so I might have him turn in tasks for the xp.
I did not try a skirmish or anything yet. Skirmishes had only just been implemented when I stopped playing, so I have a soldier and built him up a bit, but have no idea what’s changed since then and don’t recall how skimishes work or why I would want to bother. I have a bunch of marks though, so I suppose I should use them at some point.
It seems like some folks here disagree but I find the skirmishes to be a mostly boring time sink after the first pass through. I think they nerfed the amount of skirmish points you get for standard skirmishes at some point which really makes them almost entirely pointless. (The bulk of my skirmish points were either won in lotteries or collected during the anniversary events where you can exchange world drop coins for skirmish points at a very good rate.)
What’s with the hobbit gifts? Seems like a lame way to make you spend real money to get the “gold” present daily.
I never do anything other than the silver present. I’ve actually had some decent luck. My Hunter has almost a complete set of level 75 armor (including a gold item) with stats better than anything on-level aside from the level 75 raid gear. (Oddly, I got these items on successive days early on. I wonder if they put their thumb on the scales when the Hobbit presents were first introduced to entice folks into buying gold presents.) The silver and copper scraps are also a nice source of free gold.
I played a little on my Hunter last night. I wanted to see if I could solo an on-level troll in Limlight Gorge but it’s been so long since I last played and I was so distracted that I forgot to buff myself or even using healing potions once I first started taking damage! I have no idea what I was thinking. Anyway, even given this massive brainfart, I came really, really close so I suspect a less idiotic attempt would be successful.
