How to get 188-250 without LUC and POP?

[Cavel]

If you Have LDoN ask some Druids or Rangers to Forage for you. THe LDoN tempers can get you to slightly over 190 for the Chain items, However without PoP you cannot do the Plate items. Hmmm Your old world cultural should be able to push you to around 242 if you are one of the races lucky enough to have old world (NOT BD) cultural armor (Human, Darkelf, High Elf and Dwarf all spring to mind). BTW old world Cultural may not be an easy path to tread.

Good Luck

[Ndaara]

I poked around a little and it looks like OLD cultural (NOT BD) goes to 242 for both ogres and humans so that is probably your best bet for both your smiths It will be painful to get enough components to do this, but definitely doable. I used OLD cultural for high elfs all the way to 242, remarkably enough there was even a market for it and i NEARLY broke even on those pieces, selling in bazaar, which you don't have yet heh.

Anyway good luck and let us know how you're doing!

[Darknyss]

Actually, you CAN do some of those LDoN plate recipes... you just need someone to buy some of the stuff for you.

25-26pp per Superb Leather Padding, give someone 525pp to run to PoK and pick you up a stack... the real pain will be finding the temper ingredients either without LDoN or without numerous foraging friends...

as an Iksar, I'm lucky to forage 1 or 2 temper ingredients PER adventure. And groupmates would rather attempt to sell them in the bazaar for 80-100p per than donate them to my cause.

Cultural will be EXPENSIVE... especially if your old cultural is below 188 like mine is. Tae Ew's sinkhole will be the Tae Ew Blood, and possibly the Iksar Blood...

I'm doing LDoN plate right now, but the market for it has become increasingly saturated... and I'm thinking about vendor selling most of it soon... (depending on what I can get from Tribute Masters)

gonna attempt EVB's as soon as I hit 200... at 199 atm, and haven't had a skillup for a full stack of LDoN combines...

[eniamn]

wouldn't work. nobody on the server has luclin or pop. they couldn't buy the padding for him.

[ianwenie]

buy them online

buy the expations online.... then you can get them all

[eniamn]

from the way i understood it his server is older. installing the zones on his computer wouldn't work if the server doesn't let you zone to those zones because they aren't there. however the trivials for fineplate and other stuff has been lowered like of the main servers. he's just in a bad spot imo.

[kuronekosama]

for human smithin imbued field plate will get you to 242 - It's fairly easy to get the temper components