137676-advice-to-fresh-level-50s

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			let me add to this: If you decided on what you want to do that day ( be it PvP or PVE), don't forget to look at the contracts giver in your main city and the daily quests around it. Often enough PVE contracts consist on killing a certain type of creature and doing a veteran shiphand or an adventure, dailies that focus on veteran shiphands and adventures have a new daily quest to do one of them each day. PvP contracts consist of mostly doing either battlegrounds or arenas. This is a great way to boost your glory and prestige, without going out of your way. It will also give you an item that you can exchange for reputation, meaning that reputation grind won't feel as bad :)	
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Hey guys, since I see alot of poorly geared players going for veteran dungeons as soon as they ding 50. I'd like to give a bit of advice on how to get better gear in a day or 2 without much hassle.
 
1. Do expeditions
 
Easy soloable content that rewards you with alot of gold and renown to buy ilvl 60 gear in a relatively small amount of time. My advice is to run Infestation a couple of times.
 
2. Go for vet adventures before going vet dungeons.
 
This is not really that important since you can do pretty well on the easier vet dungeons with ilvl 60 if you know what you're doing(imo), but the vet adventures are alot of fun and provide you with decent purple gear.
 
3. Quest in grimvault
 
The rep guy in grimvault sells ilvl 70 purple gear when you are beloved(32000 reputation) which is easily doable if you do all the quests on the map.
 
4. Do the daily board quests
 
If you get 5000 points( which is easy) you get a 100 ilvl purple 
 
5, Learn interrupts
 
Very important, if you don't interrupt during fights, you will see alot of bosses have insta kill mechanics, or you won't kill them in time.
 
 
 
 
If you want to make money I'd suggest you do the daily quests  in the Northern wastes/ Crimson badlands, This gives you around 1-2 platinum a day and doesn't take too much time.
			
				
	Edited October 10, 2015 by MonkeyJudge	
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			No where near 50 for my first character. I think I'm 24 at the moment. Thanks for posting these tips. Will be very helpful for myself and 2 friends when we eventually get to the cap.	
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Just so you dont confuse newbies, they're not called shiphands anymore. They're called expeditions. It's what they're listed as in the content finder as well.
 
Wheeee
			
				
	Edited October 6, 2015 by Kezra	
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Just so you dont confuse newbies, they're not called shiphands anymore. They're called expeditions. It's what they're listed as in the content finder as well.
 
Wheeee
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oh whoops
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And, at the risk of being flamed, I'd advise doing expeditions/ships non-solo until you get some gear and runes.  Before f2p, I would have agreed with the 'easily soloable' school of thought.  I'd argue that now they're soloable, but with a 'fresh 50' (assuming this someone with basic gear and no runes - I apologise if I made an incorrect assumption) I'd argue that expeditions are much quicker in a group.  Not impossible, but much slower than they were before f2p.
 
All my subjective opinion, which I'm sure not everyone agrees with :P
 
Your other point about Grimvault is excellent, and by doing contracts reaching 'beloved' is even easier due to the ability to swap promissory notes to rep in the zone.
 
Edit - I'm referring to vet expeditions mainly (although even non-vet versions have been 'balanced' with the last update)
			
				
	Edited October 6, 2015 by SlackTech	
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			I would say it's a good idea to get beloved in all the endgame zones. The gear will surely help but so will the AMP and Ability points you can get there.	
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And if someone gets tired of Infestation, he can try Space Madness. I love this "Expedition", it's really short, aswell.
 
Don't forget to tell them to hit the weekly Elder Gem cap to get more Gold from Quests. Buy AMP Points and Ability Tier Unlocks and whatever the heart desires.	
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Thanks kindly for the sound advice everyone :)
 
I was REALLY curious on what I'd do when I hit 50.. Now I at least have a bit more clearer of an idea. 	
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			Where is this Grimvault vendor?	
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You can also buy season 2 PVP gear for gold(like 1-2 plat for a full set). It's ilvl 60, so good enough for veteran anything.
The gear also has rune slots, should be cheap to fill them.
			
				
	Edited October 6, 2015 by kalfis049	
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Where is this Grimvault vendor?
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			Crafted Gear is your GOD when you hit 50. not getting it is silly as running around in vet dungeons without shoulders is just stupidityAlso please do Blighhaven, and the Defile rep groups as they give pretty good gear for fresh 50s (getting to beloved [32000] is really easy now with the dailies).The daily zones: Crimson Badlands, Northern Wastes and Sarcomm basin are all soloable content (maybe not all of starcomm and 2 bosses in CB) but once you hit cap you can get Epic Gear of almost if not equal to Vet dungeon epics.	
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You can also buy season 2 PVP gear for gold(like 1-2 plat for a full set). It's ilvl 60, so good enough for veteran anything.
The gear also has rune slots, should be cheap to fill them.
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Good topic! Just want to add a couple things relating to group content and your topic.
 
1) INTERRUPT! PLZ FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!
Okay, but seriously, you'll do more damage from interrupting--and your other party members will too--than you'll ever do not interrupting. See this far too much in vet dungeons, right now. I heal most of the time in vet dungeons and I still interrupt but cannot tell you how many times I've not seen people even try to interrupt casts/telegraphs. I know most people who play MMO's and are new coming in with F2P aren't used to having to coordinate interrupts, but this will break a group apart quicker than anything. Download the interruptor addon and it'll help you see a mob's interrupt armor and let you know how many interrupts your group needs to stun a cast and get those MOO's(Moment of Opportunity). Some interrupts can be tiered up to remove more than 1 interrupt armor. It's worth the dps loss if we get the interrupt imo.
 
2)If you're new, ask for a explanation of the fight
This is a pet peeve of mine that I know people don't like to do in MMO's, but with new people coming into W*, please ask someone in your group to take the time to explain what to do with an encounter. Gear repairs, Runes, etc. are very costly now. I, personally, don't mind taking the time to explain a fight rather than have people leave the group frustrated and unwilling to queue dungeons again. Do you need extra interrupts? CC break? What are the mechanics for this fight? Simple questions that make everyone's experience more fun in this game. As a raid lead told me one time, I'd rather you die to knowing a mechanic then to waste everyone's time because you didn't ask and didn't know. 
 
3)Be Respectful!
Regardless of a player's skill at their particular class, be respectful! Everybody was new at one point in this game and had to learn new things to get better. I know it's inconvenient to take the time to type things out in chat, but make the time. Raging in chat about a player doesn't help, I assure you. If a player is wiping to a particular boss mechanic, explain it to him/her. It only takes a little more time. If a person is "undergeared" explain to them that they should go to get better gear. Make time to pass on knowledge to players and help the community grow! 
 
AMP's and Ability points matter a ton and they can be attained several ways now. Some other ways that I haven't seen mentioned are Renown, Prestige, Gold medal dungeons,  and completing Gold medal on all expeditions. If you plan to raid at some point in this game, most guilds won't let you step foot into a raid until you've maxed out these.
 
Get to grinding and good luck! 
			
				
	Edited October 6, 2015 by Kyaras	
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Good topic! Just want to add a couple things relating to group content and your topic.
 
1) INTERRUPT! PLZ FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!
Okay, but seriously, you'll do more damage from interrupting--and your other party members will too--than you'll ever do not interrupting. See this far too much in vet dungeons, right now. I heal most of the time in vet dungeons and I still interrupt but cannot tell you how many times I've not seen people even try to interrupt casts/telegraphs. I know most people who play MMO's and are new coming in with F2P aren't used to having to coordinate interrupts, but this will break a group apart quicker than anything. Download the interruptor addon and it'll help you see a mob's interrupt armor and let you know how many interrupts your group needs to stun a cast and get those MOO's(Moment of Opportunity). Some interrupts can be tiered up to remove more than 1 interrupt armor. It's worth the dps loss if we get the interrupt imo.
 
2)If you're new, ask for a explanation of the fight
This is a pet peeve of mine that I know people don't like to do in MMO's, but with new people coming into W*, please ask someone in your group to take the time to explain what to do with an encounter. Gear repairs, Runes, etc. are very costly now. I, personally, don't mind taking the time to explain a fight rather than have people leave the group frustrated and unwilling to queue dungeons again. Do you need extra interrupts? CC break? What are the mechanics for this fight? Simple questions that make everyone's experience more fun in this game. As a raid lead told me one time, I'd rather you die to knowing a mechanic then to waste everyone's time because you didn't ask and didn't know. 
 
3)Be Respectful!
Regardless of a player's skill at their particular class, be respectful! Everybody was new at one point in this game and had to learn new things to get better. I know it's inconvenient to take the time to type things out in chat, but make the time. Raging in chat about a player doesn't help, I assure you. If a player is wiping to a particular boss mechanic, explain it to him/her. It only takes a little more time. If a person is "undergeared" explain to them that they should go do this or that. Make time to pass on knowledge to players and help the community grow! 
 
AMP's and Ability points matter a ton and they can be attained several ways now. Some other ways that I haven't seen mentioned are Renown, Prestige, Gold medal dungeons,  and completing Gold medal on all expeditions. If you plan to raid at some point in this game, most guilds won't let you step foot into a raid until you've maxed out these.
 
Get to grinding and good luck! 
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The gear not not good enough for veteran anything. It is scaled down in PVE (the scaling doesnt show in the ui but if you are tracking the comabt it is very obvious). Yesterday we had a pvp legendary guy with 2.3k dps on a tank and spank fight. 
 
To put that into perspective: I made some gear for a stalker dps guildy and we went into Vet dungeons: he was pulling 4.5k dps easy without any runes. SO i would rather see people in blue crafted (lvl 50 gear not ilvl 50) than a full legendary pvp geared person
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			Bump, because I am still running into people with ilvl 50  and also corrected and added a few things.	
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