Equipment planning?

I have read that this must be done. I am a little lost on why. I have characters in their 2x's so that's a lot of planning.
How do you select the equips? There are so many and they are scrolled/not scrolled, average/above/below average (need explanation on the average-ness please). . . Where do you start? How do you know if you are going in the right direction? It's really tough to know what is available or not or scarce from hidden-street. Thank you for all your wisdom!

Well, basically it all depends on how serious you take any given PQ and what you're trying to do. If you want to be a casual player then just go for regular gear scrolled with 7 100% scrolls (for weapons).

Those can be bought at scroll vendors in a few places:
Kerning swamp
Ellinia forest
Ludi tower
Orbis tower
and a few more.


As for overalls, you can just get a clean bathrobe from showa and scroll it with 10 100% dex scrolls (bought in kerning swamp's NPC) if you aren't a mage. And if you are, then you can probably just go with whatever the normal overall is for your level.


Basically just get whatever you can for the early levels. Once you get a good hang of the game you'll start to see what's important to you and from there you can decide on specific gear to use.

For most people's first characters, the early level gear doesn't really matter at all.

Equipment planning is not necessary for a new player, unless you are a perfectionist and want your first character to be the best it can possibly be. I'd recommend building up to this, and not investing too heavily too early, because you might find out that you don't actually like the class you chose later on. Most people I know have switched characters or restarted at least once.

If you want a few tips for doing it, though, I guess the first place to start would be to figure out what stats you are aiming to have in the endgame. How far are you planning to take each character? All classes use a primary attack stat and 0-2 secondary stats to equip their weapons. If it is a physical class, you'll probably be looking at stopping for a bit with a level 100ish weapon. If it is a mage, you'll probably be able to get the most out of your stats by leaving all of your stats except int at 4 and using a lukless weapon (elemental wand or 64 maple weapon). Figure out the specifics for the class.

For example, as a Corsair, my main stat is DEX, and my secondary stat is STR. Because I am a physical class, weapon attack is the highest priority when it comes to equips.

Try looking around in damage range/flaunting threads to figure out what kind of stuff you should be aiming for. Common equips that add a lot of + to all stats are often high priority. ZHelms are pretty standard issue for everyone. So are MoNs and HTPs depending on what class you are. These may be expensive but they're good long run investments. After that just see where you can get the most damage. For physical classes a big source of damage comes from the weapon, the glove and the cape. Focus on upgrading those first. Estimate how much money you can get your hands on, and what you'll be able to afford.

Once you figure out about how many stats you can get from your equips, you have a good idea of how much you need to put in your secondary stat. If you can get 30 STR from your equips, and your weapon needs 100 STR, you'll probably want to put your base STR to 65 or so and make some adjustments later. It's generally best to stick with lower levelled weapons until you think it's worth it to move up, because it means using less AP resets. This is a big part of planning out your secondary stat requirement. You can always fix your stats with AP resets later, but they're expensive, so you want to minimize your use of them.

It's not really that hard, it's just having an understanding of what helps your damage the most.

Doesn't everyone want to play their characters until lvl 200?

Thank you shouri and Dusk for your help! It's really helpful and shows me I need to relax a bit and just play until I understand everything more. All my characters are regular stats which may not be the best thing but I guess it'll be hard to tell until they level further. I have one of each class at about the same levels. Maybe I got carried away?

Those flaunting threads will help a lot. Who knew they were more than ego threads? My understanding is that every class aside from mage is a physical class. I'll definitely refer to these tips when the time comes to plan.

If someone could explain the concept of equips being average, above average, and below average plus how to tell the difference I would be grateful. I read about it somewhere. Thanks!

If someone could explain the concept of equips being average, above average, and below average plus how to tell the difference I would be grateful. I read about it somewhere. Thanks!

Within the data, and the NPCs, is the average stats an equipment comes with. "Clean" items (no scrolls used on it) will have grey, white, or blue names. Anything below average is grey - white covers average and a little above average, blue is very high stats. If you buy an item from an NPC, it will always be average. If you buy it from another player, or forge it, it has randomly decided stats.

If they're scrolled, there's a little (+x) after the item name - for Male/Female only items it'll say (+1Male) - and it can be grey, orange, blue, purple, or yellow depending on the total number of stats added by scrolls.



Yes, Mage is the only non-physical class.

Thank you, Stereo! Now I understand what the colors that I had been seeing meant. I am assuming that the different scroll colors are ascending- grey being below average with each succeeding color being a little more than average with yellow being godly.

Talk about Random assigned stats, I ? scrolled the beach sandals and got DEX+3. Everything else +1. Would be great if it didn't belong to a Mage! Great info. Thanks so much.

and for being averge scrolled and such you have to look at what scroll can be implied to an item and what % gives what stats and the price for those scrolls so you can figure out if you find it averge/good/godly scrolled. i'm wondering how did you find this site