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Is this just a myth or do you really need this high levelish gear when your starting out (1-20 er so). If you just got the game how are you supposed to find 5k for "newbie" gear to buy in bazaar? I've always wondered this. Do you really need all that gear in bazaar that sells for 300pp a piece? Or, can you survive with newbie quest gear and armor that drops?

As far as how to get the 5K, that's fairly easy as a youngling, as spiderling silks go for 10-12pp each in bazaar. You can sell bone chips, low, medium, and high quality pelts go for a nice price. Rat parts can be sold to vendor, to buy a couple of bazaar bags, and you can park in the bazaar when you are eating or sleeping.

That said, you do not have to do it that way.

varies from server to server but you prolly should be able to easily sell em for 5pp each (100pp a stack). Not sure how well this sells anymore but you can also farm swirling shadows (drop from low lvl shades in Shadeweaver's thicket). I used to sell those for 50pp each. Sell a couple of stacks of those and you can buy some gear that will last you a while.

I think the real point is that the game is designed from the ground up to accomdate new players . The gear you get as you progress is all you need to play the game the way it was intended.

The game is so mature now that more mature players don't want to take the time to level up their Alts so they " twink " them with better gear to do it faster.

Nothing wrong with that but the newbie game still exists for the brand new players.

No you dont need that 300 pl shield, yes it does make the gam easier.
Defineately farm spiderling silks. They WILL sell for 5 to 10 p
easy, I buy them and resell for 15 on emarr and povar.

Take the Halas portal to Everfrost, awesome place to get spiderling silks, and bear skins and wolf skins, and backpacks and bone chips, it's a farming newb heaven.