Returning player overwhelmed with infoFollow

AT lvl 66 you should be using elaborate. IF you have elegant on its probably yellow and your not getting any stats from it? Everyone has there own opinion but personally when I started back up I went to 70 before stopping to invest time into AA's. At 70 you have a few more choices in gear. Also at that lvl The Hole is a good place to earn AA as stuff is lightblue but easy to kill and pretty plentiful. You can just jump in from paineel now it won't kill you like before.

Far as places to go there is a npc outside of the guildhall in POK that offers hotzone quests and recommends places to go as well as gives daily quests that reward you with a choice of belt, cloak, or shoulders.

Also there is a merchant near the soulbinder (straight out from him) that sells earrings/rings/face/neck items. Those are pretty good and can be bought for aroudn 1500pp each.

I took my 63 rogue/monk combo to Torden, the Bastion of Thunder, and found the exp there pretty good. As for the gear, just head to the bazaar and see what is available for cheap...I am on FV also, and it is amazing what cool gear you can get for very little plat. I came back and was broke, but there is still some cool gear for cheap, if you look.
When you look, go for the slots with no defiant gear first to upgrade, cause the defiant gear is still pretty good at your level. Hit up Graa or Surakor when you are on and I will help in any way I can...and welcome back...

SoD was released and raised the level cap from 80 to 85. So trying to do the progression at level 66 is a bit of a stretch. I could see pulling it off at level 75, but at that level you might need a bit of luck to complete a couple of the missions.

It just so happens that at your level the merc is no longer as overpowered as it was while you were leveling.

Like a few others here, I'm also on FV. If you need any help or advice, just send a tell to anyone in Maxim (/w all maxim) and you'll get me. I may have some stuff you can use since I pretty much strip and regear my characters when I move them to the server. Got a ton of muramite runes (minor all the way up to Glowing & Ancient) in case you might have use for them. Save some dosh on spells. :)

May I ask you if you did this with kiting or pet-tanking? I have been at BR with my nec now for soem time, dinged 59 last night but in The Steppes. I moved out of BR since the bears/pumas/snakes wasn't taht great anymore. I tried moving to the harpies but always ended up with adds or got jumped when trying to kite there. And even with healer merc the pet had trouble tanking one, even worse if a add jumped in. I think I will stay in The Stepps untill 65 and maybe then go back and give BR another go since I keep hearing about the fab aaxp that is given there, just need to figure out how to get them :)

I seldom pet tank --thinking back 1-77 (where my necro presently sits) I almost never bother... but I tended to lean on the rogue pet vs. warrior anyways (always seemed to sit at a level where the rogue was the higher level pet available to me).

The last place I tap-tanked (that's the necro tanking with the pet just assisting for dps) for xp was Halls of Honor as a hotzone, they were lb and I could mow them easily with a healer merc out. I might of been level 70 for that though.

Blackfeather Roost I kite 40s-75 (though best under 71 in my experience). Aggro kiting works wonders in here. As far as the harpies go, the 2nd harpy island with the nobles is much easier to kite without adds as you can work from the perimeter without to much wander on top of you.

My druid on vox has been root rotting (slow) in Blackfeather Roost and letting a merc tank kill (pretty fast) since early 40s --pretty sure I'm at 55 on that character now so that's 15 levels in the Roost.


Having said all that... if you can handle the Steppes it is fine too (also a hotzone). Personally I find mob behaviour, adds and such more of a hassle there, though I have spent a fair bit of time killing various animals in the south end of the zone, as well as earth elementals.

At 59 you have a couple of good older options: the murkgliders in Noble's Causeway and the fiend camp in Plane of Valor. These two camps are probably very open and are great if you want to stop somewhere before 65 and pile on a few AA.