PvP Armor items and whatever

The most thing you have to be concerned about is what kind of insignia you are going to use as well as runes.You really don't need elite armour to PvP with i would save that for your PvE char instead.I wouldn't use ATS rewards to get armour for a PvP if you are going to keep it as it will not unlock the armour.PvP char mostly use base armour as they won't be keeping or going to PvE areas so who cares.

Get your RP character up to 20.

I started this game doing PvP. I can't begin to tell you how many insults and shit were thrown my way.

If you play PvE first you will discover the slightest bit of game-mechanics (ie, reaper's sweep in your face gone critical sucks)

But yeah. You're not close to good enough to do AT's, so...just pick up PvE if you'd like to do that.

But let's see, you want prices?
I can provide that. My monk, w/o her obsidian armor, let's just say Kurz 15k

Armor itself = roughly 100-130k, depending on material prices and dyes.
Runes = Sup vigor, minor healing, insignia, and the like. currently, roughly 25k.
Skills - to be pvp ready, you need a lot. Let's say....50k. Elites included. Conservative, I know, shoot me.
Weapons. I use fancy shit, but...let's see...
Shield sets, altogether...cheap items....200k? because of +30 modifiers?
and your sword/spear/axe offhand - let's say 20k.

So...to make my character pvp ready (which she is) 395k. A lot of cash.

With a ranger, you subtract the weapons somewhat. But it's still close. To have "wicked" looking stuff....and topnotch (or close to) stuff, gonna be at least 300k.

At this point I would recommend just using the regular PvP gear. There is no shame in that, as most PvPers use it out of convenience. The kickass-looking prestige equipment you see some players use gives them no advantages over you in terms of armor stats or weapon damage. The albeit-bland looking PvP gear has max stats. Besides that, some players equate prestige armor with being a "PvE noob" and other such nonsense. Ridiculous though it is, using the PvP stuff keeps you clear of that.

That said, I for one totally understand the drive to get some really awesome looking equipment. I don't use PvP characters at all, myself. However, my PvE characters have been worked on for the better part of two years now, and its a lot of work to get PvE equipment up to the level of PvP stuff. If that's what you want to strive for, I say go for it...its just going to take a while. In the meantime, use what you have available to you.

If you want other mods for your weapons, such as the Enchanting mod you mentioned, you'll be best using Balthazar faction--won in PvP--to unlock those items from the Priest NPCs. You can then create them for use by PvP characters. To get equivalent gear for PvE characters, you'd need to spend a lot of cash.

Sweet, Thanks for the kick ass tips.
I spent a yesterday as a hermit and well was quite nice cos i got my assasins insignia and leveled up to 10 so should soon be on the fly.

Theres some real gold in thes posts and is cool to get great tips from some pro's.

Kudos to the developers for this site and all contributers cos U rock.

Somethin regarding skills. My pve character is A/r so that i can unlock skills for my pvp ranger. Am i correct in saying that
skills unlocked in pve carries to pvp, does that automaticly transfer or do i have to do something else.

It automatically transfers.

Btw you do press "J" to make your PvP chars armour and weapons armour, dont you?

Just checking.

~A Leprechaun~

once you "unlock a skill" you can use it on any pvp toon.

armor weapons etc. pvp the way to go.

btw, u can always put pve weapons and on pvp if toon. just dont forget to put them back in storage before you delete that one

Yes. When you first unlock a skill in PvE or PvP (via the Rewards NPC), its unlocked for your entire account. The same goes for unlocking weapon mods, armor insignia, and runes.

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If you press J whilst on a pvp character a screen will come up offering you options to craft weapons and armour for free which will be customised for your pvp character.

You will only be able to use runes, weapon mods and insignia/inscriptions which you have unlocked on your account.

I thought that might be the problem, glad I could help.

~A Leprechaun~

srsly i think you could learn to pvp faster than you could get money in this game at this point srsly. lets say you want a ranger since you started this thread about rangers i guess... I myself have 4 15k armor sets that i modded for pvp all have the runes insigs so thats like a million dollars right there... then you have the bows. only reason you run your pve in pvp is to look good so youre not gonna have collectors but rather mursaat bows, silverwing recurve bows, eternal bows, dead bows <_<, and the like. these bows youre gonna want will probably be gold but no one will know if its an awesome max dmg blue/purple unless you show. next youre gonna want r8/r9/r10 at the max since rangers usually dont have toooo high a marks. now your weapons are gonna be a lot... next maybe youre running purge sig on your bar now you will probably want a axe/sword/spear with -5e +30hp and then cause of that you can actually have a shield +30hp so that adds even more money... and for the sake of lookin good everything is gonna costs lots. oh also forgot that you probably will want to dye your armors so more money. see PvEs cost like 2390840293840932840239 gold to make srsly... trust me i have my ranger with 4 15ks... my ele , my warrior, and my monk... i gave them all 15ks i got every single needed weapon set for them and im sure id be madd rich if i didnt do that.. but yea i wanted to look good for when i do gvg i guess...

trust me lrn2pvp probably faster than getting money in this game SRSLY

i have about 500 reward points from tournys left on me but i have no use for them haha since the profs i play in pvp i made into pves.... so yea if i could id be saying WTS RP points haha

also about weapon/armor crafting for pvps just press J and make whatever you want... just make sure the thing you want to unlock you already unlocked thru pve or thru bal faction which eveything costs 1k bal faction cept elite skills which are 3k and i believe sup runes and major runes differ too but i cant rmemeber... uax since like last year...

btw easiest way to get faction i would say is to either be a pro patient monk in RA or just go all out dmg with a shock axe/hammar warr and rip nubs up... not too hard to get 1k faction...

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Haaaahaaaahaaa yeah i just worked out what you were talking about while i was playing Pvp, too used to Roleplaying where armor is paid for crafting but thats a wicked feature. A little more tweakable for each battle if you find soemthing isnt working out.

Cashed In my faction credits for amber chunks and sold through pve and unlocked all my ranger skills, Its makiing Pvp a lot easier.

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ehhh i normally just go with 585 health and 30 energy (35 with +5e bow)
and i find that usually do able for a ranger cause of such high survivability... if youre interested in how to get that go all minors always imo sup vigor... and uh radiant on head piece, gloves and boots. chest piece and leggings are survivor... i usually find this works for a ranger in general when running ba bha or cripshot variants... so yea have funnnnn

tip: you can still mix and match armor sets and add dye in ways to make PvP characters look unique.

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And you should always pve before you try pvp. This late in the games age their are too many seasoned players who have zero tolerance for players with no understanding of the game. You will be burned at the stake if you try something like HA as a W/any using the default skill template.

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