Well this current express will allow you to create an Artist / Bard to 1445 with the power pass you can story express you can gain another support for the time investment.
You essentially need to optimize what you do each week to gain the best out of it.
Given I’m pure f2p I used part of the gold earned by alts to push my main so I don’t have gold to push 3 dps Alts to 1490 to not be gatekept whil earning gold. So I will switch them to supports. At 1460 at first that will give vykas HM good at ilvl without gatekeeping and then bit later to 1475 to do clown and so on. I will use this pass to make an artist. Then two weeks after I will make another paladin I guess with story express and so on. I’m sad to leave my GS, sorc and zerk I enjoy them so much. But since my objective is to try to push as pure f2p I need to switch to keep some income.
Yeah the gatekeeping has been wild. Had a discussion with a guy in game about why he didn’t accept, and he did make a fair point. I’m not going to do max DPS compared to someone with a perfect build. People are running x numbers of things, every single day, so they want it to go as fast as possible. Every minute saved adds up. And I get it, its a lot to do in a day. Just kinda sucks because it feels like the bar is just higher and higher for content you can really do at min ilvl like a guardian raid and it will still be fine
I would say don’t waste your time here anymore. There are better games that is on the way it’s better you prepare for those.
Contrary to most other opinions here, with the new changes things will get tough unless you are already having 6x 1490+, and even then things will be harder after this patch so on top of the higher iLevel requirements, there will gems, cards, etc. as well because people fear of wasting their time.
Now with that out of the way, if you still insist on staying:
First you need to prepare to spend a lot of time if you decide to continue playing. And I mean 8-9 hours farm. The reality from all these advice are that you will need to farm chaos, guardians, una every single day on at least 6 characters on top of all the raid you can do in order to catch up. I would even argue that if you are going to spend to get a better 5 x 3 you might want to also start to do bus for additional gold. You get the idea, it takes a lot of time & efforts right now to catch up. That’s a reality if you aren’t spending $100+.
Seeing your current roster I would say it will be hard to funnel gold to your main. You should look to create an optimal roster that looks like: 3 sorcs 3 supports with the rest being silver maker. This is arguably the most time efficient on top of the gold nerf as you can swap gem set from 1 sorc to the other, plus they required only 1 time investment into books.
If you are able to get into a static/guild for help, then disregard all the above. Hone your alt only when an event is here, otherwise, continue to farm gold like you currently are. Don’t waste resources on fixing relic accessories anymore because ancient is going to be here soon, and people will take 5 x 3 ancient over relic.
or just go out, work for a few days, come back and top up $300 and catch up that way.
oh yeah, for sure using powerpass and express on the artist! Might do story pass on a for fun chaos / guardian alt, maybe scouter or something. I should really hone my bard to get her out of the 1370 hell too… lol
One thing that I forgot to mention is if your high iLvl buddy is up for it and you want to speed run guardians ask them to help bus you a bit if you do it on rested its twice a week so not a burden on them like it is doing them every day.
f2p here …came back a month ago , got stuck at 1475 on 3 characters and blocked by lack of Pheons .
Life is good
Yeah I think most of this sounds pretty true and realistic as well. And I’m not opposed to swiping really. But I do want to try to do it f2p best i can. I typically do my main 6 guardian and chaos every day, the other toons on rested.
The main thing I don’t like about the 3 sorcs / 3 supports thing is burnout honestly. I love learning new classes in games and figuring out the RIGHT way to play them. I’m afraid if I just have all the same I will just get bored. So its like, be less efficient but have fun or be efficient and get bored and quit. Does that make sense at all? lmao
I did post in the discord about my situation looking for a static, so hopefully that starts out well! Definitely plan to utilize the events for alts too, and i wont be honing main any time soon. Most my gold will probably go to saving for book / better acc / getting more alts up later
Yeah I do have a buddy that helps my alts from time to time! I just feel bad asking so much LOL but they have been suuuuuper helpful so far.
yeah pheons… i remember forever ago they were talking about reworking pheons? what happened to that!
They are probably still “talking” about it every day , probably a long conversation xD
The pheon cost got reduced in a patch recently before this, let me look up the reduction I will edit this message.
Cost Reductions:
T3 Legendary accessories 15 pheons → 9 pheons
T3 Relic accessories 25 pheons → 15 pheons
T1, T2, and rare/epic T3 pheon costs also reduced
well, that is a start! I wish we could unlock the technology in Arkesia to not need pheons at all… LOL. Or at least a better way to get them
You should get enough phoeon’s from the events just use them sparingly, last event gave me like 100+ pheons which I barely used since I have geared characters but that’s just me.
Also, it depends on character but generally, I try to focus on getting a 7-6 stone or a 7-7 stone, you do not need 7-7 right off the bat for 5x3, if you make a 7-6 stone it means you can still go 5x3 and replace update the stone if needed later.
25k gold for 100 Pheons … yea you can get some gear from that …but still …
The thing I despise is that you cant send good pieces of accessories you get on your other characters to your alts for free …
BIG TRUE. BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG TRUE! I hate that you cant share acc with alts
Good point! Thinking about all the events and free pheons i missed… oof
Focus upgrading your support Alts first if you want to progress as f2p.
You still need +12 for both slots, or that one piece of jewelry will cost a fortune.
You can get away with 4 x 3 +2 on class engravings if your missing the books on the class engraving, I invested in grudge early on this base example though so I got lucky:
Edit been doing vykas for weeks like this not ideal I know but investing the gold into the books for it this week.