Runes of Magic US / AU

well can't post replies to a guide, but would still like to have feedback about it so opening this post.
link to the guide

edit: added link to the guide

didn't include arcanium stats because they mean you need to use arcanium stats as bumpers. since they require a lot more work to get then say shells i felt like it didn't fit in a pure budget build. but yes you are right if you spend the time to get arcanium stats and bumpers you can sure use those and get higher numbers

@ruisen good catch on the gloves, going to update on the guide. as far as the wing of the dragonking is concerned it's a case of you should get enough jewels from secret garden to plus everything to 12 for free so might as well, but it is indeed the one item you can get away from plussing without having much impact. I'll add a note to the guide.
edit: guide should now be up to date

@aardvark3 well it says in the title it's an endgame guide. I would be lying to say you can reach endgame as free to play without putting in some work, but this guide shows you can be efficient with the work you put into the game and get good results out of it. If you do not have the ambition to become endgame and are having your fun elsewhere there is nothing wrong with that.

As I said in the guide it's all about been efficient with your time, if you are using only one toon you are basically wasting time. As blasìan said i started from scratch and was able to make many sets of gear in the past 2 and a half year and any people i played with would be able to confirm it to you. Currently i spend between 1h and 2h a day working on gear and i'm never short of money even though I'm constantly making gear. I never got any handouts, the most i got was a bit of rt mem farm so i could pull ud mem accessories i ended up using for over a year.(ty tartax XD)

Now if you want some math to back things up. Say you make 40 alts and plvl them to 44 so you can do the chupura daily(the first one mentioned in the guide), takes about 20 min per alt if you went for cheap mage gear and can only run 1 or 2 bug. now say you do it during an event halve that time. 6h40 minutes to get your alts set up from that point you can get your dailies going 1h10 min a day and you get enough charges to make over 1t12 a week that's 9t10 you can resell for 25m a piece or just keep for tiering your weapon. once the alts reach 50 which you can wait to happen naturally through dailies or speed up via power leveling you can then run them all through dailies and get 300 shells for 20 minutes of work everyday. if you can run 2 gobs you end up getting 600 shells everyday. weekly income should be around 4200 shells a week + 28000 tokens for 1h50 of work per day. Translates in around 310m worth a week not conting the straigh up money from doing dailies. if you can't reach endgame with that i think might want to reconsider where you spend your money. for instance if you can get something with both rubies and diamonds plz compare the price for both there is usually a cheaper option.

like i said there is no secret you need to put the work if you want to reach endgame as f2p.

ps: it's mentioned in the guide, but if you run secret garden with enough alts you should never have to pay for any plussing from 1 to 12. with the bag from ystra you should never have to pay for weapon and armor driller for the first 2 slots. Also if you look at the values giving in the budget build i'm recomending t12+19 weapon not t11+20. if you know the right people you should be able to find weapon plussers for 50m per and need an average of 3.5 to reach +19. accessories +20 are easier to find and cheaper.

Plz take the time to learn about the stuff you are talking about before posting, would save you some embarassement. There is a reason i put the dailies i put in the guide there and you would understand it if you were to ever try. you don't need bots to do them fast, just daily notes and an addon that auto accept invitations.

As for the mage it took me about two week to level and gear up. A lazy aproach to it as a new player would be to quest it along with your main toon to level them both at the same time and gear it once it reaches 70+. Little tips for the gear you only really need a good weapon and maybe 2 rings with some matt stat on top of the quest gear to run 1-2 bugs comfortably. You can also use mem tstones to stat some of the quest pieces of gear for cheap.

I would agree with meif 6-8 months from scratch to become endgame sounds reasonable if you put in the efforts. Still not gonna have ibw for a while after that, but not much to be done about that.

I don't see a reason to argue further, if you think what I say is wrong despite many endgame players telling you it is true then free to you to ignore it. I would much rather focus my time on the constructive criticism like what about adding this or did you think of that instead of ppl telling me flat out "what you wrote is wrong" and having to explain to them why I am right. Not everyone has for instance to run 40 alts over 5 accounts everyday like i do. Obviously more alts mean higher income, and higher income means faster track to endgame, but eventually anyone who puts in constant work in the right direction should be able to reach endgame. I'm sure the use a groups for gobs and the dailies i put up can help many ppl to work more efficiently towards gearing up wether or not their end goal is to reach endgame. I'm sharing my knowledge free to each and everyone to do whatever they want with it.

Quoted from "Borella"

Also, you did it first on a healer, then used that healer to gear a dps. It's a bit harder to become endgame viable on a toon that actually requires gear to run endgame unlike healers.

Actually the reason i geared dps was because i couldn't find runs as a healer so the healer set didn't even help get the dps one.