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Thursday, June 21st 2012, 5:17am

free to play PvE?

Is it possible for me to be able to partake in things like TOSH and the other high level dungeons while being free to play?

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Thursday, June 21st 2012, 5:33am

Sort of...you generally have to spend some money to at least geat your starting, and once you get to SC or GCH level you can start making gold with the gold you have selling stats. Farm mems to sell tosh/eternity stats at high price, sell bunker and castle stats at low price (but still more than the cost of a puri) and make profits and keep going. Its harder as a f2p but possible.

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Thursday, June 21st 2012, 6:44am

In my experience, people who are enterprising and resourceful enough to make it to endgame while being f2p also have those qualities enough in real life so that they are not broke enough to need to be f2p. Sure, there are exceptions; there are children or disabled who may not be able to translate their skills into dollars in RL, but can in the game. But, for most people, that is the rule. I'd also say that if you want to be able to reach end game without paying, you will end up doing grindy, boring, repetitive tasks that nobody else wants to do. You will kill your fun long before you reach end game.

That does not mean you have to pay crazy amounts thrown around by people who are either into hyperbole or just not very frugal. But completely free? I'd say no.
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Thursday, June 21st 2012, 2:39pm

Quoted from "firstgen;539832"

Is it possible for me to be able to partake in things like TOSH and the other high level dungeons while being free to play?


In short - NO.

There is an option of grinding 8 to 12 hours per day which, eventually, could get you there. When you get to the point where you can quickly solo DoD (8 to 10 months into your grinding), things will get faster as you will be getting 5 mementos (not 7 because some stats you will have to sell to get puries) and 2 shells stats every week. 7 stats is about 40 mil right now so you could get OD gch piece every week at that point. To plus it to 12 would take another week, to get runes slots and runes, another week and then about 2 to 4 weeks to get good stats (depends on your luck). That comes to be about month/month and a half of 8 hours per day grinding for one great piece of gear you will need for ToSH. You could skip building gear and just buy it already stated and plused but that does not decrease the cost. In just a bit over 2 years you will be all set for the ToSH.

Few notes: I focused on the stats as they seem more steady source of income than anything else. Also, i considered the latest prices for the gear in AH. Since they removed ABLs, GCH gear is no longer available there but I assume at some point it will be again. Also, I did not offer as an option proper progression through all of the instances, as that would require dedicated group of people doing the same thing and being in this for the long run and I did not see them around. Also, running instances instead of grinding would be more fun, but it would slow progression a lot as it does cost too and you will still need proper stats eventually and there is no much gold to be made in the lower level instances (there is almost nothing right now in the hos/hodl/zs you could sell as it is - even if you would have ABLs).

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Thursday, June 21st 2012, 5:07pm

The question s/he asked was if its possible to experience all 100% of content being f2p. So my answer is YES and don't listen to all other bs saying no its not like the post above.

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Friday, June 22nd 2012, 6:50am

It's possible.

It's also highly unlikely, unless you run a lot with a *very* helpful guild.

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Saturday, June 23rd 2012, 1:31am

I grind about an hour a day doing dailys on 2 toons and getting an extra set of daily items I will sell in the AH usually for between 500 k and a milliion gold. On my 2 toons all my primary, second and third classes are above 70. My Scout has over 60 k health unbuffed and does well over 500k damage with a half buffed snipe. I have never spent a dime on the game. If you know where and how to farm it is possible to get at least 1000000 gold an hour, 2 if you push it. All it takes is time and patience if you want an item it may take a week or two but you can usually get it if you plan properly. It is possible to be FTP it just takes longer.
In a month without grinding more than a hour a day and gettting my dailys done in the same hour I can easily get 30 to 50 million gold and 600 pirus tokens and at least 6 good stats on my 2 toons. That is a good start to any character.
This is at end game levels. But I had the same proportional results at the lower levels and was always reasonably geared. If you want it today you can't be FTP but if tomorrow or next week is good enough it isn't hard.

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Saturday, June 23rd 2012, 4:04pm

Quoted from "Jayleia;540132"

It's possible.

It's also highly unlikely, unless you run a lot with a *very* helpful guild.



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