Grace wrote on Jun 8
th, 2012 at 4:56pm:
But the point is kinda that they can grab groups for those things on their own. Right now, some of them jumped from 8 to 16 with no gear and no knowledge at all. They aren't ready for the at-level stuff.
I get what you're saying about getting toys,
and generally applaud your efforts to help others.
Unfortunately the sands, restless isles, and
von are grindy as hell and the base items mostly suck.
Lordsmarch has stuff that is good enough bridge gear
even up to baby epics. IQ/DD has spell absorption
and other nice toys. Challenge gear and cannith sets
are also easy to get with little effort and will perform
well enough until getting the big stuff.
The key to gearing up new characters and players is
going after the really easy stuff that closely resembles
the bigger versions. Many times the slotting is identical,
which helps a lot. (think fabricators to claw set)
I would also run them through VoD. That raid is the
best imo for learning concepts that will help out pretty
much with any end-game stuff they can beg their way into.