Lv 60 Whisperknife - What to do after hitting 60?

bbg543 · December 2013

Hello. I am new to this game and I've hit level 60 on my TR recently. Now I am at a point where I don't know what to do considering I've done most of this game solo (no guild/friends list) Any tips?

xelliz · December 2013

Well you only played half the game if you've not done any group stuff. Dungeons, Skirmishes, PVP, GG. Also Winter Festival is going on right now and at 60 you should now have access to Sharandar and Dread Ring zones.

arri · December 2013

I'd strongly recommend getting into a guild, as it will make getting dungeon runs a LOT smoother. Basically, step one would be to outfit yourself out, so go buy some level 60 blues from the AH. Right at 60, you need to get your tier 1 gear, so you'll want to run epic CT, CC, MD, Idris, GWD, and PK, as those are the T1 dungeons. You especially want to run them during the DD event, as the DD chest has a greater chance at containing a T1 piece. Be sure to check to see which dungeon has a chance at dropping what, because you'll need to run them all to get fully geared out.

Another way to find dungeon runs would be to join a custom channel like "nw_legit_community". But yeah, you'll want a guild for sure, so check out the recruitment forums here.

skiptis · December 2013

General stuff:
+ Sharandar / Dread Ring dailies (gives you pretty much everything - gear, unlocks new dungeons, permanent stat boons, fashion items, companions and profession stuff). If you had to pick one thing to focus on just after hitting 60, pick this.
+ If you can stand it, do PvP during bonus hour / for Rhix and pick up some glory gear.
+ Go talk to Lord Neverember if you haven't already (there should have been a breadcrumb quest pointing you to him when you hit 60 iirc) - he'll give you a free epic cloak and have an additional daily for you worth 8000 AD each day.
+ Since it's on now, do winter festival daily (the telescope one, takes almost no time - for mount / companion) and gather Light of Simril (takes quite a lot of time - for another mount / companion and some fashion and fun items) if you cba.
+ If you have alts, get them to at least 11 to unlock invocation and professions. Even if you don't care too much about them, it takes very little time to get there and then get it done every day. If you really don't care about professions on them, you can still have them recruiting and upgrading profession asset people (which are 18 hour "missions") and either feeding them to characters you do care about professions on or simply for selling on the AH.
+ Dread Legion / Master of the Hunt skirmishes during bonus hour. Each time you complete them you also get a small amount of one of the main currencies used in the campaigns (Dread Legion for Dread Ring and Master of the Hunter for Sharandar).

Minor things / personal observations:
+ AD is the lifeblood of NWN's economy. Consider carefully how you make and spend it.
+ Mostly having played solo like you, my experience at max level with dungeon finder is that it generally works okay for most T1 dungeons. Trying to do T2s via dungeon finder is just a waste of time as in most groups you'll maybe get to the first boss and then wipe until people give up. However, you can do normal Dread Vault to get the daily done. It's manageable for pugs and still gives you Seals of the Pegasus, which is used for T1 equivalent epic vendor gear.
+ The collections page is your friend. Get familiar with it. It's particularly useful for keeping track of which campaign related mini dungeons you can get upgrades from.
+ Quality of life tip #1: gold is pretty much irrelevant at max level, you can stop picking up green unidentified items. You'll pick up plenty of both identification scrolls and blues (which you identify and vendor) doing dailies which just about cancel each other out in quantity and comfortably keep your gold expenses covered.
+ Quality of life tip #2: upgrade your artifact to rare quality (i.e. get it to maxed out rank 29 and find (read description of the upgrade components for where (disclaimer: rng)) or buy (varies in price depending on artifact type) what you need to upgrade it to the rank 30 through 59 blue version) and dump all the enchants you pick up into it for inventory space. Blue (rank 5) enchants in all slots is a comfortable starting point if you don't want to spend too much AD on upgrading your enchants in the short / medium term. Of course you want better enchants eventually but you have plenty of things to do that makes you more powerful for now.
+ Sell what you don't need. If you f.e. don't even know what armor enchant you're going to go with (or don't even have a chest with an armor enchantment slot or the AD / ward to make the enchant) there's really no use keeping enchantment shards and similar stuff on you. Even if it's just a few hundred or thousand AD per item, every little bit helps.
+ Professions are a long term investment, but really don't cost you anything but a little time.
+ Set yourself goals. Clich

bbg543 · December 2013

skiptis wrote: »

General stuff:
+ Sharandar / Dread Ring dailies (gives you pretty much everything - gear, unlocks new dungeons, permanent stat boons, fashion items, companions and profession stuff). If you had to pick one thing to focus on just after hitting 60, pick this.
+ If you can stand it, do PvP during bonus hour / for Rhix and pick up some glory gear.
+ Go talk to Lord Neverember if you haven't already (there should have been a breadcrumb quest pointing you to him when you hit 60 iirc) - he'll give you a free epic cloak and have an additional daily for you worth 8000 AD each day.
+ Since it's on now, do winter festival daily (the telescope one, takes almost no time - for mount / companion) and gather Light of Simril (takes quite a lot of time - for another mount / companion and some fashion and fun items) if you cba.
+ If you have alts, get them to at least 11 to unlock invocation and professions. Even if you don't care too much about them, it takes very little time to get there and then get it done every day. If you really don't care about professions on them, you can still have them recruiting and upgrading profession asset people (which are 18 hour "missions") and either feeding them to characters you do care about professions on or simply for selling on the AH.
+ Dread Legion / Master of the Hunt skirmishes during bonus hour. Each time you complete them you also get a small amount of one of the main currencies used in the campaigns (Dread Legion for Dread Ring and Master of the Hunter for Sharandar).

Minor things / personal observations:
+ AD is the lifeblood of NWN's economy. Consider carefully how you make and spend it.
+ Mostly having played solo like you, my experience at max level with dungeon finder is that it generally works okay for most T1 dungeons. Trying to do T2s via dungeon finder is just a waste of time as in most groups you'll maybe get to the first boss and then wipe until people give up. However, you can do normal Dread Vault to get the daily done. It's manageable for pugs and still gives you Seals of the Pegasus, which is used for T1 equivalent epic vendor gear.
+ The collections page is your friend. Get familiar with it. It's particularly useful for keeping track of which campaign related mini dungeons you can get upgrades from.
+ Quality of life tip #1: gold is pretty much irrelevant at max level, you can stop picking up green unidentified items. You'll pick up plenty of both identification scrolls and blues (which you identify and vendor) doing dailies which just about cancel each other out in quantity and comfortably keep your gold expenses covered.
+ Quality of life tip #2: upgrade your artifact to rare quality (i.e. get it to maxed out rank 29 and find (read description of the upgrade components for where (disclaimer: rng)) or buy (varies in price depending on artifact type) what you need to upgrade it to the rank 30 through 59 blue version) and dump all the enchants you pick up into it for inventory space. Blue (rank 5) enchants in all slots is a comfortable starting point if you don't want to spend too much AD on upgrading your enchants in the short / medium term. Of course you want better enchants eventually but you have plenty of things to do that makes you more powerful for now.
+ Sell what you don't need. If you f.e. don't even know what armor enchant you're going to go with (or don't even have a chest with an armor enchantment slot or the AD / ward to make the enchant) there's really no use keeping enchantment shards and similar stuff on you. Even if it's just a few hundred or thousand AD per item, every little bit helps.
+ Professions are a long term investment, but really don't cost you anything but a little time.
+ Set yourself goals. Clich

Thanks for this. And thanks to everyone else too. This is all really helpful

Lv 60 Whisperknife - What to do after hitting 60?

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