WooHoo. Hit lvl 40 and now I can wear mail! For the alliance I would recommend going to Stranglethorne Vale as this place has many many quests for alliance! Now All I need is about 70 gold to buy a tiger mount!
Too bad. I got some cool mail armour and one that I can't wear until lvl 51.. leggings that give 289 armour and +27 spirit and +11 strength. Interesting how will all this armour (I effectively doubled by armour rating) it does not decrease my speed like neverwinter nights would if you carried too much.
I found a shield that would have almost doubled my armour rating which is close to 900 (without shield).. only I don't want a new weapon skill set that makes me have a weapon rating of 1!!
I am proficient in most weapons now, because there will be a time when I find an awesome weapon which will not be my norm, but that doesn't mean I won't be able to use it right away. As for weapon rating, it is fairly quick to get up to decent rating. What I do is keep the old weapon that I am highly proficient in to deal with the bigger foes, but use the new (usually more powerful) weapon to deal with little foes. I use this method until I am good with the new weapon.
I did the same. When my mage first learned how to use swords I killed pigs and bears until he was good with a sword. Then I continued on with my quest. (Took about half an hour)
Speaking of mail. When I tried to mail some cool non-level required items to my other character (items which I never equiped or used on myself and therefore not soul bound) it said I couldn't because they were soul bound. I remember being able to send items to you guys on the pay server, and Shabadu sent me that scope... Is the problem that I am an alliance character and I am trying to send items to a horde character?
Might be. Some items bind when picked up too. Could also be the game thinks they're soul-bound just because they bind when used (sometimes had some trouble selling those things, had to drag them to the merchant.) Try including the item in a different way, like dragging it instead of right clicking it.... (not sure how mailing items works actually).
I think you were right Hawkeye, I beleive horde are not allowed to mail to alliance.
But also some "rewarded items" you get for solving a quest bind to you just by taking possesion specifically so you cannot pass them off to other people/players.
I know that, however, I did manage to send a shield from my alliance character to my horde character. The shield was just a run of the mill thing, nothing special though.
Oh intersting.. I thought you couldn't give eq over to the other side. Okay well good to know if I ever decide to mail my orc warrior anything, not that I ever play him anymore...
Most items will not be mail-able... even to characters of the same side (ie between two horde or two alliance characters) I don't know if that shield is a one off or what.
Well I took your guys advice and trained myself not only in pole arms but also swords (1-handed and 2-handed). I was going to train in axes as well but I don't see my paladin as an axe wielder. The worst part is I was running around Westfall killing beasties well under my level trying to up my skill. It gets up around 35-40 or so and I wasn't even watching where I was running and low and behold I aggro'd a freakin elite beasties (one of those mechanical scarecrow thingies). Grrrr.. freakin died cause I was assuming I was safe... stupid complacency.
Anyhow, now I'm a pole armer so if you pick up or see for sale any good pole arms, please let me know. I hadda spend a gold and a half just to get my current short spear, which does 16 dam per second I beleive. Of course it is an uber slow weapon, but then I'm used to that having wielded a 2-handed mace since starting Illyanna up.
Hawkeye - if you don't mind, could you mail me 10 more of those sweet heal potions? I've been uber-conservative with them but ran out while booting around Darkwood. Damn but it can be a harsh region for someone my level. (speaking of which I managed to hit 24 last night.. AWESOME XP there for my lvl as well