AA/Mana question

[cumadieaneu]

ok I have a question I know its been a while since I posted here and OMG I have majorly upgraded my gear and well my main questions lies in AA abilities. My first question is I have 79 AA of which have already been spent I lack 6AA finishing up ND3 and have not begun to work on any enlightenment or mana regen AA's.

Here is my 68 Necro as he is in current state, and if you have any suggestions on what to work on next please let me know. I can always use more mana although Raid buffed I come to right at 6.8k hp and about 5.5k mana, which in itself should be more than hp if I'm correct, but hell I dont know. anyway take a look at my magelo and see what I can work on, any suggestions will help.

http://www.magelo.com/eq_view_profile.html?num=1111644

I will be in the necrotalk channel later this evening when I get in game. see you all later tonight.

[Schaeffer]

Cumadieaneu,

Get Death Peace and Mneumonic Retention ASAP. The extra 2 spell slots are priceless. Also finish off SCM 3 and save yourself mana. Next after that is to max Crit Affliction, hands down your biggest increase to your DPS. That should keep you busy for a while, but then if you want more after that, I'd get some defensive aa's.

[Aryse Andenter]

Stop spending AAs under the general tab until you have in excess of 700 or so. Same for spell casting deftness, and the PoP advanced.

Finish Spell Casting Mastery ASAP. This is a huge difference to your mana pool.
As Schaeffer said, follow this with Mnemonic Retention and Death Peace.

Theft of Life and Critical Affliction are your next big ones to finish. These all give you a more noticable boost to your mana than mental clarity will - remember mental clarity only gives you one FT per level, its not that impressive.

ND3 is always nice for the hp. I'm a huge fan of combat agility as well, it makes a big difference.

WTD/SoD are more 'for fun' AAs and won't increase your DPS as much as something like critical affliction will.

[Tryal Anderror]

Yeah, i gotta agree with these assessments.
Points spent in Innate stamina and INT are really big wastes at this point,
And I don't think I bought Casting Deftness until I had like 1000aa

Definately be getting Death Peace and Mnemonic Retention and then i'd go into DD and DoT crits

WTD is atleast a cute little AA, so 1 level is alright for fun, but don't buy any more. and Swarm of Decay is always a waste it's just basically useless.

If i recall years ago, the first things I bought were run3, regen 3, SCM3, ND3 so I'd finish those off first

[cumadieaneu]

man you guys rock thanks so much I have been at the whole necro thing about a yr right at and really hadnt snapped into the whole AA thing been so busy with leveling. wow ok gives me somthing to think about and what to work on.

glad i came back here for this been a bit since i was able to check it out till now but will definantly get scm done thats forsure.

well off to take out more time Gods see you all later and thanks again for all the super help.

[Xislaben]

May want to add gift of mana to the list once you get a bunch of nice 65+ spells under your belt too.

[Jebasiz]

Originally posted by Tryal Anderror@Sep 13 2005, 10:47 AM
Yeah, i gotta agree with these assessments.
Points spent in Innate stamina and INT are really big wastes at this point,
And I don't think I bought Casting Deftness until I had like 1000aa

Definately be getting Death Peace and Mnemonic Retention and then i'd go into DD and DoT crits

WTD is atleast a cute little AA, so 1 level is alright for fun, but don't buy any more. and Swarm of Decay is always a waste it's just basically useless.

If i recall years ago, the first things I bought were run3, regen 3, SCM3, ND3 so I'd finish those off first
Back then they were clearly the best aa's you could get in progression to our class aa's.

That whole, what to buy when question..gets ever more complicated as more and more aa's are added.

SCM, death peace, nuemonic(sp) retention, are pretty much "must haves" and you can't get them to soon. Since you have to spend 6 in general, rs3 and regen 3 make alot of sense soon.

Personally I'd get swift Journey 2 before ND 1-3..running faster to not get hit at all is better IMO then a few hundred hps(if nd3 is even that much).

After that, any DPS aa is important, since that's what we do.

It's a much tougher decision to make now then when tryal was young...it's pretty sad what you'll spend time acquiring while waiting for another set of aa's to get pushed live(packrat, anyone?)

[Xislaben]

Don't forget that inate str for uqua! :P

/shout damnit please hit me with wunshi and daiku!

[Jebasiz]

Silly gnome, 100% WR bags and drop your shinies off at the bank before raiding uqua.

[Aryse Andenter]

Or just join a guild that gives necros the Uqua wands first anyway (we have to FD, you know) :lol:

[Jebasiz]

I thought all guilds did that anyway?

[Xislaben]

Originally posted by Jebasiz+Sep 16 2005, 02:14 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Jebasiz @ Sep 16 2005, 02:14 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Silly gnome, 100% WR bags and drop your shinies off at the bank before raiding uqua. [/b]
Yeah I know, can't buy tinkerer's bags, and no leather haversack tokens in baz. And my str is terribly low... I get down to about 55stones for uqua runs, and with 140ish str that's still too high.

<!--QuoteBegin-Aryse@Sep 16 2005, 02:14 PM
Or just join a guild that gives necros the Uqua wands first anyway (we have to FD, you know) :lol:[/quote]

We do, but until we get the wands a-droppin...

[Jebasiz]

Why can't you buy tink-bags? I was kos, but just had a friend wizard go get'em for me(I bought 1 or 2 for him to, as a thank you).

[Rijak]

Originally posted by Xislaben@Sep 16 2005, 10:12 AM
And my str is terribly low... I get down to about 55stones for uqua runs, and with 140ish str that's still too high.
try useless necro spell #42... degeneration (http://lucy.allakhazam.com/spell.html?id=2546&source=Live) :P

of course, you'd have to cast every six mins

[aeriform]

Originally posted by Rijak+Sep 16 2005, 04:35 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Rijak @ Sep 16 2005, 04:35 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Xislaben@Sep 16 2005, 10:12 AM
And my str is terribly low... I get down to about 55stones for uqua runs, and with 140ish str that's still too high.
try useless necro spell #42... degeneration (http://lucy.allakhazam.com/spell.html?id=2546&source=Live) :P

of course, you'd have to cast every six mins [/b][/quote]
It doesn't stack with Diaku, which is a better strength buff.

[Xislaben]

Originally posted by Jebasiz@Sep 16 2005, 04:00 PM
Why can't you buy tink-bags? I was kos, but just had a friend wizard go get'em for me(I bought 1 or 2 for him to, as a thank you).
"I won't sell to necromancers!" or some such from the npc in Sol A... Yeah I'll have to get somebody who he will talk to do to it. I'm not sure I have any alts that could make the trip in one piece let alone with that much plat on them.

[Sathras]

Then just drop a few k of pp into brewing and get the skill up to 248. Afterwards try to get a GM trophy and you'll get one permanent 100% WR bag(quest here (http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=2154)) and the ability to summon as many bags (http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=12792) as you like.

Since they do no longer vanish when logged off for more than 30 minutes I really like them.

[Aryse Andenter]

I'll make you a Rallos pack if you have the ingredients too... not as good, but considerably cheaper usually.

[cumadieaneu]

Originally posted by Aryse Andenter@Sep 16 2005, 02:25 PM
Or just join a guild that gives necros the Uqua wands first anyway (we have to FD, you know) :lol:
ok I'm not KT flagged yet and have not made it that far into progression yet although i am time flagged and would love to see some of the awesome GoD stuff it just aint working for me atm my guild just aint geared for it yet we basically farming time till we totally geared fro GoD anyway thanks for the tip though.

[Xislaben]

Need to find me some halflings for Leatherfoot Haversacks (http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=17145)

[Menaveru]

If you were around for the fabled. The Fabled evil eye dropped a 100% bag also.

Something to keep in mind when fableds role out again.

Menaveru, FV

[cumadieaneu]

Originally posted by Schaeffer@Sep 12 2005, 10:42 PM
Cumadieaneu,

Get Death Peace and Mneumonic Retention ASAP. The extra 2 spell slots are priceless. Also finish off SCM 3 and save yourself mana. Next after that is to max Crit Affliction, hands down your biggest increase to your DPS. That should keep you busy for a while, but then if you want more after that, I'd get some defensive aa's.
ok finished off SCM 3 got mneumonic retention done working on AA crit affliction next and then going for deathpeace AA wow that took a while to do LOL!! well off to get some more AA work done thanks again