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#1 Jan 17 2004 at 8:02 PM Rating: Default
What is the best "buff class"? Like chanters with c1, c2, and kei, or sowers, or clerics with temp, aego, hov, ect.? I am thinking about making one just for that fact to make pp. I am on zeb, and my mc is a mage, so I have some int gear for a cleric, but what is the best overall "buff class"?
#2 Jan 17 2004 at 9:27 PM Rating: Good
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Don't go looking into buffing for plat. By the time you get high enough to make decent plat, you'll have other means of making decent plat. Try leveling up the char you have now and farming instead.

P.S. Your INT gear is doing squat for a cleric...
#3 Jan 17 2004 at 9:37 PM Rating: Good
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If you want to play the game to finance an alt that will eventually be your main then more power to you. This site has all the spell listings and reagent costs that you should make yourself aware of. While enriching in a PP way, a buffing class as a main is not what I would call fun. PoK sitting for hours?

However if you want to play a class that can earn pp as well as be fun then may I suggest a Necro, wizard, mage, druid etc. All can solo, all can earn pp. While a necro is not a buffing class they can earn pp, same goes for most others with varying oppotunities for buffs and other utilities.

An enchanter or cleric as you suggest can certainly earn pp. However the enchanter has little reagent cost in casting spells but a high cost in obtaining the spell that will earn pp (KEI), in terms of the guild that will help you get that spell or the cost of the spell in bazaar, whereas the cleric has high reagent costs.

Quick buck? You decide. The info is on this site. Buffing is too situational.
#4 Jan 17 2004 at 9:38 PM Rating: Default
I tell ya, a shammy always makes me feel good about the group im in.

As long as they can do their job that is.
#5 Jan 18 2004 at 4:06 AM Rating: Good
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As already said creating a "buff-mule" is not a beginners exercise. Apart from the boredom of sitting in PoK the returns are minimal nowadays. The only one that stands any chance is the KEI enchanter and there are so many people doing MGB KEI now that even that is chancy.

Nobody pays decent money for SoW or Shaman buffs. Virtue and Temp you are lucky to get the 10.4pp component cost back. I heard someone in PoK the other day shouting they wanted "free temp".

Given that these spells require level 60 characters (62 for Virtue) and that the returns are not what they used to be it is not the "goldmine" you might think. Once you have a character at that level anyway then the income is quite useful but if you notice most of the people giving KEI are doing it to fill time - before a raid, before they log etc. Unless of course you have a scripted buff-bot which can be left on 24/7 until it is banned.

Locations may vary between servers but at the right time of day you can stand outside PoK bank and get MGB KEI, Fo7, Bot9 and modrods. Smiley: smile

Small hint - if they meant this to be a career path maybe they'd have called it "Everbuff".
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#6 Jan 19 2004 at 1:32 AM Rating: Decent
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Chanters still make a decent living. I know a couple of KEI chanters that make around 1-2k a hour casting KEI. But keep in mind that they are level 60 and have spent 35k on the spell so that's a whole lot of work to get a plat making mule. The time it takes to get a chanter to 60 and then make the money for the spell you could have farmed enough plat to make you a very rich toon. Buffing for plat is a side job that certain classes can do it's by no means a reason to start a toon.
#7 Jan 19 2004 at 1:58 AM Rating: Decent
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Druids casting BoT9 and chanters casting KEI is about it. But it would be foolish to actually level up a character to just buff even if you could powerlevel him. at level 60/65 you could go out and farm and make as much or more than you could from buffing.
#8 Jan 19 2004 at 2:39 AM Rating: Decent
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Ranger attack class buffs!!!
#9 Jan 19 2004 at 3:01 AM Rating: Decent
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you already are a good money making buff class


get up to yer 60's with the mage .. muzzle of mardu / girdle/belt of magi'not (the 500hp 25 to stats one ) hands of xiblat kedge swords wulran swords .. you kin make good money off of those ... selling pet kits .. or casting 3-6 trader satchel's full of em and settin up shop in the bazaar ..

if i don't have a mage around i usually /ooc for 2 pet kits or spend pp in the bazaar ... as a shaman my pet does squat fer dmg but the procs on the hands or kedge swords (150dd on hands) and the 500 hps on belt acutally makes my pet usefull ..

also a very underrated item mages get is the travelers stone .... it gives worn planesight and fits in the ammo slot very nice item for barbarians and others of us that are blind as a bat ... (yes i kin cast acumen but it wears off .. the stone i kin wear and ferget about)


there are a multitude of ways to make pp in eq .. you just need to use what is available to you and be creative sometimes .. a mage is as good of a pp maker as any other class out there .. plus as has been stated here it is not a gold mine nor is it wise to make a buff mule ..


#10 Jan 19 2004 at 6:39 AM Rating: Decent
Make a necro. Not really a buffing class but so much fun and from time to time you get corpse summonings. Usually people will donate 500ish pp and the coffin. Not steady, but it's not a career, just a little job on the side as all these people before me have said.

Nat

Edit: Oh yeah, and wizzies and druids are pretty good at making pp off ports. Bit of a pita though, especially when they got a group waiting on them and they're saying "just one more port"
My advice, play a fun class, the money will come (though I don't see much of it =P)

Edited, Mon Jan 19 07:12:29 2004 by Natdatilgnome
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