Gearing Up

To succeed, you'll need to upgrade your gear and equipment to match the demands of each era. 

As you progress through your epic journey, the challenges you face will become increasingly difficult, and the gear you need to succeed will become more important than ever. While you may be able to defeat Naggy and Vox with fine steel weapons and bronze armor, once you reach Velious, you'll need to upgrade your gear to stand a chance against the mighty foes that await you. 

Classic

You buy basic armor, such as banded and cured silk, in Plane of Knowledge from Fluffy, Not Fluffy and Also Not Fluffy.

Fluffy also sells platinum fire wedding rings (5ac, 55hps) for 460 platinum. That might sound expensive, but it's only an equivalent of 2 server coins.

Ron hand out various free stuff, such as backpacks and potions. He also sells Vials of Prismatic Dye and all Augmentation Distillers at reasonable prices.

Ralkor sells healing and regeneration potions.

Kay sells augmentations for weapon slot 4.

Plane of Hate is a good source for XP, gems and gear. You can start going there around level 40. Mobs there can also randomly drop Silver Earring of the Chosen, AC: 4 DEX: +5 STA: +5 WIS: +3 INT: +3 HP: +65 MANA: +35 ENDUR: +35 SV DISEASE: +12 SV POISON: +12 HP Regen +1, Rec. 56.

Naggy and Vox are obviously desired targets for their weighless bags and haste items.

There are various fabled npc throughout classic, however, some of them are level 65 and may be too rough for a low level group.

Kunark

Epic 1.0 can be done the regular way or you can take the server specific shortcut at around level 55. To do so defeat the dragons in Emerald Jungle, Skyfire Mountains and Dreadlands and returning their gems to Nerissa in Plane of Knowledge.

Sebilis is good xp and has a lot of random drops. Also keep in mind most named don't have placeholders. Trakanon's breast plates are certainly worth getting, either to wear or for tribute (worth around 15k tribute).

Velious

As for Velious - below is only an excerpt for targets and some loot.

Velketor's is good xp up to level 60. Be careful with pulls from the castle to zone in, since sometimes mobs start summoning before they reach you.

Silver Chitin Wristband (not lore), AC: 15 STR: +7 DEX: +7 HP: +40

Blood Runed Gloves, AC: 26 STR: +5 HP: +50

Icicle Tunic, AC: 25 STR: +5 DEX: +5 AGI: +5 HP: +80

Velketor's Spell Book STA: +5 CHA: +5 INT: +8 MANA: +100 SV FIRE: +10 SV DISEASE: +5 SV COLD: +10 SV MAGIC: +20 SV POISON: +5

Western Wastes dragons drop all sort of stuff. Klandicar and Sontalak being the two big boys in the zone. 

First Brood Talisman AC: 15 all stats: +5 HP: +50 MANA: +50 ENDUR: +50 SV all +7

Matchless Dragonhide Breastplate AC: 35 all stats: +7 HP: +90 MANA: +90 ENDUR: +90 SV all + 7

Harla Dar's Talisman AC: 7 all stats: +6 HP: +30 MANA: +30 ENDUR: +30 SV all: +6 Focus: Improved Damage III

Sleeper's Tomb is the place where the ancient weapons drop. The first name is very close to zone in. The trek down to the dragons is long, but worth it. There is also a conduit down there.

Ancient Prismatic Fist Wraps (Mnk/Bst) 15/20 AC: 10 all stats: +5 HP: +50 MANA: +50 ENDUR: +50 SV all: +5

Besmirched Mask of Conception (Brd/Rog) AC: 12 STR: +10 DEX: +10 STA: +10 AGI: +10 HP: +50 Effect: Illusion Dwarf 

Clawed Coat of Tyro AC: 52 STR: +15 DEX: +15 AGI: +10 HP: +100 SV all: +12 Haste: +39%

Kael is bad for XP and short legged people. It does have some nice drops.

Chestplate of Vindication AC: 45 STA: +15 HP: +100 SV all: +15 Attack: +10 HP Regen +2

Breastplate of Eradication AC: 55 STR: +10 DEX: +15 STA: +20 CHA: +10 AGI: +15 HP: +100 SV all: +8
(Avatar of War is not intended to be killed by a group of 60. So either ask for backup or don't bother about the idol.)

Temple of Veeshan

Abashi's Rod of Disempowerment 2HB 40/30 STR: +15 DEX: +15 STA: +15 INT: +15 AGI: +15 HP: +100 MANA: +50 ENDUR: +50 SV all: +15 Effect: Abolish Enchantment

Do`Vassir's Gauntlets of Might AC: 40 STR: +20 DEX: +15 STA: +15 CHA: +15 WIS: +15 INT: +15 AGI: +15 HP: +100 MANA: +100 ENDUR: +100 SV all: +10

Luclin

Veksar is an excellent source for gear and also XP up to level 60.

Lord Inquisitor Seru is your raid loot target number one when you come into Velious. Respawn timer is 2 hours and his loot table is huge. His difficulty is comparable to Vulak Aerr.

Ssra offers lots of stuff, specially weapons. Emperor Ssra and also Cursed are harder than Seru.

VT is where you will gear up preparing for PoP. You probably want to run VT twice at least.