Lambent Armor

[Novoselic]

Is it worth farming/saving plat to get the armor set? I've got a 23 bard and I'm leveling at a pretty fast rate but I've got some rly shitty gear that i'd like to replace. Should I even bother spending plat/time on getting the whole set?

[Tupakk]

no, short. save it for better instruments

[Swish]

I'd be wearing rags (or cheap bought tunnel items with stats you need) til 50ish and getting your Planar armor on the go.

Lambent really is just for fashion mostly these days... but go for it if you enjoy the look :)

[whippetofspades]

I bought my bard a set of fine plate for fashion and don't regret it for a second. Get cheap instruments and swarm your way to glory, but look good doing it.

I'd buy the lambent.

[Troxx]

Lambent looks cool -it's worth it for the fashionquest. It's not great armor but bards don't really need much in the way of gear other than instruments and standard resist and hp jewelry. Awesome weapons and expensive haste are wasted on a bard.

Quest your own. I took a small break in my 40s to quest and mostly solo the lot.

[SoekiWiz]

+1 to you don't need gear to level bard
+1 to Lambent = FashionQuest win

Who doesn't want to be a Dark Elf blueberry??

[Jimjam]

If you do chose to get it, don't buy it, quest it. It will break up the monotomy of the grind. Don't do it for the stats though!

[SoekiWiz]

Oh oh oh, protip:

The gypsies in NK almost always have a stock of Lambent Stones. aaaaand you can bind there, so if you get a Wizard to help you out for a bit they can TL you back when you need to grab new ones. Or just bind themselves there and courier them for you.

[Kaedain]

Always do sol ro quests, so much classic

[Darguth]

Oh oh oh, protip:

The gypsies in NK almost always have a stock of Lambent Stones. aaaaand you can bind there, so if you get a Wizard to help you out for a bit they can TL you back when you need to grab new ones. Or just bind themselves there and courier them for you.

Gypsies in Oasis tend to have stones on them too. When I quested mine I got all of the pieces I needed save the Lambent stones and just ran back-and-forth between the Temple and Oasis. Could be faster with a Druid porter and NK, but I was doing it all solo.

[jolanar]

Waste of money. You can get better gear for the same price as doing the quests (they require two expensive gems each to complete).

If you do it, do it for funsies or because you really want to be blue.

[Psionide]

Way better and cheaper Kunark gear is the way to go.

[Crawdad]

Is it worth farming/saving plat to get the armor set? I've got a 23 bard and I'm leveling at a pretty fast rate but I've got some rly shitty gear that i'd like to replace. Should I even bother spending plat/time on getting the whole set?

Quest it. You're on the cusp of being the right level for all the zones that the quests will ask you to head to. The majority you'll be able to loot by just being in the zone when they're rotting. Leggings will be the hardest part as nobody is ever in Permafrost, but if you're lucky you might run into someone farming ore who'll let you loot the icy greaves.

[Triiz]

Am I the only bard main that thinks full lambent looks terrible?

I also feel like gear that people buy specifically for fashionquest loses a lot of appeal when everyone is wearing it. Wood elf druids in crystal chitin is a good example of what I mean.

Run through EC tunnel on any given day and there will be 10+ WE druids in CC and 10+ bards in lambent.


edit: forgot to add, when you do start buying gear go for +HP shit. Longevity is the most helpful thing to a bard.

[Munkh]

BLUE! BLUE!! All I see is a blur of BLUE zip past me!

[branamil]

You should save up for Rubicite gear, much more stylish.

[Sadiki]

Depends what you're doing. If you're just solo kiting then your armor doesn't matter. I mean honestly, your armor doesn't matter much in the first place as a bard unless you're purposely tanking stuff. The breastplate gives a chunk of hp though.

But I farmed all of mine when I was levelling.. every piece. It gave me something to do, and it was fun doing actual quests and earning things. I wasn't breezing through levels or AE kiting or being power levelled, and it didn't get replaced until I got lucky with some deals for Koada'Dal armor around level 50. If that strikes you as fun, go for it, if you're just gonna level super fast and min/max just skip it.

I miss when all the bards were blue and green. :(

[Crede]

I bought my bard a set of fine plate for fashion and don't regret it for a second. Get cheap instruments and swarm your way to glory, but look good doing it.

I'd buy the lambent.

This guy has the right idea with the fine plate. Except I took it a step further, and made dye myself and found a Smither to do the final combine for me. It was the light blue dye looks hella cool. Was pretty cheap to get to dye trivial I just had to farm permafrost for a little. Replace it when you can farm skyshrine armor. Perfect for bards.

[Spyder73]

I suggest buying yourself a set, you can typically find it pretty cheap. Questing for Lambent is simply not worth the effort (IE the mats to build the armor cost more than the f#cking armor sells for in EC)