Gearing my un-twinked Ranger to lvl 36

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In October 0f 2014 I created my Ranger alt Krade with the idea of playing the game as it was when it was released (and my bro made a shadowknight: Maxadonn). In my opinion twinking kind of ruins the whole point of the game, to progress your character, so I wanted to earn all of my gear by either looting, crafting, or questing it and so far it's been a lot of fun. The idea being that each piece of gear I wore would be a lot more meaningful if I had to actually go obtain it as opposed to just buying it from someone. And hopefully each item I earned would have a story or memory attached to it (which has very much been the case). I also hoped that when looking to find gear I would travel all over the world to areas of the game that are often overlooked. And thus my journey began.....!

My first piece of gear that wasn't the standard stuff vendors sell! I didn't even know this guy existed until i killed him and took his treasure while strolling through North Karana..
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PGT!!! Amazing low lvl weapon, was a nice upgrade from my gypsy bought combine long sword = 6/28.
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This guy was hard to kill and even harder to find. Turns out he can spawn right in front of the Runnyeye entrance. We thought it was a warrior but turns out he's a necromancer or something! I had to zone a few times but we finally killed this strange red thing. Of course we stayed until we got 2 of them - we knew it'd be hard to find something better than this chest piece.
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This was just a fun time in Highpass - Full Hybrid Group! This was back when the exp penalty was still in place - did anyone care? nope. Were we havin fun? YES
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I kept that Shiny Brass Idol until level 31 when I accidently used it at the bank in Firiona Vie while I was trying to open a backpack : ) Before we left Highpass Maxadonn Finally got his Shiny Brass Halberd after many failed attempts. I also won many a Shralok Pack.
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Didn't loot anything in Najena but it was quite an adventure. We met 3 scalemen and ventured deep into the torture dungeons of the infamous sorceress - one time we pulled some scary high level elf woman and Max fell into a jail pit while we were trying to flee and everyone died! it was fun!
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Everyone knows how important the Short Sword of Morin is as a Ranger rite of passage. This was a tough fight. We were lvl 23 I think, and this ghoul was very red. I made a few hundred arrows, we headed to the center guard tower in NK where a kind shaman gave us sow, headed to EK where I was able to actually find this guy, then we proceeded to kite him for 15min. Finally replaced my other combine longsword!
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Here we are at The Littlest Tree in South Karana - a sight that everyone should see at least once in their lifetime.
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I like this shot a lot. By this time I had gotten a Dragoon Dirk from Dorn in Nro (didn't think to take a pic) and Maxadonn had won an Axe of The Iron Back from one of the giants - a nice upgrade 16/48 to 16/37! We were having a hard time finding a place to win treasure on Antonica so we made the long journey to the lost continent.
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I got some nice stuff from the giants. We must have killed over 100 of em and only got 1 forest loop. The hammer not only looked cool but was a small upgrade to my dragoon dirk (if my math was correct? maybe not, prolly should have left the ssom in my primary OH WELL).
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