In one of the towns in Freemarch there's a vendor called Rare Planar (something). I wish I'd taken better notes. You exchange things called Corrupted Sourcestones, and things called Planarite. the Sourcestones are much rarer so you need 2 or 3 for an item at this level. The Planarite you need by the crateful.
Fighting in the water invasion in the previous post got me enough currency for this lovely new coat, the Planar Hauberk:
Its a nice blue chest piece for my class. The stats are significantly better than the green drops for my level, about triple the stats in most cases: Armor 194, Int +5, Wis +9, End +4. Not bad for running around smashing fish guys, and it looks quite snazzy, if I do say so myself. It cost 2 of those Corrupted Sourcestones, and 75 Planarite. Also available was a selection of weapons that were 3 Corrupted and 150? or so Planarite.
So this gives you a good incentive to join in the fights against Rifts and to stay and finish off the super elite bosses. One of them, a war golem thing, had 650,000 hp and I was hitting it for about 50 a pop. Took about 30 minutes for it to go down but that got me a corrupted sourcestone!
So basically, you have raid level events and badge gear right out of the newbie zone. That's impressive and it shows a care about the entire player base, not just the elite 1%. I like that. I'm torn though. On the one hand, its great to get all this right out of the box. On the other hand, will there be anything left at level 50? Will I get bored of this by then? Will I ever get to a point where I see an invasion and roll my eyes and yawn?
I don't know. This might end up being a disastrous decision on Trion's part, but so far, it seems brilliant. I'm having a lot of fun, and I don't have to wait to max level for the interesting stuff to happen.
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