The Spirit Realm

For some reason, never used a lot of personal tribute. While back when my paladin was active, started using it on him and it seemed really good.

Now I am down to shm, mage and druid, and thinking I could boost my overall effectiveness on them by running some tribute.

I don't want to spend the rest of my eq experience farming tribute items, and I never remember to turn it on and off, so I really just want to run it all the time, kind of a fire and forget approach.

What is your set up, and which would you recommend for each of these classes?


Peace

for pally i use

ac
hp
mana
haste (not wearing a haste item)
atk or flurry thingy, forgot

i never turn it off too, but i go to veksar now and than. 1 hour in veksar nets me around 40 to 100k trib - that lasts a while i also buy high trib items in baz, they are usually ultra cheap.
on the original pon board was a list of good trib items, dunno if its been migrated or not. if in doubt, go for elemental bows, all atunnable ldon stuff, some ldon robes (names evade me), all darkmail kylong stuff, that ear from bot (rage something), some ring with rage in the name and other stuff ya can find searching steelwarrior and old savehouse threads.

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I pretty much just run +hp, +mana and +AC. Those things help no matter if I am solong, grouping, or raiding.

Aura of Clarity 6 (Mana Regen)
Bulwark of Honor 7 (AC)
Fury of Combat (Flurry)
Strength of Body (HP)

Comes to a total of 186. I'm still waiting for my first quadruple slay.

Bulwark of Honor (AC)
Fury of Combat (Flurry)
Strength of Body (HP)
Vengeful Aura (Attack - I'm very weak on maxing attack with my gear =/)
Eyes of the Hunter (Accuracy - I assume this counts against worn accuracy, but once again I'm very far from maxing it)

Cost: 299

I try to turn off the personal tribute when I'm not actually fighting because it is more work to go to Felwithe to turn in tribute items then it is to just deposit them in guild tribute (which is almost always on.)


And since only me and my bots use guild tribute I also always run:
Aura of Preservation (AC, Mana pres 6)
Spiritual Alacrity (45% worn haste, Spell Haste 6, Increased chance of double attack)

You want to tribute the things you are missing.

If you don't have a good focus for your dots, get Burning Affliction. If you don't have a spell haste focus, tribute that.

Extra AC and HP are nice, because you are going to get hit; but since your plan is either to root rot or have the mage pet tank, you want to pick tribute things that help you do that -- and especially you want to fill in any holes in your team's effectiveness.

Ranger - hp/mana/ac

Cleric - hp/mana/ac/haste (haste is for when I solo or battle cleric her since I don't have a haste item or tanking for the bard duo plus the focuses are already covered)

Shaman - hp/mana/ac (I have good focuses for what would be covered by tribute)

Bard - hp/mana/ac/mana regen (bard is 70 and while has pretty decent gear for her level, mana regen is still lacking some and I have armor mods for the insturment/singing that tribute would give me)

McNair is correct in use tribute to cover weaknesses you currently have. I, personally, run hp/mana/ac on all of the toons and then fill in what I am lacking.

Farming tribute items isn't too hard, as about half to two thirds of the vendor fodder is also tributable and while it isn't much, it does add up. I would say that about 10% of the tribute I turn in is vendor fodder. Veskar is a great place to farm tribute, BoT has good items, if memory serves Tactics also has good tribute items, plus you can bazzar browse for cheap items. I personally like to get 5 trib to 1 PP per item or better. Darkwood bow of suffering and rushing wind longbow are all cheap 300 pp or less, at least on CT, and net 1500+ trib per turn in. twisted longbow and nightmarewood compound bow, when I can find them for less than 400 per, net 2K+ tribute. All of the Elemental bows net 44K+ tribute, so if I can find one for 10K or less I grab it, really the only time I violate my 5 to 1 ratio, but since I can get so much trib I go for it. Plus there is a gnome tradeskilled pants that trib for 10K per that is pretty easy to make, but damned if I can recall the name since my source of those pants retired 6 months ago. Many tradeskilled items have a decent to great tribute value too. And many other items can be easily farmed for trib. I used to have a list, but that went away my HD crashed and I couldn't recover alot of things off of it.

I realize now that I didn't even read the first post and that it was a request for suggestions. But I think the ones provided are sufficient.

I use HP/AC tribute. And I do a quick run through GE before I log off sometimes; I turn on invis, track down a Named, kill/loot/re-invis, on to the next. Usually I can kill all named there in about 20 minutes, at which point I just Origin to Surefall. Some items in there trib for 10k+, so it's easy enough to keep my count in the positive, although I seem to remember I burn 269 points/10 minutes. Maybe I should check again what I have running!

HP/AC only costs 90.

I only ever bother with just hp

Only HP here.

As a monk, I run HP and AC.
Being lazy and cheap I only do it when I am in an area where I expect to be in over my head.

HP and AC.