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I run the practice battlegrounds just about every day. Now, getting a face full of Data Scape gear is pretty craptastic, but the immediate action, and just having fun with other players is still there. You are going to groan a lot getting your pvp gear, it will hurt when you see how little damage you do and how little effort it takes people to kill you. When it is done, you will be much more happy. So get a strong drink, take your licks, and when it is done we are one person closer to those warplots we always wanted the Saddles to be part of.


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1.  Yeah... sometimes. Crafted gear can essentially ape the progression table. IIRC Archivos is good enough to walk into GA with, or at least close. However, it's only worth getting if you want to spend the plat rather than run the content. The reason it's less useful now is because there's a very clear and deliberate progression table, in that you can run vet shiphands to gear up once through, then run vet adventures and do the same thing, then run vet dungeons and do the same thing (this time with glory), and you end up in the same place. And these are all from the shiphand/adventure/dungeon vendors for game currency, not just praying for drops. If you want to skip that, you can still buy crafted gear and just run the minimum for attunement, but as it turns out people tend to like playing the game better. It's up to you what you'd rather do. 2.  A few things. Housing challenges, of course, drop renown as one of their rewards most of the time. Housing Expeditions (the mini-instances that usually run non-level-based content on housing plots) do as well. Those can be HAAAAARD to solo though. I think you get a little for pretty much any elder game content, including your daily quests. However, make sure your rewards you're shooting for don't have other prerequisites. Instance tier gear, for example, might require you to medal in a certain instance or to medal in all of them (in the case of veteran tiered gear). That's a rare issue, and nothing on the renown vendor should have that, but I should make sure I raise it so you check the reward you want. 3.  Yes, in fact. Not only are they good for rewards, they're a LOT easier now. Remember what a PITA that spider area was in CB? It's still a PITA, but much less of one now. Rolling in with a few friends or a fire team make the dailies fly by, but they give pretty decent rewards. Every reputation has something VERY useful at the end of its tier for someone, depending on your ilvl. I also recommend running the stuff in the Defile until you cap that rep, the stuff at Beloved is still pretty decent for non-raiders. There's a TON you missed. I can't remember the website that documents these things, but the entire nature of the endgame has changed to something that's a lot friendlier to the person that just wants to drop in for a bit. Contracts should complete that. It's hard trying to remember everything that's been improved. If you ask about something specific, though, I should be able to do a mental rundown. I just have trouble trying to write out a broader summary. It's hard to know where to start.


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Heh, yeah, same here. Though I just discovered that Netflix put the other six seasons of M*A*S*H up this week ... so I might be scarce for a few days, myself. :ph34r:


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