I just start playing this game a week or so ago. Made a human mystic going for wizard and sorcerer/ss. Since I am about to turn 20 I have a couple of questions.
1. What is the top D equipment I should be looking for?
2. Should I be looking for dyes? If so what kind? How does it work?
P.S. please keep in mind that I am new to the game and have little idea about abbreviations. Is there a list of it?
1) look for knowlege rob set: knowlege tunic, knowlege stocking, and knowlege gloves - and look for demon fangs and some sort of good shield along with elven jewelry - that's the setup that's good for all nukers in d-grade really
2) don't bother with tat's untill you get your second class change - after that just go with the standard tat's of +4int/-4men, +4wit/-4men, +4con/-4str.
Also if this is yoru first character dont worry too much about top D. It's not easy to get top D on your first character, those people you see running around in top D at 20 are alts or rerolls. Don't stress about it, many of us wore NG till 30
Dyes modify your stats and stats have the following affects
Str physical damage
Con - HP, HP regen, carry capacity, CP, CP regen, resistance to physical affects like stun.
Wit- magic crit rate, cast speed, resistance to certain debuffs, Rez percentage for healers.
Men- Mdef, resistance to certain debuffs, MP pool, CP, MP regen,CP regen
As a nuker you're probably going to want mostly + wit and + int men actually doesn't have a big effect so you can sacrifice it for the other two. Since you won't do melee really either many will say + con - str for extra HP and CP. It's not a big difference but it can be the deciding factor sometimes, also helps a lot with stun.
Well from one noob to another (**** almost2 months) I can drop a little knowledge on ya. Gear is expensive! I have one lvl 20(dark wizard) and then another lvl 27 ( knight) and I had to sell everything off the DE wiz to buy Mithril armor and an aritsan sword from giran for my knight. That was after I bought the basic D gear for my wiz because someone hooked me up with 1mil adena. I never really see anyone selling D gear that's affordable - my guess is because the games been around for awhile and there's just not enough lowbies selling their stuff. Manor system is a good way to make some adena though. In short it's hard to make enough adena to get great gear. When I see people running around in Brigadine armor it's either an alt, someone in a guild with friends, or someone that bought from an online vendor. Just my ramblings -
I use to delevel my twinks to stay on level 25 or 30 for farming enough money for at least medium d grade. At level 35 it is to late because you should have money for low c grade soon.
Good for making money are trading, questing, seeding, raiding. It depends also on your playing time. Occasional players are often poor.