Unspent AA Limit ?

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taishar

Dalayan Beginner
My monk Taishar has 76 AAs, 54 spent, 22 unspent, and was just about to ding. However, it seems I can not. I get a message saying something to the effect of, 'At your current level, you can not have more than 21 unspent Alternate Experience points.'

Why is this ? The only reason I have so many damn AAs is due to the what seems to be the near impossible task of getting together a group to kill Traekoth. I've run out of decent things to buy in General and Archetype and was just saving then to use on Class abilities once I hit 59.

Is this something hard coded into the client or something ? I really don't understand the point of it.
 
Because of various things you can do to get AAs really fast in the 50s, we have an unspent cap so that you can't save up points for later-level skills.
 
Just as a thought for your specific situation... disease wouldn't be bad to get :) ... very unorthodox for your level, but appropriate!
 
Only problem with that is that AAs get progressively harder with each you gain... so if I sink all those points into things that I shuoldn't be spending points on until 300+... it'll make getting all those useful AAs that much harder.

Ahh well. Finally took down Traekoth tonight (thanks for adjusting his AE, Wiz! The reduction in damage helped. However, with its range being 200 now, there's absolutely no way to avoid it. Is this intended ?) so maybe I won't be 57 for more than a couple more weeks.
 
Resists ARE pretty useful and I don't see a problem with spending 5 for MR and maybe 5 for another one, it's hardly a waste and this way you can grind out some more while waiting on more kills instead of just waste the time with a forced /cm explock 1.
 
What would some of those various things that you can do to get AA's in the 50's? I don't understand why it would be easier to get them in 50's as opposed to when your 65?
 
rapidghost said:
What would some of those various things that you can do to get AA's in the 50's? I don't understand why it would be easier to get them in 50's as opposed to when your 65?
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There are just these situations where you can gain aa xp really fast in your low/mid 50's. I have done the same with my mage when he was like... low 50's and moved to to level him again after some 25-30 aa's.
 
Well... are these totally legit things you can do? If so, please share? = )

If not, well I don't really wanna know. And I guess they'd get changed? anyway?
 
Sibro said:
Well... are these totally legit things you can do? If so, please share? = )

If not, well I don't really wanna know. And I guess they'd get changed? anyway?
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It is legal, of course. Its just that certain mobs in those level ranges are quite easypeasy to kill and thus can net a really good number of aa xp.
 
It takes me about 75 minutes to get an AA using my druid to heal. (that's more or less non stop killing... with 60pt DS). Considering the fact that you can get AAs much quicker at 65, I don't see why this limit exists. Is 75 minutes for an AA unreasonably easy ? If not, I guess I just simply don't know the quick AAing trick. What I do know is that grinding AAs just to sink into stats/resists or something else equally worthless since I can't save them up to buy actual useful skill bonuses really blows. I never imagined that I'd be stuck at 57 for this long. I've still yet to see that damn bag drop off of Traekoth.

Is there any possibility of seeing this cap raised and having those loopholes closed ? There's really no point in me playing lately except to come on to try to get a Traekoth raid together, which sucks.

I could move on... but then all the time spent prepping would be wasted.
 
It's nearly impossible to balance AA gain in the 50s vs AA gain in the 60s due to the vastly different XP scales, and rather than constantly having to close every loophole players dicover, all the cap does it prevent you from saving up AAs for later, it does not prevent you from getting the AAs you can have at your level.

So what's the issue again?
 
My issue is that what can be purchased at that level (after 50 AAs worth or so) isn't worth the time it takes to get another new AA. It's not worth grinding for 75 minutes to raise a resist by two points. It would be worth it to grind for 75 minutes if I could eventually put that point into Melee Mastery or something like that.

I'm obviously beating a dead horse though.

I wish I knew one of those loopholes.
 
But... are you capable of using Melee Mastery already? Levelwise then... i mean, if your not high enough in level yet it is only logical that this cap prevents to save up enough aa's to but Melee Mastery once you do have the level.
 
taishar said:
My issue is that what can be purchased at that level (after 50 AAs worth or so) isn't worth the time it takes to get another new AA. It's not worth grinding for 75 minutes to raise a resist by two points. It would be worth it to grind for 75 minutes if I could eventually put that point into Melee Mastery or something like that.

I'm obviously beating a dead horse though.

I wish I knew one of those loopholes.
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Why do you need to save up for AAs that you can't use yet?
 
also, obviously if you think that grinding a good hour for 1 aa isnt worth it at level 50something then you should really,really put that slider back to regular xp 100% rather then aa's you want, but cant spend.
 
Wiz said:
Why do you need to save up for AAs that you can't use yet?
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Because I'm stuck at 57 for the time being, and it was nice to know that even though I was at 57, I'd be able to continue the improvement of my character via the saving of AAs. Because if it weren't for Traek, I'd be 65 and I'd be dumping my points into ambi-dex, melee mastery, etc as I got them and not just accumulating.

I understand why there are level requirements for AAs... they add a lot of power to the character. I just think it blows that once I got all the worthwhile archetype AAs, and hit the unspent AA cap, my character will keep falling behind.

I guess that's really my issue. I had thought I'd be able to stay at 57, AA up along with the level 65s in my guild, and then once I was done with Traek, could level up to 65 myself, dump all my unspent AAs into their appropriate skills, and be right where I would have been had I not stayed at 57 for awhile. The reality of the situation is that I can stay 57, get only 22 unspent AAs, and then max out stats or resists... and then be 50 AAs behind in useful abilities by the time I do eventually continue leveling up to 65.

As I said before though, I'm just beating a dead horse. I'll not post again unless I'm again asked a question :p
 
Well its really not that different from waiting for any other adept, and having to hit /cm explock. Traek/Pounders are the only adepts that you even have the luxury of dumping points into AAs for.
 
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