TonyO wrote:My first team is all at cap now, all five level 60. Using Lemartes99's recommended "AAA Grinder v2" foundry quest was really good for leveling. I liked it so much I created four similar foundries with mostly ogres, set in different areas. I won't advertise my foundries here, so send me a pm if you'd like to try them.
I stopped doing the main quest line at about level 40. Using only foundry quests, my team has mostly blue gear and mostly tier 4 enchantments. My companions are nearly all capped. Like lemartes99, I ran into a problem where I have power leveled my team to a point where I don't have enough astral diamonds to upgrade even one of my blue and green companions. I still have a lot to do.
Next, I'll use advice from another thread to generate Astral Diamonds (5 at level 14 leadership so far), go back to the main quest line to finish up everything I passed.
Soon I'll try out epics with my dps team at cap, but I will likely roll an alt team for epics since you gentlemen are probably right. Though I have had a blast running a high-dps team through foundries, one healer and one cw won't be enough for high end dungeons.
Congratz on 60!
Ya AAA grinder is pretty damn amazing, especially during foundry hour. While levelling one of my GF, I used that exclusively from level 11 to 60. I aimed for 10 levels a day, and could usually get that in about 2 hours as long as I hit a foundry hour.
Word of advice, invest in extra char slots now, and get a bunch of guys all working towards leadership. It really is the best diamond generator, and once you hit the Rank 7 / All Blue Companions wall it takes a crapload of diamonds for each upgrade. I wish I would have spent my first 2 weeks playing just setting up 20 level 11 guys for leadership, thats only a 5$ investment per account. Each Level 20 Leadership generates 100K Diamonds + 15Gold + 42 Blue Chests / 42 Green Chests (Sometimes More) a Week if you can do it twice a day. Conversion is 20G for 10K Diamonds if you buy Major Injury Kits and sell on auction. 20 guys will bring in more than 2 Million Diamonds a week. I can almost guarantee if you decide to really gear your team, you will add more leadership guys, so might as well start them now. At the very minimum start your 5 alts and get them to 11. Only takes 1 1/2 hours per guy, especially if you got the free Green Arc Wizard companion for each account.
Oh and, I would just start Sharandar and Dread Ring and start with those epics while you save up for T2 off Auction (Don't bother with T1 stuff, the expansion stuff is just as good). I wasted a crap load of diamonds buying useless gear when I first got to cap. Do some research and plan out what stats you need and go from there, there are soft caps for a lot of stats and putting too much into it is a waste. The expansion armour ain't half bad and you Can get Belt+Helm from Sharandar really quick, and Ring+Armor+Belt+Helm from Dread Ring pretty quick.
Also remember Weapon Enchants don't stack, so plan that out accordingly (1x plague Fire, 1x Terror, 1x Lightning and 2xVorpal is what i use)
For armour, just start planning for Soul Forged now... You will need it.