Me and my friends are pretty new 70's (got the game relatively recently), and we're trying to gear up so we can do UMF eventually.

For that... we kinda need Sicarius from Insane Spook as it's the best bow I can reasonably/reliably get (aka no random drop.)

Would anyone want to help us out at around 10pm EST?

Or if there's a bunch of interest in running it, we can just do a couple of runs/groups.

sicarius is a bad choice. very expensive to upgrade. get a 60^ bonebow or crystal tracker, or disc gun. way better

i got a 60^ tracker u can have pm me ur steam. youll need something a little better to get through umf though

I don't have access to those as they're random drops from doing survival or what not (I dont have time to spend 5+ hours doing survival).
Siccarius at least drops 100% the time.

Is there anyway to get decent gear in game w/o doing survival or spending fg (I don't have any atm)?

If you farm mana, you can trade your mana to buy gear. Otherwise, you'd have to do something like Insane Spook -> Survival -> UMF to gear up and progress.

Yeah, that's what I'm feeling. Just wanted to avoid having to do survival if at all possible.

Wish they would let you skip waves 1-15 or so, since those aren't hard even with shit gear. It's just a complete time-waster.

Guess I'll see if I can set up an afk-survival setup tonight.

Edit: How much would it cost (in mana) to get a weapon that'll let me not be dead-weight in UMF. I'm assuming somewhere around 100k dps is necessary w/ a decent guardian.

This post was edited by SovietPanda on Dec 13 2011 10:30pm

Well I was doing over 100k dps with gear from spook before they buffed everything, so that's not hard.
Just farm a few million mana and go browse some shops. Buy a weapon with over 70^ and good base damage and you're set to start UMF.

Get a fairy and some resist gear too, so you don't weigh the team down.

PM me panda , i can help you and your friend out.