Hey,

I am just writing this very short post to put down some experience I have re the amount of AAs required for end game to help out the new players.

As a simple rule of thumb - the game is roughly designed that your character will start to shine [end game] from approximately 50% of the new expansions additional AAs.

What does this mean?

Let's look at RoK to TSO - the 'old' RoK cap was 140AAs - the new AA cap with TSO is now 200AA - 50% of the difference is 30AA ([200 - 140] * 0.5) - therefore, you would expect to start 'owning' the new expansions content from approx 170AA onwards.

Now this 170AA figure is actually pretty accurate because if you look at the eq2 flames forums you will notice that many of the 'ideal' TSO AA specs, for any particular class, all involve AAs in the vicinity of 170-175AA - anything more than this is basically cream.

As a further rough guide to how many AAs you will have when locked:
- level 10 = 0AA /lock at ding

- level 20 = 20AA (very easy to get in TD/Mok/Darklight - highly recommend doing 'everything' as the AC and the weapons given as quest rewards (in TD/Mok only) as FAR SUPERIOR than that given in the old world equivalent zones (good chance you will still be wearing / using the items up to about 30 assuming you don't get any fable drops, etc.)

Fom approx. level 20 onwards your AAs should ALWAYS be > your level

- level 60 is = 100AA cap

Therefore, we can guesstimate the required AA at the following levels:
- level 30 = 40
- level 40 = 60
- level 50 = 80

Even though the math suggests 2AA per level I have actually found that I sometimes get 3AA per level resulting in my characters being stuck at the 100AA cap before level 60 - it just varies so you have to just be aware and /lock /unlock to suit

From level 60 you'd expect to get roughy the following AAs per zone:
- KoS is roughly 20AA (inc. dungeon AA)
- KP/Fens/KJ/JW is roughly 20AA - highly recommend doing ALL quests here as there are some very good quest rewards (especially the jewelry items!)
- Moors 10AA - pretty average rewards for an end game zone but the AA is easy enough to get