Originally Posted by
Suctum
There's no skill to 19 minis, it's just who's white hit does more dps than the others and how many pet necros one team has.
At 39 and 59, there is some merit to those brackets but 19 is a joke. TBH though, 80 minis is where it is at. If Tyranny had more of a population you could bust out full K6 gear in less than 2 weeks, which considering the progression rate of most MMOS, is pretty fast. The fact you get 1 AA per level and 40 more coming (if your 80) in a few days, gives you enough free AA to get access to your most critical AA's. You can store buy PvP t1 main pieces and supplement that with k6 gear and be instantly competitive less than 14 days after hitting 80, prolly much less.
I leveled my Conq from 20 to 33 in 1 day, offlined to 80, and had enough AA points to get 4/5 in Besiege and 3/5 in Assail while still getting my AA break and I was able to get 2/5 in both DS/PS and add 1 point into bunch of other things. If you have a sizable amount of vet tokens, you can buy MoA and Insignia's and get at least rank 4 with a faction and both the boots and arm pieces. You can then use your remaining MoA to get faction blues which for the most part are on par or better than T1/T2 pve gear. The easily crafted Energetic ring and Dreamer's keepsake still hold up pretty well for being old world blues, and you get the free purple neck for doing the main quest line. The lordly cloak with a combat rating or magic gem offers great stats for a cheap price, and the easily obtained HoC cloaks are almost a freebie.
It's pretty easy to get competitive if you know what to get in your AA tree, know what to get for gear, and have some veteran points. However, on Tyranny doing this might be pretty hard since the quality of the few 6-mans is...do 6-mans even happen? And of course not having a sub goes a long way to keeping you down.