10 good things to do

[Bozzax]

1. Don't do PVE and quests before Rank 40
2. Aim at being Renown Rank 50 when you ding Rank 40 (read 1 again)
3. At Renown Rank 50 get Futile Strikes III. Remaining 20 pts go into parry for melee and heal crits for healers. As SnB tank you need 40 points in avoidance as you use guard (yes you do)
4. Get The Winds of impervious accessories (look it up on wiki)
5. Do SCs for weapons and RVR for gear. At Rank 40 you can start doing PVE for gear and Beastlord is a good start
6. Get blue tallies they are common. Armor is best for all and most expensive
7. Make sure your initiative is at least 240. Use .getstats to verify this
8. Use potions typically one armor potion and a main stat potion
9. Follow your warband leader and listen to what he types or says in discord
10. Join a guild

[Ototo]

1. Don't do PVE and quests before Rank 40
2. Aim at being Renown Rank 50 when you ding Rank 40 (read 1 again)
3. At Renown Rank 50 get Futile Strikes III. Remaining 20 pts go into parry for melee and heal crits for healers. As SnB tank you need 40 points in avoidance as you use guard (yes you do)
4. Get The Winds of impervious accessories (look it up on wiki)
5. Do SCs for weapons and RVR for gear. At Rank 40 you can start doing PVE for gear and Beastlord is a good start
6. Get blue tallies they are common. Armor is best for all and most expensive
7. Make sure your initiative is at least 240. Use .getstats to verify this
8. Use potions typically one armor potion and a main stat potion
9. Follow your warband leader and listen to what he types or says in discord
10. Join a guild

1. A lot of specific and special weapons are available in questing, and you are greatly hurting you by not running Tier 3 and Tier 4 Epic Quests.

2. I myself will hit 40 at near 60. No need to avoid PvE, but you really need to do less scenarios and more oRvR.

3. Unless that you are a glass cannon DPS, then, as all glass cannons should, go straight forward for mele/ranged/magic crit rate and/or main damage stat.

4. More than questionable. The set takes 3 slots, and will be borderline for most classes at level 38 (max green vendor jewelry). In general, all the 2x sets are better scaled. The Sundered Rings (general flexible choice), The Great Oathstones (general DPS non-magic classes), The Broken Covenant (healers, magic casters, or AP intense classes), The Blood-soaked Sigils (meles), or going for 2 pieces of The Winds Impervious (in general, avoiding the one with Weapon Skill if you are not physical damage dealer) is the best combination. Full 3 set is probably only BiS for 1 level as at 36 I think that next level of blue/purple jewelry unlocks, and since that moment only useful in its full combination for tanks and DoKs/WPs.

5. You only need level 35 to start Beastlord Quests. You get better weapons from Epic Quests. You can buy all boots and gloves for RvR/scenario sets below Conqueror in the AH , or yourself with an alt, cause they are Bind on Equip instead of Bind on Pickup. Only PvE sets and Conqueror+ have all pieces BoP.

6. Plan ahead and don't enter level 40 at zero gold. Potions are expensive and you are going to need a lot.

7. Or your chances to be critically hit at around 0%, whatever happens first. Unless that you are a glass cannon class, then just stack critical chance and your main damage stat. If you are a tank, you can also stack pass the point of zero cause that will reduce your attacker critical chance.

8. Armor and Horn potions can be combined with regular stats and liniments. The groups can't be mixed in between them. In example you can't use a toughness and a ballistic skill potion as both them are main stats, or two different liniments.

9. Feed back useful information and make constructive criticism of random orders given. Your "leader" may very well working on: a) bad information or assumptions of how mechanics work that are unrealistic, b) his/her own goals instead of the realm goal (ie: staying in a bad zone to get him/her influence/contribution), or c) having a full realm wipe in order to defend a Fort/City for medals. A WB leader is not a saint, just a normal person.

10. Join a big and/or well established guild (level 18ish or so). Leveling a guild from rank1 takes time, and as new players you are looking to invest yours in enjoyment.