Do whatever you can to hit 50.

At 50 the rest of your grinding is library/auroria grinding.

Minimum gear score for alliance events is 2500. (you can see this by mousing over your portrait bar)

Work on your weapons.
Bow (your choice)
Obsid Dagger, Must have
Armor is last an optional because you ideally want agi armor and whatever you fail craft goes towards obsid.

Get obsid bow, regrade it to at least celestial before tiering it up.

Also, get in TS as it makes answering things 10x easier.

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