Marks of Manaar are the heroic armor/jewelry/weapon-buying “currency” of Sentinel’s Fate. Much like the Void Shards of The Shadow Odyssey, Marks of Manaar allow players to buy baseline armor, jewelry, weapons, charms, cloaks, etc. although those players should continue to run dungeons in the hopes of finding rarer, more powerful items.
In The Shadow Odyssey, entire armor sets were available on “Void Shard” merchants. These merchants were all located in one place (Moors of Ykesha), and offered complete sets of armor in Tier 1, Tier 2 (+crit mit), Tier 3 (Ward of Elements), and Tier 4 (TSO x4 raid zone armor). The bonuses of these armor sets were so powerful that finding replacement armor was rare.
In Sentinel’s Fate, item upgrades are scattered amongst “Marks of Manaar” merchants, dungeons, x2 raids, and x4 raids. There aren’t really the same powerful sets of armor, which gives more options for itemization, at the cost of players needing to do a lot more research (and studying loot websites such as LootDB and EQ2 ZAM) to discover all the options.
It’s also worth noting that in Sentinel’s Fate, there are two sets of Marks of Manaar merchants. The “Tier 1″ merchants are located in the city of Paineel. The “Tier 2″ merchants are sequestered away in Moonfield Hamlet. A recent Game Update added another vendor in Moonfield with many of the powerful items from dungeons available for purchase with Marks of Manaar. This was done on the basis that entirely new items would be added to the dungeons to keep up interest in plundering them.
Today we have an update from Rich Waters on the subject:
I don’t have details to share right now, but we’re likely adding more things to buy with marks in the next game update. So if you have extra marks, it’s worth holding on to them.
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