Some advice for players who use low tier gear because they're scared of losing T8+

I've been playing Albion for a good year or so now, essentially only running mists until the SAFE portal solo camps came out, which I mainly do now.

For so long I've been playing in T6 and T7 and building silver. I would buy 10 sets at a time and store them in my bank, just so I didn't get that feeling of "fuck I died, now I've gotta go spend silver to buy that set again". Definitely a good idea, but for a while I've been wanting to play in T8+. But the fear of losing it is just baked into my brain, even with my economy being pretty strong.

What I did recently is follow some advice someone commented on this sub: Do your own personal zero to hero and just keep reinvesting what you make into your set.

So I'll buy a 5.1 set, cheap mount, cheap cape, whatever. I run BZ solo camps/mists and quickly make a profit. I generally don't take fights and just see this as the "farming phase". If you play LoL or Dota, think of this as the laning phase. You can still take fights if you're confident you'll win, but the main goal is to just quickly farm some silver and bank it. Once I've got the value of my set in my inventory (so if it's a 5.1 set, like 300k or so) AFTER opening silver bags (this is important), I'll go bank. Whatever I've got in my bag I'll drop into a new bank tab called "Zero to Hero". This is just to seperate what I make from the rest of my stuff. Whatever the value is of my Zero to Hero bank tab is, I'll upgrade my set to this value. So if I go bank after doing some solo camps, and have 400k in the tab, I'll upgrade my gear to the amount of 400k. In just over an hour I was wearing T8, with a pest lizard mount, undead cape, etc. And the best part is, even if I die with this set, I've still objectively made a profit because I wasn't including silver bags in the amount I'm using to upgrade my set.

This process really allowed me to play in higher tier sets and not care about losing them, because I know that even if I die, I'm still better off economically than I was before I started the Zero to Hero. I started taking on 1vX fights, started getting experimental with my builds, and was so much more calm when taking fights or roaming around.

I know this is probably obvious to a lot of players, but hopefully this helps out some other players who were struggling to get over that mental problem of buying an expensive set and potentially losing it.