Nice. I didn't know there was gear from it. I thought that event ended a while ago.

Short term you will want to get your gear all to +15. That has the most profound impact out of anything in the game. Gear can be shared amoung characters in your family.

It's rare. You wont make much from mobs until you get well geared and can easily fight mobs around lv 56 to 57. Otherwise you have to look into the professions or make a worker empire. Im on the NA...

I like it. Don't rush through it though, because once you get to the "end" the focus shifts to group activities heavily. It's a great afk game though (lol). Really well made at least.