50k... Fungi or Epic Tear?

[Dinbin]

Decisions... Not that I have 50k (yet) but if I did... which would be the better investment?

[Erati]

you need your epic to level - you can level without a fungi

[Spyder73]

Shaman epic is one of the very best - Epic > Fungi

[Gumbo]

you need your epic to level - you can level without a fungi

Has this been proven that you do need your epic to level?

[Udabut]

Has this been proven that you do need your epic to level?

No, but it makes it MUCH easier. I would take an epic over Fungi any day of the week.

[shwally]

No, but it makes it MUCH easier. I would take an epic over Fungi any day of the week.

Soloing is so much easier with epic. You can be naked with only your epic and solo to 60. Epic > Fungi

[RDawg816]

Your epic opens a lot more doors than a fungi would.
That being said, a fungi is a better investment (in that you can use it in alts or resell it...)

[Tecmos Deception]

Fungi is like having clarity all the time, which also stacks with clarity and can be used for healing instead when you need HP instead of wanting to canni. Plus it can be resold for no loss.

Epic is great, but the clicky is of small use in groups/raids and is something that you could easily quest with most guilds eventually without having to pay for it. Fungi is awesome all the time and you effectively are just renting it from the open market until you want to sell it so you can buy torpor... and then you can go farm plat to buy another fungi anyway!


If I could afford to twink with a fungi AND an epic MQ, I would. But personally I'd rather do without the epic if I couldn't afford the fungi also, and just suck it up soloing with normal spells instead of epic clicks (and/or duo/group more often) until I can get the spear quested.

[Nuggie]

Your epic opens a lot more doors than a fungi would.
That being said, a fungi is a better investment (in that you can use it in alts or resell it...)

False. Cost of fungi is dropping. Cost of tear is rising. Makes for terrible investment. Unless you like to buy high and sell low. :confused:

[Danth]

Epic is.......something that you could easily quest with most guilds eventually without having to pay for it..

I suspect this comment reflects out-of-date circumstances; it's accurate for Kunark, but not any more. The Golems in Plane of Fear have a several day spawn timer and are highly contested. Lower-end guilds stand virtually no chance of getting them, and even most the mid-range guilds get them only rarely. This is why the Shaman epic MQ cost is so much higher now than it used to be, and rising. It's also why you actually see level 50+ shamans nowadays who don't have the epic.

Danth

[Tecmos Deception]

I suspect this comment reflects out-of-date circumstances; it's accurate for Kunark, but not any more. The Golems in Plane of Fear have a several day spawn timer and are highly contested. Lower-end guilds stand virtually no chance of getting them, and even most the mid-range guilds get them only rarely. This is why the Shaman epic MQ cost is so much higher now than it used to be, and rising. It's also why you actually see level 50+ shamans nowadays who don't have the epic.

Danth

Ahh, gotcha.

[Gumbo]

I always think about doing the Shaman Epic and I'm all for it until I think about getting a guild together to hit POF and try and get a Tear.

I would think that getting into a group, sitting for the Fungi Tunic and hopefully winning the role of the dice would be easier to do than the Epic.

[botrainer]

Shaman epic is one of the very best - Epic > Fungi

Look at Aftermath trying to sell its Tears to keep funding its poopsock activities! Clearly a bias here =)

Tears currently are going for way to much, should be much much lower (like 40k TOPS) to ask for any more for an item that can likely drops up to 3 to 6 times a week is way to much. Poopsocking guilds cockblocking people from finishing their epics just to keep plat flowing in to fund the poopsock / footraces is a complete sham and should be done away with. Boycott buying the tears and just buy the Fungi and farm fear with your guildies when golems are in window.

Incoming Rants and Flames for calling out the poopsock guilds.

[Froakula]

Bought tear no ragrets, camped fungi for alt and won first group ftw.

[Leiker]

I have both...

Fungi if you group a lot
Epic if you solo

Once you get 60 and get Torpor, fungi becomes kinda pointless

[Tecmos Deception]

Once you get 60 and get Torpor, fungi becomes kinda pointless

Do shamans at 60 nowadays stay at 100% hp very often? They never did in all my experience at 60, and every tick not at full health is a tick that fungi does exactly the same thing before torpor as it does after.

[Leiker]

Maybe saying pointless was a bit too much.
But it matters less because where you previously had to wait for your hp to regen in order to be able to canni, you can just canni down real quick and then torp yourself over and over at 60.

[Dinbin]

Update: Bank has hit about 18k so far. Haven't bought gear since L30, haha, but seem to solo/group OK. Chug, chug, chug...

Made several K xp'ing Grobb Barshers, then moved to IG's, which are good cash. Selling pots as I can without investing more to go above alch 100.

[Spyder73]

Fungi should cost like 15k...10 new ones enter the server every single day

[Gumbo]

Fungi should cost like 15k...10 new ones enter the server every single day

A Fungi drops every 2.4 hours? I need to get me a few... :D

[Cillaz]

I know there's a lot going on with the epic MQ price etc, but epic >> fungi.

[Dinbin]

Getting there... should be putting out a WTB for Iksar Tear soon. I'm seeing HG's in my sleep, though...

[Dinbin]

Hmmm, thought I was close but the MQ prices have crept up higher again... 50K ain't gonna cut it anymore. Quotes are 65k with fight and another at 58k without. Back to the giant grinding mines!

[Farzo]

Get epic, it's an item you will never replace and will help you farm another 50k for a fungi.

Also at 46 its fucking OP in places like COM for leveling so will have you soloing to 60 quicker aka more plat.

Once you see that you can dot root 4-5 mobs at a time with epic you'll laugh at why you even thought about fungi first.

[applesauce25r624]

Get epic, it's an item you will never replace and will help you farm another 50k for a fungi.

Also at 46 its fucking OP in places like COM for leveling so will have you soloing to 60 quicker aka more plat.

Once you see that you can dot root 4-5 mobs at a time with epic you'll laugh at why you even thought about fungi first.

when did they change the epic click effect to level 46 ?

[Dinbin]

Get epic, it's an item you will never replace and will help you farm another 50k for a fungi.

Also at 46 its fucking OP in places like COM for leveling so will have you soloing to 60 quicker aka more plat.

Once you see that you can dot root 4-5 mobs at a time with epic you'll laugh at why you even thought about fungi first.

I agree with the sentiment... though my chances of saving 60k by 46 were pretty slim. :D

[mgellan]

Has this been proven that you do need your epic to level?

You need your epic to level more quickly... for example, if you do HS at 56 you can pretty much continuously killed entrance mobs, whereas without it there's a LOT of downtime.

Regards,
Mg

[Gumbo]

Been seeing a lot more people selling Fungi Tunic for about 43K and I don't know if I ever want to get my epic?

I mean to do everything and then also spend another 70K for one item?

[vouss]

Fungi

[Oldschoolplayer]

Its just sad that two guilds have the golems on lock, and are forcing players to buy the tear for 50k. mind you all the shamans in these guilds have their epics. something needs to be done

[vouss]

Cry more loser

[Oldschoolplayer]

Fungi
Hahaha

[Dinbin]

Cry more loser
Thanks for your constructive contribution.

[Dinbin]

Got my epic last night with 60k. Rak run was flawless. It's not how I imagined acquiring it, but situations change and I take some solace in knowing I did it the "proper" way the first time around, 15 years ago. :)

[Swish]

You should quest your epic like a real shaman, then get in a King group in Seb from 55-57 onwards for your fungi.

I'd have saved the 50k :p

[Dinbin]

You should quest your epic like a real shaman, then get in a King group in Seb from 55-57 onwards for your fungi. I'd have saved the 50k :p
Not sure if that's possible on this server unless in one of the larger guilds.