Lambent Armor
 

Is it worth farming/saving plat to get the armor set? I've got a 23 bard and I'm leveling at a pretty fast rate but I've got some rly shitty gear that i'd like to replace. Should I even bother spending plat/time on getting the whole set?

no, short. save it for better instruments

I'd be wearing rags (or cheap bought tunnel items with stats you need) til 50ish and getting your Planar armor on the go.

Lambent really is just for fashion mostly these days... but go for it if you enjoy the look :)

I bought my bard a set of fine plate for fashion and don't regret it for a second. Get cheap instruments and swarm your way to glory, but look good doing it.

I'd buy the lambent.

Lambent looks cool -it's worth it for the fashionquest. It's not great armor but bards don't really need much in the way of gear other than instruments and standard resist and hp jewelry. Awesome weapons and expensive haste are wasted on a bard.

Quest your own. I took a small break in my 40s to quest and mostly solo the lot.

+1 to you don't need gear to level bard
+1 to Lambent = FashionQuest win

Who doesn't want to be a Dark Elf blueberry??

If you do chose to get it, don't buy it, quest it. It will break up the monotomy of the grind. Don't do it for the stats though!

Oh oh oh, protip:

The gypsies in NK almost always have a stock of Lambent Stones. aaaaand you can bind there, so if you get a Wizard to help you out for a bit they can TL you back when you need to grab new ones. Or just bind themselves there and courier them for you.

Always do sol ro quests, so much classic

Gypsies in Oasis tend to have stones on them too. When I quested mine I got all of the pieces I needed save the Lambent stones and just ran back-and-forth between the Temple and Oasis. Could be faster with a Druid porter and NK, but I was doing it all solo.