Magician Gear - Bang for Buck!
 

So I'm trying to figure out what to chase for leveling a mage. I have a level 17 magician that I'm playing now and I'm trying to make sure I'm spending my plat effectively for the long haul rather than buying replacement pieces as I go.

I'm looking for the best bang for my buck and I'm looking for relatively low cost items here, 5k max and preferably things I can resell in the future when I have replaced it with better.

(I already have my early focus items)

Best magician gear PERIOD

Race: Dark Elf (blue skin)
Robe: Robe of the elements/crimson robe of alendine robe (red/yellow/blue)
Boots: Gebs (yep! they still got it!) for the Yellow sheen.
Gloves: Glvoes of Fire (bright Orange)
Helmet: Helot Skull Helm (for dat sweet shiny skull)
Offhand: Insignia Protector (Shiny ass beautiful yellow offhand)
Mainhand: Epic (Lots of green blue red yellow sparkles!)

And the final result is the best looking character in Everquest. Period.

http://i.imgur.com/gR8JiND.png

As a mage, the gear you wear is practically insignificant. The things that are really going to matter are buying your spells and keeping charged root nets in your bag.

jesus I forgot how fucking easy this game was when you had broken gear like root nets still.

How are those viable at 100pp per root cast!?

When you are a pp millionaire these costs are trivial. But they are really for "oh shit" situations.

Only costs 20pp to buy back the net...so more like 7pp per root cast

root nets? are like 17 plat to recharge.