I've been around a few years - started after kunark dropped. When I was levelling up, I didn't buy gear - I either quested for it or camped it. As a mage, this made it easy. Malachite is cheap.
Eventually, this resulted in quite a surplus of plat. After 50, going to Sebilis was just lining the coffers. Selling everything I looted in EC brought in more plat and eventually I decided to break the bank on a fungi when it was about 65k. It bottomed out at 45 and I was disappointed, but the utility has been very fun. Before the invis aggro change, I felt like a GOD leveling my SK in Unrest with a Fungi and CoS and IVU.
The fungi was a prestigious item on live - seeing a monk with a fungi and tstaff made you flip out. I always wondered what it would be like to be that monk. So, I made one.
TL;DR: Saved up. Got a fungi for alts.
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