Here's the thing: you don't need an epic, or a fungi, or even a JBB to level to 60: they don't increase your grouping XP rate at all, and they doon't increase your soloing rate
that much.
Just to use some rough but arbitrary number: pretend you have 200 hours left of grinding to get to 60. JBB might save 20 hours, fungi 40 hours, and epic 60 hours.
Even if you farmed plat at 1k/hour, you wouldn't be able to farm the 50k for a fungi in 40 hours, or 100k for epic in 60 hours ... and you
won't be able to farm at 1k/hour at your level. However, you might farm 10k for a JBB faster than 20 hours.
I think you should get a JBB and then save the plat you get from leveling for spells. Once you're 60 (even without Torpor) you'll be able to farm plat a lot faster, and
then you can worry about getting an epic and Torpor, and probably a Fungi along the way.
Now of course it'd be nice to have all those "toys" leveling up, as you'd get to 60 faster, but unless you're a twink it's not going to happen (or if it does happen, you'll waste more time farming plat than you'll save in leveling time). So just enjoy the fact that Shaman are plenty powerful without toys, enjoy the grind to 60 without them, and once you get to 60 enjoy the fact that you're on-par power-wise with other 60 characters ... but you still have two "levels" worth of power (epic and Torpor) to go
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