Wizard - buy gear or save for jboots?

[amnesia998]

Title. Have about 300p on me, level 9. What do?

[bricke75]

Aren't JBoots like 5k? That's a long ways off [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[DayForz]

Buy gear and sow potions for now. Wizards don't get our first snare until level 29, and our first good AE quad nuke is at level 34. Once you're higher level, you can start porting for plat and save up for j-boots.

[Foxplay]

Just save the plat for your spells maybe some cheap INT gear

The 5k for Jboots will be a lot easier when you can port ppl for plat

[Jimjam]

Don't waste your money on gear that doesn't give much benefit.

As a wizard the s ro jboots are pretty easy to solo (grab a high level sow and a staff of temperate flux). Every 8pm hit the desert to check for the 9pm AC pop).

Not at level 9 though.

[Ravager]

Originally Posted by Jimjam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Don't waste your money on gear that doesn't give much benefit.

As a wizard the s ro jboots are pretty easy to solo (grab a high level sow and a staff of temperate flux). Every 8pm hit the desert to check for the 9pm AC pop).

Not at level 9 though.

This is the thing to do. Super easy for a wizard. Spend the 5k on other upgrades. 1-35 you should be spending your plat on spells and cheap +mana/int gear.


If the flux staff is out of reach for you, there's an easy camp in Erud's at level 16, the vampire bats. A necromancer bat spawns once in a while that always drops a 3 charge instant click lifetap wand. Can bind that to a hotkey and have an instant tag while hunting the cyclops.

[ScaringChildren]

By the time you can start quadding, you'll be able to port people.

A couple of ports will buy you roughly 10 hours of SoW.

jBoots are half the speed of SoW.

SoW pots, baby.

[pickled_heretic]

you won't be able to quad effectively without jboots. they are a critical component. I would never even fathom being reliant on sow pots for your basic leveling, seems like a bunch of shamans in this thread trying to drum up business. you also won't be able to quad without 2-3k in +int/mana gear either tho. I would get you some gear first, and switch over to the jboots when you get around lvl 34 (which is the point you're gonna want to start quadding)

[Mewse]

Originally Posted by pickled_heretic [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I would never even fathom being reliant on sow pots for your basic leveling

For 100p, you get 5 hours of SoW with a 10 Dose potion. If we go by the cheapest MQ price of 5k on the wiki, and assuming they don't have to use their own gold for the turn-in, that's 250 hours of SoW for the price of J Boots. That seems like a much more reasonable exchange for a new player than trying to save up for so much at one time.

Even if we look at all the downtime for a wizard that's quadding, they could probably get at least two kites in per shot of the potion if they manage their time well. Possibly even three, depending on their level and if they ran into some nice players who tossed them a PotG and/or C2.

My suggestion would be to focus on gear and spells for now, get some pots when you start quadding, and worry about J Boots when you're a more established player. But that's just my 2c.

[pickled_heretic]

Originally Posted by Mewse [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

For 100p, you get 5 hours of SoW with a 10 Dose potion. If we go by the cheapest MQ price of 5k on the wiki, and assuming they don't have to use their own gold for the turn-in, that's 250 hours of SoW for the price of J Boots. That seems like a much more reasonable exchange for a new player than trying to save up for so much at one time.

Even if we look at all the downtime for a wizard that's quadding, they could probably get at least two kites in per shot of the potion if they manage their time well. Possibly even three, depending on their level and if they ran into some nice players who tossed them a PotG and/or C2.

My suggestion would be to focus on gear and spells for now, get some pots when you start quadding, and worry about J Boots when you're a more established player. But that's just my 2c.

yeah, but after the end of that 250 hrs you still have jboots. plus you have the advantage of having a clicky (useful for refreshing your slot 1 spell quickly, or as a junk buff in certain situations) and this is eq... 250 hrs is not an unheard of amount of time to be playing a character if you are serious about getting to 60.