Question for Shaman Gear

[loramin]

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

I did not. I simply wrote the math in a different manner. I read what you said. Both of us have come to the same conclusion that Epic is not a straight 2x improvement in terms of leveling speed.

But that is not the issue. The question is what is better:

1. Leveling faster at the cost of farming slower at 60.

2. Leveling slower at the benefit of farming faster at 60.

Torpor is going to give you more money in the time you saved by leveling faster via Epic. Spending 50 hours at Fungi King is probably going to net you more money (unless you are really unlucky) than farming 50 hours at vendor trash mobs root/rotting them with Epic.

Well if your basic argument is "you can't resell the epic to buy Torpor", you're certainly correct about that. But it's also a simple fact that you can earn Torpor money much faster at 60 with an epic than you can earlier on.

If your options are "buy epic at 51 and get nine levels, plus all plat-farming time at 60, with your epic" or "save 50k by not getting the epic, and focus on getting plat as you level up so you can buy Torpor right away", I strongly suspect that the former is a much better idea ... but I have no objective numbers to back that up.