Go all in on Fungi?

[Lionsfan616]

Posted this on Reddit but maybe I'll get some additional information here as well...

Hey guys, quick question (kinda). I have several character scattered around and have recently been consolidating and selling gear on some I don't play anymore (55 druid/45 pally/53 bard). I am currently holding on to ~26k. I have a rogue that I like but have recently been playing a monk (level 30) and I like him better than any other character I have. I can sell everything I have on him (the rogue) and make another additional ~16k. That will leave me with 42k total with only the gear remaining on monk. I have a near full set of black pantherskin armor, wedding rings, SCHW (for sweet haste), and Wu's quivering staff. So...

Do you think it would be worth it to sell the rest of my gear and get a Fungi OR should I use the 26k I have now and get something like Imbued Fighters Staff and a Runebranded Girdle? Will a fungi make a huge difference in grouping/soloing? (Iksar Monk btw)

Thanks for reading my quick question lol.

[Troxx]

Fungi and a trash weapon with cheap haste is far superior to 40-45k worth of low to mid tier gear spread across all slots.

[Baler]

I vote for the iksar monk with the fungi. You'll use it for a long time. Some extra regen while you're waiting for hp is nice too.(after you're geared and mend is down)
I can't ever advise selling another char's gear but if it's a commitment you can live with, go for it.

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15(regen) * 60(mend downtime in ticks) = 900hp
Let's say you have 4k life,. mend is 25% so 1k.
You can get aprox as much life from 6 mins of the fungi as you would popping a mend.
removing racial regen from the math.

[fastboy21]

bang per buck (plat) you will get more from the fungi.

you'll want to upgrade the haste item eventually too, but right now fungi has much more utility imo.

[Pyrocat]

Yes, absolutely, get a fungi. You will never replace it, and monk weapons are already easy and cheap to come by. There's no comparison, it will upgrade your group and solo capabilities on a completely different level than getting an IFS/better haste.

[Lionsfan616]

Alright then, Fungi it is. Time to start selling some items now :) Thanks everyone

[Troxx]

Fungi is simply the best monk bp you can get in game for your whole leveling career along with 99.9% of the time at 60 raiding. Stats cannot replace 15 a tick passive regen. Had sleeper not been woken, lungi would have been the best. Velious bps and the stats they give aren’t worth it comparatively.

You’ll never replace it.

I’d vote better naked with WQS, fungi and cheap haste than 45k filling out all your spots with decent gear, better haste and a better weapon.

[Taiku]

Fungi is the way to go, especially since it seems like you have a bunch of characters who could equip it anyway when/if you get tired of your monk! but it's def a game changer on a monk

[Bboboo]

fungi allows you to easily solo 1-30 with trash/decent gear in other slots. Still very good 30+ but you can feel it's effectiveness start to slowly diminish.

Fungi/Good Weapon/Haste item all you really need to make the starting levels feel like nothing.

[Fryhole]

You already had your question answered but you can also port around on your druid to come up with some extra funds to grab some extra weapons in the future if you really need to. (or go farm some easy stuff) /shrug

[mefdinkins]

For monk fungi is the way to go can easily solo 1-50 significantly faster than without fungi. Depending on your guild and gear situation, you can solo a monk to 60 with fungi - that's a lot easier if you're very twinked. But still 1-50 shouldn't be a problem.

The other cool thing is once your monk starts to get geared every upgrade you get you can pass along. You get a sky haste belt super cheap and you can give your haste gloves to rogue. You get White Lotus Slippers you can pass Barbed Dragonscale Boots on to rogue. Once you start grouping and raiding, fungi will still be clutch, but you are not as reliant on the Fungi. Then you can use it to solo your rogue up to 50 then pass it back to monk and vice versa. Once your monk is 58+ you can pass on fungi and try to camp one yourself if you familiarize yourself with pulling the camp in Seb. Once you're 60 you can camp a ton of great items to really twink out your alts too.

After getting my first fungi I've never traded/sold it. I've swapped it between monk, druid, monk, bard, rogue, bard, monk, rogue, monk, warrior, monk, and back forth a million times because it is that game changing. If it wasn't so expensive I'd have a fungi on every single one of my characters.

[Spyder73]

Fungi is easily the most broken item on P99 in the lower levels (sub 35). Really nothing compares to it. If there were not more fungi tunics on the server than players it would be selling for absurd amounts of money.

[oqrelord]

A fungi turns eq into an action rpg. It feels like youre playing world of warcraft with a fungi.

In the 45+ levels it starts to wane, but still amazing vs without one.

[Check12345]

A Z-Heart on a low/mid lvl necro is pretty lol as well.

[katrik]

Fungi is pretty amazing for sham.. and it stacks with your chloro/regrowth.

[Foxplay]

Port on your druid to make cash

[skarlorn]

Fungi and a trash weapon with cheap haste is far superior to 40-45k worth of low to mid tier gear spread across all slots.

[Spyder73]

A Z-Heart on a low/mid lvl necro is pretty lol as well.

Leveled my necromancer from level 1 to 55 with a Zheart and my SK from 1 to 50 with a Fungi. Zheart is not anywhere near the power of a Fungi in terms of trivializing content. It does great at offsetting Lich but even that is not terribly game changing. I actually ended up selling my Zheart for like 160k because it was so 'meh' for the amount of money I had invested into it.

[Lionsfan616]

Im almost there guys, 35k now and I have 4-5 more things to sell.... I am going to get that fungi hopefully soon and you all have me excited lol

[deniedius]

Fungi is pretty amazing for sham.. and it stacks with your chloro/regrowth.

If you make a troll also, with the passive regen, good golly

[katrik]

Ikky master race

[Vanech]

The top two items I always wanted on live were the Fungi and Flayed Barbarian Skin Leggings for my scaled monkey. Those two were like my Ark of the Covenant and Holy Grail, lol.

[Spyder73]

Did you get your Fungi OP?

[rictus204]

inquiring minds want to know!

[mefdinkins]

The top two items I always wanted on live were the Fungi and Flayed Barbarian Skin Leggings for my scaled monkey. Those two were like my Ark of the Covenant and Holy Grail, lol.

Fungi, Any Epic, and 7th Shawl, and 10th Ring.

Been day dreaming about those items since I was in middle school! Love seeing people get to fulfill their childhood dreams on P99!!

[Lionsfan616]

Did you get your Fungi OP?

I did just this morning! Huge shutout to Frienda (hope I spelled it right) for working with me on a haze panther tunic + plat trade. I haven't used it a ton yet but I am excited to get on after work and do some work on mobs.im hoping I can breeze through the next 10 levels so I can get it to PoSky and get that sweet haste belt.

Thanks all :)