Besides a few sky belt MQ's on blue that are decently affordable (pally is like 30-50k or so) the effort gap between a 34/26% worn item and a 40/41% item is quite severe. It means either not having to raid or having to raid which is a distinct change in what your game will be like. Unless you are a rogue or ranger and it comes on your easy epic.
One of the easiest pickups that doesnt sacrifice stats is the Rocksmasher but you are still relying on a single dragon to drop a single item and hoping you can win it amongst your peers. I'd argue a one-track raider looking for this as the end-game goal can get one fairly quickly but you will need to join a capable raiding guild and roll those digital dice for the stars to align.
It's not ideal to have to rely on Shissar to haste cap but the difference between it and VoG is 25 attack. It's nice but not a huge bump. Paladins at 60 if not strength capped can pick up about 80 attack with Yaulp4 so Shissar is a noticable disappointment. Otherwise it's a solid spell for almost everyone and gets you to where you need to be.
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