Epic Woes

[Immasnek]

I know the big ticket item is the green emerald from VSR for druids, that I know of, but is it truly a 20K purchase for a spawned NPC?

Is there any epic that doesn't cost an arm and a leg? I stopped playing my bard because the epic is absolutely a pipe dream and everything is bottlenecked by specific players/groups.

I'm just salty. I feel my characters will never see their epic, because grinding astronomical amounts of plat for a silly lore item is stupid, and not EverQuest.