Returning player looking for advice on Shaman level 49+

[jarlerop]

1. I think i was in SolB/CoM at that level. Hard to find both pp and good exp, focus on exp.

2. See the above post.

3. I payed 30k for my tear and had my guild do the fight. This was 3-4 months ago.

4. Both are immensly valuable. I would buy fungi if you can and then sell it once you find someone to sell you the tear MQ.

Focus on exp. Lots of good camps open up around 55 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Fishbait]

Something in my wheel house...I recently just did the 50 to 59 grind and still going strong to 60 and also speaking from an ogre shaman perspective.

Step 1: Forget epic, forget fungi, your first immediate purchase needs to be a Jaundiced Bone Bracer(JBB) if you don't already have one, for about 10-12k. The rest of my answers reflect having this.

1. Wakening Lands. Not the best xp, not the best money...but it is a decent combination of both. The cave network where Geonid's are. With JBB at 49 you can start with Fairie Dragons, around 53 you can switch to Tar Goo's in the same network cave. This runs a little dry around 55-56. The bonus though is Faerie Dragons can drop quest gems(in value from 75p to 1k), and high vendor value plat items(Ruby Crown, Sapphire Necklace etc.) Tar Goo's as well, but without the quest gems.

Once you are around 53'ish, if you see any solo Necro's, Mages/Melee's, you can duo with them to kill the actual Geonids by slow'ing them and letting the pet/melee go to town. Careful on the Geonid Shamans...they can get out of hand.

For pure XP there are much better options, CoM, HS(Charasis), etc.

2. Small group for this needed, but as previously posted, people are more then willing to provide help, all you need to do is post and ask. I've seen multiple guildless people get help with fights even some guilds taking them to raid level fights for help if the item isn't in demand and would rot anyways.

3. Unlike answer 2, the tears will be heavily camped either to be sold or for a guilds own use. The price has sky rocketed to reflect this, the average cost last I checked being about 60k.

4. I would rate the most important purchase order as JBB > Fungi > Torpor > Canni IV > Epic. I only throw Canni IV in there as a sanity saver. Torpor and to a degree Epic are definitely more important then JBB/Fungi, but JBB/Fungi retain their value decently, and you get great and immediate use out of them. Resell later even at a few K plat loss is worth it to buy Torpor/Epic which you will then use to re-buy another Fungi and possibly JBB if you wanted.

I reiterate JBB as an immediate purchase because of the high cost of doing the Epic MQ now, I would rather save the 60k i'd spend on it and instead ding 60 and use those funds for Torpor first then use that to go for Epic.

JBB is not as good as Epic for leveling....but many people underestimate it's uses post 54'ish. And it is still vastly superior to root rotting without Epic. It's a tool you can still definitely use to solo to 60 with.