Jboots (MQ) or SoW Potions, which is more cost effective?

[Shiftin]

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

Sow potions are a fair amount faster than j-boots. It's not the same buff.

EDIT: I think azzbadd summed it up nicely.

I would only add that there is currently no raid encounter in the game that makes having an instaclick buff vital to winning the fight, regardless of what others might try to say.

yeah, you could just as easily crap buff an entire raid while racing 2 other guilds for the CT or inny inst... oh sorry he's already dead.

[Messianic]

When quad kiting, your run speed actually affects how quickly you can finish the quad. I really prefer having that extra speed. I'm going to get jboots eventually, but i'm waiting on it. I might just make enough money to buy an MQ, but for now i'm fine with Sow Pots.

[guineapig]

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

yeah, you could just as easily crap buff an entire raid while racing 2 other guilds for the CT or inny inst... oh sorry he's already dead.

I understand what you are saying, but when was the last time Inny or CT popped in a completely empty raid zone where having j-boots would get you to the boss any faster? And even if that were ever the case, the person with sow would get there 20% quicker than the person with a j-boot buff. CT repops the entire zone so j-boots is invalid. Inny is a simple fight and guilds tend to camp right upstairs with full raid buffs.

Like I said, I'm not bashing j-boots, they are indeed a great utility when you have the discretionary income for them and absolutely nothing else you would rather spend the time/money on. But this whole raid necessity thing is just silly. This is classic EQ. Tank, spank, win. Let's not kid ourselves.

[karsten]

buy jboots as soon as you can

buy sow pots until you can buy jboots

this thread is over

[Shiftin]

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

I understand what you are saying

i feel like you don't know that inny and CT have been dispelling every time they cast for the last couple months.

[karsten]

shiftin your first mistake was taking anything that chicanery says on any amount of authority

[Yilza Moosik]

Jboots are a cool factor. I have em because it makes my epeen grow a centimeter! Yes a centimeter.

[guineapig]

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

i feel like you don't know that inny and CT have been dispelling every time they cast for the last couple months.

So you mean to tell me that every time they cast a spell your entire raid does a synchronized j-boot click?

Actually, I've been to an Inny raid recently... we killed him. I did not require a single heal during the encounter. Pretty sure I could have done it completely buffless if we didn't actually have to fight our way from the zone line up to him.

It doesn't matter if they dispell. A good chunk of the raid shouldn't be in range of the dispell and even if they are I'm pretty sure they should not be getting hit by much else and are well geared enough to survive a minute without a few buffs.

I really don't want to argue about this but I have heard the dispell thing a hundred times and I have never once died to either of these mobs due to not being able to insta-junk buff myself.

J-boots are great and useful and sparkly and magical... but you don't need them to kill any bosses.

[karsten]

you are lol

[yaaaflow]

But... surely even despite your awesome anecdotal evidence you can see how being able to insta-junk buff yourself would be useful?