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Old 05-31-2021, 01:32 PM
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Strongly consider killing 5 game days to level a Druid from 1 to 19 for basic self-ports and Bind in Kunark. The reason for this would be for dumpster diving on the city merchants for words you need, especially the higher level reagents needed to research the level 49 spells. Hardly anyone ever sells those in EC, and getting a friendly high level mage to do combines for you is more miss than hit on Blue server. The druid would have the side value of being able to ground twink your holding bags with dungeon loot to the druid for fast vendor sales so you can go back to farming.
While it's never bad advice to have a Druid alt, I just want to play Devil's advocate in this particular instance. While it's true that 3/4 of the level 49 Mage pets are Research only (you can vendor-buy the Earth pet), the reality is you'd probably only want the Fire pet at 49 anyway, since it's so good for soloing. You aren't missing out on much by not having the 49 Water and Air pets. At 51 you will start using the Vocarate Earth pet anyway, which has a max level of 45 vs. the 49 pets max level of 41, and will out-damage and out-tank all the 49 pets (although the focused 49 Earth and Fire pets may still be more efficient for soloing due to their lower mana cost). And then Gift of Xev replaces the only other decent Research-only Mage spells (Cornucopia and Everfount) at 51.

Basically, the point I'm making is don't worry too much about Research spells on a Mage. The worst case scenario is you have to level from 49 to 51 with only an Earth pet (which you can turn into a shredder with your 49 haste and DS anyway). Not a big deal. In the time it would take you to level a Druid alt and go vendor diving, you could easily just level past the window you'd actually use those spells and then buy their upgrades.
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