I only wore gear I picked up from quests and bosting. You will find that you lvl so quick that gear becomes obsolete very quickly, I boosted my mages through SM until they all had the blue cloth items and 2H and then boosted ZF for the quests and then just boosted the first boss to death until I had the staff and hands for all 4 mages. By the time I had done this I had hit 50 and the gear from SM was looking OLD.

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