You’re right there just isn’t enough gold for that while leveling. Now I wouldn’t do anything drastic like add sockets to gear that doesn’t have it until I’ve gotten closer to the endgame. I have a bank full of the basic ranks of gems, I might as well use them. Oh yeah, I slap gems into any open slot I have. I’ve also been salvaging everything, I’m assuming the mats are going to be harder to come by than gold at max level. With how often you replace gear leveling up in D4, is it even worth it to put gems into sockets? Seems like it isn’t wise given the high gold cost.

I expect that Blizzard will have thought of that already and has put measures in place to prevent it from happening - but I’m quite willing to be proven wrong on that front. Although kudos to whoever bites that bullet first. I’m certainly not going the Doubleagent route and leveling a character only through gathering professions on the Dragon Turtle to see if I can summon people into the Pandaren starting area.

So I guess a little less far than that extreme. I still haven’t finished leveling it though, and I definitely didn’t find all of the pieces of gear I need to make the build work either. The whole point is to turn off experience at level 50 and between a couple of pieces of Azerite armor and gear that you can buy with the Speed stat - you’ll get up to some absurd amount of run speed and be able to zoom around at Mach 5. I leveled a Druid in Warcraft only so that I could try out a speed tertiary stat build. GM tweet, to what extremes are you prepared to go in WoW for the sake of SCIENCE? I’m seriously considering leveling a Worgen hunter via daily pet quests enough to procure Eagle Eye, so I can snoop around the landscape before all the script-driven changes happen.

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