which eso piece you all getting first?

[Sapphidia]

Well I wouldnt call it uninformed. It was a choice to ignore the chest. You had two ways of grinding the alex drops - it depends where you want your "item spike" to be. Hands, Chest and Pants all come from 3 and 4, so you either get hands week 1 and then wait 4 weeks with nothing and get pants/chest together, or you get hands week 1, Pants week 3 (ready for alex savage), and have two weeks being stronger but delay the chest until week 7 (or never buy chest and get the eso).

Getting 4 Shafts is fine, but you delay other items so are slightly less powerful in the first couple of weeks. The chest has garbage stats on it so I'm not unhappy - in 3 weeks anyway I'll have weapon + Eso Chest + full i190, it just means I had a stronger opening week but a slightly weaker midweek spike! It also means when I get the 190 chest in a few weeks I can use it on my scholar >_>

But yeah I'll probably buy the sword anyway and actually use the purchase to check on parses how much it boosts me. We're making great progress on A1S and I -can- survive the tank busters fine so I guess it's better to focus on hitting the 8:40 enrage.