Quote Originally Posted by Vexander View Post
You kind of completely ignored Upgrading the stuff purchased with them and the costs that entails.
I ignored it because it further demonstrates how it's not worth the effort for something that gets replace shortly after obtaining it anyway. But sure, let's factor that in too: it's only ~1000 extra tomes per set to upgrade everything. The only time the larger cap may help you is if you're attempting to buy everything all at once for your first class. And even then, after that it goes right into my third point above where your current class should easily earn enough tomes on the road to 70 to buy all of the next's class's gear (and now upgrade items), not even considering how most of the equipment is still shared in some way so the more classes you level, the fewer tomes you need for the next one in line. We could factor in weapons too, but that further cedes the point that you're largely wasting your time farming all of those tomes when you're just going to toss them out shortly anyway.


So the 4k cap still doesn't really help anything. If you were going to sit there farm out 4k tomes before starting your first class anyway, what's stopping you from farming 2k twice? There's no real reason you would need to buy everything at once instead of as you went besides some arbitrary illusion of time being saved.