Stoneskin & Protect/ra II from 28-30

[ZenXIII]

I'm leveling up WHM in kazham and am pretty much 100% broke at the moment.
Now, i'm thinking about farming (my current plan is battering/tremor rams (and lower level elementals) in konschat and la thiene ... but any other suggestion would be helpful) in order to get up the needed money for stoneskin and protectra II (iirc, 9k each) ... however, i'm wondering how necessary it is for me to get these spells *now* or can it wait until 30?
Basically:
I plan on staying in kazham until 30 (getting sam quest ... which, iirc, is in kazham somewhere) and would rather not have to leave, go farm for the needed 2 spells, come back, level up twice, get the quest, and then leave again to either continue with WHM or start over as SAM for a "melee break."
But, if those spells will be essential, then i'll leave now and get up the money.
Otherwise, i'd prefer to stay here, and then farm for it when i can sub 15 THF and get more drops off those sheep
As it is, i'm thinking parties will be fighting mandragoras until 30 anyway...and...those things are an utter joke as far as challenge goes, so the extra protect doesn't seem necessary.
But, let me know what is best in your opinions!

[Icemage]

Stoneskin won't be an issue for a while - you can probably put it off until level 45 if you absolutely have to (however, since you're on Midgardsormr and Windurst happens to be #1 at the time of this posting on our server, I recommend getting it now since you can buy it at the magic shop in Port Windurst - approximate cost 7K, depending on fame).

All Protectra series spells, however, are required the moment you get them. Each upgrade provides a very visible improvement over the previous version, and spending the ~7K for Protectra II is money well spent IMHO. Protect II, the single-cast version, is a pure luxury, and entirely unnecessary for WHM.


Icemage

[ZenXIII]

Thanks, Icemage.
I think i'll just borrow the cash for Protectra II now then (easier to convince friends to give me 7k than 14 or 18) and then farm for stoneskin once i hit 30 ... it'll definitely make farming easier i think, and i'm gonna only need more money as time goes by.
BTW, are rams a good source of income? I'd heard they were b/c of the skins they drop, but am not positive if/why they really are...

[Miriamel]

Rams are pretty good at the early thirties - the skins they drop sell for about 500 on my server, the horns for 1,2k.

There are better ways to make money, but this definitely isn't a bad one.