rick, just adopt me. don't waste your millions in yumas or ponies! also, i saw you selling x3 tombola gear, so i figure you've tested upgrading them on beta. are they worth the investment?
at the moment, no. the stat increase can be nice, but everyone expects tombolas to continue, therefore the items you upgrade will be obsolete literally anytime. Could be 6 months from now, could be in a few weeks on Easter. Also the inability to auction them massively hurts their success. You are already spending X amount of in game cash or real life cash on nuggets to acquire items that then become shackles and eventually clutter. As is, you can buy the new gear, not level it, sell when its time, then buy the next hot set when it comes out and sooner or later you will bypass everyone who leveled items. Otherwise to stay current, you will have to keep spending and some will.
Then the extremely rare items, their increase is just not worth it. the idea of getting 9 of some items seems impossible but 27, 81, and 243... are laughable. The bench mark for items like Billy's, even Wyatt Earps can be 27, because they drop from jobs, the rest for get it. Gt's, howdahs are not upgradable at the moment, then the 2.08 update items, Inno belts, etc are too hard to obtain more than maybe 3 of, at which point their increase is not worth the trouble or cost.
So me, as is right now, (keep in mind they are working on the upgrade system and all of the above could be corrected soon) if the leveling arrived on .Net tomorrow, unless you have millions to waste, I wouldn't level anything. If you do, yuma to 3
someone sent an in game message asking for clarification. Long story short, items leveled cannot be sold at the moment, so to invest 3 of an item to gain a few points on items that you are then stuck with permanently, to me is not worth it. if you take an entire clothing set to level 1 for a player level 150, without going back and actually analyzing each set, the amount of points added into the build might be 50 (that's an estimate). That is a good amount of points, but is it worth 3 of every item that you then cannot sell? Even if those numbers are off, say its 80 or 100 points, it still doesn't matter because look at the increase in points added to a build when new tombola sets come out vs the old. They have to be better than the last to make people want to buy them, so from reeves, to bart/dalton, to deadwood there has always been a large increase in points, more than that amount given by a level 1. Plus with the new items, you would only require 1 of each item and they could still be sold. Obviously there are times not much of a difference occurs, baker to doolin for example, but at some point there will be an increase. So unless you either have millions to spend or don't mind buying nuggets every event, then it would seem wise to continue to play normally.