Asheras wrote on Oct 19
th, 2012 at 8:51am:
I've stopped farming Von3 heavily as it is nice for ED farming later. Better to grind quests that don't have an epic version at that point. Not like you are light on XP in levels 8-11 anyways. Von3 is a great XP/min epic run if you haven't drained it at earlier levels. I get sick of Rusted Blades and Death Undone.
I do a BB run, and a hard and norm for first time bonus, but then I move on.
I did that on one of my TRs, and you're right, there's plenty of XP that you can easily skip it. I supplemented by running a tour of Co6, which I usually skip because I hate running around in that explorer area.
However, I found that I wasn't actually running much VoN 3 epic. I would run it once on each of epic elite/hard/normal for first time bonuses, and then move on. So on future TRs I continued to farm out VoN 3 at heroic level.
Either way is fine. Skipping it will give you a few more epic farming choices, which is always good, especially if you like helping out guildies getting to cap. But if you're a selfish SOB like me, and you're fine with just melting your brain in the drow city quests for epic XP, then there isn't really anything you need to save during your heroic leveling.