Skoodge wrote on Nov 24
th, 2017 at 6:30am:
I can LR a barb into a warlock for quick ER lives which will help a melee (and running those quests will provide what I need to get the hearts I need or ER lives) or I can start running racial past lives which (and I could be wrong) really won't help a melee much at all.
Which are better? Epic past lives or racial? And which are quicker? I actually have no idea what the xp needed is for racial.
Which are better really depends on the exact builds you're considering. Overall, I'd say the epic PLs are a bit better all around then the heroic ones. The real prize from heroics and the racials are the +stat bonuses and the completionist feats.
For example, on a shuricannon, Dex is an extremely high priority, if not the highest, so the +dex racial PLs and the racial completionist have a lot of value. For a melee? Seems like the +str or +dex and the +con racial PLs would be useful.
I think someone else on here mentioned that one of the more optimal ways to farm PLs is to level to 30, epic TR, level to 30, epic TR, heroic/racial TR. If memory serves, the reason it is optimal is that you can use slayers and saga xp turn ins on one of the epic TRs to speed things up.
I'd also point out that just chain eTRing with a warlock and running the same, small set of quests over and over gets tedious pretty quickly. Mixing heroic and racial TRs in with the epics at least adds some variety to the quest list.