Should I farm Shrouded Badlands before Volcanic Cave?

[unknown2000]

I'm currently at the point of having full (G) Dragon gear and Dragon claws with 34 ancient claw fragments. After getting the Ancient claw, should I focus on getting my stats high enough so I can idle Volcanic Cave or is one of the items gotten from monsters in Shrouded Badlands worth getting before the VC grind?

Perhaps Sanguine Blade from Bounty Hunter, along with some amulets for the FotEZ? Tormented Ring is probably quite a pain in the ass to get before VC cause the Maiden does so much damage.

How about the Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs? I know it's damn good but I wanna get my priorities straight. It takes a lot of farming.

[Oktober12th]

When I started maxing things I ran into the same issue of not knowing what would be a good direction to go. In the end, I basically just kind of dipped into everything to find what worked best for how much attention I wanted to pay to the combat. When I was actually there I would do the harder stuff and then switch to the simpler when I was AFK.

In the end it really doesn't make a huge difference as you will likely do everything eventually - especially if you are going for the Achievements and the Cape of Completion.

More specifically, I would absolutely focus on the Ancient Claw fragments first since that is just an all-around good weapon. After that, I would idle on gaining the Amulets in order to work towards Zodiac and get XP for any combat skills and Summons you haven't maxed. If you are being more attentive to the combat, switch to the VC to try for Ancient Armor pieces (especially the shield).

My two cents at least :)

[Huillam]

I'd suggest to go for Volcanic Cave.
Nothing beats ancient magicks when it comes to kill rate and farming the fury with with Slicing Winds or Icicle Volley would be a lot faster.