Ding 61……. and a half and is Xegonite worth it?

Everquest ROCKS!!!  Its that simple!  It simply kicks the crap out of any other MMO out there at this point in time!
I fired up my Zerker two days ago (the day the patch finished) and got to business, luckily I had left myself with a ton of quests in the Lesser Faydark to get into so that I did, with gusto.  By the end of it I had nothing but Heroics left and a shiny new level under my belt!  Woohoo 61, 9 to go.
I had a word with a Guardian in my Guild (The Conclave) called Carv, hes the raid organiser and also the MT.  He told me that we dont actually have any good OTs or any decent zerks for that matter so im stoked for 70!  The Conclave raid one day a week which is PERFECT for me, it gives me lots of time off to finish up the quests and things like that!
So im on a mad push for 70.  Managed to bash out a load of PoF quests last night which got me halfway through 61 before I logged off and convinced my wife to give it a go (another go)
“But you know I hate Everquest” she says to me, my answer was thus “No you dont, you enjoyed it last time” 
And that was it, she created a Fey Wizard on my account (as hers is closed) and got to business, I did the usual nice, grats, ohhh imba spell, look at those graphics in order to make her feel good about it.  Who knows if I had a breakthrough at all.  Still need to tempt her away from WoW!
My aim this weekend is to hit 62 or maybe 63.  Got a WoW raid tonight though so that rules today out as an exp night, but ive got saturday and sunday!  Its easily doable if I can find some more quests.  At the moment (with wifey not playing) its hard to bash through the heroic quests.  More solo stuff pwease!!!

I really hate the look of Xegonite!  Honestly im going from the cool darkness of Cobalt to the….. RUSTY look of that!! Please!!! Should I even waste my cash on it, or look at picking up raid gear? Or some other gear??  Any advice?

Plan for today?  Get home from work and check Broker for sales, maybe exp a little.  WoW raid which, I dont know, I kind of want to do, but kind of dont. Then bed and up tomorrow for more EQ2 fun!

On a lighter note, I got a bonus at work and I am staring at £3000 and no clue what to do with it, any Ideas???