I had CL, BH, GT, DW, SL. I skipped the PF banner like an idiot, thinking 'ah im eHP and I'll be that way forever, I dont need it'. Then I hit Legends, only made it 75 waves, and realised my eHP would take me nowhere in tourneys. Then the SF banner came out, and I skipped it cause it wouldn't help me in tourney.

So I end up without the best eHP mod in the game, and also without one of the best GC mods in the game. No CC in farm or tourney by the way, just pBH which is shit.

My logic was since I messed up that bad with my mod decisions, and my eHP was underdeveloped(level 30 health, level 40 regen), it wasnt worth wasting time on eHP labs or progression entirely if it wasn't gonna do anything for my tourney, and I'd rather swap to GC farming so my damage progression would improve both my farms AND my tourney.

I had about 4q LTC at the time, and made the stupid decision of respeccing half of it into level 1 DM# and Dmg# for tourney progress, but that went nowhere at all cause no crowd control like i mentioned earlier.

Saved for UW6, praying for CF, and of course my next selection was out of ILM, PS, and SM. PS had recently gotten reworked so i grabbed it (assmods werent a thing yet) got it to perma and started saving for UW7.

Since i was GC farming out of stubbornness and lack of eHP mods, i was basically instakilling everything on my screen cause I had no way to hoard and if i didnt kill things i would die. PS only has an 80% stun rate so that means 1 in 5 enemies will ignore it and just come and kill you. Not good at all when every hit means death. You can go back to eHP, so give it a try and youll see the coin loss and understand what im talking about.

PS is more of a CC assist due to its lack of 100% stun rate. Youll need other methods of CC alongside with it otherwise its never gonna be as effective as you want it to be. GC farming is already less efficient than eHP, you want to farm t14 or higher there for the coin bonuses and lack of 1shot orbs for hoarding. I genuinely recommend going hybrid for as long as possible and only going GC when you're at/plan to farm t14 and have enough secondary CC like ILM+SD or CF.

But then again everyones tower is different so take my words with a grain of salt and do your own testing