TOTAL agreement with your post.
Sart
>I'm sorry this bummed you out. This was probably a bored level 50
>playing his twink. It's a shame he was one of the immature a**hole L50's
>but unfortunately the game attracts them as well as some pretty cool
>people as well. It's also too bad that Verant has left the game so empty
>for people at higher levels that all they can do while waiting for the
>occasional plane breakin or dragon run is play other characters. I know
>a lot of my former friends got a lot of fun out of going out and
>gathering equipment for their twinked characters with their L50
>characters. Personally, I tried it for a while, but I found playing a
>twink to be a rather boring thing. When you have an enchanter, as I did,
>decked out in equipment only a L40+ could obtain, it didn't leave much
>to look forward to but endless levelling. I still don't begrudge people
>that enjoy playing a twink though. Whatever floats your boat. Personally
>I found it a lot more fun to go play a character on a new server. I had
>(am having) a gas with my druid I started on the tribunal, who used a
>cracked staff for the first 14 levels because he couldnt afford anything
>better and had to pick and choose which spells to buy until L24. Guess I
>just like a challenge.
>
> > When there ceases to be any way for players' characters to differentiate
> > themselves from one another other based upon level (i.e. time and effort
> > expended), what is the point of continuing? I want, when people look at
>me,
> > for them to know that I braved death and died many times to achieve the
> > armor that I'm wearing. I don't want people to assume that I bought it
>from
> > a farming high level Wizard or Mage or twinked myself with it. I am now
> > "just another bard in Lambent". If the armor was NO DROP it would be a
> > different story.
>
>A lot of people bitch and moan about no drop but I actually agree it
>would have been a nice thing if they had made the class quest armor no
>drop. However, I really don't see the difference between someone who is
>L40+ getting things for themselves or another character they run.
>Really, dispite the jerk factor you've experienced from this guy, people
>who are twinking their other characters did put the time and effort in,
>on their other character, and, as someone on the list mentioned in an
>unrelated thread, they probably did it under harder conditions than
>newer characters experience, because they started back when bronze
>wasn't obtainable until the 20's or more, and the best weapon most
>people could look forward to was a combine scimitar at that point.
>
>But that's certainly no reason to look down on people who didn't advance
>as quickly. Some people just have so little a sense of self worth they
>have to get it any way they can.
>
> >...The bard that I saw in Oasis would have been in steel
> > probably and I would have something tangible and visual over him based
>upon
> > my efforts. Everyone that saw me would then *know* that I had earned
>the
> > pieces for myself. They would know that I had pulled Gypsy Musicians
>from
> > Mistmoore Castle for a lute, and that I had pulled Gargoyles in Lower
>Guk
> > for a Basalt Carapace. The Lambent armor's not being NO DROP has
>reduced my
> > efforts to inconsequential and unnoteworthy.
> >
> > I am seriously wondering what it is I'm doing playing a game that makes
>me
> > feel this way.
> >
>
>Rather than let it bum you out, why not see that anyone who would laugh
>at you for not being 50 yet should be pitied. While I sympathize with
>your plight however, I also think that this really stems from a bit of
>jealousy, I also think learning to deal with that can be valuable.
>
>Even if they made lambent armor no drop, there would be low level bards
>running around in mithril bp's, silver legs, azure sleeves, froglok
>crowns and dual ykeshas. The only way that Verant could deal with this
>is to make every item in the game no drop or put level limits on items
>so you can't equip them and they've repeatedly said they won't do that.
>
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