My 59 Bard has 127 on him, which earns me quite a bit of derision from the newbies. On the other hand,
the newbies didn't play for two nights before they figured out that the the reason everyone else was so
much faster was the "run" button. Nor did they wander into Nek forest thinking how cool it was that there
were Guards to protect them, only to spend the next 3 hours retrieving corpses. Nor did they spend hours
of time on boats importing derv rings to GFay (1pp apiece). Nor were they ecstatic to buy their first
piece of Banded at level 18 (15pp for a bracer, thanks price fixing). Nor did they train Smithing to 125
before cntl-click (you had to move the slider down to pick one thing off a stack). And the list goes on.
I did rather lazily level my Warrior to 38 in 12 days, with no help but twinked equipment, and my Druid to
24 in 3.5 days, ditto, so a lot of it is equipment, knowledge, and better hunting areas.

Kenross Cantoforjado, 59 songs, Innoruuk

"Cranfill, Wendy" wrote:

> hehehehe well thats really not so bad. Before I tell anyone my played time
> I make them swear a blood oath to make no comments about my lack of a life!
> I can't remember Halana's offhand but its over 200 as well. Tani is 23 and
> 12 of those were getting from level 1 to 12. Non powerleveled/twinked
> characters that are around 2 years old all have played times that long I
> think. I mean just think of all the time we've wasted at camps, gaining exp
> back and running back to corpses before resses were so readily available.
> Think of all the time its taken us to do Epics, or get our Pre-Kunark
> armor... and all that time we just sat around chatting (well worth it too!)
>
> Hallly/Tani