Oh! How about the countless hours spent running from Cazic Thule to the
gypsys in Rathe Mountains to sell fine steel weapons!

Halana/Tani

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth E. Bachman [mailto:kbachman@...]
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 5:15 PM
> To: eqbards@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [eqbards] all I can say is hmmmm
>
>
> 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.