THIS IS MY LONG RESPONSE TO THOSE WHO DISLIKE MY WAY OF PLAYING:

Personally, i don't think my KS reputation will go as far as you claim.
First of all, there are probably around 2000 - 3000 people playing on the
server. At this point, I haven't traveled around too much, but i rarely see
people from Erudin that i've grouped with or talked to in the past. I play
around the Qeynos area, usually West karanas, so its not too far from my home
town. With a population of approximately 2000 - 3000 players on the server and
a zone population of around 30-50 ppl, no one gives a shit about my name or if i
have KS from them before or not. So my reputation is pointless at this time and
i don't give a shit if people hate me. There are some people i steal from often
and they do hate me to some extent, but i don't really care about that. Since
they can just go else where if they don't want me to KS from them, but i can't
travel solo too much since i die easily as a wizard.

On the power gaming / whining issue of my personality. YES ! I LOVE to
powergame ! Currently, i play around 6 hours/day after work, and 12 - 15
hours/day on the weekend. I love to level just for the hell of it, don't really
care too much about Role Playing, although I do RP sometimes. But not very
often. maybe only 20-30% of the time I am on. Power Gaming keeps the fun in it
for me, I don't like spending a lot of time doing NOTHING. Its more fun for me
to see that i've gained some lvl after spending x amount of time.

You also inform me that people like to train stuff to me after i KS from
them, maybe this is the issue in dungeons but i don't goto dungeons often. I
like to stay out doors cuz dungeons are just too messy with tones of ppl around.
So there is little risk for me to get trained. Sometimes people try to train
bandits at me(west karanas), but they just end up dying themselves with me
stealing a few off their trains. This has happened quite a number of times and
its not a problem for me to deal with. I also had other Wizards from groups
standing behind me in an attempt to train, but i usually keep an eye on my msg
board to see when they cast, and i wait for them to cast first. If they don't
cast and just waiting for me to make the first move, i usually cast a weak
spell(shock of frost) on the mob and let them cast harder to train themselves.
I also had this happen quite a few times. But again, its not a big problem. It
is also funny sometimes the people i KS from think that if they just go in while
i med, or something, then i won't have mana to KS from them. But i usually med
anywas out of habbit even though i have full mana, i usually just keep pressing
F8 and keep an eye on who is attacking etc through the msg board. Those people
who go in too fast are usually unprepared and not organized, they get in
trouble themselves and ask for their group to help. But a lot of times their
groups don't have clerics or other types of healers(a lot tanks around west
karanas) so they end up dying and then get mad at me cuz i didn't KS the bandit
so they could live. I've had this happen 3 times so far.

After saying that, i see a lot of skill involved in KS , not just over
power but to see when to KS and when to wait. There is much more strategy
involved with KS than just grouping and kill/med all the time. Its more fun for
me to go around picking ppl's kills when i don't have a group so i can still lvl
and not just sit around doing dick all. I tried the method of looking up using
/who lvl, for ppl who are my lvl, but a lot of ppl are anonymous(as am I) and
the people who are not, i usually ask. They either are already grouped
themselves or are logging off(maybe thats just an excuse). I don't blame people
for not grouping with me, they do their stuff i do mine. And i don't care if
they blame me for KS their kills. In a non-PVP environment, i do whatever i
want, they do whatever they want. If they don't like how i operate , they can
try to train me, but it has NEVER worked so far. Trains usually hate them way
more than me and shadow step works quite nicely most of the time. The only
times I die is when i am stupid for not saving enough mana for shadow step and
then gate, or that some mob spawns beside me while i am attacking. It does not
happen often, but its always my fault when it happens. It is, however, NEVER
due to the fact that someone else purposely tried to kill me. Maybe this will
be different if i am in a dungeon, but again i don't goto dungeons and won't go
anytime soon.

To those people who are very ANTI--KS, i used to be just like you. Anonyed
at everyone who stole from me or my group, but now i just do whatever i want, i
group a lot as well, and i KS the rest of the time. It puts more fun into the
game for myself since i love to PowerGame and lvl fast. Do what you will , try
to KILL those darn KSer if u wish, if they die, its their fault for being stupid
and not carefully looking at the situation at hand.