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Message ID: 2996
Date: Fri Sep 10 12:59:39 BST 1999
Author: Vincent Archer
Subject: Re: Items poliferation is a sword of damakle over Casters!


According to Wizard:
> I realy only can see that you are in bad mode maybe you can think a bit
> before replying, and if you dont have to say anything useful take a break.
> Only useful was that you say about your warrior at 3 lv but other things

Well, I apologise if I seem a little harsh, but the gist of the argument is
usually the same: unless you are in a competition with other players by
the game "physics", you are only in competition in your own mind. That's
not a competition one "wins". You do not get brownie points by being
able to take a mob N levels above your normal and expected target, except
if you are in a race to level. EQ is not a race. I laugh at people that
strut and show off their rubicite and barbed leather whip at level 3, as
if that was somehow an "achivement". It may be, for you. Not for me,
and there's no "objective" (within the game context) measure that says so.

There are three kind of imbalances that "require" correction:

An imbalance that prevents you from adventuring and getting in a group
("we can't solo" is not an imbalance; EQ's target is groups, not solo)

An imbalanbce that prevents you from leveling and getting in a rgoup
with people you want to group with.

An imbalance that make a class so unplayable or so easy that people
will avoid that class or rush to that class.

The whole twinking issue does not really fall into these categories. It
might, marginally, be relevant to 2; if you begin a twinked wizard in
order to level with a twinked warrior friend, you'd level slower...
if you both solo of course.

> are realy dont help any discusion and your tone is realy arogant.

Again, I apologise, but after a while, one gets tired of the "grass is
greener on the other side" recurring arguments. Here, and in other
classes lists.

The twink problem is a non-problem. Or would you expect a warrior to
require as few equipment, compared to a wizard of the same level, to
achieve the same efficiency? After all, the warrior does not have to
spend all that plat on our spells (and us wizards get off lightly in
that domain, compared to some other casting classes). Where else do
you expect him to spend plat.

The only difference is, we cannot twink a wizard with our previously
known spells. Alas.

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