It was extremely common in the early days of the game, that as a caster class, you would have cloth armor in most slots, and maybe you had a cracked staff or snake fang as a weapon, and that was a lot of players the norm. And then you get past level 10 and you start to accumulate some plat, and other players, who are more advanced than you, have hunted down some treasure, and maybe you can afford to buy some of the stuff they don't want. So by lvl 15 or so, you also one or two nice starting items.
Then by lvl 20 to 30, you are starting to hunt places that drop are improvements on the cloth armor, so that starts to get added to the mix. And then you progress even further, and all that cloth is gone, and you have either bought some nice stuff, or gone and got lucky and got it in a group yourself. Before you know it, it is you are who are selling a not bad first item to a level 12 character.
That's eq. Multiply that simple story times for a few gigaflops and you got the crazy world of p99. It's exactly the same, but with electrolytes.
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