While I agree 100% with the noob immunity and that contributing heavily toward the server health (no one worth a fuck is going to quit because they can't grief lvl 1s, but tons of people will quit because 10+ mages are roaming the lvl 1 areas murdering everyone), the idea that you should be able to hit 60 in a day or two is completely misguided.
You don't want leveling to be so easy that some idiot druid can poopsock for a day and then spend every waking moment porting around murdering all the lvl 15s with absolutely no hope of reprisal. Levels still need to be hard-won and there needs to be some tension to grinding and being able to max out trivially circumvents that process and just encourages mindless griefing.
The best part about Discord is that it creates tension between leveling and ganking. PvP is going to be most interesting when it involves contesting zones, ambushes over camps, or running into other crews in out-of-the-way locations. Without this the PvP is just a boring fragfest and may as well not be EQ.
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