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Originally Posted by Gorster
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Selling rusties and cloth from skelies and similar makes more than enough money to buy your useful spells early on until you can start killing things that drop useful loot like spider silk or hq bear pelts. Make a silk/tattered set yourself and go, it is easy and cheap. Keep a tailoring kit and gorget patterns on you and make armor with ruined pelts, they sell for a lot more while being lower weight. I never sold anything related to the quests on my Wiz and never once struggled with buying spells and picking up a few upgrades along the way. Still wearing half the silk set at 37 and my nukes hit just as hard as the wiz twink next to me.
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True, but it doesn't change that it's unfair for lowbies just trying to casually play to lose those options, which was the point I intended to make.
Also, while I have no issues with twinking, since it's just new game+ more or less, I do have a problem with your argument. The problem is you're comparing spell damage this would be about the same as comparing your bind wound skill since, as far as I'm aware, equipment does not affect spell damage, so it doesn't factor into the twinking argument at all. It would certainly affect your survivability, as well as total mana, but for the most part, caster classes could even get by completely naked if they had to, though I doubt a new player would want to do this as it would still be harder than leveling with gear on.
A better comparison would've been between a hybrid or melee that isn't twinked versus one that is, but I think the difference there would be much more dramatic, those classes tend to rely on gear more than casters do. That being said, unless someone is using the advantage from twinking to steal kills or something, it shouldn't have a negative impact on anyone's experience with the game.