[Messianic]

Before you give handouts to people who are new to the server, make sure you consider that you may be ruining one of the best and enduring aspects of EQ - nothing is handed to you on a silver platter. Many classes are very difficult and tedious to level without twinking.

But if we played a game because it wasn't tedious or difficult, we wouldn't be playing EQ - we'd be playing WoW, Rift, or any myriad of next-gen MMOs which streamline and guardrail everything for you.

I had a tremendous amount of fun figuring out how to make plat and survive on my first few non-twinks on this server. Twinking is fun and all, but nothing beats the experience of building your character completely on your own.


So before you give that handout - be sure you're not giving so much as to ruin the person's chance to experience one of the best parts of this game. As a balance, I've given out a ton of gear to new players - most of that has been suits of banded or cheap weapons like Gloompoons, Runed Falchions, etc...And it's great. I've made some cool friends by helping them out when they got to the server.

But I never wanted to give them so much they don't get to experience building their own character.