Xadion, just listen to what you are saying here. Imagine that you are playing Super Mario Brothers at home, and your friend says "Oh ho ho, you didn't *really* beat that level, because I wasn't there trying to beat that level first!". The idea that you you get stuff "handed" to you when you, you know, kill monsters in the game, is so mind boggling silly that it's amazing I hear it from every TMO member I meet. I mean by this logic every time I see TMO camping the fungi king I should race them until they prove to me that they can . . . I mean this whole idea doesn't even make sense, so I can't continue my analogy.
The simple reality is that TMO is full of people who derive a huge amount of self esteem from having pixels and being in the top raid guild, and put in a lot of time to get there. Then suddenly everything makes sense - they want to keep the bar to entry as high as possible; it's the same reason Szeth hated simultaneous repops. To be honest, I understand that feeling - I had the second enchanter epic on the server, so I got to be part of the 1% for a few weeks. Now everyone and their brother has one, so I'm not special. But hey, I can live with that.
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