[karsten]

No, the attempts to discredit my assertions based on incomplete knowledge are irrelevant and misguided. In fact, those two adjectives are so inappropriate to my comments that i wonder why you'd use them.

the universal theme here is whether or not a person wants to spend their time complaining about their situation or spend it bettering their situation. It's really an allegory to life, but I'd be digressing--

most high level players WERE in front of the project 1999 train. That makes sense though. Think about this though -- I'm actually not one of them, having started on this server on october 27th. The very fact that I've been able to level a hybrid is in complete contrast to what you're saying.

I've stated time and again about the challenges to me finding groups, including not having people in my level range, alienation, the fact that as a puller, pathing bugs get blamed on you, that sort of thing. In fact, as I got to 34+ it got even harder -- assuming you guys are somewhere between 15 and 30, that's where it should be the easiest for you to level.

Now, let's clear up a few things that are incorrect about your points:

1) Ask anyone when I started. In fact, if you read back the thread a bit, you'll see a post by someone i leveled with in crushbone.

2) You're right -- as previously stated, the deck was stacked even more against me.

3) The staff here is truly dedicated, and being on the dev/gm side of an emu server is one of the most thankless activities I can think of. However, I would offer that the staff's dedication to keeping the server as classic as possible has tended to trump other aspects.

Really though, again, we've all spent X amount of time posting when we could have been spending it leveling -- i've given what I believe to be a very handy blueprint for how to do it -- you can too!