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Tweaked. You keep using that word. It does not mean what I think you think it means.

The funny thing -- aside that I'm posting to a really old comment -- is how way back in the day, the playerbase was split over twinking. The "Squire" here representing the typical inarticulate ABC After School Special morally superior "anti-twinking" camp getting so incensed over something like twinking (and using the wrong term and apparently not even understanding how to use it). If the "Squire" here was losing his cool over a dude "twinking" his alt with a Centi weap, he'd go absolutely apoplectic with nerd rage these days.

That's like saying anyone at any level who ever bought an upgrade they could not or just did not get themselves is a tweak, no matter if they earned the money themselves or not. The fact of the matter is, this thing might have once been useful, but putting the quest xp and possible enjoyment of doing it aside, it is pretty much crap now, because you could easily earn the money to legitimately buy something better in the same time.

Itemization has not only affected the high level game. I'm not saying it's neither good nor bad, but SOE has redone the whole newbe thing to the point where it's actually better and less time consuming for a real newbe these days to get the plats and buy their stuff then it is to do the newbe quests. Does that make them tweaks? No I don't think so. What constitutes a tweak or twink is someone who used a higher level character (own or others) to attain equipment (either by killing or buying) and then make sure their lower level alt gets it. If you however start a new character and he kills his rats or whatever and earns enough money to buy a sword that todays economy has put at a certain price, and it's way better than what the same person could have gotten 3 years ago at the same level it only indicates a change in the game, not a tweaking of the character. Not that twinking is bad anyway, but your definition of it sucks to the point where it includes anyone who ever bought an item. Personally I have played my main untwinked to 65, but I started enjoying the game more and more as I leveled. It's fun at level 15 alright, but it's better at 45 and even more so at 65, for me personally. So, every new character I make I twink without regret and I hope to the gods the same option will be available in EQ2. I did the parts that I find less enjoying over and over with a couple of different characters and now I much more enjoy getting past that faze quickly to get to the point in the game I enjoy. That is not Time raiding or even Elemental planes. My main isn't even there, but I still enjoy him more at 65 than I ever did before.

The whole leveling and questing for low end, mid end and lastly high end gear is fun to some. Others, like me, want a quicker trip soner or later, and neither of the two is something to scoff at in my humble opinion.

My points are. Twinking isn't wrong. Buying something isn't twinking to start with and lastly, but most importantly, play the game the way you enjoy it and ***** the rest. The enjoyment is why you play at all after all isn't it?

Lets think about this a second, doesn't everyone have to start as a newb at first? Then lets ask ourselves how could someone twink an alt if they are not past lvl 5? If your thinking that they could get something from other people in the game Im afraid thats wrong too because at lvl 5 I dont think you are going to know a lot of high lvl people in the game willing to twink a newb like yourself. Sure sometimes you know a RL friend who will twink you, but personally I dont know anyway who also plays the game. Think before you speak.

Edited, Fri Nov 29 15:41:41 2002

Yes there are better weapons for the same price or less. I bought a blackened alloy longsword (Magic Lore dmg10 dly 29 +3 sv poison) for 100 pp. Useable by more classes too. Unfortunately, since it's lore, you can't dual two of these, but can equip in either melee, so can dual with anything else. But pair with another fast weapon and you out taunt this thing with ease. As far as being easy to get, the guy who sold me mine, already has another he wanted to unload to my alternate character.