Gear is not everything. As long as it is up-to-date, it will be all fine for me. Anybody who judge another player purely on equipment ("You noob, you need all HQ!") and not on their skill is a noob him/herself.
You do not NEED God gear to be a good player in this game. And sometime wearing that type of gear is for prestige. People who worked on it have the right to be pround of it, but also do not have the right to look down to others that do not have it as long as others have up-to-date gear and good playing skill.
Respect in the game is not earned purely by wearing God gear. True respect is earned by your actions in the game. There are people that does not kill Gods... who are not level 75s etc, and are widely respected.
Add: I notice a lot of people nowadays way too obessed with gear and forget the fundmentals of the game... People need to play Chess or Go or anything like that... Those are {Skill} Onry :3 (I am sucky Chess player, I do admit that ;p)
PS:
BTW Leet :3 You are gonna level Dark Knight? May be you can exp with me sometime with my summoner. Summoner and Dark Knight can actually do Distortion :3 Shiva {Double Slap} FTW!
Edited, Tue Aug 30 09:59:40 2005 by scchan
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