So lately I've been playing a lot on this fair server. My main is a Spellsinger, using THF with master's touch but mostly a healing Bard until I can swap out low level heals for CC spells.

On my home server, I have a lot of things I used to take for granted. But here... I rely on the kindness of strangers and my Bard's high haggle!

Levels 4-6 went by quickly enough, pugs were so terrible I almost considered leaving, but I had hope for the higher levels. Finally met a few good players and nice people. I asked in trade if anyone was buying festival coins so I could buy some cure wands and a kind soul sent me 5k plat that disappeared really quickly on cure wands and a few curse and poison pots. I was appalled to be in groups that needed heals and not even be able to afford ONE cure moderate wounds wand on my own from selling vendor trash. (With Bard haggle no less!)

Levels 6-7 were spent almost exclusively in Delera's, hunting down Carnifex. I also bought Mace of the Wraith from the AH because I couldn't find any other ghost touch anything that was affordable. Nothing useful dropped, and I could barely afford cure wands after each quest much less stocking up on haste pots, etc etc.

From 8-13 I was lucky to catch a few veteran players on fast leveling sprints, which was rather awesome. However... if 2 relative strangers hadn't given me 10k plat each I'd be in even deeper trouble than I am now.

It's just odd. You play one character to cap and suddenly you're not worried about finding portable holes, or large collectible bags, or ff items, or weapons that are actually USEFUL, or stat items. You might worry about affording spectral gloves or a flawless dragonshard, but not about basics like that.

So here I am, level 13 on a new server. Minos in helm slot... using the starter greatsword and Carnifex... and Mace of Smiting for constructs. LOL!

So why am I writing this?

Ease up on the newbies, all you vets.

All those clueless newbies who don't have haste pots, curse pots, etc... well... I KNOW better and still didn't have them, just due to lack of plat. Heh.

Try it. Go play on another server where you have nothing... and you can't twink out the lowbie with 200 pots each of rage, haste, curse, poison, disease, cure/repair serious, etc. Where you don't have level-appropriate gear for 2,4,6,7,9,11,13,15 waiting for you. No tomes, no underwater action items, nothing but what drops and what is given to you and what you can scrape up the plat for. Where you have 4 inventory tabs until level 20 and can't even loot anything in shroud to sell to be able to get a portable hole off the AH. It's a challenge.

It's also a real eye-opener.

I am so grateful for my home server's luxuries now. And so thankful to the people I grouped with on the new one who helped out. Someone I grouped with gave me 20 taps because I hit 11 and only had 5 taps gathered. So I gave away the 5 I had to someone else... and the someone else gave me some plat anyway which was sweet.

PS: Please don't send me stuff from reading this, I wanted the experience of being new, and only being helped by people I group with who choose to be generous. It's been really interesting so far!

Also writing this down so hopefully I remember once I'm doing well here on Ghallanda.