Quote Originally Posted by Malshier View Post
I just feel like this, all of this, is punishing people who are successful with their toons, and spent time building them that way.

Does everyone who rolls a palemaster go out and solo epics the second they hit 20? No, they don't. The people who spend time getting the good gear, the past lives, the best stat tomes, they are the ones who shine. They are the ones who go in and wail a room full of epic mobs. I don't do that. I'm not exceptionally well built. I throw a symbol of death down, let em take negs. I cast hypno+crushing despair. Or I'll lay down a mind fog, kite some suckers into it and then hit em with crushing despair. I can't just walk up to a pack of epic mobs and take them out instantly.

But I haven't spent all that much time making my PM uber either. And I don't begrudge ANYONE who spends that kind of time on their toon. I have 2 friends in guild who ground out 3x wiz and 3x fvs lives so they could be an elf with max spell pen. They DESERVE that spell pen. They shouldn't be punished because my second life human wizard only passes epic drow spell pen on a roll of 10+. They spent the time and effort to max out spell pen so they would seldom fail. The same can be said about someone who goes for max DC on their necro spells. They spent the time, effort and energy to be BADASS! Let them be badass.
I agree with this.

FYI I just played my first PM, it was my 3rd wiz life, 2 cleric past lives--I am a very experienced player and well geared--but it was not that easy for me to play the PM, despite having great Spell Pen and DCs while leveling I was not walking into rooms and killing everything...AND I ran low on SP alot, despite having bauble and clickies. People who rock at PM--took a lot of time to do it right.

Also, want to point out that I had a harder time because I was running in Full elite groups.. . .If you really want to encourage more grouping, make Elite just has hard on solo or for shortman groups as it is for 6 man groups.