Very very true. There have been a couple games on console where I played for hours and hours and then decided that I just really wanted to try the best items in; so I used cheat codes and made my characters uber powerful, about half an hour later the game was boring and I didn't play it again. The best part about any game is the climb to the top, especially so in EQ where community is such a huge part of the game. I mean just compare it to WoW where although the community itself is much more vast than P99, how many people do you actually truly interact with and talk with on a regular basis for groups and such, probably very few, because the majority of the time you are grouping with people on other servers that you will never see again.

Yes

I never understood the PL and twinking mentality -

PL - Please kill all the mobs while I stand here and do nothing. Please PL me from 1 to XX so I can have a toon with all skills being zero and totally worthless, leaving me to fizzle all my spells or miss every swing if I melee. Please take all the fun out of the content for those levels. Oh, and I get to pay for that 'priviledge'! LOL

Twinking - Please let me put uber gear on my beginning toon so nothing is a challenge therefore nothing is fun. Please let me trivialize all the content for my current levels. And then complain about 'the grind'! LOL

tl:dr - Once back in live I saw a PL'd twink melee solo-ing and every fight took forever since he missed 99% of the time. LOL

But to each his own ...

Dalron - Healer of the 25th Circle of Light

two words: essence emeralds

It is amazing how fun grouping with Blink is, this dude is hilarious.

10/10 would group again