I am sure starting with a candle was not a thing at launch. I got the game release day and promptly created a human bard. After finding the guild hall in South Qeynos i noticed night had fallen and it was incredibly dark. I went back the way i came and zoned into North Qeynos. After about 15 minutes of trying desperately to get out of the zone in tunnel and about 30 rezones in emerged from the tunnel and went towards the way i remember the gate being. All of a sudden the incredibly black darkness got darker. I could not tell where i was or what direction i was pointing. I did have an odd new UI element that was a decreasing blue bar. Then that blue bar disappeared and i quickly died.
I had blindly stumbled into what i soon discovered was the water hole near the South Qeynos zoneline. If i had had a candle I would have not rage quit and deleted this sad little bard and made a Half Elf bard instead.
Maybe they added the Candle at some point in the near future from launch but I never made a human, barbarian, or erudite ever since that horrible first time playing.
I think at this point if they aren't going to enforce classic gamma then there's no point to give free candles.
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